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To ruip MS legislating for themselves, they seem hell bent 



If they do not change the course tliat they now pursue 



They w^ll financially wreck th^ ship of state, passengers and crew. 



They are fast sapping the people's liard-carucd money away 



To build costly palaces for themselves in to stay. 



Wo do not any longer want our money to pay 



Tyrannical men our liberty to legislate away. 



For many years it has been gomg on from bad to worse ; 



Many laws you have made for us are only a curse : 



And the course you are steering now and want to take 



Is to mako yourselves rich and of us paupers make. 



Heavy taxes to pay. and that used for pomp and show, 



Will soon shipwreck us all, that we well know. 



We will all have to drop in hne if this course you sail, 



We will all be made paupers, of this there will be no fail. 



Spend the people's money m domg so, of them make paupers and 



poor, 

 Then tax them to build reformatories, prison pens, in them lo secure. 

 The blackest laws of these or of any other times 

 ^Is to legislate, make laws, to make paupers, then make poverty a 

 crime. 

 If we do not have wiser, honester. better men at the helm of the ship 



of state 

 To hell and destruction we will all go in this wake. 

 Of all t))e damned, unmerciful tyrants a man can ever see 

 Are men that will legislate to take other's liberty away, and themselves 



go free. 

 And this, too, for the awful crime of not havmg a cent. 

 How do you know, if these men ever had any money, how it was 



spent ? 

 Do not be in a hurry your fellow-man's liberty away to take, 

 He may have something new that cost his all to make. 

 To all mankind, rich or poor, to them mercy show. 

 You do not always know the cause that made them so. 

 Sit down with them ; have a little chat ; your time may be well spent , 

 He may have a new discovery that cost a large fortune to invent. 

 There are many ways that a pauper can be made. 

 And if we do not wiser men select we will all be paupers, I am afraid. 

 By legislation legalized robbers all uver the land are found, 

 In rings and monopolies they all seem to be bound. 



