The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-04

rear of whose trousers had in them
many vacant places, and the legs
whereof reached not even so far as
his shoe tops, and the "galluses'
wherein the same did hang were fast
ened with nails of iron and even the
thorns of tree, being now clad in glad
apparel, and looking even so comedy
as the farmers of Gotham and the
dwellers of Plymouth Rock and the
spinners beyond the seas aforetima
looked, and being now proud and bold,
cry out with a loud and triumphant
voice and say, we farmers of Goth
am. and We men of the land of Ply
mouth Rock and We spinners and buy
erS beyond the sea, give heed to our
words and make answer unto what
we shall ask thee. Ye do know well
that in the evil days of the past when
we toiled and did sweat great drops
of sweat, and did dig deeply and pillow
long burrows. and the rains descended
and the floods came, and the caterpil-
lar did eat our substance, and the fes-
tive Weevil from the land of the Az
tees pierced our cotton blooms un-
til they withered and fell to the ground,
and the boil worm smote the bolls on
our cotton. so that they brought forth
no fruit. by reason of all of which we
were sore smitten with grievous hard
by the power of your great riches,
and by your much talking and by
means of many bales of cotton which
no man ever saw. the same helng
raised by wind, yet therefore, We made
men believe that no evil had befallen
US or our crops or our harvests; where
by We were able to sell our cotton for
little money, yea for even SO little as
cents for a pound thereof, whereby
Ixy
could buy but little food, and our
women and children did suffer, and the
money-changers VeXed us sorely, which
is known of all men.
Furthermore, we do know that in our
sore distress we called upon you and
in our dire need perchance we used
harsh words and cried out that we were
robbed, and then it was that you feign-
ed to be sore wounded in feeling and
made much plant that we were UNI
just to you, and protested with much
speaking that you did not fix the price
of our cotton, and lifted up your faces
to heaven and turned the palms of
your hands outward. and spoke to us
in oily accents, saying, Do We not
know that if it be that a pound of your
cotton selleth for but 4 cents it is not
by reason of by evil deeds we have
DONE but it is the law, even the wise
you had thus spoken you turned away
praying that we veX you no more, but
go to our fields and bring forth more
cotton, so that you might have the
same for your looms, and thereby make
much gain. This, too, is, known of all
men.
Now, therefore, we ask thee why is
it now, when we get much reward
for our labor and our sweat turneth
into many shekels, and we no longer
have rents in our trousers, and the
iron nails and the thorns of trees no
longer fasten our "galluses," but but
tons do hold the same, and we wear
fine apparel and have waxed fat, that
you say the value of our substance
is fixed not by the law, even the wise
law, of supply and demand, but that
it is the evil deeds of Daniel and Sam
uel and that they be wicked men, and
have bound themselves together to do
you much harm, and are men of evil
minds? Tell us, we pray thee, why,
if the law, even the wise law, of sup
ply and demand did make a pound Of
our cotton to be worth but cents,