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Show I Egotism. (Now York Sun.) I And that I am a more important person per-son than I thought. I make tho President, and the governor gover-nor and tho judgo on tho bonch, and tho street-cleaning commissioner. commis-sioner. 11 the President wishes to dcolaro war, or to make peace, or to keep or not to keep tho Philippine islands, ho waits to hear what I havo to say. I am tho President, and tho governor, and tho judgo on tho bench, and tho streut-clcnplng commissioner. I find that when Ethan Allen cap- Itured iort Ticouderoga, "in the immo of Almighty God nud thu Continental Congress," and that "Mad Anthony" stormed tho breastworks at j5tony Tolnt, anil that whorl Cornwallls gavo his sword to tho Great George, antl Unit when Leo surrendered to Grunt, I was thure. I was right in It, I did It. 1 flud that I commanded tho' ships, " and sighted tho guns, and fired the shells, and stoked tho boilers, and tuannged tho engines nt Manila; and at S:it,lngo the name. It was I who charged up tho hill at Ban Juan, and set the flag n-wav-ing over l'Qnc. I am tl)o man that sunk tho Merilmac. Iam Indispensable and Irrepressible. Nothing can bo done In tbeso Stale's' nnd territories and outlying islands without mo. The millionaire can't get bis stuff together to-gether in such largo pIca unless I holphlm. Ho can't build a house, run a railroad, or opon a mine, or stnrt tho oil well spouting, or mako electric wires talk nnd wprk, or wool Into clothes, or Ideas into bank notes, unless I say so. Tho missionary can't go unless I send The leRlsIntor can't lcglslato, and tho ni'iglsirato can't enforce tho law without my consont. Not evon tno Pjoss can boss things un- I let him. I'm wonderful. You can-t buy nnyt,n(, un1eS3 x BClt lou can't sell unythlng unlsss I buy. H You can't teach anything urilessl learn. can't learn anything unless.l teach. H tm something surprising. The Greeks and thoBomans, and No-H No-H buchadnozzir nnd Pharaoo and Xcixes never say nny thing like mo. English, Irish, French, Spanish aud Portuguese, German, Dutch, Russian, Tollsh, and Scandinavian; Italian, .Greek and Turk; Chinese. Japaneso aud Hawaiian, Australian and Danuck, Afro-Amcriean ana ir8t plaln n,B8eri cowboy, Indian, iH t 4Iexlcaa. nnd a lot nioro. !H t Slmpl nud Vm complex. :H imay nt always be right but I always tomo out right In the end; and I'm !B Ini PrUy cortalr' t Bt what I want. Aaways want something, nnd generally know oxectly what It ls. i0"'" heard of mo, jwli vou have. 'H Cd f 0U'J1 i'ear more of mo for a long H tvh to come ff I - hero to .stay Whoop) M lm?''0,rn'r-llan(iod,klrt.Blovod knlcker-m knlcker-m Doctor, Bllk-stookinaed, swarthy. cheeked, eye-glassed, literary, yel. low-Jiturnalfd-readlng, church-go-lng. whiaky-drlnklug. law Hbldtng, negrd - lynching, philanthropic, brave, cowardly, Indepcnd-cnt, Indepcnd-cnt, boss-ridden, wiso frivolous, hard-working, fun-lnvlng, stomly, silly, white-faced, black-fnced, cop-pcr-collorod, well-dressed, un-wnshed, un-wnshed, gontlomanly, rowdyish, all around Amemcan Citizen. |