The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-12-31
The SpOkesman's Secretary
Being the Letters of Name to
By UPTON SINCLAIR
By UPTON SINCLAIR

themselves By golly hat Guy is a
silk one, He knows now to take care
Of Himself and that's The Sort we
need to Iun the country.
Well just about that time a couple
comes into The Chink restaurant, a
pair &C swell looks and I see they
Knows Mr.. Edge3ton. The gentleman
gives him a bow and the lady too
but then she gets a glimpse ct me
aLC she freezes up like she was hit
by an aTtic cyclone and she goes by
with her nose high up like an aero
plane. And l see that Mr.. EdgerUon
IS Q bit Mustered and don't know
what to talk about next and I says,
at seems your lady friend don't like
the way I look perhaps she thinks
~ hai- is TOO decorative or some
thing" AND he smiles, kind of sick
llsh like and l says, LET me tell you
how It IS If you want TO have any
thing pretty in the gas-house district
Of Camden, New Jersey, you have got
to carry it along with you" And he
says, eyes, ] suppose So"
see he is badly ratified so say,
Il want you to know that know ex-
actly how it is and you don't have to
try to fool me or yourself. Every
thing is pure and sweet between US
like we was the two babes in the
woods but | know too you amt going
to get Washington smart society TO
believe it. And I can guess how it'll
be if anybody tips off Mrs. Edgerton
to the fact that her husband is do
ing research work among the plain
people. By the way how's the poor
soul getting along?"
WELL" he says, Gust now the
angina pectoris has moved on 20 one
of her toes"
WELL" says I, "at least it's get
ting IS far away from her mind as it
can and maybe it'll move out alto
gether. But what l started to say is
this if you think you better not see
me any more"
mo, no." he says real anxious.
mo, Miss Riggs, please don't desert
me in this crisis"
Crisis ?" says.
/ eyes" says ne. "You see, The
Elks' convention is coming to our ma
tional capital next week and the
Spokesman has got to deliver a full
hours speech to them and you just
can't imagine how l shall be put to
it to invent something different to
say. Only think of it I've got to
work up some new compliment TO
pay to the Constitution! And every
Fourth of July for a hundred and
fifty years some twenty thousand or
ators have been warming up this old
soup and putting in new 1layors. Miss
Riggs the great heart of the plain
people has got to save me! You must
tell me what to say-you and none
] othcI!"
So there | am up against it again
and | wishing | could get home so
as to see if letter has come from
Pop. america" I says, "is a great
country"
eyes, l Know" he says, "but why?
md how? What makes it that way?
What"
Hold on" / says, zone question at
q time 1t is very simple you get
yourself mixed up by thinking too
hard. Anybody can see what makes
America great country is because
there is so much of it. Amt that
500"
yes" he says but kind of doubt
"And because there is so many
/ people in it. Amt that SOP"
Il suppose So" he says but still
like ne didn't.
You take these here Elks that is
coming to Washington" l says. CIV
erybody knows the Elks is a great
order and why? Because there is SO
many Of them and they've got pile
Of money and they come here and
spend it and raise a hurrah and they
own the town Amt that so ?"
Yes of course he can't deny that is
so. But still there is something eat
ing him. Surely Miss Riggs there
must be something else-some ideas
-
Ideas? ?" I says. Don't you wor-
ry about ideas the people will tend
to that, there is enough of them. IF
there IS one person and he has got
an idea," l says, chat is something
but when there is a million times as
much and if you don't think that's so
you just go and ask Kayser Bill" I
says.
And say, Nom, it was like a liqht
began to shine in his eyes. "Miss
Riggs, he saws, 90 the people really
believe that ?"
"Of course they believe it." I says.
"WhO's going to stop them?"
And Nom, l thought he was going
to reach across the table and grab