English Translation

99 - 35 - Meergegenden in the west were the hardest conquered and the richer they were, the heavier. The farmer, by nature sparing and a doubter, was also incited by Iška and very difficult to follow the national discipline. One cannot forget the preg of Oklahoma and Nebraska, not Milligan, a small town in Nebrask with Karl Šmrha and his pastor, one cannot forget about the South Dakotic Tabor, where a farmer brings a horse to the bazaar and when one offers little for it, buys it himself and gives it again for revolutionary purposes. Such a day ends with a result of lo.ooo dollars. A commemorative book is opened there. A Czech near-millionaire comes and sits next door. "Here you have the memory book? And what do the people give you in the book?" - "One dollar, ten, one hundred, five hundred dollars, as everyone wants and can." He listens, nods his head and finally he rises up, he will come back. On his return they are supposed to wait until today. And after a little while comes a Czech poor man. You ask him to sign in, he's here with his wife, and he writes in with a heavy hand with $5. The woman sees how hard his hand goes over the paper. The woman looks, so that she also registers, and actually has the intention to do it, But the dear poor man is stunned and red with embarrassment he says: "A woman can't enroll!" And when one approaches him, because he does not grasp the reason, he says with a shameful voice: "I don't have any Heller anymore", In the law firm of the "Czech National Association" comes a poorly dressed man with wife and child. He goes di - rectifies them past in Tvrzický's office. There are often similar people coming here asking for support, begging. It seems to me that this is one of them, and that's why I don't have to send him away. In a while he goes away and Tvrkický comes towards me. "Have you seen this man? That was L... . He has given us his savings bank book on two hundred seventy dollars. What the . couple of dikes use to him. Here they will be used better." He. gave everything he had. There are hundreds of such cases. And they will remain the most beautiful chapter of our struggle. - 36 -