People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — FRUITS OF AMERICAN PLUTOCRACY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FRUITS OF AMERICAN PLUTOCRACY.

American Millionaire —So, Duke, you want my daughter's band In marriage? The Duke—l would give name and h onor through her hand. American Millionaire—Have you scrofula? Are you dissipated? In other words, have you all the contaminations common to noble blood? The Duke I'm afflicted with scrofula, epilepsy; am dissipated, disreputable, and a scoundrel. <. American Millionaire—Take her, then, and may heaven blees my children. —With apologtea to Texas Slftinga,