j***@hushmail.com
2008-10-11 18:12:27 UTC
"Let the farmer, so far as I am concerned, be damned forevermore! To
hell with him, and bad luck to him! He is,unless I err, no hero at
all, and no priest, and no altruist, but simply a tedious fraud and
ignoramus, a cheap rogue and hypocrite, the eternal Jack of the human
pack. He deserves all that he suffers under our economic system, and
more. Any city man, not insane, who sheds tears for him is shedding
the tears of the crocodile."
"No more grasping, selfish and dishonest mammal, indeed, is known to
students of the Anthropoidea. When the going is good for him he robs
the rest of us up to the extreme limits of our endurance; when the
going is bad he comes bawling for help out of the public till. Has
anyone ever heard of a farmer makng any sacrifice of his own
interests, however slight, to the common good? Has anyone ever heard
of a farmer practicing or advocating any political idea that was not
absolutely self-seeking -- that was not, in fact, delibertely designed
to loot the rest of us to his gain? Greenbackism, free silver,
government guarantee of prices, all the complex fiscal imbecilities of
the cow state John Baptists -- these are the contributions of the
virtuous husbandman to American political theory . . . . Yet we are
asked to venerate this prehensile moron as . . . the foundation stone
of the state!"
hell with him, and bad luck to him! He is,unless I err, no hero at
all, and no priest, and no altruist, but simply a tedious fraud and
ignoramus, a cheap rogue and hypocrite, the eternal Jack of the human
pack. He deserves all that he suffers under our economic system, and
more. Any city man, not insane, who sheds tears for him is shedding
the tears of the crocodile."
"No more grasping, selfish and dishonest mammal, indeed, is known to
students of the Anthropoidea. When the going is good for him he robs
the rest of us up to the extreme limits of our endurance; when the
going is bad he comes bawling for help out of the public till. Has
anyone ever heard of a farmer makng any sacrifice of his own
interests, however slight, to the common good? Has anyone ever heard
of a farmer practicing or advocating any political idea that was not
absolutely self-seeking -- that was not, in fact, delibertely designed
to loot the rest of us to his gain? Greenbackism, free silver,
government guarantee of prices, all the complex fiscal imbecilities of
the cow state John Baptists -- these are the contributions of the
virtuous husbandman to American political theory . . . . Yet we are
asked to venerate this prehensile moron as . . . the foundation stone
of the state!"