The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-06

Does his Conscience ever smite him?
 Answer---Nevsr a Smite. = All the adjoining Yokels admire Mister Hood for being cute enough to hornswoggle to Smarties that go around wearing Flannel Pants just to show off.
 He Is what is known out in Cisco | Township as q Hot Potato, and very popular because he Is so dead-set against Corporations.
 | He learns in time that any one who wishes to be ( Friend to the Toiling Masses cannot afford to waste his own time in mere Toil He must bound into the Arena and give the Octopus kick on the Shin. He lies awake nights asking himself | these Questions: How can I cripple
 Organized wealthy What are the | chances for wrestling the Unearned In- erenisnt from the insolent Magnates and bringing 1t right back here to the Soil%
 Finally q Great LiEht breaks in upon | him and the Voice of Duty calls to him through a Mesaphone. It says: Break into the Legislature, you Lobster. for behold the Harvest is whitening, and if you don't get wisgle on yourself the other Reforrners will have all of the Pies divided before you move up to the Table" So he puts a card in the Home Week. l iy to the effect that his Friends have urged him to permit the Use of his Name, and, therefore. he Is willing to sacrifice his Private Interests and be Servant of the Peepul.
 Think of the original Robin Hood crawling through the underbrush to piunk an arrow into a Wild Boar? The modern Specimen loads his Gun with Slugs and goes after Railway Presi- dents.
 After he has fearIess1y denounced Rockefeller and burned Wall Street to Cihder, the returns from the Back T0wnshfps show that Victory, has peFched upon his Banners. Tn a short time he goes down to the State Capital with an American Flag In
 his Hat and s Jimmy in hts Tels- scope.
 He begins- introducing Bills calcu- lated to drive out of the State every Scoundrel who has more than S1,S00
 put away. Whenever he gets the Floor, he ioosens hls Collar and pulls the Hair down over his Eyes and hollers at the terrified visitors in the Gallery. Then the Attorney with the Prince Albert, who belongs to the same Lodge, comes around to the Hotel to see him. Can he intimidate or bunco Our Hero? Not for q minute. The pest ne can do is to induce the Member to so all over the Ground with him and then accept five or six Amendments. The Hon. Robin Hood is q sensible
 Statesman. and he discovers that he cannot trim the Cohorts of Centralized Wealth unless he gets real close to them. So he begins sleeping with the Octopus in order to study the habits of the Monster and know just how to de- liver the Death Blow.
 He investigates the Large Industries of the State, the amount of Stock is- sued, the time for paying Dividends. the amount of the Dividends and how
 10 collect Dividends without having
 any Check go through the Bank. All
 this comes under the head of Commit
 tee Work.
 One morning while he is lying in bed
 meditating on the affairs of State he
 suddenly puts his hand to hts Head
 and shudders. for he realizes that he
 canot strike a Blow at any large Busi-
 ness Concern without injurlng thous-
 ands of innocent Employes. He de-
 cides that the wise course iB to regulate
 Corporations without causing them any
 inconvenience.
 When it comes to elect a Senate he
 is Adamant in his demand that the
 Caucus Nominee shall be a. Man with