Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-23
by A MAsrER woRKNAN.

| To scoop all North America and make all th,
workmen free,
Give the land 30 those who work It; you vot,
for Old zen q. aud vote 70 me
To win thousand billion dollars for thos,
who vote for II,
And make al the earth one peerless republic
vote for Old Ben b. and vote Tor me.
IN 1884 Is THE TINE TO DO IT.
The me" indicated rs the proper
person. for whom in connection
with Old Ben b. >" the presidential
vote should be cast, appears to be Prof.
J. w. Shively ,ot Saratoga Springs, \.
Y, whose name is appended to this
political thesis in blank verse. Other
wise, the conclusion would be forced
that that eminent patriot
George Francis Train WAS
on the war path once more.
That Prof. Shively has teen plagiar-
izing some of Trains most vigorous eff
forts is apparent from the following:
ADO you hear that black and bloody, Lideous
freebooter,
Vampire, looting brlgand, bloody handed as
sassin, dynsmitcr!
With his ruinous legion. skulking DER this
land Of liberty?
We call him oud John Bull, ould Satan,
Oud Belzebub;
Vampire, Lootins Brigand-ould Monopoly
The weird and playful imagination
OF this poet laureate of Ben Butltrism
plays with equal facility around
politics, religion and incidents. pres
ent and prospective. Rrciting the
coming triumphs OF Butlerism it gives
vent Ia this:
"a cyclone, blizzard, the Virgins tidal
wa e,
'Twillsweep 'o'er this land Of the free and
the home of the bnyo.'"
Poor Virgins, at last his tidal wave
is coming in, and in the overthrow of
Democracy and Republicanism, his
vindicatinn will be complete. Perhaps
that wave was reserved for this es.
social purpose; anyway it is enough to
know that, after all, Wiggins will
win.
Vividly the poet continues 20 tell of
the mighty revolution, which his
visicn disrerns in the future. or the
agencies that will be utilized he saws
Iris the pens gil terng power mighty as
III" suns eternal CLEAN,
With truth, justice, satire, wit and wisdom.
mightier han the sword
Old Ben b will doubtless not forget
the "gittering power" of these sweet
cadrnces. But il is in the peroration that
the professor tears loose from all tieshy
restruiuts, and unbo-oms The meter oi
his soul. Fearing that Benjamin +.
does not exactly command hat cont
| dence Of the people necessary for the
occasion, he offers himself an oblatinn
| upon the altar OF his country. and i'm
r. l. .,T.
excellence tells Whit will follow
III there's a doubt o. fear, If you trust old
Ben b., try me;
III arapple the old ship OF state with the wis
dom an Us ola god
And the might ana glory OF this home of the
brave, this land of the free
Shall glittr and shine, peerless and grand
as the MONDAY sun,
To light MI the earth aud Hash DER the seas
And our peerless public, the empire of the
word,
Her mints shall ceasely stamp out billions
and millions of silver and gold.
Her navy, her ships, her cruisers - fleet
mighty and strong
Shall outnumbor aud outeruise all the ships
on the seas
Her sailors, her workmen, her tllers OF the
land,
All sovereign pee. ~
If thar isn't inducement enough TO
entrap the vote of the average Anleri
ran citizen, then words are useless and
hopes are vain.
Somebody should send Ella Wheeler
a copy of the "pome 1t will make
her back hair tumble down to see her
best Efforts so overnlatched and
knocked into obscurity. When IL
comes TO organizing literary bureau,
Ben Butler ~ usual holds his own.