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to others. She lost caste and standing in her own 

 state, and I tell you nobody can watch the interests of 

 a state so well as her own citizens. (Applause.) We 

 came near falling into the same trap in Michigan, but 

 we saw it in time to avert the disaster. The propo- 

 sition plainly was this — let us take possession of your 

 fisheries and we will take sixty per cent, and give you 

 forty per cent. Why should not the state of Michigan 

 have the hundred per cent. ? It is a good deal like the 

 arrangement of the planter with the negro. He said 

 to the darkc}', " I will give you so much land to work, 

 I will furnish you the seed, and you shall do the work 

 and have one third of the crop." In the fall the darkey 

 came around and said, " I come to see you now about 

 settling up." "What do you mean, you black cuss?" 

 "The cotton crop is in, massa, and I thought I would 

 come and settle up." " What do you mean ? " " You 

 know, massa, I was to get one third of the crop." 

 "Wh}^," he says, "You black rascal, we did n't raise 

 but two thirds of a crop; your third was n't raised." 

 (Laughter.) That is about the way the thing sums 

 itself up. 



