human
Just you wait a bit, missy, he declaimed.
gpt
The day is coming when capitalists and corporations will bow down to him as they have to the Goulds and Vanderbilts in the past. I tell you, in less than two months, if they don't come to our terms, if they refuse to listen to our dictation not one wheel will turn from one end of this country to the other. We'll tie up the business of the whole United States, by God! That's what'll happen to capital.
human
And then what will happen to us, Mart,--to you, your wife and babies,--to your mother and to me? Where will the money come from?
gpt
Oh, there's money enough--more than enough--millions more than enough--to feed and clothe and keep us all in luxury--tied up in the coffers of those bond-holders, and when the men whose hands have made it get their hands once more on it----
human
Mart, Mart, your head is crazed with whiskey, laughed Jenny, sadly.
gpt
No wonder capital is being withdrawn from us; no wonder the gold is going back to Europe. People who have it dare not invest in communities where the employees are allowed to talk as they are here. If I had a million to invest, do you think I'd venture it where the workmen openly threatened they'd stop every wheel throughout the land? You are killing your own prospects, Mart, simply to cripple theirs.
human
I don't care. What do you know of such things, anyhow? I don't mean to stand by and see my brothers starving and swindled day by day down there at Pullman.
gpt
Who have the greater claims, Mart, those whom you call your brothers down there at Pullman, or your wife and children here at home? I feel for those people just as much as you do,--more probably,--but your duty lies here.
human
Oh, that's right. Stand by your swell friends, and toss it into my teeth that I and mine are sponging on you for a living, and you want your money. Make a man more desperate than he is by your nagging and fault-finding. Drive a fellow to striking one minute and then torment him with accusations the next. I tell you if it comes to riot and bloodshed here, it's--it's just women like you--that'll--that'll have brought it all about.