Betsy Gaskins (Dimicrat), Wife of Jobe Gaskins (Republican): Or, Uncle Tom's Cabin Up to DateHood, W. I. (William I.)
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Betsy Gaskins (Dimicrat), Wife of Jobe Gaskins (Republican): Or, Uncle Tom's Cabin Up to Date
Hood, W. I. (William I.)
Gold; Interest; Money; Paper money -- United States; Populism
If we can get rid of them this will be a fine country. The rich can live
in peace and the militia fellers can go to doin somethin useful.
Now there is several good ways to git rid of the people who work for a
livin.
The best and surest way is to kill them, and now is the time to do it,
when land is cheap. The buryin wont cost so much now as it would if we
had more money and land was higher.
But I dont believe in shootin.
They ort to be killed in some nice, quiet way, in a way that wont
cripple them up as militia shootin might.
I hate to see crippled poor people; it makes me feel sorry for them.
The thing to do is to git a great lot of them together in a bunch, then
do it quick and sure.
The best way I know of is to offer a great feast of bread and “real cow
butter,” with three or four side dishes, and invite all to come and
feast their fill.
Then when they are all at a great feast, eatin and enjoyin theirselves,
like the rich people do, have an electric arrangement fixed so the
current could be turned on the whole crowd at once, and in twelve
seconds they would all be stone dead.
They would die with a smile on their faces, jist like as if they had
allus sot at the table of plenty and enjoyed theirselves. The big
Methodist church in town would be a good place to have the feast and do
the killin.
Then arter the current was turned off all we would have to do would be
to load their dead bodies in wagons and haul them off and bury them in
some cheap piece of ground and let the militia disband.
Dont you see, in that way we would dispose of the old and young
alike—the little children as well as the grown up men and women. I know
some of the little children are pretty. Some even have nice yaller,
curly hair, big blue eyes and red cheeks, and love one another. Ive
heern of them clingin to the necks of their fathers and mothers with
love, even when hungry. But we will have to kill the little things, or
they will grow up to annoy the rich, jist as their fathers and mothers
annoy them now.
Of course, I know drownin is a easy death, and pizenin and all sich, but
them are old-fashioned ways. Some of them might escape if we undertook
to do it them ways.
This electricity bizness is a grand thing, and is sure death if worked
right.
Of course, other counties could do it whichever way they think best, but
here in Tuscarawas County, with the big Methodist church and all and
plenty of laborin people, electricity is the thing to use.
[Illustration: “Some of the little children are pretty.”]
We might have two or three killins in this county. Fust we could give a
feast to all the rollin mill men and rail workers; then to all the coal
miners; then to all the carpenters, and stone masons, and day laborers,
and sich, and by not lettin any escape, one kind wouldent git onto what
was bein done until we had them enclosed and the current turned on.
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