Year by year the longing increased until it became
an accumulated force: We must Grow! We must be Big! We must be
Bigger! Bigness means Money! And the thing began to happen; their
longing became a mighty Will. We must be Bigger! Bigger! Bigger!
Get people here! Coax them here! Bribe them! Swindle them into
coming, if you must, but get them! Shout them into coming! Deafen
them into coming! Any kind of people; all kinds of people! We must
be Bigger! Blow! Boost! Brag! Kill the fault-finder! Scream and
bellow to the Most High: Bigness is patriotism and honor! Bigness
is love and life and happiness! Bigness is Money! We want Bigness!
They got it. From all the states the people came; thinly at first,
and slowly, but faster and faster in thicker and thicker swarms as the
quick years went by. White people came, and black people and brown
people and yellow people; the negroes came from the South by the
thousands and thousands, multiplying by other thousands and thousands
faster than they could die. From the four quarters of the earth the
people came, the broken and the unbroken, the tame and the wild--
Germans, Irish, Italians, Hungarians, Scotch, Welsh, English, French,
Swiss, Swedes, Norwegians, Greeks, Poles, Russian Jews, Dalmatians,
Armenians, Rumanians, Servians, Persians, Syrians, Japanese, Chinese,
Turks, and every hybrid that these could propagate.
Pages:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25