This Chicago specimen had a patent process by which he said Indian corn could be kept through a period of three or four years, and he felt sure that if the Negro race in the South would, as a whole, adopt his process, it would settle the whole race question.

It mattered nothing that I tried to convince him that our present problem was to teach the Negroes how to produce enough corn to last them through one year.

Another Chicago crank had a scheme by which he wanted me to join him in an effort to close up all the National banks in the country.

If that was done, he felt sure it would put the Negro on his feet.
The number of people who stand ready to consume one's time, to no purpose, is almost countless.

At one time I spoke before a large audience in Boston in the evening.