Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-06
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that enslaves:
Shall Americas sons be the vassels of
knaves7
Alas! that with subtle and crafty de-
signs
The horsepower, stealthy as serpents
entwines
! AS its victims our freemen. the patriot
band:
The pride and the strength of our
glorious land.
IEeir homes are the dwellings of virtue
and truth;
Tie pride of their hearts is their cbiv-
alrous youth.
Ihelr daughters, adorned with race
beauty and grace,
Snail not be the menials of Plutocrats
basel
Alas! that the period should ever have
come
When the money powers dictate in
yadlng the home
with despotic laws and with outrage on
right;
Should the peace and content of the
virtuous blight
The homes of our land are fair Gull
lures domain
The wealth of the soul is more precious
than gain
Our dwellings, of peace are the shrines
of the sages,
And resident there is the lore of the
ages.
The demon of greed that darcs seek to
despoil
OF freedom our chIvalrous mobiles of
toll.
Or blast the fond hopes of our daugh
tcrS SO fair,
Shall be cursed with the doom of
rayleSS DESPAIR
Is Independence but dream and Lib
Is your colossal Goddess. with evo,
radiant flame.
lllumining the heavens q trayestv nj
Truth?
Shall the giant of republics be man
acled in youth?
Once superstition held It's heartless
sway
Ger intellect and conscences of men.
An by designs of pagan priestcraft
spread
It's blighting pail DER drear humanity
at length the inspiration to be free.
me master passion of the God-like
soul,
Welcomes the voice mn iestic-"1yor-
ship me-
The unchallenged ruler of eternity.
no other sovereign dares usurp my
throne.
The souls the realm where reigns thy
God alone.
The flood Light came and darkness fed
Unshackled arms were nerved with
liberty;
Imprisoned spirits signing to be free,
Leaped from their dungeon gloom ex
ultantly.
Time was when royalty llcentious
= proud,
Entrenched behind n servile soldicry.
Fortressed in patronage of dawdlinr
peers.
Their fawning fostered nv ,inuo,n-
ing rank.
Essayed to grind beneath It's iron heel
The knights of honest toll. create tho
homes
or virtuous daughters and heroic sons
Anodes OF blasted hopes. unpitied serfs.
with cruel laws and executions dire
Delirious dream of base nobility
Uncounted lcgions served and rroancd
and died
a despot's offering to n despot's pride:
But Gods time came at length, when
heroism.
Born of the travail of their slavery.
In majesty of might, resistless struck
LOT freedom, home and heart and truth
and right
Smote back the sordid. servi1e coward
clan,
And crushed a dissoIute nobility.
Again oppression, deatbless. rears its
head.
Great God, shall not one stroke, ON
nipotent
Forever crush the orc,, oo,,c.,o
snail men through generations-ue
In calling bondage burdens bear and
feel "''N'
The lash which wanton avarice shall
In infamous conspiracy allied.
USurpers, base, rear shrInes of gold
Where bound
patient nation shall its homage nav
And money-gods hold their imperious
sway?
EXtortioners ordain that gold, alone.
Sustain the commerce of the marts or
trade
Their boarded gold. coin of the realm,
supreme
And holds the nation throttled till it's
bonds
Are paid in gold exacting usury
And premiums which their ayarice de-
creSs.
Americans! Shall sordid plutocrats
dictate
Our homelife. moral code, enllghten-
ment,
Mete out the very air we breathe and
The flooding sunlight their benen-
cence?
This their decree-"the gold Is mine
the sweat.
The brain. the Drawn are thine. These
are thy life.
Gold thou must have. Give me thy life