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Show PUBLIC 'ENEMIES i If you build a line of railway, over hills and barren lands, giving lucra- ; tiive employment to about a million hands; if you cause a score of cities by your right-of-way to rise.' where there formerly was nothing but some' ! rattlesnakes and f'.ies; if when bring- ' ing kale to others, you acquire a little . kale, then you-ve surely robbed th peepul and you ought to be in jail. 'it by planning and by toiling, you have won some wealth and fame, it will make no odds how squarely you have played your little game; your success is proof sufficient that you are a public foe you're a . soulless malefactor, to the dump you ought to go; it's a crime for you to prosper where so many others fail; you have surely robbd the peepul and you ought to be in jail. Be a chronic politician, deal in superheated air; roast the banks and money barons, there is always safety there; but to sound a note of business is a crime so mean and base that a fellow guilty of it, ought to go and hide his face. Change the builders' song triumphant for the politicians' wail or we'll think you've robbed the peepul and we'll pack you off to jail. Walt Mason. |