The Farmer's Friend

A great philanthropist, who had once considered himself in connection with the presidency, introduced a bill in Congress that would require the government to loan every voter all the money they needed based solely on their personal security. One day, while explaining his contributions to the country to a Sunday school class at a railway station, an angel looked down from Heaven and wept.

"For example," the great philanthropist said, observing the angel's teardrops pattering in the dust, "these early rains are of incalculable advantage to the farmer."