The daily worker., 1926-10-28
By Upton SiMcIair
scopyrlFnt, lsss. by UptOa s.ncIaIEl
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They old familiar trail now, and Bunny knew
ITS ali very feer to go off in his study and figure
world ought but that don't make that way
to be OIL and feers that know how to
these Socialists and Boshevs but God imagine
start buying oands and developing them
thered be graft than all the wealth OF America could pay
for I'm on the inside, wnere can Watcn IT, ana KNOW at M
you anything to the government you might st
about laws too and government
against them than anybody else When gov
things, find
business that do more to blame than other
This oil and when try shut Oil
off from production st you tried Niagara Falls
critical moment in their lives In after years Bunny
foot down? He could have father
ermined enough he had said Dad will not stand for buy
the presidency and with Mr. Roscoe that deal
you've got know that inheritance will not
touch of from this day I'll out and get
myself JOB and you can leave your money to erte II you want
to- Yes he had said that Dad would have given he would
moray hurt would have
but Dad would not have helped to nominate Senator Harding
Why didn't Bunny do it? It wasn't cowardce-he didn't
earned dollar in his fe he had the conviction that
he could out and ge job and provide for himself those
the trouble couldn't bear to hurt people what
Paul when he said that Bunny was soft He
too easily other peoples point of view He
why Dad and Mr. Roscoe wanted to buy the Republican
ton and then few hours later he would 60 over to the Ras
Duggan and the of the Boshev bunc
g why they wanted the oil workers organize
and take the oil wells from Dad and Mr. Roscoe
Bunny to Southern Pacific and just as he was
finishing his years work the convention of the Republican party
met Chicago thousand delegates and many
and many newspaper correspondents and special writer's
tell the world about this mighty historic
listened to impressive Keynote speeches and
quantities of tobacco quantities of
bootleg liquor and meantime in in the Blackstone Hotel
the hadozen bosses who controlled the votes down
their deals In the millions the wires
concerning the convention the Vernon
mentoned his adjoining
exactly the right OFFERS and paid his certified checks to
exactly the right after long deadlock and the taking
eight ballots amid wild excitement the convention
of General Leonard began suddenly to crumbe
and the ninth ballot Gamaiel
the Republican partys standard-bearer.
College and Gregor Nikolaieff up to San
francisco to ship of the canning feet
which went to Alaska to catch pack salmon Rachel
Menzes and her brother joined three students who
had equipped themselves with battered Ford car follow the
stars and gathering peaches the
Gamers and drer Bunny the group
who did not have to work all he only
zone VINO didn't know what to do with himself.
In the old days. when he and Dad drilling one well at
time Bunny would pitch in and help anything was to
do; he only kid" then men liked it. But now he
was of and supposed dgnfed the company was of
age too huge machine in which cog its place and
must not be nerfered with Bunny could
pans at nome without respassng the job of the gardener
he mad resolved to study of Pu books had never
heard of studying eight day. couldn't take
Paus job for part of the time because he good enough
carpenter!
1t in which some people worked all the time
and others played all the time the time was bore
and would do unless he had play the time
equally bore and the people who did had ANYTHING
talk about that Bunny wanted to listen They talked about
their play just soemnly if had work tennis tourna
mens golf tournaments polo matches complicated
ways OF hitting little ball about field! Now it was all right
when needed recreation to 90 ont and b
little ball. but to make life work of give your time and
thought to it, to practice regously books abou
men and with their elaborate of spo clothes
and seemed to him they kind of bvnnos;
upon themselves to make themselves believe they were
really enjoying their lives. str4rr ~
/ TO be econtinu