The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1840-08-13
FOOD FOR THINKING PEOPLE.

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FOOD FOR THINKING PEOPLE.
The fallosing dialogue. which we find
on ne travels through The newspaper car.
cult. 10 worth forty columns Of declama.
lion. and Is many more Of absiruse rea,
soning. ID 10 plain 10 the espseiy nfeve.
~ man. and 10 as true as % Is plain.
Every laboring man--and hos Few the
number in this country who are not com
pslled 10 earn their bread by The sweat ol
their brow--should read this little uaei.
and ponder il well. N. y. Com. .9du.
Plain questions and answers beiresn
Poor Richard and an egEes .koldsr piiL solsry
fs2 900 y,ar. @ e
Poor acknowledgements. | see by the
papers that our President has been send
ing OF across the ocean TO find gu. what
kind Of money The Kings and Emperors
take of their people, and how they keep
il. DO you know il he's 90, sny on.
swers yeti ~
Capt. oh, yes. The United States
eonsuls. you see. have attended 10 Il.
knowing il was To help them 10 get the
gold for their salaries.
=. n. Well. reckon they 90, answers
TO please them. iheni
Capt. Why, dye see. the answers
from Hamburg. Bremen, Cuba. Jamaica,
Berlin, Frankfort, in Germany. Leipsic
IN Ssxony. Munich. Smyrna. Genoa.
Lsgnlfa, leahom. and Constanunople,
show that they require every dollar Of
The people. or revenue in any shape. in
specie. Not single dollar does The En-
reior Of Austria. The King OF Prussia.
King Of Sweden, the Grand Sultae. or
any Of those arbitrary monJchs. take Of
their subjects bu, the real Benton sinners.
sir. or The hard sllver--lhey don't touch
. unlIsr. sIf. Of bank rags. nor don't pu.
dollar in the banks.
p. n. Well, well; | reckon specie
must be easy got in these countries; the
people &c, likely wsges there Tor work.
as there is no bank sris,ocra,. These
specie empernrs aud brokers. &c, give
fine prices for work. don't they!
Capt. Why 10 that. dye see. their sob.
jecis don't need as much as ours DO here,
as things are cheaper there.
p. II. Well. is land cheap, tool
Capt. Oh. the subjects don't own the
land. Il all belongs 10 the Dukes and
Lords.
p. n. What does the word subjects
mean.
Capt. Subjects means that they are
under their Kings. Dukes, &C.. just like
you are under President Van Buren,.
p. Il. Why. how long have these sub.
jects been working for their Kings and
Emperors and Dukes and Lords, and
han't got no land Of their own yeti
Capt. Why its some time since I stu.
died geometry, bo, guess these empires
are rather older than the American Re-
volulion.
p. r. What and the subjects han't
earnt any land Of their own yet. and get.
ting specie Tor wages! Why. how much
do they get for days work,
Capt. Why, the President don't report
what wages the subjects get. for he thinks
the subjects ought not TO erpect too much
from the Government, and he never
though, Of asking how much they goi &c.
their work.
p. n. Well. I'm sorry our " democrat.
ic" Presiden, didn', think little about
The people. while he was learning how
ths Kings and Emperors take care of
themselves. Well, was asking George
Jacobs the other day, who came from
Holstein, and he says they only get Sc
zen pence a day Tor work. and board
them selves; aud there's some in our
neichborhnod who came from Dsn,zlr.
from Hamburg, and from Bremen. and
they cay they got from al to s pence a
day and boarded themselves; they gel
from SO 10 100 shllings a year, and find
themselves. Why. Captain. sin'l tina,
the reason they can't get to own any land
,here--ihey ge. such starving wages!
Capt. I'm very busy now, my dear
sir; the mailsis jus, coming in--but you
amt going to vote for old Granny Harri-
son. hope. are you! - OF
p. r. Why. Captain. you are in a
grea, fluuer; I've seen you lore now stop
and talk an hour. and lie, all The mails in
the country come and go. | wish you
Just to answer me one question. and il
you cant do il. nor none of the office
holders about here. just send on to Amos
Kendall. and get him TO answer il 10 the
Extra Globe you give me.