Chapter II: Part II

I. The Impending Revolution 277
II. The Philosophy of Money 283
III. A Bird’s-eye View of American Financial History 307
IV. The Eight Money Conspiracies 345
V. Financial Authorities 352
VI. Interest and Usury 380
VII. Debt and Slavery 387
VIII. The Laws of Property 393
IX. Direct Legislation 401

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

1. “That every star was an eye looking down (Frontispiece.)
on me with pity.”

2. Character title.

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3. Betsy Gaskins 7

4. Initial T 11

5. Jobe Gaskins 13

6. Initial M 15

7. “We both hankered” 17

8. “I did git him started to readin” 19

9. “That canderdate feller” 20

10. Tailpiece 21

11. “Me a knittin, him a settin and studyin” 23

12. “‘Talkin like them blame Populists’” 26

13. “I waked not until broad daylite” 28

14. “‘Feedin-feedin, of course,’ says he” 29

15. “‘Do you promis?’ says I, girlish like” 30

16. “I sot down, lookin him square in the 31
face”

17. Bill Bowers 32

18. Ornamental tailpiece 37

19. “‘Ide vote the Dimicrat ticket at the 39
very next township election’”

20. “They waked me up at the dead hour of 41
midnite”

21. “That very sheet of paper” 45

22. Congressman Richer 46

23. “Jobe works and sweats” 47

24. Ornamental tailpiece 48

25. “Jobe and me both sot down and cried” 50

26. “Started for town bright and airly” 54

27. “Jobe and me counted up how much we had” 57

28. “That nite I put another patch on his 62
pants”

29. “He explained to Mr. Jones” 63

30. Ornamental tailpiece 64

31. Ornamental tailpiece 68

32. “Peekin through a crack” 70

33. “Jist a layin it off with his hands” 71

34. “‘Mistur Court, Gaskins is here’” 74

35. “‘I ’bject’” 76

36. “‘I want to prove to you, Mistur Judge’” 79

37. “‘This is the law, whether it is justice 81
or not’”

38. “Jobe and me sot there dazed like” 82

39. Aunt Jane 84

40. “He would call him ‘Billy,’ in honor of 85
the next president”

41. “Before Jobe could git up, William hit 86
him agin”

42. Ornamental tailpiece 88

43. “He would rather pay seven per cent. 90
than six, in order to support a sound
money basis”

44. “‘Law or no law,’ says I” 91

45. “‘Payin it in gold to keep your party in 92
power is up-hill bizness’”

46. “‘John Sherman is the greatest financier 95
on airth’”

47. Ornamental tailpiece 96

48. “‘Now, Betsy, you see what kind of a 98
party you belong to’”

49. “So I went to work and cut out the 100
headin”

50. “‘It is all over, Betsy,’ says he” 101

51. “That nite he slept in the barn” 103

52. “‘Jobe Gaskins, you make another move!’” 105

53. “‘Are you mad, Betsy?’ says he” 108

54. “Jobe was on his knees in the middle of 113
the bed”

55. “A strait, influential, leadin 115
Republican officeholder”

56. “Lots of fellers jist like him” 116

57. “Jobe he flew up” 119

58. “It wasent anything onusual for a county 120
officer to make all he could”

59. “‘Hadent we all ort to be satisfied so 121
long as bonds sell well?’”

60. “‘Times are never hard under a gold 122
basis,’ Jobe says”

61. “They whispered and snickered at my 125
straw hat and Jobe’s linen coat”

62. “He said the rich all belong to church” 126

63. Harvesting 129

64. “I was puttin salve on Jobe’s hands” 130

65. The hand that voted “the strait ticket” 131

66. “Some good men in case of labor trouble” 133

67. “Some of the little children are pretty” 136

68. “Jobe took what hay he could spare” 138

69. “They are kept so busy legislatin” 139

70. “A huntin them overhalls” 142

71. “I had sot down and went to churnin” 143

72. “The Dimicratic bloomers” 146

73. “‘Hello, mistur’” 147

74. “‘We ketch em a comin and we ketch em a 148
goin’”

75. “I seen him a comin up the lane” 151

76. “The fust time for nigh onto twenty 153
years”

77. “Billot jist laughed at him” 155

78. “Jobe he got mad and called Billot a 156
Populist”

79. Ornamental tailpiece—sunset 157

80. “Lawyers a talkin and a laffin” 159

81. “‘Mistur Moore, how long has it been 161
since you quit advocatin the use of
good, old-fashioned greenbacks?’”

82. “‘Lawyer—Dimicratic lawyer and 164
polertician’”

83. “He carried a banner” 167

84. “I got a straw and tickled his nose” 171

85. Ornamental tailpiece 179

86. “It was nearly mornin when I heerd the 181
patriotic sounds of the fish-horn”

87. “He looked kind a pale” 182

88. “‘Give us a tune, Jobe’” 183

89. “‘This is not accordin to contract’” 184

90. “We hitched in front of Urfer’s big dry 186
goods store”

91. “‘Ready’” 187

92. “‘I am a banker, sir, a banker‘” 190

93. “He made sich a fine argament for gold 193
and agin other money”

94. Little Jane 196

95. “I could nearly see her little dimpled 197
fingers pattin the airth around the
roots of that little bush”

96. “‘Mamma, ... how pritty!’” 198

97. Ornamental tailpiece 199

98. “Jobe jist lays and moans” 200

99. “I have to chop all the wood” 201

100. “‘Out with it, Bill; we are prepared for 203
the wust’”

101. “‘Ile tell you, Betsy. Ive made up my 205
mind to try them Populists hereafter’”

102. “‘O, Lord, is there no other way to 209
do?’”

103. “He drawed me over in his arms and 212
kissed me”

104. “He was wipin his eyes and blowin his 213
nose as he went towards town”

105. “Then sot down and cried and kept a 214
cryin every little bit all mornin”

106. “They pulled me away from the winder” 218

107. “At all the gates around the big fence 221
they had signs stuck up”

108. “I asked him for something to eat” 222

109. “‘Well, old man, sich things hadent ort 225
to be’”

110. “I slipped over and put my face agin the 229
glass”

111. “The feller turned around and looked 233
black at me”

112. “I have to work hard in this place” 236

113. “One nice little place that I thought I 239
would rent as soon as I got my first
week’s pay”

114. “I worked there three weeks” 241

115. “Everything was cold and dark” 242

116. Initial M—Hattie Moore 244

117. “He teched me on the shoulder” 247

118. “I got onto a freight train” 248

119. “Pushing back the hair of the sick 250
woman, leaned over and kissed her on
the forehead”

120. “There lay Mrs. Gaskins” 252

121. “There again was the face of that little 253
girl and the face of an old man”

122. “In the morning there was found a 254
white-haired man”

123. Tailpiece—the rose-bush on the grave 255

124. Initial B—the editor 256

125. “Behold! See that money!” 265

127. The world’s oppressor 274

Betsy Gaskins (DIMICRAT).

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