The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-26
GEoRGIE's PA
lsluCIdatcs the Significance Of "tho
man With thC Hoe"

! 4SluCluutcA inc SlBnluCaHCe VI tuS
man With the Hoe"
Chicago Times-Herald: 81 wIsht 1
knew what all this Talk about the man
with the Hoe means" NAV sed when
paw Got his slFar lit and Had his feat
Up on, the Portch rallen. you can't
look at paper emmy more without
seeln sumthing about the man with the
Hoe, and I'm surprised that They amt
Got to SeIlIn the man With the hoe shoes
and shlmmies and shugar cured Hams
Who Is be emmy how. and What Did
he hoe?"
Paw blowed few Rings Of smoke out
In the atmosfear and Then sed:
1.-THE man with the Hoe IL Poem
about the Down troddcn Farmer what
Has to Go out and Work mite and day
Becos He Can't Git Ennybody to Help
| him"
Help?" NAV asst.
DawEs,' Paw told Her. "You intent
beleaVe II 1lst TO Go out and Look
Around, But this Here Country Is in n
Horrabul fix. Cess 1t can't Last
Mulch Longer"
"Good Crashes" NAV Says. what's
the matter with 1t emmy way?"
''The farmer He's Got to Be Broth
er to the OK" paw answered, land
there's agoIn to Be Some Whurlwinds
Of Rebellion purity soon, and then he's
agoln to Git out and quilt Bein Dumb
Turner and Shake his fist at people
what Don't Haft to work. and would
emit Be thare for ten dollars a mint"
my sakeB." NAV says, I'm Glad we
Don't live on no farm. Why DUE the
Farmer Half to work so Hard?"
"Becuz He Don't no emmy Better than
to Go and put in lot OF Crops in the
Spring that Has to be Harvested In the
Fall! paw says. You'd Think II He
had emmy Sentz he could see Before It
was too Late that he was only fiXin up
n Job fer Himself. But Bein stolld and
stunned with a Brutile jaw and a Brow
that's Slanted Back and lite in His
Brane that sumbudy Blew Out, ns 1t
Says In the poem, you couldent expect
Him to no mulch. so he goes to work
and plants away fer weeks ut a Time In
the Spring and the Furst Thing He
| nose ThRy are q lot OF Crops on His
hands. Then what dug the Blame fool
Dor"
"Don't asst me-" NAV says, all kind OF
Trimbly and Turrable interested.
why" paw says BLOWN out Some
more smoke rings. HE sneaks into
Town and Goes Down to the Deepo
WHARF He sees Lot OF fellers laying
In the Shade Behind Some frait Cars
playing seven UP, and Putin on His ar
ken stoop he sneaks up to WHARF they
are without Lettin them see Him, and
the Furst Thing they no thare He
stands Before Them and Says He will
Give Them too dollers Day and Find
them II thay will Come and Help Git in
His Crops.
but that's WHARF He's mistaken. He
mite give the too dollers Day But He
don't find them when He looks agin.
All He sees Is the Last mans Cote tale
goIn around the next Corner. So He
has to Go Home and Git to Be Bru-
Their to the OK agin, and Set on now
en- masheRn all Day and Let His team
Do the Work what men yoost to Do
with Their Hands Before Things got in
SIoh Horrnbul Shape"
but why Don't the men want to
Help him?" NAV says.
"Beenz thay Can see the Turrnble
faIt hhed OF them II thuy Done II" paw
ansered, THE first Thing they would
no Every one Of Them would Be n
man WIFI u E1uG lllu EldNG IL lNb VI
Crops OF His own to Git In. That's
what we Git fer BeIn cursed with Cap
pitle in this country. Menny n man
with the Hoe Tries to quit It and Live
Blameless Life by going up to. the
Sltty, But What Happens? Do they
elect Him the Cashier Of the Furst Ma
shenul Bank er the President Of Ra'e-
rode? No! The measully Lnber crush
era makes him Be n street Car cOnduc-
tor or Drive Teen mebby fer years,
and Then at Last when He gifts to Be a
Stakeholder in sumthln He ForGits how
thay ground him Down and quits Bein
aElnst the administrator, and Goes
and Helps to Hurry our Beluvid coun-
try to DIstrucKshen By clalmin that
Sumbuddy has to do the work or II
won't never git done. 1t makes my
Blud Boil" paws Says, Glttin so eX-
slted that He stuck the Lit end OF the
Slgnr in His mouth. and Then Begin
spitten out In Space and Rubbing His
mouth like Uncle Henry's Dawg did
the Time he Bit porkyplne when we
was out VIsatin on the Farm,
When paw was wipln the Teers out Of
His eyes l says;
Paw"
''what?" paw asst
~ Bet no why you done that. Your
Blud was Boilin and you Thot you
would fite FIRE with IRE" says.
l CESS It must a Bin the blister on
the end Of His tung what kept him
from seeIn the joke. GEORGE.