The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-27
[From the Toledo Blade.
Becomes a Communist, but Circum-
stances Impel a Change of Heart.

Becomes a Communist, but Circum-
stances Impel Change of Heart.
CONFEDRIT X ROADS, !
(Which is in the State Of Kentucky,)
JoOly Is. 1873.
Despite our recent disastrous fail
yoor to become Commoonists we de-
termined to try it again. Ez there
amt nothing in our hands, ez Bascom
and Pollock hev everything that is
NY valyoo, in this vicinity, we Good
ent.see where we shood lose anything
anyhow, by insistin onto a fair divide
with view NY takin a moo start.
After all, communism is the proper
noshun. Wat difference does it make
to me that. Pollock works and
don't? Pollock likes to work and |
don't. Am [ to blame for not liking
to work ? | am ez nacher made me,
and | must live. There he is ez he
is, and he can't git anything more
than livin' out NV it. Therefore it
is his dooty to accommodate enuff for
hiSself and me, and eff he retooses to
do it, it is my dooty, ez a clifton, to
compel him.
Issaker, M'Pelter, the Deekin and
myself thought the matter all oyer
and determined to stand no more
nonsense from them fellows, but to
take with the strong band all that
which they he'd so long defreuded us
NV. We determined to rise in our
mite and Wrest from them despoilers
the property they he'd contrived to
fitch from us, And every man NV
US rolled over and got up, and called
labor meeting.
L wuz making the speech Nv the
mite. 1t Wuz a gorgeous effort. L
wuz in the middle NV it. | Wuz
shown that all property wuz robbery,
and that in troo republic one man
shoodent hev any more than another
man. [ Wuz demonStrain the alb
surdity NY permittin one man to hev
hOardid up that which he cOodent
yoose, when others, made in the
same image, wuz a hungerin and a
thirstin, l wuz demonstratin the
necessity NV a ekal division NV all
property, real and personal, with
laws perhibitin accommodation by
hevin a divishen every Fourth NV
Jooly, when a boy entered the meet
in-house, with telegram for me. 1t
wuz breef, and to the pint
SAINTS REST, Moo JERSEY, Jooly Is.
PETROLEUM " Massey,
CONFEDERIT y ROADS, KY.
Your aunt Mehitable died yesterday, and
made VOC herheir. The estate is with suthin
over $4,000 Write how 700 want it.
SMITH & SLoCUN, Attorneys.
seed lite. To, wunst my feel
ings experienced a revulsion. l he'd
sudden change NV hart. 1 felt a
horror at the levelin doctrines NV
commoonism. The idea NV dividen
up property become to me toWunst
the most repulsive thing in the
world, $4,000 a year-and four
thousand yeer means comfort and
elegance for me. Wat good wood it
do to divide it up? and besides l
found a doubt ez to whether a man
wuz ever entitled to anything more
than he really amasses by honest in
dustry, or possible inherits. can't
see that it is wrong to live by the
honest SWEET NV an aunt's eyebrow.
At all events, l deklined to go on
with my speech, and Joe Bigler in
sisted that | sho0d. | refoozed and
deklined to give any reason for it,
and denounst EN- all as a set NV
agraran Jewelers.. / denounst com
moonism en- robbery, and insisted
that every man he'd an indefeesible
rite to wat wuz his'n, and that nothin
Good indoose me to join my forchoons
TO prlnclple so utterly repugnant to
the idee NV civil zashun. ..
Then Joe Bigler and Pollock, fol-
Tered by the enrag ed citizens,
pounced upon me, and Joseph tore
from my grasp the telegram and red
it to the populiS. 1t wuz enuff. A
party up EN- wantid to tear me linn
from lin, for wat they wuz pleased
TO call my base desershun NV a great
COZ, but the counsils NV the older and
wiser prevailed.
"Let him up" sed the good Deck
in Pogram. "Let him up; he hez
money, and Commoonlsm shell be en-
forced all the same, Well borror NV
him, which will be the same ez tho
he made q dizzy all to wunts."
! And so | wuz released, and went