Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1881 — Doan’ Lose Sleep for America. [ARTICLE]

Doan’ Lose Sleep for America.

Erother (jr.rdner, In Free Press.' f “Las' night as I war gwine pas’ McOaffy’s grocery,” solemnly began Brother Gardner, as Samuel Skin finally got through pounding the sto.ve, “as I war gwiue pas’ McGuff.v’a groeeiy dar sat de ole man Lee. I reckon you all know de oleNuau. He sat dar op a b.'X, hat on de back ob bis head, an’ his feet obstructin' de sidewalk, an’ lie was sayin’ to de crowd Jat de present greatest need of dij kentry was an increase ob currency. Las’ winter all he got to eat cum from de poo’ master, an’ all de clothes his fam’ly wore cum from charitable people. Idoan’ rec’ou he has dun onesquar’ day’s work dis hull season, an’ I’m quite sartiu dat .bis wife am bar’ fut an’ his chilten hungry, an’ yet he sot dar spoutin’ about lie needs ob de kentry same as if he war carryin’ half de States in his west pocket. - Lit me say to you ail right yere, dat ' none of you need "shoulder yourselves wid auy responsibility in regard to dis kentry. Jwt let her slide. If ehe runs off do track, dat’s none of your lookout. I know a dozen cull’d men in dis city wh iam continually worried about de expansion of contraction of de currency, free trade or perteebun, an’ odder quw-huns, an' ehery one of ’em ragged an’ hungry. Doan’ you lose any sleep fur fear America won’t git up rigl t eand fust in de mawnin’. All you have to do am to begin work at seben an’ leave off at six, an' if de kentry bus’s her biler you’ll have suthin’ laid by to emigrate on. I doan’ kter two cente fur de political fuclier. Let ’em contract or expand, swell or shrink, nail down de kiver or leave de box open—l'm counted out Wheu 1 dun my day's work au’ got my pay I have no furder claims on de kentry. While I pay my debts an obey de laws she has no furder claims on me. We will now enter up >n de usual reckless program of bizuess.”