Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-09-18

and a famine prevailed in the land,
even the Kings bonds were refused
for wheat by Mammon and Com
pany. unless he would also put in
nawn his crown, his sceptre and his
throne. And then the eyes and
ears of the King were partially
opc.n1 r. :;s PROSTATE people cry
inc for Tie reopening Of the mills
to corn. "Ee do not care for
pound-cake!" shrieked the people.
Give us corn-bread, lest we perish
in the midst Of our abundance"
But the sleek Mammon, with his
PortIy Professors, his Hloated
Bankers. his Greasy Scribes, ana his
Lnsty Lawyers, talked day and
NIGHT to the King: These igno-
rant and half-educated people do
not know what ais them, nor what
they need" said Mammon & Co.
besides, they ere hired to starve
themselves and make all this out
cry by these fellows who raise such
enormous crops of corn. Tie corn
producers alone will be benefited
by opening the mills to corn. Just
think what en- enormous pile Of
money they will make If corn be
again allowed as a breadstuff. We,
on the contrary, know all about
grain and bread, and from our very
position are utterly disnterested.
We neither grow nor grind any
ching" Except the people and tho
Kingl" interjected the Kings Fool.
Ecorning the unseemly inte1ec-
ton. Nammon & Company went
on: THE people foolishly say
they do not want pound cake, aud
clamor for corn bread; but we who
know, Oh King, declare to you that
corn bread is injurious to The diges-
ton, fit only for hogs, and that
pound-cake, as our experience
proves, is far better fer human
food. 1t is true the people say that
they can get 10 p9and-cake; that
it is beyond their means, is scarce,
SC. Yet. as we can testify conclG-
sively, there is plenty Of pound
cake, for we have got it, Yes. we
have abundance OF pound cake, and
it is only a popular delusion which
inspires the cry for ash cake and
corn pone: for if they can't buy our
pound-cake, how can they buy corn
breqd?" Quoth the Kings Fool:
"The more grist the mills grind,
The more months it Will find"
Besides" continued Mammon &
Company still scorning the Fool,
"how can your majesty find it III
your heart to deprive US Of our mo-
nopoly for the benefit Of dirty
rabble?"
THAT, to be sure" said the
King. would be conclusive, but
for the consideration that if the
body perishes, what will become Of
the head? AM the head of Felic-
ia; the people are the body Of the
States; already find it almost i'm
possible 10 supply myself with nee
essary wheat: already | am in bonds
to you masters Of wheat, and now
you tell me | must pawn my SOW
ereignty to get further supplies.
well, you thus force me to FEEL
chat ! and NY people are one; to-
remember that the public mills do
not belong to me alone, nor to you,
but to the people; and | at once re-
open the mills to corn, believing
that it will be much better to live,
even on ash cake, than to starye
mysel or people in an effort to make
pound cake the sole staff Of life"
Mammon and Company retired
discounted, venting dire threats Of
ruin and revenge; hut even they
could not reyerse the laws Of trade,
of supply and demand. And soon
soon it came to passthat bread so
abounded that even the poor did
not lack for wheat-it being found
that the best assurance for pound
cake is in the free and unlimited
supply Of corn meal for ash cake.
he that hath ears to hear, let
him hear. Norfolk Pilot.