The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-18
CAPITAL AND LABOR.

For The Post.
Brnwn labor In sturdy calmuess aud
strength
With faith in the final triumph OF truth,
Soul-sated with grief has measured hts
length
BY paltd Distress the picture OF youth;
With plying eye for friends and 'or foss-
The symbol OF Right, the terror OF
Greed
He swings for his kind, in steady repose
Hot muscular blood in Fastening speed
Tho tardy to him comes ultimate need
That forges no lie in rights of his creed
Baptized by the tears Of sorrow and toll
He goes TO the throbblng bosom Of earth.
And snrfs OF the scents where mellowins
Is pregnant with fruits OF halowed
birth;
With f-cansecration. boldly he pleads,
Where lowly he builds his affairs of sod;
And, sprung by the pulse Of imminent
need,
He throbs with the currents nearest to
God
sun STOPPING to toll thro' depths dark
He catches the glory centerlng Him.
His capital. heart to conquer the strife,
Home-love for the better building o.
Red muscle TO musce--chlldren and wife
\ claim on the skies for sheltering
dome,
Man pride in his fellow aborer, Man,
A purpose to meet all dues TO his kind;
He stands at the FrOnt--as generals cali
| And FORCES the way With generous mind;
Tho freighted too oft With curses and
scorn
| Hn bouors tho daV thew said he was bern,
| He bends to the wheels OF sorrow and
care,
| Undaunted by burdens laid upon him,
| II thus he may lift the gloom OF despair
! And quicken the pulse OF heart broken
| limb;
II yet he may bear TO loftlcr heights
! BY beckoning on In heaven kissed deed
| He turns 10 tho pits Of hades the rights
Let Loose by the hand of coyctous greet;
| Nor reckons In vain with wheel or with
And leaves his reward to time and to
God.
But capital. careless, tlmld averse,
Depending on Gold, and standing aloof.
With desperate grip on opulent purse,
Withholds from the poor "A pitiless ro1fi
The symbol OF Greed and Hunger united
In rapturous ease and wolverine 10y
He boards In his Golfers Poyery's bread
Begrudging the pauper scanty employ;
Refusing arrest, denying control
What forces a wrong on body and soul.
And garlanded by such truculent weeds.
And Haunting his banners glitterinG
gold,
He clutches the trough where Poverty
feeds
And watches The msrts where mortal'
are sold
But Humans are hung on gallows the,
For Mordccals- pampered beasts OF Tbs
stall
To butchcrles led. But Greed Is not hlled
His cavernous NAV encul;ing It all
Like hunEering brute that gulps at tn
waste
And fawningly waits, yet waits brazsn
faced
Innamed by the glare OF multlform gain,
But needless of Wants most presslni
demand.
Mad heartless and big with lofty dis iaii
Desplses the Poor; encastled and gran
He coaches In widest races along
The highways OF greed and piilowy ease
Is deaf 10 the cries protesting wrong
And bushes the voice that cousci n
DEGREES;
But Ore vIll tho huci,eld harness unb'a
From Dives, unfalthtul. coyotous. bird
All wee be the day! u such ever conel
Let Mercy and Justice equal the hour
LET Righteousness speak. let Darkness ;
dumb.
Let Charity hold the seepter Of power;
For swift the reward the day OF n
doom
Who dares TO remain unpardoned (
wrong;
The Weaver who threads Times marye
Gus loom,
The Singer who rhymes Earths masie
full song.
viii weave into sopg the music and liz
2 VIII pardon the wrong with loving To-
and delight.