The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-10
The Linle-Kiln Club.

Il see by lie papers, SAID BfoIheT
Gartlner as he mentiqned to Samuel
Shin to drop one of the back windows,
Il see by de papers dat Prof, Gillian
predicts dat in 1883 lie Guild man will
be in de ascendency. Jist SO. Wen
drap two mo- windows an discuss dc
subjick little.
lin one hundred Vars, den, 'cerdin'
to de Professor, lie Samuel Sims an
Giveadam Joneses an Pickles Smithses
of our race will be at de head of de
gov ment. P'raps a pusson named
Way down Behee will be President of de
United States. Whalebone How er will
be de leadin' Chief Justice of the lrigh-
est court in de land. Judge Cadaver
will DE Gub'nor of Michigan. Chewso
Chapman an Devravity Johnson will
be de Vanderbilt an Gould of de period.
Profs. Breakdown Turner an Rise Up
Bunker will flourish at Hazard an Yale.
Three Ply,Jones, Discount White, Bunko
jackson an oders will be Presidents OF
national banks, aa' boards of trade,
I climbers of commerce. an stock ex-
changes will be run entirely by eull q
men.
lit am a. beautiful landscape to look
upon, an | really pity de poo white
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world at large so long, and has made
SIGH ,progress in. science an Philosophy
dat it will seem purity tough fur him TO
saw our wood, clean our alleys an black
our buteS.
At this point Reconstructed Taylor
began to stamp his feet, and clap his
hands and seek to start an encore, but
the President interrupted him with:
''Brudder Taylor, drap it, Now draw
yer feet out OF de alley an doan' move
agin till de meetin am OUT No doubt
you am tickled half to death, but let us
see what tickles you. In hundred
years we am to be ut Gle top of de heap.
We are to lose our kinks and grow
straight ha'r, our feet am to be pared
down, our noses am to be trimmed
down, our mouths puekered on a new
plan, an we am to lose our brunette
compilations. Den our heads am to be
reshaped an resulted, our speech filed
down and sandpapered, an We am to
progress faster in 100 y airs dan de white
man has in 1000 | think | see us at
de pinnacle! We look awful purity at
de top of de heapi Nobody would know
us as we stan erect on de cap-sheaf an
wave de glorious banner.
MY fren's CONTINUED the President
after long and solemn silence, ''if
Prof. Gillian am not a fool he am de
mex bes' thing a crank. One hundred
V airs will not do what he says We
can't fetch it, We was BON in de
wrong time of de moon, brought up on
de wrong sort of eatables, an educated
in de wrong kind of skules, We have
an shall progress. Our chili'cn will
know mo- dan we do, an dair chile
viii be peg higher, an de day will
come when we shall stan higher in all
of dc arts an sciences, but we must not
forget de present. Oar am mouths to
feed an bodies to clothe an house rent
to pay an fuel To buy, an he who loses
a DAYS work To dream ober Professor
GiIliam's prophecy shows his lack of
sense. Ii, arter all dc present mem
bers of dis club have been sleepin' for
half century in de grave, de white
man begins to lose his grip an de black
man begins to kotch on, it viii be all
right. Meanwhile, doan miss a cog.
Doan' lie made fools of. Doan' try to
clothe de chill'en wild raiment of a hun
dred \ aIs hence, an doan' cNpeck dat
de predickshun dat we shall ultimately
warm our feet in de halls Of CONGRESS-
am gwine To satisfy present hunger.
We viii now tighten our belts an pitch
into de ra.rIar order OF bizness - De
tr0it Free Press