The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-11

To hear what monkeys had to say
Concerning mems career;
And what | saw and heard them say
I'll tell 1t, verse or prose-
I'll let the muses. settle that,
No matter how it goes.
It seems these monkeys all had heard
Of Darwin's famous plan,
Thatfrom their ancient sires had sprung
The present race of man.
They sent a delegation out
To learn more of this race
And found a slight resemblance,
But only in the face.
One monkey rose and told the rest
What he had learned of men;
And if my friends all think it best,
I'll tell it DER again.
Says he, I've travelled far and wide;
I've q wise men and fools:
I've seen them in the churches pray,
And cen them in the schools.
I've seen men drink, swear and fight,
And tear each others eyes;
I've heard them tell as solemn truth
The most blasphemous lies;
I've seen men do a thousand things
Too foolish to be told;
Aud yet they claim to be as wise
AS Solomon of old.
In fact old Solomon himself
Did many q foolish thing;
But people called him very wise,
Because he was a king.
A king, though he be born a fool,
Or stupid as an ass,
Will find his most obedient tools
Among the working class.
1.-THE workingman will pass resolves
To put oppression down,
Yet crawl and cringe before the king,
Because he years a crow
They toll and sweat from morning till
night,
Until they fill their graves,
To feed a pack of titled drones
Who use them as their slaves"
Another monkey took the floor,
And thus addressed the crowd:
IF Darwin's story be correct,
You need not feel so proud
To learn that men were monkeys once;
They act like willing asses,
Who carry burdens all their lives,
As do the working classes.
Disguised with the rule of kings,
And with their cringing tools,
I came to free America,
Where boosted freemen rule;
Where Yankee Doodle fought and bled
To free themselves from kings;
I found that their degenerate sons
Were ruled by thieves and rings.
when knaves and thieves get up a
fight
To settle their disputes,
The workingmen rush in pell-mell,
And play the human brutes.
The knaves will then divide the gold,
The fools divide the lead,
And then they shoot each other down
Till half the folks are dead.
1.-THE other half will then go home
And work like willing slaves
To help to pay the war fraud off,
And then fill paupers' graves.
When workingmen were in the field,
And fighting brave and bold,
The Wall street thieves, like fiends of
hell,
Were all gambling in gold:
''Men boast of their religion,
And boast of their free schools;
But If the monkeys acted so,
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And I would say the same myself
In fact I'd hide my face
If we should ever act like men,
I'd cease to own my race.
ST feel ashamed to tell you how
The workingmen will act;
l scarcely could believe myself,
Until l proved the fact.
They spin, and weave, and make fine
things
For lazy drones to wear;
They plow andsow, they reap and NOW
And get the smallest share.
And when they've filed the land with
wealth,
With scarcely room for more,
The drones will take and pile it up,
And keep it all in store.
The workingmen will stand and gaze,
And raise the silly cry:
Because we have produced so much,
We've got to starve and die"
"And those who neither toll nor spin
Have plenty and to spare;
They seem to claim a lawful right
To other peoples share.
Where'er / went the workingmen
Meier stood compact together,
But, ruled by knaves, in party droves,
Made faces at each other.
"When Providence is kind to US,
And sends abundant fruits,
We DON'T go round and cry hard times
AS do the human brutes.