BUCK BENTLEY. And no troops are sent. CRIES. (_Some militiamen joining in_) That's right! WORKMEN. No troops for us! No troops for us! (_This cry is caught up by the crowd and is carried on back through the mill. Chadbourne looks at the militiamen and unbuttons his overcoat and feels about in his pockets_) HARRY EGERTON. Pardon me, General, if I speak right out, But I've seen wages lowered to buy lands, And I've seen bread taken from these men here To gamble with. There are some things, General Chadbourne, That can't go on. We've but one life to live And we just can't stand by and see some things And live. It's not worth while, it's not worth while. BUCK BENTLEY. And while you're here I want to say a word, For possibly we won't see you any more, And they'll be asking of us up the State. I never thought of it---- GENERAL CHADBOURNE. (_Handing Haskell a notebook_) Take down their names. BUCK BENTLEY. Till Mr. Egerton made his talk that day; But it's a fact and it stares you in the face: When Companies are wronged, or think they are, They touch the wires and the troops are sent, But when the men are wronged, or think they are, It's 'legal remedies.' SAM WILLIAMS. That's well put, Comrade. HARVEY ANDERSON. That don't mean anything. FIRST MILITIAMAN. (_To Haskell_) John Stamper. FIRST GUARD. I Guess you know me. SECOND MILITIAMAN. And you can take mine, too. HARVEY ANDERSON. Who ever saw the like of this before! THIRD MILITIAMAN. Kelley. SECOND GUARD. And mine. HARRY EGERTON. A hundred years from now They'll write them in the larger book of Fame. FOURTH MILITIAMAN. This is the third time we've been out this year. HARVEY ANDERSON. You look like Israel Putnam and Paul Jones. BUCK BENTLEY. We came down here to see the square thing done; But it's got to work both ways. SIXTH MILITIAMAN. And mine. SEVENTH MILITIAMAN. And mine. HARVEY ANDERSON. (_To Chadbourne_) You're all right, partner, only you don't see The inside of this thing that's happened here. The day's gone by when two or three big men Could ride her to and fro for their own gain And lay her up and starve the crew. That's past. We're going to take the flags down of the Kings, Kings of Lumber, Kings of Cotton, Kings of Coal, From one end to the other of this land, And we'll all be Americans, North and South And East and West until you touch the seas. And there's the thing that's going to fly the mast. (_Points to the flag on the floor_) And when she climbs you'll hear the guns go off Announcing a new Independence here. (_Tremendous cheering_) (_Two militiamen are seen coming up the stairs, the one loaded with blankets, the other with ten or twelve rifles_) GENERAL CHADBOURNE. (_To Harry Egerton_) And this is final, eh? VOICE.