"The poor ye have always with ye, the poor ye have always with ye," he was repeating, with a very snarl of sarcasm.

"I reckon ye do; an' why?
Why is it that folks had the Man that give that sayin' to the world with 'em, and made Him suffer and die?
It was the same reason for both.

D'ye want to know what 'twas?
Well, I'll tell ye--it don't take a very sharp mind to ferret that out.

It don't even take college larnin'.

It is because from the very foundation of this green airth the rich and the wicked and the proud have had the mastery over it, an' their horns have been exalted.