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defended the right of Persia to raise opium.” Well, that was all explicable. I took him over to the President, because I wanted the President to hear from his own lips why he defended Persia's right to raise opium. I wanted the President to have no cloud on this man's record.

Anyhow, he came into the Department and he did a magnificent job. He took the matter up at once. He completely revamped the service. He was very practical politically. In every port where a man had not been promised a job as commissioner, either by Mary Dewson, or by somebody else, we abolished the jobs at once. But he was practical enough politically to know that you couldn't fight them all, and that Tammany Hall had somebody staked out for commissioner at New York so we might as well make the best of it, let them have it, and clean it up later. “We'll fix is so he can't do any harm,” said Dan. “We'll put competent operators up there.”

He reorganized the Immigration Service from top to bottom, of course always with my consent and knowledge. I had to support him in it because there were lots of squawks from people who had had sinecures. They would reach a Congressman, or even the President. So I always had to know just what was being done, and why. He uncovered a lot of dirt and scandal, things that I hadn't even heard of and the