| Show knoof brother gardners gardeners Gard ners lee lectures detroit free press am bradder johnson in dc do hall dig dis carnin asked the president as ho lie arose rosc and looked up and down the aisles Y ca sah bab den dell lie will please step to do de front brother johnson appeared to labor under the impression that a medal was about to bo be presented him for having the longest heels of any colored man in america and his face wore ft a broad grin as he lie stood at the desk said brother gardner in his roost most solemn tones I was in de back room of a grocery on Reau beaubien bien street de other night to bar bargain gitin fur ten bushels of ta baters an I heard your boica voice as you cum in to c order fl to pounds of buckwheat flour and to remark dat your olo woman wag was ravin crazy wid de do yes sah sab dat was me do olo man climax soon drap ped in an it five dinits be ayou had bad a hot dispute bout do ageo f do airth 11 he e doan know nuffie eab you called him a fool an he be called me a liar you said he lie was a bigot an ho lie said I was al a humbug I heard it johnsen johnson and now I want to talk to you a little in the fust place what you know bout de do ago of oade de world I I wellmah well sah what docs does the old man climax know bout it Dats what do either of you know baui it buffin buffin at all dats charde trouble dims in two men will dis dispute ute harder ober what dc de coant know now dan over solemn lacks do worst enemy I eber had bad was a man who got mad at me bekasi I believe in i gh ghosts what we coant know we often try to make up for in in argy ment what we lack in argument argy ment we try to o make up fur in blab it am easier easier to call a man a fool dan to produce facks and figures to co convince him dat he am in dc do wrong it am safer to call an old man mail a it liar dan to wink at a young eanls mans wife let me say tc to you what you believe in wid all yer heart may arter all bo be wrong wrong de man who araps argument argument argy ment ment fur epithet has no case etain it am only de fairest mind minded ca men who admit deir ignorance of what dey coant know abu abuse c may silence a man but it w wont ont convince him it am only de do bigot who prides bim himself selfon on his cast iron opinions it am only de fool believes assertions sert ions am true bekasi ho lie asserts cm now bradder johnson Jo linson you drap back to yer bench an de do nex time you har somebody boldly announce dat dis world am fitly fifty mill mil I yon y aars urs old you pick up your lou buckwheat flour an walk home wid de th that it it establish do facts in de case if you an him war it to gouge an bito bite an kick an claw till der a rod of sidewalk left in gardnerville Gard gardner nerville ville |