Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-10-28 | Page 7 | The Passless Days

THE DAYS DAYS' That plank of the Democratic state platform which demands that no rio more railroad passes bo 10 issued to public officials officials ha has brought to the tho mind of a railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road man the lines written by W W- D. D Nesbitt shortly after congress passed tho the pass anti-pass bill The lines which are entitled entitled en en- titled The Days arc are as follows fol fol- lows A worn and weary stranger w was c trudging down the tho road With AVIth a suit Bult case and a satchel and a grip sack for a load When he faltered by the highway and lay down beneath a tree And a comrade knelt beside him sympathetic sympathetic sympathetic sym sym- pathetic as could beIm beIm beTm be Im Tm all in the stranger strang r murmured with a most pathetic smile For or I II used to ride on on passes passes ride rido on passes all the tho while Then the thc comrade whispered something soft and soothing in his car But the worn and weary stranger spoke as though ho he did not hear bear For he muttered Tako Take this message to the host of G. G P. P A B Tell them that Ive I've forgotten all au the glorious old days When I got my ny transportation In a quick and easy style styler For I used to ride on passes ride passes ride on passes all the while Send the word to Colonel Hooper and to Charley Daly too Drope Dropo a Jine lIne to Daniels and tho the others of his ifs crew Hatch and Kniskern and others who have saved me from a pinch And you'd better make it special when you write to Warren Lynch And to Francis Franci and to Eustis who have sent me many a 3 mile mlle mile For i I used to ride on passes ride passes ride on passes all aU tim the while Over In III the land Is orange a fellow nam named d Tom Toni Peck Who prior to tho the commerce law Jaw was ready at your beck becJ To grant your transportation oer o'er the mountain and the thc plain To ro the land of constant summer which Ill I'll never see Gee again Just sa say to him Im I'm dying for a taste ot oZ luscious fruit For or I J used to ride on passes on the tho good old Salt Lake Lako route Send my last words to Sebastian and say to Miller l that I go With a a. farewell whisper for or him just because I liked him HO to 0 There's Theres a- a good old man In whose whoso name In my heart is stored Make Maice it personally touching when you write to E. E A. A Ford In Xii the thc good old days simple transportation transportation trans trans- to beguile For I us used d to ride on passes ride passes s ride on passes all the thc while Im lm dying comrade dying I have w walked ms m's l to death Rut But I i want them all remembered In what is my passing bream Toll Tell them that tha t I take 0 a journey and 1 Im I'm m traveling first t claps That tile the great hereafter Short Line Lino ha has hal provided rn a pass But wherever J I may journey ill i'll pro proclaim lalm them free freo front fron guile For I us used d to ride on passes ride passes rido on passes es all aU the thc while while-