The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-02-08
THE 0UTCAsTs PRAYER

We come to Thee today aud seek
your assistance, We ask Thee to rec
tify some Of the great evils that cXis
in this old world Thou hast created,
and to remove the causes Of misery,
starvation, privalion, degradation and
poverty in the land Of the free and
home of the brave,
For the life of "A working man is
burdened with many troubles and
large rolls of blankets.
And we ask Thee to aid him, that
he may connect with three meals a
day and not have to eat yesterdays
breakfast for supper the day after
tomorrow.
Give him Thy protection, Oh Lord!
that he may not fall foul of Judge
"Humpty Dumpty," who dreams in
gloating glee of the victims he has
sent to louse-infected cells Of an un-
sanitary prison.
Oh Lord! deliver us from the greed
and graft that exist in this nation,
and from parasites who neither toll
nor spin, but bedeck their persons
with finery until they glitter in the
cleaning like a rotten dog salmon
afloat in the moonlight.
Oh wonderful God! deliver us.
We are blessed with preachers who
draw $1,000 per year to hold dress
parade on Sunday. Many pray to you
to send heaven on earth and the rest
of the week dare you to do it.
Verify, our institutions are badly
mixed, for we have Bible houses,
baudy houses, barrel houses and brew
cries.
Oh Lord! help US, for we have Grim
inals, paupers and hordes of indus
trial cannibals, whom we call business
men; professors who draw their sal
airy and convictions from the same
source.
Oh Lord, merciful God! We have
thieves, theologians, Christians, and
confidence men, also priests, prisons,
politicians and poverty; converts, con-
victs, scabs, and scallywags, traces of
virtue and tons of vice.
We have trusts and tramps, money
and misery. Homes and hunger, sal
walton and soup, and psalms sung by
hypocltes in an organized bummery
who expect to pave their way into
heaven by begging old pants, coats
and hats, and in Thy Name sell them
to the poor, thereby helping disease
spread and vermin to multiply.
Protect us, Oh Lord! and deliver us,
for the Grocers Association holds L3
up, while poverty holds US down.
Some of our butchers put embalming
fluid on purified beef, for they know
then it would not stink, and the un-
suspecting public would eat it with
out belching.
Deliver us from those who make
canned beef out of sick cows, mules
and horses, and corpses of those who
eat it; and may the price of hambur-
ger, beef stew, waffles and "holy"
doughnuts come down and our wages
come up to meet them; and may we
be, permitted to fill up on those lux
uries three times a day, for to be
without them causes great pain in our
gastric region.
And, Oh Lord! we do not under
stand why poodle dogs have private
baths and are attended by maids ana
Wallets; are shampooed, manicured and
kissed; are fed on choice steaks and
drink cream, while thousands of lit
tie children-made after Your own
image, live out of garbage cans!
Christ never said: Suffer little poo
die dogs to come unto Me-" And Oh
Lord! may the society women cease
to give their affection to poodle dogs
instead of babies!
Deliver us, Oh Lord, from the learn
ed Judges who send men to Jail for
not having the means of support, and
to the chain gang for not having the
price of job.
Oh God help the working girls who
work in department stores for $500
per week and have to depend on a
friend for living, and working men
who patronize certain institutions be-
cause they are too poor to get i.ar-
ried.
Deliver us from a country whore
man is damned for the dollar and the
dollar is deemed the man; where the
press is paid for suppressing The
truth, and gets rich by telling lies.
And, Oh Lord we ask Thee to have
mercy on the blanket stiffs, such rs
railroaders, loggers, muckers and
, skinners; and may they be permitted
to make at least seven dollars and
SIX bits before they get fired; and