Salt Lake Times | 1891-01-12 | Page 4 | "The Dollar of our Daddies"

CThe following Is tough on silver, but witty and good reading. "THE DOLLAR OF OUR DADDIES." rm a wild and wicked bllw.ard from the went, I'm an avalanche from gilm Sierra a crest, I d a cyc lone in 11 s wrath, A tornttlo lu the path Of tho'e who Olahn that hoaest coin Is bent. I'm a bold and brilliant fraud you know, and yet Of more t ian half of congress I'm the net, I'm the friend of all the "poor'' (Who have mini's of silver ore In the canons of Nevada), y )U may bet. I'm a liar aud a Vllian ivnd a cheat, A scalawag, a swindle aud a beat, I 'm a vngalxnl a iramp, I An Iraposfr ui.il a pcanip, I'm a thief and t -a! from ete -y on I moet. I'm a hypocrite, a sham, a mere pretente. I'm the dollar that is worth but eighty cents, I a:n known among tUe cads, As the "dollar of our dads." I'm dishonest and dlshonoied but Immense. am lab-ledwlth the watchword of tie free. And I bear Coluinb a s eale. as you see, An! I'm stamped "In Cod we trust," As I'm very sure you must. For you surely are too wise to bank on m .