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statesman honored and courted on every hand. They grow 

 rich by gambling in gold and securities the life-blood of 

 the nation; they fatten and grow proud on panics, which 

 shatter legitimate industries ; when their bubbles burst they 

 bring bankruptcy to the honest tradesman, and poverty 



A Pennsylvania Barn-yard. 



to innocent women and children, without any compunction. 

 Why should they care ? The law protects them, or at least 

 connives at them. They have wealth. This species of 

 crime is not odious, as it was in the days of our forefathers, 

 when farmers were law-makers and the rulers in the land. 

 It never will be made odious, until farmers again take the 

 helm. This is a great work how great has only lately 

 begun to be appreciated. Happily the means of its accom 

 plishment already exist, and this great social and political 



