The Americans Part 72

That don't mean anything.

FIRST MILITIAMAN.

(_To Haskell_)

John Stamper.

FIRST GUARD.

I Guess you know me.

SECOND MILITIAMAN.

And you can take mine, too.

HARVEY ANDERSON.

Who ever saw the like of this before!

THIRD MILITIAMAN.

Kelley.

SECOND GUARD.

And mine.

HARRY EGERTON.

A hundred years from now They'll write them in the larger book of Fame.

FOURTH MILITIAMAN.

This is the third time we've been out this year.

HARVEY ANDERSON.

You look like Israel Putnam and Paul Jones.

BUCK BENTLEY.

We came down here to see the square thing done; But it's got to work both ways.

SIXTH MILITIAMAN.

And mine.

SEVENTH MILITIAMAN.

And mine.

HARVEY ANDERSON.

(_To Chadbourne_)

You're all right, partner, only you don't see The inside of this thing that's happened here.

The day's gone by when two or three big men Could ride her to and fro for their own gain And lay her up and starve the crew. That's past.

We're going to take the flags down of the Kings, Kings of Lumber, Kings of Cotton, Kings of Coal, From one end to the other of this land, And we'll all be Americans, North and South And East and West until you touch the seas.

And there's the thing that's going to fly the mast.

(_Points to the flag on the floor_)

And when she climbs you'll hear the guns go off Announcing a new Independence here.

(_Tremendous cheering_)

(_Two militiamen are seen coming up the stairs, the one loaded with blankets, the other with ten or twelve rifles_)

GENERAL CHADBOURNE.

(_To Harry Egerton_)

And this is final, eh?

VOICE.

(_From the crowd_)

We'll hold the mill!

WORKMEN.

(_Catching sight of the two militiamen_)

And the mine too! That's right! And the mine too!

(_Tremendous cheering_)

HARRY EGERTON.

If you have any way to guarantee That these men who have worked here many years And faithfully, as I know, will have their right To work respected and at an honest wage, And that while there are profits to be shared There'll be no starving time among these men----

GENERAL CHADBOURNE.

Don't think because you're Mr. Egerton That you're immune. You'll find the laws the same Whether you're Mr. Egerton or not.

(_Starts for the stairs_)

If need be I'll call out ten thousand men.