Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-31
RAJAH-oLAH, THE SLAVE GIRL OF suLu.
(Reprinted by ReQuest.)

Aluu lIl0uOS OF the nag ana the union,
Pray listen a moment to me,
While sing OF the fair Rajah-Olah,
And the land that was once called
free.
Ra1ah-Olah lives over the water,
Far over Pacific's blue wave,
In the land of the sultan of Sulu,
Rajah-Olah. the beautiful slave.
She dwells where the folds of "Old
Glory"
Are famed by the soft tropic cline;
But she tolls meath the lash OF the
master,
In the year eighteen ninety and nine.
But she tolls meath the lash Of the
master,
In the year eighteen ninety and nine.
Rajah-Olah was sold in her childhood;
Early learned she the hardships of
toll,
Or labor without compensation,
or slavery's lncessant turmoil.
She wss standing one day meath a
palm tree,
w hOA CdLuc luGO view,
O'er the home of the sultan of Sulu,
A banner, the red, white and blue.
II have heard, !" cried the fair Rajah-
Olah,
THAT this flag comes far over the
ses,
And that all who abide meath its shelf.
Forever 60 happy and free;
And that all who abide meath It's sbelt.
Forever go happy and free.
Il will go to his highness. the sultan,
will ask il these words be not true,
II have not my life and my freedom
Secured by the red, white and blue. -
She went, but the sultan made answer.
If you've money your freedom to
buy,
You may purchase yourself in the
market,
But If not, you're slave till you die;
For our president, William Mckinley,
Thro' his envoy, the braYe General
Bates,
Hath made with myself an agreement
Which closes up liberty's gates;
Hath made with myself an agreement
Which closes up liberty's gates"
Rajah-Olah, the slave girl of Sulu.
Went forth as one shrouded in gloom,
Tho the sunbeams were playing
around her,
Her life was as dark as the tomb.
AS the "Bottomless PITT was her scr.
row,
Her night knows no dawning of day
No hope of joyful tomorrow,
A slave girl forever, for aye.
Meath the palm tree once more she is
standing;
She the folds Of old Glory can see,
Tho the Stars and the Stripes are
above her,
Rajah-Olah can never be tree;
Tho the Stars and the Stripes are
above her,
Rsjah-Olah can never be free.
r .jah-Olah, the slave girl of Sulu,
Had not long meath the palm tree to
stay;
She was sold to an infamous harem,
To the lust of the DatO prey;
She was bought with American dollars
Which the Dato receives as his fee
For ruling the people of Sulu,
In the Orient over the sea;
Sold In the name of Religion,
A slave-wife reluctant to bes4
Sold meath the star-spangled banner,
In the land that was once called the
free;
Sold meath the star-spangled banner,
In the land that was once called the
free.
Rajah-Olah' sad story is ended,
Rajah-Olah's sad journey is run;
Meath the Stars and the Stripes she's
a captive,
And the work of her ruin is done.
Kind friends of the flag and the union
Let not party your spirits beguile,
But think of the sad Rajah -Olah,
The slave girl of Sulu's fair isle.
When you 20 to the polls in November
Whatever your party may be,
The slave girl Of Sulu remember
And the land that was once called
the free;
The slave girl of Sulu remember
And the land that was once called
the free.
"A. E. HATCH, A. M.