People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — Laugh and Grow Fat. [ARTICLE]

Laugh and Grow Fat.

Uncle Sam can take a bankrupt railroad, run it, place it on a paying basis and turn it over to the stockholder and yet these same stockholders laugh a man to scorn when he advocates the government ownership of a thing that Uncle Sam has taken charge of and placed on a paying basis for the very fellows that sunk it in debt. If these same fellows were the only ones that did the laughing the people would soon put an end to their mirth by placing Uncl&Sapi in charge of the whole shoofijij 4 tafttdhT but the '* strongest’ thing ©J an is that there are so many darapheoles Who fe-echo the laugh of the Stockholder and say that it would never de for Uncle Sam to own the