Jezebel Page #3

Who's gonna ride on them?

All joggled up with any kind

of rag-tagging bobtail?

What's a gentleman

keep a carriage for?

What if a gentleman

ain't got a carriage?

He can borrow one.

What's he got friends for?

Gentlemen. Gentlemen.

We are here to listen

to Mr. Dillard's plans...

...to finance the Nashville Pacific.

Pacific, and build it east.

When they gonna ask you

to build a railroad to California?

Gentlemen, I'm a banker,

not a conjure man.

But I can tell you this:

New York and Boston are steadily

laying in rails to the Northwest.

They're tapping

the trade of that country.

Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati,

the whole Great Lakes country...

...beginning to ship east by rail.

- And New Orleans is missing the parade.

- The river's still there.

I reckon even those

Yankee sharpers aren't smart enough...

...to turn the Mississippi around.

Yankees sharpers are smart enough

to turn the traffic around.

The railroads are getting it.

Cussed, snorting, tin teakettles.

Scaring my horses.

Every time we get a colt, I look for him

to be foaled with a whale-oil headlight.

I do not think they're so healthy too.

All that smoke and...

Since when have you become so suddenly

concerned about what's healthy?

He's off again.

You're old enough to remember

the epidemic of '30.

- Or are you so old you've forgotten it?

- I knew it.

Quick as anybody said "health"...

...Doc Livingstone come surging out of

the cane-break, hollering, "Yellow jack."

And I'll keep on hollering

till you do something...

...about cleaning up this town,

getting the filth off the streets.

I've been trying to pound sense

into your knotheads for years.

Just the same as Pres is trying to do

right now, and with no better luck.

But I'm warning you,

and you, Jean La Cour...

...member of the City Counsel,

and all of you...

...if we get us another dose of

yellow fever like we had back in '30...

...when there wasn't enough men alive

to bury the dead...

...there just isn't going to be any town

to run a railroad into.

I'm telling you what's a fact.

Dr. Livingstone,

let us not confuse the issue.

We are here to discuss a railroad.

Mr. Dillard.

Gentlemen, I have here the figures

on the declining river freight.

These figures don't lie.

Last year, our riverboat...

- Yes?

- It's Miss Julie's boy, sir.

- He insists to see you, sir.

- What does he want?

He insists that Miss Julie told him

to see you personally, sir.

One moment, please, gentlemen.

The lady's waiting, sir.

- Is the party over?

- Yes, Mr. Pres.

Miss Julie tell me to ask you...

...would you most politely drop

what you're doing and come?

You tell her I'm in the middle

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