The labor world., 1899-11-11

but peaceful measures says Sir Alfred
Miner, that's the lad they have down
in Africa, tn injun agent 'f'r tn Eng
lsh an Dutch shud wurruk together
like brothers FIR tn remova, of tn
naygur popylation,' he says, but he
says, as a brother I politely suggest
to We that if ye don't give us what
we want We'll hand ye a fraternal
punch he says. FIR he says, we
have put our hand to th plow,' he says,
an we cannot turn back he says.
"'What Sir Alfred Miner says is
thrue,' says Lord Lelborne, an what
tn divvle he has to do about it I
dinnaW. 'Th' situation is such,' he
says, as to be intoprable to silf-ray
spectin' Englishman,' he says. What
a crime he says, that tn men who
sr're takin' most iv tn money out iv
tn country shud not be allowed to
stick in amy iv tn votes, he says.
We have, as Shakespeare says, put
our hand to tn plow,' he says, AN we
cannot turn back he says. 7 agree
corjally with tn noble lord on tn
fred lounge abaft me- says Lord
Salisbury. With tn echoes Of me own
noble sentimints on tn peace prOcla-
nation iv me good frind, tn czar iv
Rooshia, still ringin' in me ears he
says, it wud i'll become me to speak
in force, he says. I Wud on'y say
that if tn Transvaal raypublic Wud
rather have a dum-dum bullet in it's
tumtum thin grant to Englishmen tn
fright to run tn governmint, thin tn
Transvaal raypublic'll have both,' he
says. I will add,' he says, that we
have put our hand to TIL plow an we
will not turn back he says.
"Well, sir, twas up to Krueger an
he knocked tn ashes out iv his pipe
on his vest an says he, 'gintlemen,'
he says, I wud like to do me best to
accumydate ye,' he says. 'Nawthin'
short iv a severe attack iv sickness
wud PLACE me so much as to see long
lines iv Englishment marchin up to
tn polls an depositin' their ballits
again me FIR PRESIDENT he says. But
he says, I'm an old man. he says. I
was ilicted young an I've niver done
anything SINCE he says. T wudden't
knoW what to do without it, he says
What We propose is to make an ex-
presidint iv me. Dye think I cud
sthand that? Dye think at my age 1
wud be contint to dash firm wan JUS
tice coort to another peadin' FIR
habyas-corpus writs or test me prin-
ciples iv personal expansion in Nee
Jarsey village?' he says. I'd rather be
a dead prisidint than live ex-prisi-
dint. If l have amy political ambi-
tion I'd rather be a Grant or a Gar
field thin a Cleveland or a HARRISON
he says. I may've read it III tn Bible,
though I think I saw it in a scand'lous
book me frind Rhodes left in his bed
room las time he called on me, that
We shud niver discard an ace to dhraw
to a tlush,' he says. I derlore tn
language but tn sintimint is sound,'
he says. AN I believe ye'er intintions
don't like to see We pullin' off ye'er
coat an here goes FIR throuble whit
We have ye'er arms in tn sleeves he
says. 'F'r,' he says, we have put ye'er
hand in tn reaper an it cannot turn
back he says.
AN there they CO. Hinnissy. I'm
not agin' England in this thing, Hin
Missy, an I'm not agin' tn Beers. Like
Mack I'm divided on a matther iv
princile between a desire to ce int tn
'lleance an an affection f'r tn Dutch
vote. But if Krueger had spint his
life in a rale raypublic where they
burn gas he cud've settled tn business !
without losin' sleep. If was Krueger
there'd dive been no war.
what wud ye have done?" Mr.. Hin
messy asked.
I'D give thin tn votes" said Mr. |
Dooley. But" he added significantly |
'Pd do tn countin'"
Copyright, 1899, by Robert Howard |
Russell.)