Francis A. Adams

Capitolo 63

it is fortunate to have one hundred dollars to my credit in the bank. For the
six past years I have been forced for sending anything I had remainder to
my child that is gotten married and that you/he/she is fighting for living in Milwaukee. Him
it is busy as a brakeman on the railroad that demands thirty for cent. of
the value of every bushel of wheat that I raise.

"I am not none of the I displease, homeless vagabond who the Plutocrats
you declare you/he/she is demanding alone the destruction of Monopoly. I am a citizen
who can foresee the inevitable result that will come from a perpetuation
of Commercial Despotism. I am not afraid to affirm my opinions, neither the wish
I fear to act on some suggestion to which it will assure the independence the
grower and to all the citizens of the Republic."

Donald Harrington, a delegate accredited to Maryland, his now starts
accusation:

"It won't be necessary for me to take back the history of my downfall to
the beginning; you are only interested in that part that has to do with
the effect of the Trusts on me.

"I could say me that they was the you sole cause of my fall, but in this
affirmation I should be doing the Trusts an injustice. I felt the first ones
impelled descending I date me when I was a young fellow of sixteen. I had entered the
employment of a banking technical house and it was an employee in their room of calculation. It was
my special duty to see that the books of the society had put in the
safes at night. This duty for that I have faithfully completed more than three
years.

"One day I was tried for stealing.

"It was an easy matter for me to take a sum of money from the drawer and
does away with him. I was not open in the first peculation;  this
encourages me to take more. Then the matters followed until me I was guilty of
having stolen a sum that admits ten thousand dollars. I knew that me
you/he/she could not hold the game on very longer, for the annual accounting
discloses the deficit.

"Of the sums I had taken, I had less that half saved. I didn't know how