9 And they had never had any problem getting lots of acheap labor to work twenty or thirty hours a day in factories,
10 bSince lots of cheap labor was arriving by the shipload in New York harbor every day,
11 From places like cIreland,
12 And dItaly,
13 And eeastern Europe,
14 And everywhere else where there were people who had so little that it seemed better to exchange all your worldly possessions for the price of a steamship ticket to the New World.
15 fA lot of these people were regarded as the scum of the earth by the people back home,
16 gAnd so they didn't mind being treated the same way by Yank capitalists who wanted to earn huge profits from the sweat of their brow,
17 As long as they could just stay in hAmerica,
18 And not get sent back home,
19 And get to bring their ichildren up in America,
20 Where they would learn how to speak English the jAmerican way,
21 kAnd have a chance to get ahead,
22 Someday.
23 Naturally, all of this seemed reasonable to the Yank capitalists,
24 Who proceeded to build giant industrial empires,
25 In businesses like lsteel,
26 And moil,
27 And ncoal,
28 And orailroads,
29 pAnd other stuff too,
30 While the immigrants had to work for little more than the hope that it would all be different for their children,
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31 qBecause they believed in the American Dream,
32 Which said that ranyone born in America could grow up to be president someday,
33 sAs long as he was a he,
34 tAnd white,
35 uAnd didn't talk with a funny accent.
CHAPTER 571 In fact, the vindustrial revolution was so important to the Yanks that they completely stopped making history for about twenty or thirty years,
2 wSo that they could make money instead.
3 xThere were quite a few presidents during those years, of course,
4 But nobody remembers who they were exactly,
5 yBecause there weren't any political issues,
6 Except for the ztariff question,
7 Which was important because it was the only way to tell Republicans from Democrats,
8 aaSince the Democrats were either for the tariff or against it,
9 bbAnd the Republicans had the exactly opposite view.
10 Actually, about the only way a president could get any attention at this point was to be assassinated,
11 ccWhich some of them were,
12 ddBecause the Yanks have always been pretty adamant about their rights,
13 eeIncluding the right to free self-expression,
14 ffAnd the right to bear arms,
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