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Show FIZZLED OUT. Dost recall the vlld commotion ol a llttlo while ago, when We had a sort of notion that the profiteers would go9 We resolved to prosecute them and to poison them and shoot ihem, and to treat 'em rough and hoot them; where's that movement, do you know? Where are now the learned attorneys whom we often used to meet, as they made their frantic journeys to the courthouse and repeat? How they used to roar and thunder, haw they'd , stamp the price hogs under, and dc-Iprive dc-Iprive them of their plunder, In the name of Mike and Pete! Are the I profiteers in prison, where we gald (we'd put them all? Is the hoarder getting hls'n. draKglnt: round a ehaln land ball? Is the market's greedy ruler resting in the moldy cooler, or Is Justice but a drooler, with its picture to the wall I am shelling out my dollar dol-lar to the soulless profiteer?; I am overcharged for collars and for wad-ding wad-ding lor my ears, 1 am overcharged for and for ink to write roy letters, and no buccaneer in fetters to 1 my wistful gaze appears. |