, 1875-02-28
THE CITY.
CITIZEN KINGS.

CITIZEN KILLINGS. ......-
TIE ooMNUkgT WHO WAS no1sF "41a a4s o"f
PErAnD.
s1,rraa m ex-ecIaso1- grinder
And Chief Of tile Commune.
pss citing :lone, dependent,
In busted beer-saioon,
ssnciae to himself . dismal song
20 melancholy tune.
onoth he ARegard my hlactened eyes;
Dehnld This swollen uoses
smart and ache from wounds ~ vel
That 1 rpay not d3scloxe
7-rther than thlt-that tkey xre not
In front, and slring from toss-
<Ah nc! dngle year ago
My merry bell did peal
Gsyiv from morn till eve IRroHn&
The dull domestic steel,
Ind laughed 4 cteeI5 12ugh to ses
Tbs spa1ks stream from tbs waeel.
xBut curst ambition led ms On
An orator 10 bc,
Aud ete lender among thoss
Whose vatehwards art the thrna
FsrniIiar words whereof the 6rst
II It not Eberty7
a1 dealt IN beer n well rs blood;
made the business pay
fhe glasses clattered cesstlessly
Np1n. noou, md night Away:
Nineaeen good kerr Of beer sold
With my red, right haud each day.
AFur know thxt sstarving WORMS somehow
In Z wo1kleeA winter dteat.
Knot Kherew7th to clo.he and feed
Thar wives and children deAr,
can slxayt fnd the money .or
Their whisky OF their beer. 5.
.Eathusi.st, loafer, vagrant, thte2.
All. Ill wpu1d co1ue 10 Kings
To reconstruct Society
Eaos rich men, priests. and hm8A
And Mot how to secure the s"ss
From the Aid Sociesys nnea
-And tan bred thirst, and tairat rnad' 7aoe'
TIL Kliugs, the Communist: m
Who preached tho MASSACRE o1 IA
In dches thct exit,
Became himself shat hc "ou1o eN
"a Bloated Capitalist
sr~.,x. hundred dollars I had hsrs
a aa1'ti9 nnfie n1e.' o1 sid I'D I, with = emile.
~ Communist to show,
v7o l1rsnds IL property - c<1mes
And Is Capitals deadly toc.'
srv.as 1ste and alone, when in
c.ne stout Communists three,
s4io. Citizen Kings, down with the h1nes
And priest1, anu S03etys
Hurrah for Liberty, FrAtsEn-
III and Equsitos!
..D.sv and set up for us the beer
In wEite au;t amber focd.
Drink deepl All, that thus u1gns qaAn
l.
And grind his crown with my FED, f1en1 heea
In tas burning city's mudl
asAu rnen ara brothers, al propaztJs tne1r
what's mine belongs TO thee.
And that which is thine thou muss ds1oe
With us thy bretlern three
10 burz.h Tor Liberty, FEAtern-
t3 and Equalizer
AsAmen rI cried with ardo, thss
IL the creed OF c1eeds for nc
sF4N hich the mug with Sautsn oe9@
Cried the stout Communists thfeo,
And each drank nine drinks to the fe1o1ns"
ton Of 6ocietee-
a1t,eg turned to go, said citizsa,
Iaud me your red, right eat,
N but part of your duty you'Tc fozeua
To ms is very clear,
And ere you &c. want TO Know
Who Pays me- foH that beer 7
~1nen one stout Communist locked tas door,
And one put out the hght
And The last and biggest clutched my tofoss
With his brawny fingers tight;
sTtzi1or y he h1ssed as he sulose my nose'
tN tbs Soctalist creed II right
a.IY ropcrtyh theft, how darest demand
Onr coin for Thy bloated beer!
Ho. nv brothers Two, haste and 60 through
This throttled renegade here,
For be'x felsc to the creed Co1fno1a%
Above all else holds dearV
They stole my money, they robbed my tn
Tnay stovo my besr-kogs 10.
They smashed the glasses, they poke aoe caAAt
They battered me- Like sin,
And no pctlers cane, for they thought that ona
Of cur meetings was raging within
SAT lah syouned and they vantahed Nsa
One cent did they fa1 to take.
1lay prone md se.seless. cut and bruised.
In : beery and bloody lake-
4 Quivcrtng island Ut agony,
L continent Of acAe
- That xas how came ef thass blaakened eJes,
And by this swollen nose,
Ehy nIna1t and ache fEuau those otber ~ouna
That may not disclose
Further than tL1z-that they'ro not In 1xonx
And vera inflicted by tocs-"