The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-03-27

again
Sing In prophetic tone the old refrain.
Go tell those white men. myself am God,
Still hold my throne and WELD the aveng-
ing rod;
Twas that spread the curtains Of all space
And set each star to blazing in its place;
That l. 1t was. that formed the solid earth
And nursed the seas and mountains at their
birth;
That winds were notuntil made them blow;
The infant rivers. tool taught to flow;
And L. It was. that set each orb to run
Its stated journey round the central sun;
That light aud darkness ever patient stand
And move but 10 obey my own command.
',Son of man" "son of man."
Go tell those white meu who the world
propel
The red men. doing less. are mine as well;
That naught that they can door say.
Can add one ounce to what they really
weigh;
On heavens great beam that tests the weight
They and their works are things exceeding
small:
'Tis not what they achieve in peace or war,
That fills the book-account; but what they
are,
The red man. and the black. whom fate
debars
From whited temples. see me IN the stars;
With tom-tom do me more accepted praise
Than peaiing organs worked on stated days.
AS flowery fields. untouched by Goddess art,
Spontaneous fragrance; so the contrite heart
OF heathen lands sends up AN incense sweet
As ever rose from priestly censor's heat.
"Son OF man." 'son OF man."
Go tell those white men not to be so proud:
Twas that hid the lightning in the cloud.
That twice ten Thousand years. or tbereabout
Should pass ere they could find the secret out.
Shows dullness quite enough 10 chill their
pride
And make their swelling vanity subside
Steam. too, made; its power was nothing
hid
From age to age II shook the kettles lid
Full In their view; but never could they see It,
Till chance vouchsafed from mystery To
freeit.
The art OF printing. too. is all my own,
Lo! every foot OF living thing had shown,
Il ordered sol as long as time had run.
How easily the printing job was done;
Yet times last grain OF sand had well-nigh
sped
Ere their dull wit these signs correctly read;
Ere Gutenberg, by chance. could take the
hint,
And fumbling set thought In clumsy print;
Oft had fierce thunders, too. eonvulsed the
earth.
And meteors flashed and perished in their
birth.
Ere they could form the suphurous grain of
war.
And teach the cannon's throat to flash and
roar.
~Son OF man. "son OF man."
Go tell those white men. 1.-the Lord of hosts.
Have marked their high presumption, heard
their boasts.
Observe their laws; their government is
might
Euthroned to rule, instead of perfect right.
Could | have taught them such gross heresy.
AS Greatest good to greatest number be?'
Has shipwrecked crew, with gnawing famine
pressed,
A right to slaughter one to feed the rest?
should just minorties be made to yield
That wrong majorities may be upheld?
In nature, is not this the rule that brutes
Observe in settling up their fierce disputesf
way,
But for the power to make the less obey?
Again, the thing that makes a promise bind
fs that it issues from willing mind.
But they have wrested my divine intent.
And based all right TO take on the assent.
Hence starving virtue, forced to trade her
bed,
Alasl with wealthy lust for needed bread,
BY mere assent makes right the moral wreck
And saves the scoundrel from a broken neck
The merchant, too. may stroll from shore to
shore.
Manipulate the market, rob the poor;
II want o'ertake the victims of his greed.
He has his bargain, quite enough to plead.
"son OF man. ..son OF man."
Go tell those white men, I. who spread the
plain
For homes, for grazing herds, and fields of
grain,
An equal measure Of the boon designed
For each Of every race, OF grade, or kind;
But, lol with impious disregard they break
My law; tho whole, forsooth. the stronger
take;
While countless millions, millions, have not
where
To rest by night. or walk by day, nor so
much air
AS makes a breath, nor light to guide the eve,
Unless from some monopolist they buy,
It makes no difference how they get their
pile-
BY law, BY force. By venial fraud. Or guile--
Ills all the same, . universal vsopE.