The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-09

We had EN- licked.
Now, | want 'em to let
Sampson go. If Mckinley takes
My tip he'll call on Sampson
And say: "Bill, want you
To coal up and start out
After them rats. Every time
You see a Spanish flag,
You open up with your
Thirteen-inchers and simply
Destroy land and water
For ten miles around. | want
You to make Moro castle
Look like an ash-heap,
And if you can locate that
Spanish fleet anywhere or
At any time you tell the
Boys at the guns to keep
On bangin' away az long as
There's anything left that's
Big enough to be hit by
A bullet, and then you 90
Downstairs and make out
Your report, because you'll
Know by that time what's
Coin to happen. When you
Come up again the smoke'Il
BE cleared away and
There won't be but one
Fleet to look at"
| That's what I'd say to
Bill Sampson if was
Old Mckinley.
Why. there's Bob Evans on
! III, What l~
| Suppose he'd do if they'd
Ever give him the word to
Go? Say, he'd toss a few
OF them projectiles that'd
| 60 all the way through
Cuba and glance off on
South America or whatever
| 1t is below there
| He'd make tine-cut of all
The tobacco CROWN within
| Forty miles of Havana.
Let's get to action.
Id have every soldier in
The United States landed in
Cuba before tomorrow night,
And I'd start $4,000 men
TO the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
They are-so quick it would
Make your head swim:
In two weeks time I'd have
The stars and stripes foatin'
Over the royal palace in
Madrid, if that's the capital OF
Spain, and I'd have old
Weyler locked up in the
Booby-hatch, Twin on the
Same ratiOns that he used
TO give to them con-
Them recon-something-anyway,
The natives down there in
Pinar del Rio or some
Such place.
Mckinley and Alger and
Long and the rest of 'em
Down there at Washington
Have got me nearly tired
Out. Let's set fire to
Every thing at once!
Dag gone it let's touch off
The whole bunch!
It's expensive, | know, but
Who cares for finances
Al a TIME ike THIS!
| don't know where the
Canary islands are, and
| don't care a picayune. but
Ii they'r in the way and
Seem to annoy any good
Patriotic American citizen,
Why, let's send that ram,
The katy-did, the katoOdin,
Or whatever in Sam Hill
The name is, and have the
Whole bunch OF islands
Pushed Off the map.
| I'm not bloodthirsty
Man. and feel kind o
Sorry for the queen roogent,
Or whatever they call her,
Over there in the old
Country. but then she's
A likely looking widow and
| spose she'll manage to
Keep the wolf from the
Door, even if she has to go
And marry some king that's
Workin'. Anyway, when
We start in to give u
1orchllSht procession and
Set off few fireworks We
Can postpone the whole
Show just because some
Woman ain t in sympathy
With the demonstration.
Let's make rough house from
One end OF Cuba to the other!
Give every Cuban a shotgun
And a revolver and tell
Him to go out and insurge.
Hurry up them cowboys that
Rosenfeld or Roosevelt, or
Whatever in the dickens his
Name is, is goin' to take
Down there.
Start them in at one end
or the island and let 'em
Ride the whole length OF it,
Lettin, out a few of them
ki-yis, and when they reached
The other end of the Atlnatic
Ocean would be full of
Spanish swimmin' north
And south.
On, start something!
Start something.