The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-12-25


puddles of strife and woe. We
cleanse our hearts OF aholy conscience
and daub them DER with festered
griefs and glamoured wrongs. We
take off the vestments of honor, and
wrap about us robes Of tinsel gaud-
ure, decked with fringed infamies and
lined with perRdious robberies.
Thus decked out in the panoply of
thy ministries, Oh Mammon, Oh Di-
ana, we kneel to thee, thou Ephesian
Mockery, and recite our litany of lies:
Gorgeous monster of plutocracy,
we praise thee, on this barbarian
Christmas, we praise thee for getting
thy foot heavily on that Christ of
Calvary who defrauded human rea-
son nineteen centuries ago.
Thou hast shown the fallacy OF His
doctrine of Love except as to gold.
Thou hast bankrupted that nom
sense as to the highways and the by
ways.
Thou hast told the rich man to
keep all he hath and get all he can
in spite of the upstart Jesus, who
wandered about shamefully clad, and
cornered the market on humanity.
Thou hast kicked Lazarus out OF
Abe's bosom and plucked "Divvy"
out OF the lake of burning fire and
set him on his throne as it should be
and the Christ has been crucified
every day since. '='
Thou hast made the camel as lean
as Lucifer's tail and the needles eye
as broad as He'll and high as Babel;
and the Christ may now look upon
his city temple with some sort OF
pride as we'll as fellow-feeling for us
poor plutes, who scatter charity
wherever we can do SO to our advan-
tage.
Oh, blazonry of Baal, and Jovite
Splendor-wrapped about the God OF
Greed, and Symbol OF the Riot of
Robbery-Listen, while we sing the
death of the Christ and the resurrec-
ton of thy kingdoml The poor OF
God are now under the wing of
those $4,000 souls, who swing the
golden hammer to the tune of 81
times 1, 900 times 1000 times 1000
dollars-while the 65 millions of
shiftless cusses praise their God with
out undershirts. For this we thank
thee!
We thank thee that thou hast Civ
en- unto us Cunning, Craft, Callous
hearts, Knavish souls, and Sticky
fingers!
We thank thee for the mighty sub
gods placed on the mantle shelf
called Foresight, Luck, Style, Pres
ence, and Fl re Aces-gods which have
knocked those little godilettes called
Industry, Courage, Perseverance,
Economy, and Honesty so far into
the horoscope OF the Nowhere that
the Christians Deity couldn't find
them with a railway tracer. We thank
thee for our victory over these little
fool-gods.
We thank the Dollar God of Wall
st. that the common people of this
country are not permitted to get q
dollar for the exchange Of products ,
bank, and becomes a debt to q bank
We thank thee, 0 Fuschia Fost.
United States dollars goeth unto the
to relieve from taxation-for veril
evil.
We thank thee, thou Supernal CT
monetized whereby the "root" was
worth, and the gold miner made rich
We thank thee, Oh Glorious Dia
in Liverpool, because it enables us
bushel, within Csc. expense of the I
rageous fool farmer is robbed of onl
and we make that clear profit.
We thank thee, Oh Glorious Incub
and pallid cheek, and frost-bitten ha
we, weep tears offnexpressible jo
spring of thankfulhess to think thai
globe within syndicate clutchesl Th
her corn at 81 80 q ton and buys &C
so does the miner of Pennsylvania,
pays $3.50 for the corn before it is