Is it any wonder they want to hold Jobe and his likes in line?
All Ive got to say is: If Jobe and his likes would rather have sore hands and stiff backs, if they would rather rub salve and pick briars than to quit votin the “strait ticket,” let them have them. Let them pick and rub.
This strait ticket bizness is increasin the demand for St. Jacob’s oil and Green Mountain salve and sich alarminly.
But as they are great on the “home market” scheme, I suppose they are satisfied, and I ort to be.
CHAPTER XXIII.
PLAN TO RELIEVE THE RICH OF AN EXPENSE.
ON the fust page of last Tuesday’s Plain Dealer there is a article that has caused me to have a great deal of thought.
It is about Captain Fred W. Lawrence of Company B, of the Standin Army of Ohio, a writin to the coal operators, and railroad officers, and monopolists, and bankers, and rich speculators of Cleveland, askin them to give somethin toward supportin said army.
He says he wants to git “good men in the militia—men who can be depended on to do their duty in case of labor trouble.”
Now, Fred dont want any common scrubs in his company. He needs money to hire the kind of men he wants—“men who will do their duty in case of labor trouble.”
Now what is the “duty” of sich men?