The Washington times., 1924-07-03

- - dropped in her vote.
noticed BY newspaper readers with cursiye
SMILE and possibly mentioned the coffee cups
picturesque ITEM but really it was significant and worth
turning over il the mind.
marks the utter passage Of the old order Kings and
Queens and all the Lords anoned certainly what
they used to be-
Imagine Abd1l the Damned d Louis the Magnificent
waiting line ct the polls picture the Prussan Kaiser
Or the Russian Gar standing up to Be counted
Sometimes grow peevish and inclined to think the
old world is getting that it's the twilight Of the GODS
the rich thu earth and little Tommy is entering
upon world game with the cards stacked against him
Where bertiesf ask and it's Oh for the good
old merry days 50 light and gay
Then little thing like Queen voting brings us up with
"a jerk.
And there comes to mind what We have read:
OF grand seigneurs Of Bourbon days delivering
mothers child ngng the horrorstricken parent purse
OF gold and riding away singing rataplan rataplan.
OF nozzle lords Of Charles Stuar day ordering his bues
70 og the impairment radesman for daring to send in his
OF Richards summary command, "On with his head!'
and then chortle, $50 much for Buckingham"
Of LIE Roi SoIe the magnificent old echet who lounged
through the barbaric spendors Of Versailles played with
wantons Tranon and said saThe State the State
neither did anybody deny him,
OF the impeouk Hapsburgs riding down peasant children
ia the street. and insulting ladies in the cafe while their
escorts stood respectfully at attention.
Of Russian Grand Dukes foggng moujks for daring to
sembled people who had the emery present petition
OF slave drycrs tying black to whipping posts and
selling their little into bondage
OF all the cruel dirty cowardy and unjust antics Of
privileged scoundrels and crowned perverts,
OF all the unhung rascas upon thrones that haloed BY
superstition exalted by tradition and protected by soldiers
have traped their gttonous way through honest human
wheat defling what they could not destroy.
And Of how children taught to honor them, how
bishops consecrated them how decent accepted them
as matter Of course and struggled for their favors,
How Goethe lived upon mobiles bounty like lackey,
Mozart cooled his heels like miners maid in the ante
chamber Of smperng duchesses that his divine genius
might get hearing,
OF how for long centuries from generation to generation
mankind has bean bke buncoed and browbeaten by the
ancient delusion Of hereditary nobility,
And then when Her Royal Hghness voting, along
side the miIkmans wife and the grocers clerk,
We are forced conclude that the world does move and
that in spite Of the fact
That the banker lives in fine house and we live in
walkup flat,
That Mary Pckford makes thousand dollars or
day while Rachel works harder and only gets fifteen
week.
That Wall Street gentlemen control millions while
have difficulty in holding our jobs,
In fine that still rich and dress IN purple and
fine linen and fare sumptuous every day, while others
must hustle nightly to pay the rent
In spite Of it OIL and for q that and that it's bettsr
world than it was,
Children have better chance and shed fewer tears,
Young men madens have cleaner dreams and finer
romance,
It's no such disgrace and stigma it used to be to be
That the winds Of liberty blow Free from the Statue Of
Liberty to the Golden Gate
And that altogether out Of the blood and CRIME and dust
and disease OF the Past there pushing the white flower
Of Hope.
Anyhow it's not so bad as it was.
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