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You have made a great mistake; you have got the whole business 



wrong end too ; 

 It's bad, I know, but it is so, we are the government in place of you. 

 Of course we understand the principles of this government and plan. 

 And you have as much to say about how it shall be run as any other 



man. 

 Until you are chosen by the people them to represent, 

 And to all of the great centers of our great nation are sent. 

 Then in relation to this government you are changed clear around, 

 Then you are our servants, then by honor, fidelity, you are sworn and 



bound, 

 "^e have trusted this great fleet of our nation in your care. 

 You have betrayed your official trust, embezzled, robbed, plundered 



beware I 

 Some men seem to think and talk, as it is now it must go on, 

 To rescue this nation from your grasp it cannot be done. 

 "When we look over this great fleet of our nation and take a view. 

 Then say this all must be eternahy run by this damned robber crew, 

 I do not wish any man on this round globe any harm. 

 But the way we are sailing now, there is great reason for alarm. 

 If we do not tack ship and steer a difEerent course soon 

 To hell and destruction together we will all go in this vortex and mael- 



Strom, 

 "When men come clamoring around the great center of our nation 

 Pleading for aid to keep them from poverty and starvation. 

 After we to them have hundreds of thousands of dollars paid. 

 To do this it has by law paupers, beggars, criminals of us made. 

 Sappers and leeches, do you always think, with .vour blind greed. 

 You can always grind us down to the earth and on us feed ? 

 The principle that you are working on now, if you could ca^ry it out, 

 Will ruin you as it has us, of that there can be no doubt. 

 On labor the support of this nation depends and has its rise, 

 And if we cannot clear ourselves of these leeches she dies. 

 What a damned lazy, burdensome set they seem to be, 

 They are no earthly use to tliis government, and nowhere tliat I can 



see. 

 These robbers are fast sapping out tlie heart's blood of our nation 

 And covering our land with prisons, pDorhouses, and desolation. 

 \Ye have for many long years these robbers and spendthrifts tried to 



keep up, 



