246 THE HORSE S RESCUE. 



It will get Bick, and out tliis slime and corruption will run, 



Neirly always, when this takes place, great damage is done 



Abandon now thi3 old nuisance, this lias got to be ; 



The inhabitants of course f rum it cannot very well flee. 



Ali full of pools of dead, inanimate corruptions it lies, 



Tins IS the cause of sickness, disease; in this it has its rise. 



Tiiero is only one way left now that I can see. 



As the people do not want to icave their farms and houses and flee, 



Is to bury this center of tilth and corruption under ground, 



With other dead things of the past, so deep 't cannot be found. 



T.113 should many years ago been done, 



Instead of squandering the people's money trying to make a dead thing 



run. 

 There should many years ago appropriation have been made, 

 And men set to work with scraper, plow, picl^, shovel, and spade. 

 With some good live men this job to superintend, 

 Tliis would not be a great task . it would soon come to an end. 

 This work lor our country's sake should now begin ; 

 It would save a multitude of suffering, crime and sin. 



Fine palaces to build, to make tyrannical laws. 

 To punish the effect, will not remove the cause. 

 If with tramps you do not want to be overrun. 

 Something besides making tyrannical laws must be done. 

 There never has been a law that the people could not break. 

 And they always have and always will for liberty's sake. 

 That tramp law smells to hell of tyranny and oppression : 

 It's a disgrace to a school district, town, country, state, or nation. 

 Do not be in a hurry your neighbor and brother man to pursue , 

 Look around ; there may be some one m pursuit of you. 

 With such corrupt legislation as we now have got 

 All are liable to stink carrion and rot. 

 A worse law in legislative halls you could not make. 

 It caused all paupers and tramps a different course to take — 

 " As we can no longer for help witli safety to the people appeal, 

 It's safer now, when our money is all gone, to steal." 

 That damned tramp law is got up on such a wise plan 

 It's bound to take our liberty away, do the best we can. 

 These smart and good and wise men to the center of each state we 

 have sent 



