People's voice., 1895-08-08
The Intrinsic Value Of Gold as seen in


OF my lonely room,
And gazed in the fire
With strong desire
To solve this question, so old,
OF the intrinsic value of gold;
Whose value never enhances
Under any circumstances,
Thought was caught up, and away;
In the body, or out, can not say;
But could view the country oer
From eastern to western shore.
And saw the people distressed,
And the rich unusually blessed;
For they had corner on gold
Faultless measure Of values, I'm told.
Then the people sought correction
For this wrong and held an election.
And voted the coinage of silver free.
Then some Of the rich decided TO fee:
So they put their gold In steamboat
And silently all went ahoat;
Carefully looked the vessel over,
Among them spied Sherman and Grover
Then there arose mighty gale,
And they quickly reefed every sail,
And the captain cried with shout:
"Quick, have the ballast cast out"
But the ballast, it was gold dust,
The god in whom they placed their trust
They would not, could not let 1t 90,
Although weighted so extremely low.
So they were capsized right there,
On an island, rock-bound and bare.
And then they worked and angrily swore
To get that intrinsic value ashore.
That night they slept on the sands Of the
beach;
Receding tide carried their boats out OF
reach;
And their ship went into numerous pieces
And floated away with the ocean breezes.
And then they got hungry, thirsty and sad
And one old senator got very mad
And swOre that gold wasn't worth any more
Than the pebbles lying around on the shore
Time was when l could buy bushel OF
wheat
Or anything else that's as good to eat
With pinch of that gold so very small
1t would take microscope to see it all.
Then Carlisle, the man put forward tc
teach,
Jumped right squarely into the breach
And yelled aloud: well, I'll be blessed,
Here's mutiny right in the cuckoo's nest.
Another said: Pm beginning to swelter-
So much gold ought TO furnish shelter"
Then Cleveland took out his paper knife
To bring harmony and stop the strife.
He said: 81 know it is hot, but then,
My friend, there's hotter place"
Thought he was going to lop off his head,
But that was all he said
And that was enough,
For the fellow shut up like box Of snuff.
Then Grover came up and said: IF you
please,
Don't open that again till want to sneeze.
Some thought this was carrying it too far
Away out there on bleak sandbar;
But gold must be maintained at par
And as thoroughly fixed as the northern
star.
Then one old millionaire slowly said,
With tears in his eyes and so very sad:
l know the nations credit goes up and dowr
But gold is honest and good and sound.
In value 1t never declines or advances
Under any and all circumstances.
But then products are awful high;
I'd give all I've got for piece Of pie,
Then Cleveland said; II know we feel hollel
But then we've got sound, honest dollar
One Of them is as good as another"
II was then saw he had wheels In his head
Then out OF this upper and rarifed air
glanced back at my country so fair.
Oh, what great surprise it was to mel
Every man sat under his own vine and HI
tree.
The wilderness blossomed and bloomed al
the rose
And all things were in quiet and happy re-
pose,
Until an ambassador arrived from the east
Sent over from the Bull, with the mark o.
the beast.
To demand the payment Of bonds in gold,
For with my countrymen were long age
sold.
They offered to pay them in corn or wheat
Or anything else that was good to eat.
The bond, the bond, what saith the bondf
We will have it in blood,
Like shylock Of old,
Or else we'll have 1t in gold.
Now, my friend, what would you do
II such an ultimatum were poked at you
These were the children Of that generation
That we're sold under Cleveland's admins.
tratiOn.
Then across the sea those nations so old
Combined together and became very bold
"Come too" let's go up to this country SC
fair,
With its unwalled cities and riches so rare
And take spoil, a very great spoil,
And exact tribute from their labor and toll
And there gathered together very great
host
As numerous as the sand Of the sea almost
They came with banners and colors un-
furled,
OF every kindred and nation in the world
There was Cog and MaGog as the prophets
have written,
But the chief was avaricious Great Britain
They came up from over the sea
To fight this people so happy and free,
With engines Of war and In martial array
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