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Tobacco has tainted the land It has shouldered out the ti forest to prairie A land of fertile loa with cheap

soil that can send almost equal crops to market There is no oes the cli sources of wealth Here are virgin forests

and al fro about for fresher food Capital has seen your

hills Capital is inevitable, relentless, omnipotent Where it comes,

it makes its laws Conditions that have existed undisturbed will

vanish The law of the feud, which militia and courts have not been

able to abate, will vanish before Capital's breath like the mists when

the sun strikes them Unless you learn to ride the waves which will

presently sweep over your country, you and your people will go under

You may not realize it, but that is true It is written"

The boy had listened intently, but at the end he s of the soldier who scents battle, not without

welcome

"I reckon if these here fellers air a-cos,

an' drownd out ood reason ferhere, you can't help the away and coe, you can

save theame"