Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-03-06
JACK AND JOE.
A Magic Glass for Joseph Chamber
lain, the Radical III. p.


From the Pail Mall Gazette.1
The Saturday Review publishes clever
dialogue supposed to have taken place be-
tween Jack Cade and Master Joseph, the nail
wright. in field near Bromwichan, in the
county of Warwick. 1t opens with solilo
guy by Jack Cade, in which, after mention
ing that Goodman Jesse hath of our special
grace an allotment of half an acre, and full
freedom to live by such potatoes as he can
grow on it, if Bevis OF Hol Ian here avouch
not within 70 years that a stole it, where,
he demands, is Master Joseph, the nailwright?
Joseph-Brother Jack!
Cade-Brother Joseph, thou art welcome
counselor and a. profitable. A man should
be the best counselor in his own matters, and
thou shalt counsel me of thine own ransom.
Go to- we know the tale of thy balances and
thy credits. Have we not nationalized the
banks?
(At sign from Cade, Dick, the butcher,
and Smith, the weaver, seize Joseph.)
Joseph-Nay, brother Jack, what welcome
is this to your constant lover and fellow citi-
zeng What. Master Cade! what! Sir John!
what! my good lord!
Cade-No offense in the werld, brother Jo-
seph. We do but steal in jest, pull up land
marks in jest, ransom in jest, as thou did'st
ask riddles and babble of lilies. If thou be
pay, OF will plainly convince thee of felony.
Thou art hypecrite and very shallow vii
lain. I will prove upon thee that thou art
land thief, a landlord and land-grabber.
Joseph-This is the very madness of calum-
ny. 1 have wronged no man, trespassed on
nothing of the commemorative my credits
and nv moneys are gotten in the fair way of
trade.
Cade-Mark my proof then You have
taught US the gift of the tongue, and we will
better the instruction. Art thou not a screw
monger2
Joseph-An honest and necessary eommod-
ity.
Cade-Peace, and mark you. Screws are
of iron iron is digged out of the earth, and
land is but earth. Thou art all open and no
torious engrosser of screws; therefore an iron
grabber, therefore an earth-grabber, therefore
a land grabber, and the worth of all thy
screws is all too little for the egregious ran
som thou owest Wilt thou live in a glass
house of orchids, and throw stones at the
bishop and the squire? Thou hast toiled to
bring down that which was theirs, and spun
web of most idle words to keep that which
was thine But you may spare the spinning
for me; Jack Cade, the clothier, knows warp
and wool better than to be tangled in your
loeics and economies. All things of mans
use are begotten of the sun and the air upon
the earth and the water; which elements be-
ing common, all things are common lndlHer-
emily, and all property doth offend against
the law of nature Property is name for
that which come to take, and I take first
whatsoever comes readiest-namely, thy mon
eys and thy bills. Land is an immoveable
thing, sluggish thing an Improbable thing.
Money is nimble, brisk, and marvelously
comforting to the concoction of our new dem
ocratic humors. We will abolish money, too,
in good time, but not till this be spent
Joseph-Shall be fatty robbed? no pur-
chase? no compensation?
Cade-Brother Joseph, thou hast in a half
hearted fashion done us a good turn or so;
thou shalt have law to myself, gentle and
moderate law. I hine estate shall not be
confscated, but only taxed in manner OF
just graduation, five thousand in the hundred
| on every head Of orchids, and fresh thou
sand more for every shilling's worth above
twenty God be with you the while, brother
Joseph. Exit Joseph guarded.