The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-02
THE PEAN OF UNPREPARED-
NESS.

II you cringe and run away
Tho truly good will say.
Behold another one Of the elect!
Z foreign tyrants threaten.
Smile and COO:
They may DO harsh to others. not TO
yOu.
Repudiate your heroes.
m the Attilas and Neros
Will be reasonable and gentle. GOOD and
true.
Should they kill your wives and children
On the seas,
Remember you must always strive to
please:
So ask them most politely
II they think they acted rightly
1t will be undiplomatic II o tease.
II they hesitate and daily.
Send them notes:
The country on such correspondence
dotes:
We are much to proud to fight,
And since we know we're right,
What matter II they keep on sinking
boats?
Say nothing with the very
Slightest dash
or anything belligerent or rash;
We are taken for a nation
Which seeks for reparation
On easy terms, reducible to cash.
n your neighbor carries on
A bloody brawi.
Burning. plunder!ng and killing great
and small.
The way to serve humanity
IL 70 treat him with urbanity
Irntn thara'o m nna Ian to Kill at all
Whatever else you do.
Stay u~nprepared.
The fear of any dangers only shared
BY s,urvy politicians
And those who make munitions
There isn't any reason 10 DO scared.
The people who have trouble
Are the brave
II you'll only be a coward or a slave.
Your troubles all will cease.
You will live In blessed peace.
Remember you have got a skin 20 save.
Why should you love and venerate
The nag
It Is nothing but a v~arlegated rag.
And your toasted patriotism
IL a cause OF needless schism.
Provocative of silly harmful brag
II a little courtry's treach'rou.ly
Harried. devastated. slaughtered. robbed
and rslded,
Look on without concern
While the towns and hamlets burn
The Huns and Nsndals did the same as
they did.
rs your duty 10
4 strict neutrality.
Without the slightest tinge OF Partially ,
To truly serve mankind
You must keep a vacant mind.
Imperyious to murder and brutality.
n you feel a rising sense
OF rage and shame,
A strong desire 10 punish and to blame,
Suppress all such emotions.
they are ~antiquated notions
We are civilized and afiuent now and
tame.
BEFORE our youth and courage
Had departed,
When We we're very poor, but generous
hearted.
We were ready with a cheer,
without a touch OF fear,
n a light for freedom anywhere was
started.
Now to speak your own convicttons
10 temerity.
Offensive to the mighty god Prosperity ;
So let US wear our collars
II 60 on making dollars
With growing satisfaction and CELEBRITY
Time was our country's people
Felt secure,
High and low, old, young. the rich and
POOR
Wherever they might 20,
To Jsnan or Mexico.
OF protection and assistance they were
sure.
We toll our grow ing boys
Re enterprisinr
They are tho ones who everywhere are
rising
Use all YOUR skill and arts.
To capture alien marts;
Opportunities abroad are quite surpr.s-
ing.
Then. when they're domiciled IN
Foreign lands,
Ara bloody revolutionary hands
Naltrcat. assault and mob them,
Outrage, destroy and rob them.
Far from saving them or holding up
their hands,
Their country bids them give up all
And flee
Sata IN such a plight YOU have 10 RICH;
80 be
Won went there to got rich
And landed in tho ditch
You mustn't look for any help from me.
Our people have been murdered
ny the score,
Our women vilely treated at our door.
And ildlcs wealth destroyed
Washington was quite annoyed
Annoyed, perhaps. hut plainly nothing
more.
. II used To he our proud and
Constant boast
That Americans wore safe on every
coast,
Rut since watchful waiting came.
with it's legacy OF shame.
Our pride has wholly given up the ghost
For the hloodshcd, the destruction
Md tho woe.
ror the rright'ul Ills from anarchy THAI
For outrage, lo~, and slain
We're Indebted to the reign
OF Obstinacy. Feebleness and Co
There's perhaps a tr'fing remran
With us yet
Who arc feeling burning anger anC