{"1": {"fulltext": "JUL 30 1900\\nrS35 2 7\\nPS 3537\\n^S55PS\\n.H855\\n25 CENTS\\nP5\\n1900\\nCopy 1\\nPLAIN DUTY\\nA POLITICAL POEM\\nCAMPAIGN OF 1900\\nBy WILL H. SHINN", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY\\nA POLITICAL POEM FOR THE\\nCAMPAIGN OF 1900\\n13\\nBy Will H. Shinn\\nLA GRANGE, INDIANA\\nPUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR\\n1900\\n1", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "26821\\nLibeary of Gongres-\\nTwo Cqpies Received\\nJUL 30 BOO\\nujLimi\\nSECOND COPY.\\nDelivered to\\nORDER DIVISION,\\nAUG 8 1900\\n10\\n72847\\nCOPYRIGHTED, 1900,\\nBY\\nWill H. Shinn.\\nFHOM THE CALL PRESS, LAGRANGE, IND", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "NOTE.\\nThe writer of this little production is not a poet.\\nFor proof of this assertion he invites a perusal of\\nit s contents. The purpose of making the. state-\\nment in advance is to allay any suspicion the reader\\nmay have that the writer is an aspirant for literary\\ndistinction. He also wishes to disarm those parti-\\nsan critics who, being deficient in political wisdom\\nand general knowledge, may endeavor to pose as\\nerudite beings by picking flaws in this little book\\nas a literary production. But the writer makes no\\nclaim to excellence from a literary point of view.\\nHe, however, believes that it is a novelty in politi-\\ncal literature, and if it is instrumental in calling the\\nattention of anyone to the issues of the present\\ncampaign he will be content, fully satisfied that he\\nhas done his plain duty.\\nThe Author.", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "And Tbat Flag Still the Emblem\\nof Freedom Shall Be.", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY.\\nColumbia, my country! my song is of thee,\\nThine honor and glory mine ever shall be;\\nFrom hillside, from valley, o er mountain and plain,\\nShall echo, forever, sweet freedom s refrain\\nColumbia, my country! earth s fairest domain,\\n1 honor thy heroes who for thee were slain;\\nThy flag still the emblem of freedom shall be,\\nColumbia, I love thee, sweet home of the free.\\nNational Anthem.\\nColumbia, my country! thrice hallowed of song;\\nDefender of right and opponent of wrong;\\nThe land for which our forefathers battled and died\\nAnd the minions of tyranny boldly defied\\nTis of thee that I sing with a patriot s tongue,\\nAnd I ask close attention from old and from young.\\nThe heroes to whom our proud country owes birth,\\nAnd its place in the vanguard of nations on earth,\\nWere patriots then let s be patriots now,\\nAnd guard well that freedom which they did endow;\\nLet us swear by the blood of each patriot saint\\nThat no tyrant shall ever this heritage taint.\\nThose heroes, inspired, (proven so by the sequel)\\nTaught that all human beings are created equal.", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY.\\nNot equal as statesmen nor toters of hod,\\nBut equal as heirs to the blessings of God.\\nThey taught, too, those heroes, sweet Liberty s\\nknights,\\nThat each fellow mortal has God-given rights\\nThe right to exist and the right to be free,\\nAnd pursue his vocation where er he may be.\\nThey taught that the people were sovereigns in\\nfact;\\nThat divine right of kings the diviuity lacked;\\nThat governments should not be treated as dowers;\\nFrom consent of the governed they get their just\\npowers.\\nThey taught that the prerogative of taxation\\nShould not be invoked, without representation.\\nThis doctrine they taught and in battle main-\\ntained it;\\nDeclared independence and manfully gained it;\\nAnd their wisdom in peace equalled valor in war.\\nOn the national emblem each radiant star\\nPays tribute, sincere, to those immortal spirits\\nWho gave us the freedom that each one inherits.\\nFor the sin of rebellion they won absolution,\\nAnd enlightened the world with our great consti-\\ntution.\\nOf our national faith this has been the foundation\\nFor the hundred odd years of our life as a nation.\\nTis that foundation yet, and though some would\\ndisown it,\\nMay the day be far distant ere we have outgrown it.", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PLAIN D UTY.\\nWith a rule of the people for many a year,\\nWe can now proudly point to an honored career.\\nSome things have been done that displayed small\\nacumen;\\nWe have made some mistakes, (and to make them\\nis human.)\\nBut if under false leaders the people have erred,\\nThey have made quick correction whene er it oc-\\ncurred;\\nWhen by gross deception wrong ideas have won,\\nThe people have promptly the mischief undone.\\nAnd so, in our present conglomerate plight,\\nLet us trust to the people to set all things right.\\nThough our national skies may with clouds be o er-\\ncast,\\nLet us study each problem by light from the past.\\nWith but thirteen small states at the birth of the\\nnation,\\nWe ve now forty-five stars in the bright constella-\\ntion;\\nThen a small strip of land long the sea s rugged\\ncoast,\\nNow an ocean to-ocean domain we can boast.\\nWe have crossed the prairies, high mountains\\nclimbed o er;\\nWe ve planted our emblem from shore unto shore,\\nAnd it s wide, ample folds are unfurled to the\\nbreeze,\\nProm the turbulent gulf to the unsalted seas.", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY.\\nWe have grown and expanded, expanded and\\ngrown;\\nWe have reaped a rich harvest from seeds that\\nwere sown;\\nWe have cared for the things with which God did\\nintrust us,\\nBut we heeded the dictates of wisdom and justice.\\nOur growth has been natural, o er land all contig-\\nuous,\\nAnd we ve not hid our motives in language ambig-\\nuous.\\nThe country o er which we established domain\\nWas the rich,, virgin soil of the forest and plain;\\nWhere the wild beast did roam, undisturbed, un-\\nafraid,\\nAnd the red man was monarch of all he surveyed.\\nHe was monarch of all, but uncivilized, wild,\\nIn the language of Kipling, half devil, half child.\\nTo civilize him and reclaim the rich soil,\\nThat God had intended for homes, did we toil.\\nNo war for mere conquest or lust did we wage,\\nNor did we to gratify greed so engage;\\nNo tyrannous act did then tarnish our fame,\\nOr stain with dishonor America s name.\\nWe ve received immigrants from all parts of the\\nearth,\\nAnd weaned them away from the land of their birth\\nTheir national customs, no matter how prized,\\nThey soon are completely Americanized.", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "PLAIN D UTY.\\nThe Englishman alters his ideas of show\\nAnd does as the Romans do here, doneher know?\\nThe Frenchman forgets all about gay Paree,\\nAnd prefers to remain in this land of the free;\\nThe German becomes independent and wiser,\\nAnd would not change positions with Baron or\\nKaiser;\\nThe Jap makes an effort to do as we do,\\nAnd John Chinaman often surrenders his queue.\\nThey come from all lands where the laws do\\nenthrall,\\nAnd make us good citizens \u00e2\u0080\u0094patriots, all.\\nThey come to enjoy Freedom s blessings, of course,\\nUngoverned by royalty, unawed by force;\\nTo be freed from the load of imperial sway\\nIts conquests, its taxes, its seeds of decay.\\nThey come to enjoy and are quick to defend\\nOur tenets of freedom when dangers portend.\\nWith empirical knowledge the symptoms they heed\\nAnd boldly oppose the aggressions of greed.\\nFirst is conquest, then empire, a Caesar enthroned,\\nAnd the sins of a latter-day Nero condoned;\\nOr a modern Tiberius, cruel and fierce,\\nTo reign would the heart of fair Liberty pierce.\\nOur foreign- born brothers have heard the appeals,\\nIn king-ridden lands where humanity kneels;\\nThey have heard the sad moan and the pitiful sigh,\\nAnd with us in maintaining our rights they will vie.\\nThey have read of the deeds of our immortal sires,\\nWho kindled and kept aglow Freedom s bright fires,", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 PLAIN DUTY.\\nAnd they ve come to enjoy what our forefathers\\nwon\\nThey will help to defend it, from father to son.\\nThough our people give preference to peace and it s\\ncharms,\\nTo secure it, they ve settled some questions with\\narms.\\nWith one whipping old England was not satisfied\\nWe repeated the dose till for mercy she cried;\\nAnd Mexico, saucy, continued to vex us\\nTill we punished her right o er admission of Texas.\\nThen, as no nation had for a long time attacked us,\\nWe went at each other to keep in good practice;\\nAnd in that great struggle such valor was shown,\\nBy men on both sides, as the world ne er had\\nknown;\\nBut, after the shedding of oceans of gore,\\nThey quickly became friends and neighbors once\\nmore,\\nAnd in Northland and Southland soon mingled the\\nstrains\\nOf The Star-Spangled Banner and Dixie s\\nrefrains.\\nOther nations stood dumb when they saw us\\nunite,\\nAnd for thirty odd years never offered us fight;\\nTill when Spain, in her cruel and barbarous style,\\nWas giving the torch to the fair Cuban isle;", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. U\\nWhen in spite of our friendship, she could not\\nrefrain\\nFrom her devilish actions, and blew up the Maine;\\nThen we said to her firmly, You shall not go on so,\\nAnd we shattered the throne of the infant Alfonso.\\nThey nobly responded, the Gray and the Blue;\\nWith shoulder to shoulder, in comradeship true.\\nOne banner waved o er them, unsullied and bright;\\nThey returned it in triumph; they battled for right.\\nOur soldier boys charged up the slope, Santiago,\\nAnd rid that fair land of the blood-thirsty Dago;\\nWhile our jackies, afloat, in a most proper manner,\\nRid the sea of the yellow, tyrannical banner.\\nThen the war cloud soon passed, and the work was\\nwell done,\\nThe battle for freedom and mercy well won;\\nAnd glad peace now reigneth o er Cuba s fair isle,\\nHer fields are most fruitful and peaceful her smile.\\nMay Cuba be free! And thank God for the thought!\\nTis the fruits of the creed that our forefathers\\ntaught;\\nAnd the Cubans, as free men, deep gratitude feel\\nToward those who heeded their tender appeal.\\nThey will be independent of all earthly powers;\\nWe did our full duty and credit is ours.\\nBut now shall we mar this Smaritan deed,\\nAnd disgrace ourselves with insatiate greed?\\nShall the nation turn backward to monarchy s realm\\nAnd the old Ship of State have a czar at it s helm?", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 PLAIN DUTY.\\nShall we treat as mere vassals our newly-made kin\\nAnd make them pay taxes with no voice therein?\\nShall we recompense kindness with haughty dis-\\ndain,\\nAnd deny them free commerce when duty is\\nplain\\nShall we overturn policies, practiced for years,\\nAnd refuse freedom s blessings when asked for in\\ntears?\\nShall we use Gatling guns and our brave boys in\\nblue\\nTo prove that the doctrine we ve taught isn t true?\\nShall we send sons and brothers to battle and die,\\nAnd boldly proclaim that our creed is a lie?\\nShall the great Declaration be called a mistake,\\nAnd it s author condemned as a shallow-brained\\nfake\\nShall the old Constitution, in these latter days,\\nBe replaced entire by a monarch s ukase?\\nShall the precepts of Jesus be wrongly construed,\\nOr held in abeyance while men are subdued?\\nShall Mahomet s ideas all Christ s teachings leaven\\nAnd we say that the sword is the true key to\\nheaven?\\nShall our own Uncle Samuel, to suit English fancy,\\nPlay the role among nations of poor Sancho Panza?\\nShall he follow John Bull, as (the weak-minded\\ndote) he\\nStruts around in the garb of a new Don Quixote?", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. 13\\nNo, Heaven forbid it; we ll not retrograde;\\nWe ll see that the red hand of conquest is stayed.\\nAll men are God s creatures, and cursed be the\\ntime,\\nWhen Liberty s instinct is counted a crime.\\nThey are unfit for freedom, has been the excuse\\nIn ail ages, for tyrants and their foul abuse\\nOf the just rights of others. They bind men with\\nthongs,\\nAnd want not for pretexts to justify wrongs.\\nWhen merciless creatures, with selfish desires,\\nTo attain their base object, would quench Free-\\ndom s fires,\\nThey use high sounding phrases, with passionate\\nzeal,\\nAnd prostitute language, their acts to conceal.\\nThus a passion for pelf, which all despots possess,\\nIs termed currents of destiny. They now pro-\\nfess\\nNo imperial designs by this administration,\\nBut call it benevolent assimilation.\\nThey engage in a warfare to gratify greed,\\nAnd claim but to follow the Nazarene s lead;\\nProfessions of Christ are made louder and louder,\\nAll the time interspersed with explosions of pow-\\nder.\\nThey say that the principles which we so prize,\\nNo change undergo beneath tropical skies;\\nBut the Sultan of Sulu our starry flag waves\\nO er his bevy of wives and collection of slaves.", "height": "3308", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 PLAIN DUTY.\\nSuch deceptive conduct can not long obscure;\\nTrue men will awake and all errors abjure;\\nWe will treat in just manner all races and tribes,\\nResisting temptation and spurning all bribes.\\nWe have men, guns and powder, and fear us they\\nmust,\\nBut we ll teach them to love us because we are just;\\nWe will let them enjoy what they ve long struggled\\nfor,\\nAnd our vict ries in peace will be greater than war.\\nTo that question, oft asked, amid bluster and brag,\\nAs to Who will haul down the American flag?\\nWe reply: When that banner waves o er guns that\\nfrown\\nOn those who want liberty, we ll haul it down!\\nWe will haul down the flag, when, as Liberty s foes,\\nOur armies are striving to subjugate those\\nWho are fighting the fight that our fathers once\\nfought,\\nAnd are seeking the rights that our fathers once\\nsought.\\nWe will haul down the flag when we emulate Spain,\\nAnd American ideas we cease to maintain;\\nWhen that banner no longer waves o er men who\\nfight\\nFor their homes and their liberty, country and\\nright.\\nWe will haul down the flag and then let it be furled,\\nWhen we march in the wake of an effete Old World;", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. 15\\nWhen we tread in the pathway of Carthage and\\nRome,\\nWe will haul down the banner and carry it home.\\nWe will haul down the flag, when it s meaning is\\nchanged,\\nAnd it s symbols have been by the trusts rear-\\nranged;\\nWhen the foul hand of greed it s bright stars do\\ncaress,\\nAnd each stripe is seen wreathed with a mercan-\\ntile S.\\nWe will haul down the flag, when, it s usefulness\\no er,\\nIt is seen on the ramparts of Freedom no more;\\nWhen it represents naught but the greed of some\\nknave,\\nWe will lay it to rest in sweet Liberty s grave.\\nBut the time has not come for these obsequies yet;\\nWe will wave the old flag without hindrance or let.\\nIn Freedom twas born and by free men designed,\\nAnd a much brighter future for it is destined.\\nThough we may still enlarge its collection of stars,\\nNot one shall e er twinkle a tribute to Mars;\\nWe ll proudly unfurl it, on land and on sea,\\nBut that flag still the emblem of freedom shall be.\\nThe Emblem of Freedom! That has the true ring;\\nWherever it floats it will mean the same thing;\\nNot Liberty one place, Oppression elsewhere\\nAll whom it floats over will breathe Freedom s air.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 PLAIN DUTY.\\nPorto Rico, Hawaii, and Idaho, too,\\nWill read the same sign in the Red, White and Blue;\\nIn the bleak, frozen zone, or neath tropical skies,\\nIt will mean all are equal wherever it flies.\\nOn American mauhood we can always depend\\nTo correct all mistakes and be right in the end.\\nThough sometimes deceived by a siren s sweet\\nsong,\\nAmerican manhood will right every wrong;\\nThough questions arise that are seeming abstruse,\\nWe can trust to that manhood the right to deduce.\\nWe look back to a record that stands out so grand,\\nUnequalled, no peer has Columbia s fair land;\\nSo with pride in the past and it s record of glory,\\nWe should write in the future a similar story.\\nThere are problems in view that demand, in the\\nmain,\\nOur serious thoughts in the pending campaign.\\nWhile determined to triumph o er tyranny s wiles,\\nAnd bestow Freedom s blessings on far-distant\\nisles,\\nWe should not neglect, as our thoughts to them\\nroam,\\nTo secure an expansion of Freedom at home.\\nA dissatisfied people, bemoaning their fall,\\nAre seeking the cause of the general pall\\nThat hangs over industry, farms and the mills,\\nWith bankruptcy present and consequent ills.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY.\\nPrivate industry languisheth, trusts are supreme,\\nAnd Capital, organized, feasts on the cream;\\nWhile Labor, despondent, to prosper unable,\\nMust Lazarus like feed on the crumbs from the\\ntable.\\nSuch are the conditions we re facing to-day,\\nAnd a remedy looked for to drive them away.\\nAs to trouble existent, who dare make denial?\\nPanaceas galore have been given a trial,\\nTill many good people, poor in spirit and purse,\\nResign themselves meekly and thank God it s not\\nworse.\\nThey have witnessed the bursting of so many bub-\\nbles,\\nBut have given no thought to the cause of their\\ntroubles.\\nIf a doctor is called to relievejsevere pain,\\nAnd a triumph in practice he seeks to obtain,\\nEre prescribing a potion the patient to treat\\nHe asks for the symptoms both full and complete;\\nAnd with such information, without further pause,\\nHe is quickly enabled to find the true cause\\nOf his patient s condition; with which facts, essen-\\ntial,\\nHis health-giving doses are made more potential.\\nNow if our good people are sorely afflicted\\nWith ills most unnatural, if rightly depicted,\\nWe should follow the course of the medical man\\nAnd study the case from all points that we can;", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 PLAIN DUTY.\\nWith unselfish motives and eyes that are critical\\nWe should closely examine our status political.\\nThe laborer, whose wealth is in muscle and skill,\\nNow out of employment, points to the closed mill;\\nThe false cry of prosperity oft has he heard,\\nTill his honest heart sickens with hope long\\ndeferred.\\nThose who by good fortune have work of some sort,\\nHold an uncertain lease on their means of support;\\nFor the lock-out dread weapon, is seen in the air,\\nSuspended like Damocles sword by a hair.\\nThe private mill-owner, now forced to close down\\nAnd send his men tramping through country and\\ntown,\\nSees the true situation and cause of it all,\\nAnd says that low prices forced him to the wall.\\nCombines now control the output and supply,\\nAnd with no competition can make prices high;\\nBut to no person s welfare do these things conduce,\\nSave the men who have plenty and money profuse.\\nThe farmer, upon whom all industry feeds,\\nIs buying no more than he urgently needs;\\nThus affecting the market- man, merchant, me-\\nchanic,\\nAnd driving them all to the verge of a panic.\\nThat such things are unnatural, it must be con-\\nfessed,\\nIn a land that Dame Nature so lavishly blessed;\\nAnd while for the cause of the trouble we seek,\\nThe farmer himself on the subject should speak.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "PLAIN D UTY. 19\\nHis language is homespun and does not comport\\nWith the lah-de-dah brogue of a seaside resort;\\nBut his voice has tbe ring of true manhood and\\ncandor,\\nWholly foreign to those who fawn, flatter and pan-\\nder.\\nHe is not a theorist, but on conditions well posted;\\nHe asks not for favors, but for justice, much\\nboasted;\\nHe is no fanatic nor public alarmer,\\nSo listen awhile to the words of the farmer:\\nIt is no fault of mine, he remarks with a sigh,\\nOf the many things needed, but few can I buy.\\nThe Lord has smiled on me and crops gave me\\nplenty,\\nBut with wheat down to sixty cents, oats only\\ntwenty,\\nIt requires a strong will and a heart that is brave\\nTo endure such existence the life of a slave.\\nMy taxes are growing\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the rate is alarming,\\nAnd each year increases the hardships of farming;\\nThe debts that I owe are becoming gigantic,\\nAnd with interest attachments almost drive me\\nfrantic.\\nI am not a statesman, possessed of great learning,\\nBut I understand one thing (it needs small dis-\\ncerning)\\nThe downfall of prices, continued so long,\\nHas proved to me clearly that something is wrong;", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY.\\nAnd to use an expression I ve oft heard before,\\nThere is something in Denmark decayed to the\\ncore.\\nThe doctors of politics, since this began,\\nHave prescribed many cures for the laboring man.\\nWe have tried a high tariff and glanced at free\\ntrade,\\nBut the price of our products kept on the down\\ngrade;\\nAnd the only change seen, under rule of protection,\\nIs that goods we must buy have a rising inflection.\\nI cast my thoughts back to the year 96,\\nWhen Hanna was showing the people some tricks;\\nWhen for Bill McKinley s prosperity show\\nI dropped in my ballot, for weal or for woe.\\nNow Bill, you ll recall, in that notable race,\\nWas away up in front\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the advance agent s place;\\nAnd, converting his porch to a stump speaker s\\nrostrum.\\nProclaimed to all comers his favorite nostrum,\\nAnd promised relief from adversity s ills\\nBy the simplest of processes op ning the mills.\\nWell, now we ve arrived at the year 1900,\\nAnd I have a suspicion that some one has blun-\\ndered;\\nFor the show has been due now for over three\\nyears,\\nAnd it is my conviction, and long had I fears,\\nThat the blundering ones were the tillers of soil,\\nWho, in hopes of relief, in the campaign s turmoil,", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. 21\\nWere deluded by sophistry, pleasing and foxy\\nAnd supported the man who was Mark Hanna s\\nproxy.\\nWhen God, in His wisdom, a famine let fall\\nOn foreign wheat fields and made barren them all,\\nAnd blessed our own farms with a normal supply,\\nThe price of our grain was in consequence high.\\nBut twas then that our blunder appeared more\\negregious,\\nFor the men we elected became sacrilegious,\\nAnd results, that came clearly by God s holy will,\\nWere claimed as the fruits of the new Dingley bill;\\nAnd Lyman J. Gage through the country mean-\\ndered\\nAnd declared for this boon we must thank the gold\\nstandard.\\nWhen grim-visaged war called the men of our land,\\nAnd our noble boys answered with cheerfulness,\\ngrand,\\nAn abnormal draft upon products was made,\\nWhich in no small measure enlivened all trade.\\nNow these same would-be leaders in high glee con-\\nstrue\\nThis result as a proof that their doctrines are true,\\nAnd depend upon platitudes, cunningly spoken,\\nTo insure that their hold upon us is not broken.\\nWhen the now far-famed gold fields their treasure\\nturned loose,\\nAnd the yellow stream entered our channels of use", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 PLAIN DUTY.\\nA substantial increase to our money was made;\\nBut twas God and not Hanna who came to our aid.\\nThough this same big chief Marcus would have us\\nbelieve\\nThat he and his braves this result did achieve,\\nAnd no doubt ere the campaign of this year is\\nended,\\nThey will claim gold discov ries by them were in-\\ntended.\\nSuch absurd contentions make fair men disgusted,\\nWhen coming from those whom the people have\\ntrusted;\\nBut it shows us quite clearly where we have been\\nlame\\nWe ve been victims too oft of a confidence game.\\nTo be thought of as statesmen we do not expect,\\nBut we know how to reason from cause to effect;\\nAnd political dupes they ll find scattered more\\nthinly\\nThan when, four years ago, they were booming\\nMcKinley.\\nI love this great country best under the sun;\\nI shed my blood free on the field of Bull Run.\\nIn the year, 65, when the cannons were stilled,\\nAnd the flag had been drenched in the blood of the\\nkilled,\\nI returned to my home from that four years of\\nstrife\\nAnd hoped for sweet peace the remainder of life.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. 23\\nBut my hopes were in vain, as I afterwards found,\\nFor every campaign (and they fast roll around)\\nI was called out again and the injunction received,\\nTo vote as I shot \u00e2\u0080\u0094no matter what I believed.\\nThough the Union was saved by the blood of brave\\nmen,\\nEvery four years we must save it again;\\nAnd counting from 60, when war was engendered,\\nTwas full thirty years before Lee had surrendered.\\nAnd the people in gen ral continued to vote,\\nWithout trying to think or once stopping to note\\nThat in Congress, assembled, our solons (essaying\\nTo draw close the curtains round games they were\\nplaying)\\nMade laws for monopolies, trusts and combines,\\nWhile around the producer drew closer the lines.\\nAnd our present condition results from those days\\nWhen vote as you shot was the popular craze.\\nFrom the light we have gained, there is but one\\nconclusion,\\nThough finely-spun the ries may come in profusion;\\nThe people s sad plight is not due to their vices,\\nBut the primary cause is the bane of low prices.\\nAnd if we desire the sick patient to heal,\\nHave factories running\u00e2\u0080\u0094 prosperity real,\\nWe must start at the bottom, at the soil if you\\nplease,\\nWhich since dawn of creation has held industry s\\nkeys.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 PLAIN DUTY.\\nMake the farmer more prosperous, let him lead\\nthe van,\\nAnd the mills will soon open to the laboring man.\\nGlance backward, kind friends, the eventful years\\nthrough,\\nTill 73 opens up to your view;\\nThen scan legislation, with care and precision,\\nTill a finance enactment appears to your vision;\\nExamine it closely, when once vou begin it,\\nFor a very few words mark the mischief that s in it.\\nIt changes the system of eighty-one years,\\nAnd in place of the old a new standard appears.\\nOur redemption coin by which prices are measured,\\nWas changed to gold only, a metal much treasured;\\nWhile it s co-worker, silver, thout prayer, psalm\\nor sermon,\\nWas buried at midnight by tricks of John Sherman.\\nThough for eighty -one years the two metals were\\nyoked,\\nBy this one act of Congress the tie was revoked.\\nNow before you proceed the result to unfold,\\nPlease notice the increased demand upon gold;\\nFor silver, discarded, it s labors are done,\\nAnd the work of two metals performed by but one.\\nWith primary money conditions are clear\\nSupply reduced half, demand greater each year.\\nAs to products of labor, tis proper, I deem,\\nTo show effect upon prises of this gold regime.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. 25\\nYou may call it coincidence, chance if it please you,\\nBut the cold, stubborn facts now appear here to\\ntease you:\\nIn 73, prices started down hill,\\nWhether product of farm or the output of mill,\\nAnd continued upon this discouraging course,\\nVery plainly propelled by some governing force.\\nThe favorite answer I well understand,\\nThe immutable law of supply and demand;\\nBut reasoning fairly, from prelude to sequel,\\nIn applying this law all things else must be equal.\\nThus, with no other forces our thoughts to encum-\\nber,\\nThe price of all things is controlled by the number;\\nIf quotations be low, or the market price high,\\nAll things being equal, depends on supply.\\nThis being a fact, which we do not dispute,\\nIt suggests an idea that you saunot refute:\\nWith a moment s reflection I m sure you ll agree\\nThat the farmer when selling, is buyer per se;\\nOne man has the money, the other the grain\\nTis a business transaction to make it more plain,\\nIt is error to say that the wheat has been sold,\\nFor the farmer is really the buyer of gold.\\nThen, applying the law of demand and supply,\\nIf money is scarce of course money is high;\\nAnd if money is high, then more wheat is required\\nTo secure the amount by the farmer desired.\\nBut tis popular error, in parlance of street,\\nTo speak of the same as reduction in wheat.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 PLAIN DUTY.\\nReduction in wheat it would be, I will own,\\nIf in it s descent it had traveled alone;\\nBut, on the contrary, since 73,\\nAll values have fallen in equal degree.\\nNo product of soil the great force could withstand;\\nThey all have gone down, closely followed by land;\\nWhile in spite of high tariffs, with schedules ab-\\nstruse,\\nThe mills have gone down with the goods they pro-\\nduce\\n(Save where tariff-fed trusts, in unholy combine,\\nBy controlling production prevent it s decline.)\\nAnd silver, the metal our fathers loved best,\\nHas shrunken in value along with the rest.\\nValue, did I say? Now, please do not confuse\\nMy meaning of value, in terms that I use.\\nI will make explanation, twill no doubt suffice,\\nI have used the word value where should have\\nbeen price\\nFor values are stable, from year unto year,\\nOnly measured in gold does reduction appear.\\nAnd here comes the question, which needs but a\\nmention\\nOn this point alone there is based much contention;\\nWhen this query is answered, discussion is ended:\\nHave all products gone down, or has one, gold, as-\\ncended?\\nGo to the countries where silver is used,\\nAnd where by legislation it is not abused", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. 27\\n(The habits of people, their virtues or vices,\\nAre not now in question, but standard of prices.)\\nGo, study the case as a fair-minded man, sir,\\nThen to question above give intelligent answer.\\nIf the ills we complain of are traced to the cause,\\nWhich is found to exist in iniquitous laws,\\nLaws governing finance, if rightly we view them,\\nTwould be wisdom, it seemeth, to promptly undo\\nthem;\\nAnd if patriots vote for America s weal,\\nThe next administration will cause their repeal.\\nEre the newly-born Congress is fairly begun,\\nIt will re-instate silver at 16 to 1.\\nThere once was a preacher, in Bible lore versed,\\nWhose opinions on scripture were carefully nursed;\\nAnd, although he d grown gray in his righteous\\nvocation,\\nHe continued to work with no thought of cessation;\\nAnd his time was consumed, from one week to an-\\nother,\\nIn giving advice to his wayfaring brother.\\nOne Saturday night, in his home circle seated,\\nHe selected a text, (none were ever repeated)\\nAnd then mentioned the hymn which he thought,\\non reflection,\\nShould be sung in the morn just before the collec-\\ntion.\\nNow a precocious grandson lived in the same house,\\nWith a mischievous nature, as sly as a mouse;", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 PLAIN DUTY.\\nAnd when the grandfather was wrapped in deep\\nslumber,\\nThe boy took the hymn-book, and soon found the\\nnumber\\nThe good man had chose; and respecting not age,\\nGlued another selection fast to the same page.\\nAt church the next morning, as usual, was found\\nGrandpa with his flock gathered closely around.\\nA hymn by the choir, will the audience jine it?\\nHe opened his book and proceeded to line it;\\nAnd with voice well adapted to rendering rhymes,\\nRead a touching account of the death of Old\\nGrimes.\\nThen over his visage came looks of surprise\\nHe examined the hymn-book with spectacled eyes;\\nResign men t appeared in his face, so amazed,\\nTo his hearers, expectant, his countenance raised:\\nMy brethren, I ve preached till my eyes are\\ngrown dim,\\nAnd never before haye I noticed this hymn;\\nBut while to this collection twas unwise to bring it,\\nIt is here, in the book, and begad we will sing it.\\nIn relating this joke there s an object in view,\\nAnd I ask close attention, kind reader, from you:\\nFor the pending great contest the lines have been\\ndrawn,\\nCorporations on one side, the other side brawn.\\nThe distress of the people, admitted, you see\\nThey ask naught but justice give heed to their\\nplea.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. 29\\nVital issues appear to the patriot s ken;\\nWe should stucly them closely and meet them like\\nmen.\\nIf in parties we ve trained with a doctrine appears\\nThat continues depression we ve suffered for years,\\nLet s not be like this preacher, who deserved\\nlaughter, hearty,\\nAnd sacrifice honor on the altar of party.\\nWhen, four years ago, this great issue was made,\\nBetween the producers and goldite brigade;\\nWhen they went to the people and asked for sup-\\nport,\\nAnd in ways that were devious favors did court,\\nIt was claimed by all men, save a few malcontents,\\n(And in using this term I would give no offense)\\nThat the metals, both silver and gold, should be\\ncoined,\\nAnd treated as equals, with no rights enjoined.\\nThe advantages that from such course would ensue\\nWere conceded by all -save this broncofied few;\\nAnd the question presented to each thoughtful\\nbrain,\\nWas how best to proceed this result to obtain.\\nThose arrayed upon one side with courage con-\\ntended\\nFor action alone, and that plan they defended.\\nThey declared if for help upon England we d call,\\nWe would not restore silver coinage at all.\\nThe states men(?) opposed to this idea agreed\\nThat an increase of coin was a national need,", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 PLAIN DUTY.\\nBut condemned all proposals that did not provide\\nFor agreement with England all else they decried.\\nThey said that by acting alone we would cause\\nInterference with trade and it s natural laws;\\nThat disarranged values all commerce would stay,\\nAnd in short we would soon have the devil to pay.\\nThey argued this long and they argued it loud;\\nTo the dictates of Wall Street each orator bowed,\\nAnd claimed inspiration from heavenly fire\\nWhenever his body from heat did perspire.\\nThey appealed to the voters in language poetic,\\nAnd college professors gave views theoretic;\\nThey appealed in one voice to the m uch-favored\\nclasses;\\nIn another they plead with the down-trodden\\nmasses;\\nThey appealed to the purse, whether empty or filled,\\nAnd with fat fried from trusts, disaffection they\\nstilled;\\nThey appealed of t to loyalty, charging rank treason,\\nBut they uever, no, never, appealed to the reason.\\nThe lines were thus drawn and the campaign thus\\nwaged,\\nTo restore silver coinage each side had engaged;\\nThe one by Americans, acting alone,\\nThe other, by gaining consent from a throne.\\nThe battle waged fiercely, and when it was done,\\nThe ballots were counted the latter had won.\\nThey won, yes, they won, and it matters not now\\nIf by fair means or foul means, with money or how,", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. 31\\nThey won; and the people ere this have observed\\nWhether their s or the syndicates int rests are\\nserved.\\nEnactments are numerous; we have laws galore,\\nOn manifold subjects, and looking for more.\\nWe have laws that are weak, and we ve laws more\\nsubstantial,\\nBut let us examine enactments financial.\\nIs the 96 promise the party faith still?\\nAnd is it made real in the Overstreet Bill?\\nThis law, which is known as House Bill No. 1,\\nIs the climax and end of a drama, begun\\nWhen the Nation, sore troubled, lay prostrate and\\nbleeding,\\nAnd the vultures of finance were gleefully feeding.\\nHow runs the sad story? The greenbacks, em-\\nployed\\nTo crush the Rebellion, the bankers annoyed.\\nThey were full legal tender and did their work well,\\nTill these cohorts of Satan emitted their yell.\\nThen in ways that were dark and by tricks that\\nwere vain\\nThey procured legislation their ends to attain;\\nFrom that hopper where ideas are ground into laws,\\nCame the greenback, made weak by the exception\\nclause\\nAt once then in value began it s descent,\\nAnd the bond gods most cheerfully impetus lent,\\nTill the people, unconscious, by force of this act,\\nWere handling a 50-cent dollar in fact.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 PLAIN DUTY.\\nWhen that dreadful warfare was brought to a close\\nThe question of payment in specie arose;\\nAnd while honest statesmen thought how to pro-\\nceed,\\nThe bankers took action to satisfy greed.\\nReceiving their ideas from over the pond\\nTheir greenbacks they swapped for a government\\nbond;\\nAnd though depreciated and far below range,\\nThey went at face value in making this change.\\nThe next legal measure this bond crowd did edit\\nWas the law which purported to strengthen our\\ncredit;\\nMost skillfully worded, one thing to enjoin\\nThe payment of interest coupons in coin.\\nThen, under the pretense of lowering the rate,\\nThe debt was refunded. O, statesmanship, great!\\nBonds purchased with greenbacks whose value was\\nlow,\\nWere changed to coin payment. Wall Street willed\\nit so.\\nBond-holders rejoiced, for they quickly discerned,\\nThis gave them an increment wholly unearned;\\nAnd, nerved by the progress they d already made,\\nThey began against silver a secret crusade.\\nA bill, to which we have more fully alluded,\\n(And which as a part of this plot is included)\\nWent through Congress incog., as it members\\nagree,\\nAnd is known as the great crime of 73.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. 33\\nWith this last achievement, augmenting their\\nstores,\\nThe bond-holders quietly lay on their oars,\\nDepending on hirelings, both crafty and bold,\\nTo interpret the meaning of coin to be gold\\nThese hirelings, obedient, did as they were bid,\\nAnd the plundering process most skillfully hid;\\nWhile the people, divided by sectional hate,\\nWere talking war issues distressingly late.\\nOn questions financial wise(?) statesmen did strad-\\ndle,\\nBut the changes were rung on the South in the\\nsaddle.\\nThus time passed away and they practiced their\\ntricks,\\nTill the campaign approached in the year, 96;\\nWhen through bitter trials a lesson was learned,\\nAnd the people awakened the worm at last turned.\\nThen followed a battle, exciting and long,\\nA struggle for mastery, right against wrong;\\nIn which, though wrong triumphed, the vict ry was\\nbare,\\nAnd the bond-dealing syndicates suffered a scare.\\nThough elated at gaining four years more of power,\\nThey trembled in sight of a reckoning hour,\\nWhen the people would rally, aroused in their\\nmight,\\nAnd the clans of Mark Hanna would scatter in\\nflight.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 PLAIN DUTY.\\nFor their future success they had grave apprehen-\\nsion,\\nTill a war with the Spaniards attracted attention.\\nThen, recalling old times, they resorted to cant,\\nAnd absorbed all the patriotism extant.\\nOh, stand by the flag! they did piously beg;\\nWhile we stood by the flag they pulled Uncle Sam s\\nleg.\\nThe contest was short and we speedily won,\\nThe Spaniards quit fighting before we begun\\nBut sufficient in length, that ere int rest did wane,\\nWe were hotly engaged in another campaign.\\nThen the clippers of coupons appeared on the scene\\nWith eloquent speakers and managers* keen;\\nThey waved the old flag and the eagle let soar,\\nTill they brought perspiration from every pore.\\nThere is but one issue before you! they cried;\\nBetween Spain and America you must decide;\\nIf the party in power should encounter defeat,\\nThe war will continue with evils concrete!\\nSuch statements, repeated, by some were believed\\nAnd a vict ry for Wall Street again was achieved;\\nFor a congress elected grim Mars to appease,\\nProceeded at once the bond-holders to please,\\nAnd the very first measure they placed on the list,\\nWas the Overstreet Bill let s examine it s gist:\\nIt enacts that the standard of value be gold,\\n(Since 73 they have grown more bold)", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. 35\\nAnd provides for redemption, in that sort of coin,\\nAll the greenbacks and treas ry notes banks can\\npurloin;\\nAnd if gold becomes scarce, Banker Gage, at his\\npleasure,\\nIs to issue gold bonds for his brethren to treasure.\\n(Heretofore they depended on finesse and bribe\\nTo secure these concessions to greed and their\\ntribe.)\\nIt provides for refunding the national debt\\nInto gold obligations. When payment is met,\\nMany millions of bonds, bought with 50-cent paper,\\nWill be changed into gold by this legalized caper.\\nThus a villainous plot, hatched by minions of greed,\\nIn the days when our country was sorely in need,\\nHas been carried out by this finishing touch,\\nAnd Columbia now writhes in the bond-tyrant s\\nclutch.\\nMay we stop here, kind reader, a moment and ask\\nyou\\nA question or two we will surely not task you:\\nDid you champion the cause of McKinley? If so,\\nIs this what you voted for four years ago?\\nOne result is achieved that the banks long desired:\\nBy this law all the greenbacks will soon be retired,\\nAnd all paper money, by Gage s design,\\nIs placed in the hands of a banking combine.\\nThe banks, with self int rest in view, can inflate\\nThe currency and cheerful prospects create;", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 PLAIN DUTY.\\nOr when they desire to can reverse their action\\nAnd cause direful panics by money contraction.\\n*We may live without corn; we may live without\\nwheat;\\nWe may live without bread; we may live without\\nmeat;\\nWe may live without milk; we may live without\\nhoney;\\nBut civilized man cannot live without money.\\nHe may live without bread and enjoy perfect health;\\nHe may live without friends and accumulate wealth;\\nHe may live without books, education decrying,\\nBut where is the man that can live without buying?\\nNow if currency plays so important a part,\\nAs admitted by ail in field, fact ry and mart;\\nIf it s use draws so clear the line of demarcation,\\nBetween savage state and a civilized uation,\\nHow unwise the idea, how foolish the plan,\\nThat places control in the hands of one man;\\nOr a few men at most, all combined and made one,\\nWith a monkey-like instinct to gobble de mon.\\nShould a few titled nobles be granted our lands,\\nAnd our welfare be placed in their despotic hands?\\nShould the sun s cheering rays be controlled by a\\nfew,\\nAnd the atmosphere owned by a syndicate, too?\\nShould the rain be impounded? If not, then why\\nmust\\nOur money supply be controlled by a trust?\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Apologies to Owen Meredith.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "PLAIN D UTY. 37\\nThis combine, financial, with influence dread,\\nOf a fara ly of trusts is the recognized head;\\nAnd the children, developed, are sturdy and strong;\\nBy class legislation they ve been pampered long.\\nThe tariff, preserved from a barbarous time,\\nHas been the wet nurse of these offsprings of crime;\\nTheir mother in fact, if e er mother they had,\\nBut the gold standard is just as truly their u dad\\nBoth heartless and soulless, no conscience to sear,\\nThey prey on their victims from cradle to bier;\\nNo allegiance to country, no national pride,\\nNo moral restraint, only greed for a guide.\\nConceived in iniquity, brought forth in sin,\\nTheir existence a menace to Freedom has been;\\nA child of corruption, an offspring of lust,\\nA product of evil,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the ill-begot Trust.\\nWhen a great nation s rulers by trusts are con-\\ntrolled;\\nWhen some are greed-smitten and others cajoled;\\nWhen members of combines are given high place,\\nAnd the government s head has a J anus-like face\\nThe sequence is natural; the privileged few\\nWill seek all the time-honored code to eschew;\\nA Republic s grand structure will crumble ere long,\\nAnd built on the wreck will be monarchy, strong.\\nThus at present we see our brave soldiers engaged\\nIn an unholy war, by the trust fam ly waged;\\nA war of base conquest to widen the sphere\\nOf their evil influence\u00e2\u0080\u0094 selfishness sheer.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 PLAIN DUTY.\\nWe see proof convincing of secret alliance\\nWith a despot, to whom our great sires bid defiance,\\nNow engaged in the pastime of closing the doors\\nOf freedom to mankind the resolute Boers.\\nWe see vile corruptionists plying their trade\\nIn berths that our late war of conquest has made;\\nNew fields have been opened to av rice and greed,\\nAnd to them are hastening the plundering breed.\\nWe see for a large standing army a clamor,\\nIn the circles controlled by imperial glamour;\\nThe army thus formed to be used as a tool\\nIn coercing the masses, while syndicates rule.\\nThis is a Republic, sweet Liberty s home;\\nShall we now tread the pathway of Carthage and\\nRome?\\nThree steps and three only at most intervene\\nA country like ours and an Empire, between.\\nOne step is when prices continue to fall,\\nAnd the next is when few men accumulate all;\\nThe next, third and last is when ruled by the\\nclassses,\\nWith a strong standing army o erawing the masses.\\nThere are questions at stake in the pending cam-\\npaign,\\nMore vital, far-reaching, and seeming more plain,\\nThan have been considered in many long years\\nThey are questions of liberty, life and it s cheers.\\nTwo steps we have taken toward an Empire;\\nShall we retrace them now and our standard place\\nhigher?", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. 39\\nOr shall we, by taking the third and last stride,\\nMark the spot where American Liberty died?\\nThe Imperial forces are playing their hand,\\nWith pretensions most noble and platitudes grand.\\nThey envelop themselves in the flag s sacred folds,\\nAnd the bright torch of virtue each proselyte holds.\\nThey talk about patriotism and peace,\\nAnd they tell how prosperity now will increase;\\nWith their smooth, oily speech they would lead us\\nalong,\\nAnd soothe us to sleep with a lullaby song.\\nTake warning, kind friends, and their motives in-\\nspect;\\nOn the teachings of history pause and reflect.\\nAll despots of yore have accomplished their ends,\\nIn the false role of virtue deceiving it s friends.\\nPatriotic intentions have always been claimed,\\nAnd all opposition maligned and defamed;\\nLike Jacob of old, with his covering of hair,\\nThey impersonate Esau, but Jacob is there.\\nOf course, there are some who to silver object;\\nLet us place them before us their reasons dissect:\\nOne says, and the bugbear we frequently hear,\\nThat great floods of silver will quickly appear;\\nAnd tis pictured in such a calamitous wail,\\nWe are forced to take notice somewhat in detail:\\nAdmitting, for argument s sake, the assertion\\nThat all foreign countries will make an exertion", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 PLAIN DUTY.\\nTo dump all their silver on our sacred soil\\nPlease tell me then what they will gain by such toil.\\nOur mints will be open to them, it is true,\\nBut the output is coin of the Red, White and Blue;\\nOn one side the Eagle with feathery bodice,\\nOn the other American Liberty s Goddess.\\nWhen their silver is coined and then placed in their\\nhands,\\nWill they take it with them to their far-distant\\nlands?\\nSurely not, for to bullion twould quickly return;\\n(It is not made to eat nor intended to burn.)\\nIf the owner the use of his lucre desires,\\nHe must exchange it here for the things he re-\\nquires\\nAmerican products of fact ry or farm;\\nHis coin being silver will cause no alarm.\\nAnd in buying our goods he creates a demand\\nThat gives labor employment all over the land,\\nAnd labor, employed, will give food to the wives\\nAnd children, now eking out mis rable lives.\\nOh, welcome this flood\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a prosperity wave\\nTo the land of the free and the home of the brave.\\nBut the gold will all leave us, another exclaims,\\nAnd for this petty reason our cause he defames.\\nThe point is so small I will not dwell upon it,\\nThough here s an idea and I hope you will con it;\\nWhich to illustrate fully I ll only make mention\\nOf a fact that quite often has public attention:", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. 41\\nUnder laws now in vogue it does frequently roam,\\nAnd we have to sell bonds to inveigle it home;\\nWith proposed legislation we ll be this much ahead,\\nIf gold goes to Europe we ll use silver instead.\\nAnd if gold goes abroad as our critics assume,\\nEurope s money supply will increase with a boom;\\nAnd having more cash, this should not be forgotten:\\nThey will buy at good prices our corn, wheat and\\ncotton.\\nA fifty-cent dollar, a few still assert,\\nWho will not take the trouble their brains to exert,\\nFor the next natur l breath brings out this excla-\\nmation:\\nMine-owners grow rich under such legislation!\\nNow, if fifty-cent dollar permits of construction,\\nTis the value, uncoined, of the present production;\\nAnd if that is the price of the bullion to-day,\\nAnd a fifty-cent dollar when coined free, you say,\\nYou must brush up your thinker and fairly explain.\\nHow, under free coinage, the mine-owners gain.\\nBut we are now prosp rous, some phonograph\\nchimes,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2And no one now living e er saw better times.\\nHe says this with gusto to silence then sinks,\\nAnd with Webster demeanor he thinks that he\\nthinks.\\nThat the times have improved some we do not deny,\\nAnd the cause is apparent, we claim, to the eye;", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 PLAIN DUTY.\\nGaunt famine and war and discov ries of gold\\nHave enhanced the price of some things that are\\nsold;\\nBut the question towards which our thoughts\\nshould now tend,\\nIs, Will this continue or will it soon end?\\nFor all must agree when they stop to reflect,\\nThat removing the cause will soon end the effect.\\nWho is there among you, wise prophets and seers\\nYou who claim that the future so brightly appears;\\nThat can settle the problem with proof well in hand,\\nWhether output of gold will grow less or expand?\\nWho is there among you, in Christendom reared,\\nWhere the creed of our Savior is taught and re-\\nvered,\\nThat has fallen so low in the service of mammon,\\nAs to pray to his Maker for more war and famine?\\nNo, friends, the improvement in times cannot last\\nLong after the causes that made it are past;\\nAnd the few now enjoying a rest from the cares,\\nRelieved of the burden humanity bears\\nShould assist in the fight for their fellow-man s\\nweal,\\nAnd seek to restore a prosperity real.\\nTo state it in language both plain and laconic\\nThe three causes mentioned have served as atonic;\\nBut if good times lasting is what we look for,\\nWe must not depend upon famine and war.\\nAnd the output of gold, too, is far from conclusive,\\nFor in times now gone by it has proved most elu-\\nsive;", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. 43\\nThough in one breath ifc s praises we baby-like lisp,\\nIn the next it appears a mere will-o -the-wisp.\\nThrough all the long ages since coin was first used,\\nYou will note, when statistics you once have pe-\\nrused,\\nThat production of metal, of yellow or white,\\nIs very erratic; but, given more light,\\nYou will note the supply of the metals, as mined,\\nEach year is quite stable when both are combined;\\nThe amount in existence proportioned, we re told,\\nIs sixteen pounds of silver to one pound of gold.\\nThe law of supply and demand then in force,\\nWith equal amounts at such ratio, of course\\nIf demand is made equal, par value obtains,\\nFor what one metal loses the other one gains.\\nWe ask you, kind friends, to consider these facts,\\nUnbiased by party, ungoverned by quacks;\\nYou ll endorse, we are certain, when this you have\\ndone,\\nThe heaven-born ratio of 16 to 1.\\nTo the farmers whose products in price are en-\\nhanced;\\nTo the working men who have had wages advanced;\\nThere s small cause for rejoicing or throwing hats\\nhigh,\\nWhen the rise is much greater on things they must\\nbuy.\\nWith a small per cent, gain in their incomes they\\nmust\\nPay much more for products controlled by a trust.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 PLAIN DUTY.\\nu 0h, says one, that the trusts are quite bad we ll\\nadmit,\\nAnd there should be strict laws that will force them\\nto quit;\\nBut with issues financial why should you connect\\nthem?\\nThey are evils alone, and we ll ere long correct\\nthem.\\nAn innocent colored man, so the tale goes,\\n(Upon his first visit to town, I suppose)\\nWas greatly astounded and much puzzled too,\\nWhen a telephone line first appeared to his view.\\nHe expressed himself thusly: O, Lawd save on\\nsouls,\\nBut what am de pu pos of so many poles?\\nAnd what am dem wires fo I kaint onderstan\\nDat suahnow su passes de wisdom ob man.\\nAnother old darkey then swelled up with pride,\\nHis importance he felt as he sagely replied:\\nKaint you see, you fool niggah, self int res re-\\nquires\\nDat de wires hoi de poles up, de poles hoi de wires.\\nIf de poles should go tumblin de wires would soon\\nfall,\\nAnd down would go telafon, wires, poles an all.\\nAnd tis so with the gold standard now and com-\\nbines\\nThey have int rests in common which reason de-\\nfines;", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. 45\\nAnd the latter, gigantic, can not be o ercome,\\nIf we to the cause of them all remain dumb.\\nAs do sores on the body, caused by impure blood,\\nResist local treatment, though skillful and good,\\nThese industrial sores that we wish to abjure,\\nCan not be removed while the blood is impure.\\nAs the upas tree, deadly, takes strength from the\\nsoil,\\nIt s trust limbs around human industry coil;\\nAnd to free all mankind from the fatal embrace,\\nWe must strike at the roots and the body efface.\\nThe single gold standard produced falling prices,\\nAnd low values brought on industrial crises;\\nCombines were then formed to control the supply\\nAnd raise prices on things that the people must\\nbuy.\\nThis arrangement is pleasing to those of great\\nwealth\\nThus enabled to take from the people by stealth;\\nThey can open their mills or the doors they can lock\\nAnd conceal their great profits by watering\\nstock.\\nThis is a fight royal, the decks have been cleared\\nOf things not germane that oft have interfered;\\nThe lines have been drawn and who cares to deny,\\nA contest of classes appears to the eye.\\nAnd I pray you look close, the alinement well note;\\nYou must choose whom you ll serve when the time\\ncomes to vote.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46 PLAIN DUTY.\\nAround monarchy s standard is a diversified crew,\\nAnd the babble of voices makes the atmosphere\\nblue;\\nTo mammon they bow in most humble submission,\\nRegardless of race or of previous condition.\\nChief among them is Hanna with dollar-mark dress,\\nAnd a pigmy Napoleon whose name you can guess;\\nA most wonderful pair a la twins, Siamese,\\nWhen Mark taketh snuff he compels Mack to\\nsneeze.\\nThere s the terrible Teddy with Rough Rider hat;\\nAutomatic machiue of the easy boss, Piatt;\\nHe boasts of his record at San J uan hill fight,\\nBut he s only the tail of the Hannaized kite.\\nThere s the poetic Hay in department of State;\\nHe s becoming decidedly English of late,\\nJoe Chamberlain s partner at present, it seems,\\nIn the business of hatching Imperial schemes.\\nThere s Lyman J. Gage, with the gold imps about\\nhim;\\nHe is firmly convinced that we can t do without him;\\nHe has been a success as the agent of banks,\\nAnd for his achievements the latter give thanks.\\nThere s the Sultan of Sulu in gorgeous array,\\nSurrounded by odalisks, him to obey;\\nSupported by slaves and a Mark Hanna pension,\\nHe prays to Mohammed for trust rule extension.\\nThere s the toad-eating sycophant, vulgar and vain,\\nWith a surplus of gall and a shortage of brain;", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. 47\\nDeficient in knowledge, unable to think,\\nImpervious to reason\u00e2\u0080\u0094 yea, Darwin s lost link.\\nThere s the bond- dealing crowd from the great\\nstreet of Wall\\nWillie Astor s among them we can t name email;\\nSome receivers of incomes, in loyalty lax,\\nDemanding protection, exempt from all tax.\\nAnd while there are others deserving of mention,\\nWe deem these sufficient to call your attention\\nTo the int rests involved in the contest now waging,\\nThe political storm that around us is raging.\\nThey open their mouths and I pray you give ear,\\nTheir favorite argument now you must hear:\\nFool! Anarchist! Socialist! Idiot! Pop!\\nWith Repudiator! worked in at the top;\\nTraitor! and Coward! and Old Copperhead!\\nFall with ease from the mouth of the versatile Ted.\\nAh, their language is gentle, please don t think\\nthem bad\\nWhom the gods would destroy they first cause to\\nbe mad.\\nAnd who is opposed to this mongrel array?\\nJust cast your eyes Southward and Westward\\naway,\\nWhere from class legislation they ve suffered so\\nlong\\nIn solid phalanx is the unnumbered throng;\\nThe mill men and miners and tillers of soil,\\nWith dust-begrimed faces, the fruits of their toil.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 PLAIN DUTY.\\nProm the Southern plantations and farms of the\\nWest,\\nOf American manhood the finest and best;\\nThey have soil the most fertile and labor unsparing,\\nBut the grim wolf of want all too oft is seen glaring.\\nFrom the trust-silenced mills, all deserted and\\ndrear,\\nThe hum of whose spindles we seldom now hear,\\nMen anxious to work, in the search for it roam,\\nWhile starvation is facing the loved ones at home.\\nProm down deep in the earth, where the sun never\\nshines,\\nA voice will be heard from the men in the mines;\\nPor their action in striking they feel no compunc-\\ntion\\nAnd suffer in silence from Federal injunction.\\nThey all are united in one common cause,\\nAnd are seeking relief through beneficent laws;\\nThey are marching in order, without fife or drum,\\nIn the grandeur of manhood to vote they will come.\\nThey re the Nation s defenders when cannon s\\nbelch forth;\\nThey are loyal and true in the South or the North;\\nDuring business depression they ve stood bravely\\nup\\nAnd drank to the dregs the impov rishing cup.\\nThey have asked not for boons, eithered fancied or\\nreal,\\nBut give exact justice has been their appeal;", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY, 49\\nAnd this has been denied them, appeals are in vain,\\nThe cup of deception is spiced to their bane;\\nNo justice intended, they well understand it,\\nThey appeal now no longer, but gamely demand it.\\nAnd they make their demands through a leader, in-\\nspired;\\nIn the cause of the people he never grows tired.\\nHe stands in the forefront and makes no conces-\\nsions,\\nAs Washington stood while engaging the Hessians;\\nHe says what he means and his language is frank,\\nLike Jackson when fighting the United States Bank;\\nThe cause is as just situation more grave\\nThan when Lincoln plead for the poor African slave;\\nHe is quite young in years, but a most worthy scion,\\nA man of the people is William J. Bryan.\\nAnd the people are with him, their confidence full,\\nNot seeking for pelf or political pull.\\nTo the insults and sneers of the Hanna brigade,\\nAt. the coming election, reply will be made,\\nIn language quite plain and in sentiment clear\\nOf ambiguous phrases you need have no fear.\\nIf in anticipation your mind s not at ease,\\nThe words to be used will be something like these:\\nYou shall not on the free brow of labor press down\\nA collection of thorns in the shape of a crown;\\nYou shall not in this land, and in manner so bold,\\nCrucify mankind on a cross made of gold.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 PLAIN DUTY.\\nYou shall not lead Columbia to monarchy s vale,\\nNor cause freedom s bloom on her fair cheek to\\npale;\\nYou shall not destroy Liberty, as done in Rome,\\nWe ll extend it abroad and preserve it at home.\\nSo, farewell to Mark Hanna, political pirate,\\nNo more as a boss can you pompously gyrate;\\nIn the slang of the urchin, you re no longer in it,\\nBut can silently serve out your term in the Senate.\\nFarewell to McKinley we grieve for you, Mack,\\nBut the weakness is great in the bone of your back;\\nIf there s truth in the saying, Each dog has his\\nday,\\nYou re a good case in point of unfortunate Tray.\\nFarewell to you, Teddy, the parting is sad\\nYou ve afforded the only amusement we ve had;\\nWith Mary E Lease you might get up a strife,\\nAnd continue to talk of a strenuous life.\\nFarewell to you, Hay, au revoir, if you choose,\\nYou again can commune with the poetic muse;\\nLittle Breeches, Jim Bludso, and others well\\nknown,\\nIs a much better business than courting a throne.\\nFarewell to you, Gage, and your banking scheme,\\ntoo,\\nWe can find better men for that business than you;\\nWe ll use all the greenbacks our needs may require\\nAnd instead of that money, yourself we ll retire.\\nFarewell to you, Sultan of Sulu, poor soul,\\nYour name we ll erase from the paymaster s roll;", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "PLAIN DUTY. 51\\nAll slaves should be free, to be men we declare em,\\nAnd our people objec.t to supporting a harem.\\nFarewell too, stock gamblers, no more can you\\nsport\\nWith the treasury reserve, and a bond issue court;\\nYou have reaped all the profit your genius deserves\\nAnd in parlance of baseball, we re on to your\\ncurves.\\nFarewell to the gold bugs imperial views,\\nThey can live in the land of the free if they\\nchoose;\\nBut their cause is now doomed to o erwhelming\\ndefeat\\n80 farewell to the Anglican system complete.\\nAnd welcome a reign by the people once more,\\nAnd the ideas our fathers adopted of yore;\\nThe freedom of mankind and no favors shown\\nNo English alliance no aping a throne.\\nAnd welcome the day when the farmer will thrive,\\nWhen each mill will become an industrial hive;\\nThe ranks will be thinned in the tramping brigade,\\nWhen the mill men and miners are properly paid.\\nAnd welcome the day in this much-boasted land,\\nWhen they ll not be shot down by a blood-thirsty\\nband;\\nWhen the courts will relinquish that governing\\nfunction\\nThe damnable practice of Federal injunction.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 PLAIN DUTY.\\nAnd welcome the day when the trusts are de-\\nthroned,\\nAnd the burdens removed under which we have\\ngroaned;\\nWhen from temples of justice money changers are\\nfired,\\nAnd tributes to Caesar no longer required.\\nAnd welcome the day, it s bright dawn we will hail,\\nWhen the idols are broke in the temples of Baal;\\nWhen the might of the trust-king, unsmote by the\\nsword,\\nShall have melted like snow, and his standard is\\nlowered.\\nWe ll sound the glad tidings that all men may\\nhear it\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThough it be not Utopia, twill come mighty near it;\\nSo God speed the passing of wealthy plutocracy,\\nAnd the early enthronement of healthy democracy.\\nAnd cheers for the men to whom vict ry is due\\nThey ve stood by their guns all the long struggle\\nthrough;\\nThey ve unflinchingly met the assaults of the foe,\\nAnd the garlands of vict ry on them we ll bestow.\\nThree cheers and a tiger we ll all join in that\\nFor our gallant young chief from the banks of the\\nPlatte;\\nThe masses are with him, not striving for booty\\nThe. issues are clear they will do their Plain Duty.", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3315", "width": "2167", "jp2-path": "plaindutypolitic00shin_0058.jp2"}}