Doubtless you will remember how Cain
killed his brother Abel because Abel would not let him do the churning. We
can picture Cain and Abel driving mooly cows up to the house from the
pasture in the southeast corner of the garden, and Adam standing at the
bars with a tin pail and a three-legged stool, smoking a meerschaum pipe
and singing "Hold the fort for I am coming through the rye," while Eve sat
on the verandah altering over her last year's polonaise, and winking at
the devil who stood behind the milk house singing, "I want to be
an angel." After he got through milking he came up and saw Eve blushing,
and he said, "Madame, cheese it," and she chose it.
[Illustration: A SCENE IN PARADISE.]
But to come down to the present day, we find that cheese has become one of
the most important branches of manufacture. It is next in importance to
the silver interest. And, fellow cheese-mongers, you are doing yourselves
great injustice that you do not petition congress to pass a bill to
remonetize cheese. There is more cheese raised in this country than there
is silver, and it is more valuable. Suppose you had not eaten a mouthful
in thirty days, and you should have placed on the table before you ten
dollars stamped out of silver bullion on one plate and nine dollars
stamped from cheese bullion on another plate.
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