Says I: “Is that so?”
“Yes,” says he, “it is. And now, Betsy, what do them Populists expect to do? Do they expect to elect farmers, and school teachers, and merchants, and mechanics, and men what work for a livin, as officers?
“Do they expect to have men what haint got any more sense than to work for a livin to make our laws?
“Do you think farmers have sense enough to know what laws farmers need?
“Do you suppose school teachers has sense enough to know anything about schools?
“Does merchants know anything about the store-keepin bizness?
“Do you suppose mechanics and mill-men and miners know anything about laborin? No. These men what do all these things dont know anything about the things they do.
“We want lawyers, and bankers, and railroad owners, and monopolists, and speculators, and bondholders, and mine-owners and sich as our law-makers. These are the fellers what know all about farmin and teachin, and sellin goods, and diggin coal, and buildin houses, and workin mills, and makin things. Yes, Betsy, the fellers what do them things haint got sense enough to know anything about the things they do. Its the fellers what dont do them that knows all about them.
“The fust time for nigh onto twenty years.”