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Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream
by John Kendrick BANGS (1862 - 1922)4 - The City-owned Police
From Alice in Blunderland: "Certain of our members claim that they have a right to sell their votes for $500 apiece--" "Mercy!" cried Alice, "Why, that is--that is terrible." "It certainly is," said the March Hare ruefully, it's rotten. Here I've been holding out for $1,250 for mine, and these duffers want to go in for a cut rate that will absolutely ruin the business." John Kendrick Bangs takes Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and turns it into a political satire in many ways as fresh, keen and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago. (Summary by Ruth Golding)
Listen next episodes of Alice in Blunderland: an Iridescent Dream:
5 - The Municipaphone , 6 - The Department of Public Verse , 7 - The Municipal Ownership of Children