Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-06-28
Of tie Hartford Home League.

Good men of ink: The President commands me
at this time,
To meet my brother Editors, and talk to them IN
rhyme
And though 9 keeps the subject back, we know
it's in his heart,
To have the Poet use the pen to magnify our Art.
To bore you fer an hour here is no unpleasant
task,
No doubt sim lar privilege readers often ask,
When wading through our leaders" dull-leaded
to make them longer,
And wedged within an iron chase in hopes to
make them stronger
Who dared to guess that while We prate about
the rights Of MANN,
To give the masses liberty our footsteps ever
RAM
We should not practice what we teach, but do
the strangest thing,
And send away across the wave to ancient Rome
KINa!
We mourn on broken REEDS to-day, bat all The
And DO one blackened by disgrace though some
Il little BRowN;
What State can boast within the craft so many
men OF pi5h
We lead the column East or " est when under
call Of SMITH
Tho MILLS of God grind slowly and sift us
through their bolt.
But let us bless the LAVE that gave unto the
craft Holt
We HALE within this festive HALL each brother
peer,
And UrrER sayings WISE or STRONG without Of
fence or fear.
R1oH in the thought of HYER aims w H lATT
WRIGHT have we to MOORE.
We FOSTER STOUT est virtues WELL. as FRANK
lin did before;
We READ life's tangled WEBB of late and take its
sorest Cross
The sculptured ST NE keeps mem'ry GREEN and
HIDEs it from all loss
l SAW man OF many cares at table old and
round,
He needed not the roaring press nor engines hiss
ing sound,
Nor devil crying down the spout for ''copy, short
and fat
Nor lazy idiers who came in to bother with theil
chat.
He wasa man Of many years his hair was turn
ing gray ;
His head was bald-he'd scratched it bare, while
thinking what TO say;
And down upon the virgin page his thoughts
written fast,
In words that were to live for aye when through
the press they passed.
At length the weary task is done, the pen is laid
aside.
He looks it DER with care TO see what words must
be supplied.
He dots the is and crosses is and makes the Ian
guage terse,
But Knowing we'll the proof may read precisely
thcreverse.
Tho loafors took their leave at last, and dropped
ont by ono,
Even that everlasting bore whose quizzing was
not done
The cry for copy stopped for once-.he clicking
onward kept
He bowed his head upon his arms, and, dreaming
as he slept,
he saw pleasant angel form who carried in his
hand
A solid golden shooting stick-and waved it as a
wand
When suddenly before his eyes, there past IN
swift review,
The scenes they say are coming on-good times
for ME and you.
He saw the Future Editor, a man of comely air
His form full of rotu nd grace his brow was
free from care;
His cloth WAS unimpeachable, and taultless, too,
the fit;
In making him, Dame Nature made most de-
eidsd hit!
He saw man of solid means and substance at
the Banks;
No writs were plasterod on his back, nor other
legal pranSs
The Sheriff never locked his form,n nor ''knock-
ed him into pi,"
Nor puta paddock on his door to warn The passer
bye.
He sought 70 fsvors of his friends, Office of the
A modest def'renoe paid they all of low and high
estate;
To him the public touched its cap, old age tossed
up its erutch,
And infancy was taught his name, and lisped it
over much.
No soriid politician axe was whotupon his stone,
No patry statesmen by his pen were on the people
thrown;
No corporation used his sheet to spread its deadly
lie told the truth good help US all, and grant
us such lot y
lie never rnffei poor candidates, who were unfit
for place.
Nor swallowed platforms, plank by plank, with
out first saying grace;
Hi, party never gave him meat, when eating made
And # he hankered'' for quail he didn't get
billed OWL"
subscribers never run away. got broke. nor went
to smash.
Rut always paid him in advance, in solid, honest
No bnrly individual with horse whip and a dog,
Called round to ask who wrote those lines deiam-
ing ColVnel Feoe
II, never was enticed ont west 10 puff paper iown
a. AID see the mansions ofthe rich spring th'ekiy
nl Is in spite Of pen and ink and ether sore dis
H roe sss aaritt with battered type ant second
bsnicl press