human
It's a long weary way from the sunshine and prairie grass, child! How it all has changed with the years! Ten years ago I knew 'em all, the men and the employers. Now they are all newcomers--men and masters. Why, I don't even know their nationalities; I don't even know what part of the earth they come from. And such sad-faced droves of them; so many little scamps, underfed, badly housed for generations. The big, strapping Irish and Germans and Scotch and the wide-chested little Welshmen, and the agile French--how few of them there are compared with this slow-moving horde of runts from God knows where! It's been a long time since I've been down here to see a shift change, Laura. Lord--Lord have mercy on these people--for no one else seems to care!
gpt
Amen, and Amen, father, answered the daughter.
human
These are the people that Grant is trying to stir to consciousness. These are the people who--
gpt
Well, yes, he turned a sardonic look upon his daughter,
human
The Doctor stopped and chuckled; then he burst out:
gpt
I tell you, Laura, when a man gets enough sense to stand by his friends--he no longer needs friends. When these people get wise enough not to be fooled by Tom and old Dan, they won't need Grant! In the meantime--just look at 'em--look at 'em paying twice as much for rent as they pay up town: gouged at the company stores down here for their food and clothing; held up by loan sharks when they borrow money; doped with aloes in their beer, and fusil oil in their whiskey, wrapped up in shoddy clothes and paper shoes, having their pockets picked by weighing frauds at the mines, and their bodies mashed in speed-up devices in the mills; stabled in filthy shacks without water or sewers or electricity which we uptown people demand and get for the same money that they pay for these hog-pens--why, hell's afire and the cows are out--Laura! by Godfrey's diamonds, if I lived down here I'd get me some frisky dynamite and blow the whole place into kindling. He sat blinking his indignation; then began to smile.
human
Instead of which, he squeaked,
gpt
I shall endeavor by my winning ways to get their votes. He waved a gay hand and added,
human
And with God be the rest!