April 17, 1902.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
PROSPERITY
Mr. 7mrrn Comments on tha Republican
Ttraml of Prosperity and Expoici
Sorua Republican Fictions
(This is the second of the series of
articles furnished The Independent by
lion. Marvin Warren. Editor Ind.)
THE EXPORT FICTION.
The national republican platform
says, substantially, that no single fact
can more strikingly prove the pros
perity of our country than the great
excess of our exports over our im
ports. On the contrary, I affirm that
no single fact, other than this one,
can more strikingly prove our na
tional bankruptcy, and our national
bondage.
I admit the fact in question proves
the prosperity of the millionaires, both
domestic and foreign, with whom we
have to do, but it proves with equal
clearness the bankruptcy and enslave
ment of the productive labor inter
ests of the United States.
Strange to say, under the republi
can order of things our excess of ex
ports over imports is not only an ex
cess of exports of merchandise over
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imports of merchandise, but it is also
an excess of exports of money (gold
and silver) over the imports of money;
that is, we send abroad vast quanti
ties of merchandise in excess of the
imports of merchandise, and instead
of getting any money for this excess
of merchandise, we send an excess of
money over and above the imports of
money after the merchandise. So that
this boasted excess of exports over
imports is nothing else but a vast
tribute that the productive labor of
the United States is compelled to pay
to foreign capitalists, all or nearly all
English.
The republican party has been in
power since March 4, 1861, forty-one
years, except the two terms of Cleve
land, and I admit the Cleveland de
mocracy is worse than republicanism,
but the principal errors of both are
the same.
According to the republican treasury
department figures that I have in my
possession, in the forty years, com
mencing June 30, 1861, and ending the
30th of June, 1901, the exports of
merchandise over and above the im
ports of merchandise, were of the
value of $3,848,339,837. And in the
same time, the exports of money (gold
and silver) over and above the im
ports of the same, amounted to f 1,
143,866,968. Adding the two excesses
together, makes a total excess of ex
ports of merchandise and money over
imports of merchandise and money of
$4,992,206,823. It will be noticed that
this is close to five billion dollars in
amount, and it is certain that the to
tal excess of exports of merchandise
and money over imports of the same
amounted to fully five billion dollars,
in less than two months later. This
five billion dollars in merchandise
and money is a pure tribute paid by
the productive labor of the United
States to foreigners, for which nothing
has ever been received back to this
country, or ever will be. I challenge
any republican, or anybody else, to
show that anything of the value of one
dollar, even, has been received back,
or ever will be, in return for this
five billion dollars excess, so sent
abroad to other countries.
THE GOLD STANDARD FICTION.
The national republican platform
says, "We renew our allegiance to
the principles of the gold standard."
There is no single standard in this
country, really. What nonsense it is
to talk about the gold standard, when
the treasury department every month
issues its report of the different kinds
of money in the country, in which is
specified over' five hundred millions of
"standard silver dollars," all doing good
work as money, all par with gold coin,
not redeemable in gold, and not in the
least dependent upon gold any more
than gold is dependent upon them.
The best name I can think of for
this so-called gold standard that we
have on hand is the clap-trap gold
standard.
Republicans boast of making every
dollar as good as every other dollar.
They do nothing of the kind. By
their legislation they make the gold
coins legal tender for all debts, public
and private, except where otherwise
stipulated, in the contract. Money is
a debt paying power under the law,
and money that is not a legal tender
to pay all debts, is not as good as
any money that is a legal tender to
pay all debts.
THE PER CAPITA FICTION.
The republican national platform
says, "The Volume of money in cir
culation was never so great per cap
ita as it is today."
This is an enormous fiction. The
monthly report of the treasury de
partment, dated July 1, 1900, only 10
days after the adoption of that plat
form, states the per capita money cir
culation then to be only $26.50. And
the like treasury department report
for the first of the present month,
March, 1902, states the per capita
money circulation to be only $28.65,
which is at least two or three dol
lars more than it really i3. Whereas,
in the summer of 1865 the per capita
paper money circulation of the country
was $57.65, and if the coin money be
added in, it will make $67.26 per cap
ita. And I have the items of all that
money circulation, and republican au
thority for it, and for the blessed con
dition of the masses of the people
that was produced by It.
Hon. Hugh McCullough, then repub
lican secretary of the treasury, in his
report to congress that year, said:
"The country as a whole, notwith
standing the ravages of war and the
draft upon labor, is, by its greatly
developed resources, far in advance of
what it was in 1857. The people are
now comparatively free from debt.
There is an immense volume of paper
money in circulation.
"It is undoubtedly true that trade is
carried on more largely for cash than
ever was the case previous to the
year 1861, and that there is a much
greater demand for money than there
would be if sales were made, as here
tofore, on credit So far as individ
ual indebtedness ,is regarded, it may
be remarked, that the people of the
United States are much less in debt
than in previous years."
Other facts of history also there
are that should never be forgotten
by anybody in relation to that great
money circulation. While It lasted,
there were no labor strikes, or or
ganizations, no necessity of anything
of the kind; no , enforced idleness
of labor; no distress for the neces
sities of life; no bankruptcies, to
speak of: no trusts or monopolies of
any kind, and Americans owned the
vessels necessary for all our foreign
carrying trade.
But all these good results had to be
thrown away according to the republi
can idea, in order to make way for
the so-called gold standard. I have
the statement of secretary Hugh Mc
Cullough, in his own language, to the
effect that " In two years, from Sep
tember 1, 1865, to September 1, 1867,
he contracted that currency in the
sum of $843,508,660, mostly by tak
ing in and issuing government , bonds
for it, bearing gold Interest, and he
states what part of the currency he
contracted, and how much of each.
Immediately the whole order of busi
ness and events changed. From an
easy dimlnatlon of debts, an increase
of them set in. Bankruptcies became
the order of the day. An era of labor
organization and strikes set in that
continue to this day. The con-
the first two years, until the per cap
ita far exceeded the whole per capita
circulation as now existing.
From the very beginning of that
currency contraction, in 1865, the ow
nership of our vessels for the foreign
carrying trade, passed speedily from
the Americans to the British, until
now they are nearly or quite all gone,
and our railroads are now fast going
the same way, and to some extent,
our factories also. The great trusts
that now rule us largely facilitate this
business.
I have the opinion of several ex
perts, some Americans and some Eng
lish, relative to our foreign' debt
abroad, investments of foreigners here,
expense to us of our international car
rying trade, and of the traveling of
Americans in other countries, all of
which are herein copied later on.
From these and other lights that I
have, I know that in every year since
that great contraction by McCullough
was fully entered upon in 1865, the
tribute accruing against this country,
and in favor of foreigners, by the four
causes named, by reason of the clap
trap gold standard, has far exceeded
the balance of our exports over our
imports, and this solves the problem
of what became of that five billion dol
lars that I hereinbefore discoursed
about, and no person can furnish any
other reasonable solution of it.
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WHAT IS MONOPOLY
A Definition of tha Term for Benefit of In
dependent Readers
"What is monopoly?" asks S. P.
Gibson of Page, Neb. "Henry Gearge
included private owrenrship of land in
monopoly," says Dr. W. P. Cunning
ham of New York city.
"Monopoly means that substantial
unity of action on the part of one
or more persons engaged in some kind
of business which gives exclusive con
trol, more particularly, although not
solely, with respect to price." Prof.
Richard T. Ely's "Monopolies and
Trusts," page 14. This is the defini
tion of monopoly which The Indepen
dent beleives its readers will find
best suited to the populist idea of
monopoly. It is needless to say that
economists differ upon the meaning
of this word very widely.
Prof. Ely discusses the definitions
of other economists upon this point
to some extent," and it may interest
Independent readers to note some of
the differences. William Nassau Sen
ior's idea is that monopoly is pro
duction under circumstances in which
competition is not perfectly equal, or
in which equal efforts, either subjec
tive or objective, or both together,
yield unequal returns to producers,
Prof. Ely explains that the term ef
fort is used in a somewhat extended
and technical sense. "If two men of
equal strength lift unequal weights,
their efforts are. subjectively unequal.
If two men of unequal strength make
equal sacrifices, their efforts are ob
jectively unequal. If two men have
unequal capacity, the one having tal
ent, the other only normal faculties,
equal subjective eflorts would yield
unequal returns. If two men' of equal
capacity cultivate ground of unequal
fertility, equal objective efforts would
produce unequal returns. If our two
cultivators of the soil have unequal
intellectual capacity and cultivate land
of unequal fertility, the inequality in
returns would be due both to subjec
tive and objective causes. And in
all these cases we would, occording
to Senior, have to do with monopoly."
(Monopolies and Trusts, p. 6.)
John Stuart Mill's idea of monopoly
is very similar to Senior's. "A thing
which is limited in quantity even
though its posessors do no act in
concert, is still a monopolized article."
But only those things which are lim
ited in quantity have any value what
ever, and acording to Mill all commo
dities must be monopolized articles.
Prof. Henry Sidgwick defines mo
nopolies as "the control exercised by
an individual seller or combination
of sellers over a comodity that no
one else can bring to market."
Prof. Simon N. Patten. John A.
Hobson and Dr. Emory R. Johnson
"have so enlarged the idea of monop
oly as to include all participation in
a surplus gain in production or con
sumption over and above costs. We
have this sorplus gain in every part
of the economic field. Wages parti
cipate in the surplus; profits do like
wise, and rent also. Everyone has a
monopoly." Mr. Hobson, however,
has recently modified his ideas.
Prof. Ely calls attention to the fact
that we must distinguish sharply be
tween, competitive businesses on a
large scale and monopolies. "Depart
ment stores," he says, "in no city in
the world enjoy monopolies, but are
subjected to the steady, permanent
pressure of competition. There are
those who call every business operat
ing on a vast scale monopoly, and
would put in the same economic cate
gory a gas works without a competi
tor and a huge retail dry goods estab
lishment with rivals at every hand,
ready to seize every oportunity for
advantage over it and certain to ruin
it if its managers relax their intense
activity and watchfulness."
He confesses 1 that in his earlier
writing he followed Mill in the mis
take of calling land a natural monp
oly. This was in his "Problems of
Today" (1888), but the next year in
his "Introduction to Political Econo
my" he held that land "is a limited
factor, but in the ownership or man
agement of land there is no inevitable
tendency , to monopoly." . In. other
words, no Inevitable tendency to "sub-
""fr , rf , .rctlm" nn rh r,
trol over land and land prices. It is
evident that there is no; need -for the
term monopoly if we are to hold that
it means scarcity, because value im
plies scarcity.
"Land exists in quantities to which
physical nature has assigned limits,
and the supply of land exists in grades
varying in , fertility and , desirability
of situation, and as a consequence of
this gradation we have the rent of
land. Land is not, however, a monop
oly, and is misleading to speak of it
as a natural monopoly. Nowhere do
we find monopoly either In the owner
ship or in the cultivation of land, but
everywhere competition competition
among unequals to be sure, but still
competition. Land rent is gain due to
the superiority of the land owned by
rent receivers over that cultivated by
those who are making use of land
which affords, nothing beyond returns
to labor and to capital. Now we must
distinguish between the broad con
cept of differential gains enjoyed by
those in competitive pursuits, and the
monopolistic gains which are base-1
on the absence of competition." (Mo
nopolies and Trusts, p. 34.)
PROTECTIONISM
Mr. Freeland Comment on the Cuban Su
gar Question.
Editor Independent: The Indepen
dent makes the following pertinent
observations: "The United States has
more flour than the people can use
and less sugar than the people want.
The Cubans have more sugar than
they can use and not enough flour to
feed their families. Remedy: Put
up a tariff wall to prevent our people
from' swapping flour for sugar and
the Cubans from trading sugar for
flour. That is the fundamental prin
ciple of the political economy of all
protectionism."
This reminds us of Louis F. Post's
illustration of the Mainland and the
Island. Under our present tariff sys
tem a given amount of effort yields:
Wheat. Sugar. Total.
Mainland ....10 1 11
Island 1 10 11
Total ..11 11 22
Under natural conditions the result
of the same effort would be:
Wheat. Sugar. Total.
Mainland 20 0 20
Island 0 20 20
Total ....... 20 20 40
WTith absolute free trade these prod
ucts would be distributed:
' . . , Wheat. Sugar. Total.
Mainland .....10 10 20
Island ..10 10 20
Total ........20 20 40
Both the United States . and Cuba
would be benefitted if trade were made
as free between the two countries as
it is now among the several states of
the union. .
That a tariff is not essential to
progress the recent history of New
South Wales proves. In 1896 the col
only adopted the policy, of progressive
free trade. Duties were to be gradual
ly reduced over a periqd of five years,
at the expiration . of , which time, in
1901, only those on tobacco and liquor
should remain. The deficiency in rev
enue was met by a land tax, a crude
and .partial application of Henry
George's system, supplemented by an
income tax. The effect was startling.
The decennial census taken , in 1901
showed great gains in population for
the free trade , colony, while protec
tionist Victoria, separated only by a
river, had actually lost. During a per
iod of years 5,180 more people left Vic
toria than arrived, while New South
Wales attracted 192,184 more than
the number that left. Sydney, the cap
ital of the latter colony, gained 102,
000, or 30 per cent, while Victoria's
capital, Melbourne, . gained but 3,000,
or little more than one-half of one per
cent. A. FREELAND.
Mt. Pleasant, Tenn.
The Sure Hatch Incubator Company
of Clay Center, Nebraska, has devel
oped a great business. Their incu
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home where they are manufactured.
From thence, their good name has
spread to . all parts of the country.
Wherever one of their incubators or
brooders is Introduced and put to the
test, multiplied sales are sure to follow
in a reasonable time. It is the proud
boast of the company that they are re
quired to do but little advertising to
market their incubators and brooders,
their products by their work accom
plishing this in a far more effective
manner. The Sure Hatch Company
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An Historic Old Homestead
Nestling among the "hills of sunny
Tennessee," about a dozen miles ear.t
of Its capital city, lies the historic old
homestead of Andrew Jackson, "The
Hermitage." And it would be hard to
find a more beautiful trip for a day's
pleasuring than a visit to this spot.
The house is approached through a
driveway bordered by Interlacing ce
dar trees, and stands in the midst of
a beautiful, shady lawn, carpeted with
grass and myrtle. It fronts the south
and is a two-story brick structure of
the old colonial type. Across the en
tire front stretches a double piazza,
wooden and painted white, supported
by thick, grooved pillars, and with
floors of stone. Each end of this piaz
za terminates in a wing of the house.
A similar porch reaches across the
back of the house, and near it is an
old rock walled well, furnished wir.h
the old-time curb, chain and bucket.
The dwelling. was built in 1819 as a
gift from the general to his wife, wl.o
selected the site. The mansion, com
modious even at the present time, wa3
palatial in that day, and a great con
trast to the first dwelling of the Jack
sons, which is still standing, in a mo
dified form, on a slight rise of ground
across a little ravine. This is an old
fashioned log house, built in 1804, and
.was also finite a pretentious dwelling
story structure with one large room
below and two smaller ones abovo.
but after the removal of the family It
was cut down to one story and for
many years did service as a negro ca
bin. At present there are two small
rooms, each boasting a front door and
immense .firepace, 'leading (,ut through
huge chimneys of rough stone. The
ceilings are low, and the interior U
unceiled and blackened with the smoke
of many years. The cabin is still in
a good state of preservation, and
shows that substantially, rather than
show, was the aim of the early archi
tects. Within speaking distance of the log
house is , the r servants' quartern.
Thi3 is a smaller cabin, with but one
door and one chimney, and was orig
inally connected with the "big hous?"
by a covered passageway.
To the east of the present mansion
is the garden with its graveled paths
and brick-bordered beds, wherein
grow and bloom and die the old-tim
flowers, all as arranged by the nana cr
Mrs. Jackson herself. When a plant
dies it is replaced by another of thd
same kind, so the garden presents the
same appearance it did three-quarters
of a century ago. In the lower end of
this garden is the family burying
ground, where a neat marble tomb, in
the shape of a summer house, en
closes the remains of Jackson ami
his wife. The graves of a dozen or so
of the members and intimate friend?
of the family are near.
The estate at the time of Jackson's
death comprised 1,800 acres of the
most fertile farm land of the Cumber
land valley, and of this 1,300 acres i
still in the possession of the heirs. Of
the balance, 475 acres was sold to the
state of Tennessee a few years ago as
the site for the erection of a confed
erate soldiers' home, and the other 25
acres, including the mansion, the log
cabin, the garden and immediate sur
roundings, is the property of the "La
dies' Hermitage Association." This is
an organization of Nashville ladies
whose object is to preserve the haunts
of "Old Hickory" as nearly as possible
as they were during his life. To this
end they have one room of the house
Jackson's bedroom just as It was in
his life time, the balance of the hous
being occupied by the family who are
in charge of the place. The ladies are
collecting all the Jacksonlan relics
they can procure as fast as they have
the means, and every year sees addi
tions to the collection which is viewed
by a rapidly increasing number of
tourists. Farm, Field and Fireside.
Satanic War
Satanic war waged by enlightened men
Beyond portrayal by the graphic pen.
A truthful tongue might tell of mil
lions, slain,
Or, fiend, incarnate, paint the hosts of
Cain.
Foul, Godless deeds, revolting and un
clean, Make worldlings wonder what the
gospels mean.
Fraternal love which Christ com
manded, taught
See, Christian rulers chalk it down as
nought.
Though, peace on earth, good will to
men, indeed,
Sound sweet ideal, bcth in anthem
creed;
Yet practice! Ah, that's quite an
other thing,
To robber nations, or to robber king!
Each looting nation in their pagan
greed.
Outrage the gospel and profane the
Creed, . '
Bend church and state to their unholy
use
Who dares protest they silence by
abuse.
Henceforth, the warrior with his traps
and gauds,
May swagger, strut, while he, himself,
applauds.
Mute the poet and all the righteous
host;
Such silent scorn will tame these
blood-sons, most.
Eternal scorn befits each robber state,
Of conquest, bent, while rousing self
ish hate.
Eternal scorn the 'weakest pen may
wield
And it will smite, or pierce the war
rior's shield.
Still, robber nations prate of Chris
tian zeal,
While sending armies forth to slaugh
ter steal.,
Aye, more thev call it "Glory, grand
and great."
To kill God's children and to swipe
their state.
Lydia Piatt Richards.
Modern Fawning Before Wealth.
The chief evil, nowadays, lies in the
well-nigh universal fawning and cow
ering before wealth, In the blind
scramble for fortune or favor. We are
taught to act a part, when we should
embody a principle. We stoop over
and walk on all fours, when we should
stand erect, remembering the stars
above us.
Many of the hangers-on of the mil
lionaire are mere fawners and flatter
,ers seeking to push their way into the
! social swim. Other classes who bend
at his feet are working people, who
are dependent on, him for food and
shelter.
What is the way out of this social
tangle? The answer is not clear. But
one thing Is certain: we all need a
keener sense of values. We need to
set up character (not money) as the
one ideal of life that Is best worth
while.
Thomas Hughes said, long ago, that
we may, not be able to hinder people
in general from being helpless and
vulgar from letting themselves fall
into slavery to things about them, if
they are rich, or from aping the habits
and vices of the rich, if they are poor.
But, as he says, we may live simple,
manly lives, ourselves, speaking our
own thoughts, paying our own way,
and doing our own work, whatever
that may be. We shall remain gentle
men as long as we follow these rules,
even if we have to sweep a crossing
for a livelihood. But we shall not re
main gentlemen, in anything but the
name, if we depart from these rules.
IAMB?
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f fSL STCD of imported and home bred draft and vouch stallions are larger than afl !mprrtr
f Nebraska. His BLACK stallions ami prices are "HOT PROPOSITIONS1' to his competitor!.
Jams compel them o "-o-awar-bacc-aod-sit-down" and sine "Aiu't-it-a-slisma." That 1AM4
imports and breeds onlj the best first-class bi draft stallions.fiash coaebers.and be slls tl.em st
nnch less prices than we can afford to. Be surely hypnotizes his many buyers with his tor
Botchers and low jricea. Be does business. Bat he is the only man in D. 8. that imports ALL.
BLACK STALLIONS. He has on hand
100
Black Percherons, Clydes, Shires and
Coachers.
100
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and largest stallions I eyer saw." "See that 2,000-ponnd two-yer-old-a 'ripper'; and that
pound thre-vyear-old 'herd header' a topper'." "O, my ! Bee thak 5,000-pound pair of four-yar
olds; they are out of sight; largest pair in U. S.J wide as a red wagon and hare 12 and 14-inch
bone and they more like flash soachers." lams has larger "HORSE SUOVV" every day that
can be sen at the Iowa or Nebraska btt te Fairs. He has on hand
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two to six rears old, weight 1,600 to 2,500 pounds, fast moTers. MORE Black Percherons. ton
stallions, Paris Exhibition and State pirise winners, government APPROVED and 8TMPK1
!Wil5R9 or a7 one importer, lams spaaks French and Uerman. pays NO INTJEKrKEi rot
BUYER, NO SALESMEN, no two to teti man as partners to share profits. His buyers gt MID
DLEMEN'S PBOyiTS and SAL.AK1KS. lama tmva liirmrt tmm hrwlara Thla. with his tWPblr
years' experience secures the bast. All the abo fact his hnir .VX)i to ilxmOO on a
first-class stallion, and yoti get a first-class horse. a only second-rate stallions are peddlsd by
slick salesmen to be sold. GOOD ONE3 SELL THEMSELVES. It costs $!50l).00 and $0). to
have salesman form CO. and sell a aecond-rate stallion. Form your own companies, (lo direct
to lams' barns. He will sell you a better stallion for $1.0fUOO and $1.20UO0 than others are sellictr
at $2,0iK).00 and $t,O00.00. lams pays bors freight and his buyer's fare. Good guarantees. BARN:
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kingdom.
The mortal bane In all this money
worship, this toadyism, and timeserv
ing, is the effect it ha3 on the soul of
the toady and timeserver. It calls
his attention away from the real and
the permanent in life to the false and
the fleeting. It robs him of the idea
that character is the chief glory of
man. Character is the one thing
whose foundations go down to the
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"Success." J
An Incendiary Document.
Jos. K. Ohl, special correspondent
of the Atlanta Constitution, under. date
of December 27, 1901, writes his paper
from Manila: "It was discovered that
there were being circulated among the
Filipinos copies of the American Dec
laration of Indepndence, done in Eng
lish and Spanish in parallel columns.
One of the best officers, a man re
garded as conservative and no extrem
ist, to us this was promptly suppressed
and gave it as his opinion that the
Declaration of Independence is 'A
DAMNED INCENDIARY DOCUMENT."
The Boer Question
The democrats in the house held a
caucus and Unanimously adopted res
olutions declaring that congress
should express the sympathy of the
American people with the Boer re
publics. The resolution offered by
Mr. Randall is as follows: "Resolved,
By the democratic members of the
house of representatives of the United
States of America, In caucus assem
bled, that the congress of the United
States should, by resolution, express
the sympathy of the people of the
United States for the peoples of the
South African republics in their heroic
struggle to maintain their liberty and
dependence. Resolved, That the con
gress should in the spirt of amity and
friendship, appeal to the British gov
ernment in the interest of humanity
to accept overtures for peace, cease
hostilities and endeavor to bring about
a just and honorable settlement of ex
isting differences, to the end that peace
may be established. Resolved, That
the United States should fairly and
honorably maintain a position of
strict neutrality in this contest be
tween nations friendly to us, and see
to It that the neutrality laws are vig
orously and impartially enforced. Re
solver, That we. as democrats and rep
resentatives of the people, will use our
utmost endeavor to force the commit
tee now dominated by the republican
party, having in their charge a resolu
tion similar to this, to report the same
back to the house so that the congress
may give expression thereon, declar
ing the sentiments and will of the
'it's Morgan!'
("The earth, and the fullness there
of; the sea, and all that therein is"
and all the hereafter nothing too big
for the trusts.)
I came to a mill by the river side.
A half mile long and nearly as wide,
With a forest of stacks, and an army
of men.
Toiling at furnace and shovel and pen.
"What a most magnificent plant'." I
cried;
And a man with a smudge on his face
replied:
"It's Morgan's."
I entered a train and rode all day.
On a regal coach and a right-of-way
Which reached its arms all over the
land.
In a . system too large to understand.
"A splendid property, this!" I cried:
And a man -with a plate on hi3 hat
replied: -
"It's Morgan's."
I sailed on a great ship, trim and true,
From pennant to keel, from cabin to
crew;
And the ship was one of a monster
fleet,
A first-class navy could scarce com
. pete.
"What a beautiful craft she is!" I
cried;
And a man with akimbo legs replied:
"It's Morgan's."
I dwelt in a nation filled with pride;
Her people were many, her lands were
wide;
Her record in war and science and art
Proved greatness of muscle and mind
and heart.
"What a grand old country It is!" I
cried;
And a man with his chest In the air
replied:
"It's Morgan's."
I went to Heaven.. The jasper walls
Towered high and wide, and the golcten
halls .
Shone bright beyond. But a strange
new mark
Was over the gate, viz.: "Private
Park."
"Why, what is the meaning of this?"
I. cried:
And a saint with a livery on replied:
"It's Morgan's."
I went to the only place left. "HI take
A chance on the boat on the brim
stone lake,
Or perhaps I may be allowed to sit
On the griddled floor of the bottom
less pit;"
But a leering lout with horns on his
face;
Cried out as he forked me off the
place: "".
"It's Morgan's."
N. Y. Mall and Express.
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