THE horse's rescuk 255 



At fighting you may be good — you ought to be ; it is all you know. 



For the course you are taking now with this nation will show 



The principles of this government you do not understand ; 



If you do, so much the worse for you, you ought to be damned 



If fight is all you know, and that is what you want to do, 



We will give you all you want before we get through. 



These sappers and leeches and robbers at the heart of our nation 



Are driving the supporters of it to despair and desperation. 



Nearly all of the blood on this green earth that has been shed, 



Has been caused by tyrannical laws that tyrants have made. 



Poor, blind, ignorant, selfish men you must be to think 



You can grind us down with taxes, and yourselves not sink. 



In order with success to run this flleet of our nation 



The laborers and producers must be in a prosperous condition. 



When hoggish, selfish, bad-principled men get tlie balance of power 



Through ignorance, tyrannical laws they will make, themselves to 



devour. 

 For all crimes committed on this earth retribution must be made^ 

 Either before you leave this earth or after you are dead. 

 This is the decree and law the creator has made for all ; 

 On your own merits you must sink, rise, or fall. 

 No other provision the creator for us has ever made; 

 All sins committed by ourselves, by us they must be paid. 

 All nations, when they get corrupted by their blind greed for gold, 

 For this, sooner or later, to destruction tliey are sold. 

 Now this is just what all of this trouble in our nation is about; 

 We will go the way all others have gone if it is not purged out. 

 Like causes produce like effects; search the world around, 

 No argument can be used ; to destruction they seem bound. 

 All can see plain enough after it is too late; 

 It will be no time then to grieve and mourn your sad fate. 

 This will be the sad result, and that, too, very soon; 

 This is the way of all nations — when corrupted, this is their doom. 

 All men seem to have their sphere and bounds to fill. 

 And all should in harmony live and show each other good will. 

 But when selfish men make tyrannical laws, on us encroachments 



make, * 



It causes all mankind then a different course to take. 

 To live in shanties and hovels, and at last be crowded in prison 



pens, 



