Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-11-16
The King Of the Horse Highway
Stand for your rights. In Gods eternal
Justice trust.
Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel
lust.

Who is the King of the horse highway?
1.-THE horse, of COURSE" do | hear you
sAyP
He has been deposed though he hasn't
vamosed:
That he ought to be king is very plain,
But whether he ever will be again,
Is question unanswered simply because
Some people are sleeping. while others
are trembling
For fear of provoking their own dis
membering
If they strike this Usurper, of whom it
is said
ale bringeth our markets, he bringeth
our bread
Pray, of what use is bread when man's
lost his head
And who cares for market when once
he is dead
Except for his bones, when the spirit
hath fled
At the hands of the death-dealing auto /?
Who is this Usurper that unbidden comes
Overriding our law and endangering our
homes?
| You have guessed; but I'll say to make
sure of the game,
It's the life wrecking auto whom no one
doth tame;
Who by force and by terror, by MIGHT,
NOT BY RIGHT,
Is claiming the highway by deeds dark
as night.
The highway so free from intrusion be-
fore
How grateful its mud as compared to
its gore.
A condition provoking a Mars gravior.
How noble, We railroads, your ways now
appear,
No thought e'er possessed you our ways
to enfear.
And oh, fair electric, you make your
own track
And you keep straight upon it with
never a tack.
This would-be King of the horse highway
Just hear his old chestnut, I've come
to stay"
The Audacious Red Devil whose glory
is CORY,
Run by Turvey- drop well known in story
Run by parasite whom no one would
trust
To manage an engine except in the dust
No chance for this straggler to run on a
track,
No vagabonds wanted by rail or by pack
SO he makes his own law and expects
Us to run
In conformity to his ogre-like fun
Now who SHALL be King of the horse
highway
The horse, do hear you truthfully say
And yet "A rival has come his way ;
An audaciOus rival who without an eX.
cuse
Has instituted a reign of abuse;
An audacious rival, just hear him say
See, now, | have come to stay"
What, where you are, then you must dc
some work.
Though know its your nature to shirl
like Turk.
You must widen our ways and leave il
{ them no quirk
For remember they are our WAYS no
: your ways by right,
To take them by might in this land means
"A fight.
The glitter bedizzing your carts must b'
And modesty mark you as one who i
; To 90 with the horses, not the star
overhead.
Ever mindful that horses and hogs don
agree
To avoid being boorish when horses vol
: Don't misname it progress as you do i
/. today
n For if this is called progress, whoa
will say,
Take us back to the wonderful on
horse shay"
e When man was protected as much a
o the deer,
Or partridge or rabbit, or other thing
) queer;
e When housewives and daughters strolle,
Z in free air
o In health giving outings devoid of al
Il care,
h With no death dealing auto their nerve
o'er-strain,
The city mans Waterloo, the countr.
mans bare:
Far, far may we go eer we find such
/ woe,
:. Such a need of injustice for "the ma
v with the hoe"
Choose quickly. We yoemen, which objec
: shall stay"
This huge juggernaut, or "the horse an
his shay"
Say-who shall be King of the hors
highway.
This selfish Old Beast that wants all tn
road
Or the horse that respecteth cen a poo
little load ?
Look well to your laurels and at no dis
tant day
SAY-who shall be King of the hors
highway
A. p. REED. NJ. D.