Life on the Mississippi / [Mark Twain].

  • Mark Twain
Date:
1909
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Life on the Mississippi / [Mark Twain]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    191/632 page 159
    The owners and captains were the only obstruction that lay between the association and absolute power; and at last this one was removed. Incredible as it may seem, the owners and captains deliberately did it themselves. When the pilots’ association an- nounced, months beforehand, that on the first day of September, freights up a few cents, and explained to the farmers along the river the necessity of it, by calling their attention to the burdensome rate of wages about to be established. It was a rather slender argument, but the farmers did not seem to detect it. It looked reasonable to them that to add five cents freight on a bushel of corn was justifiable
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3