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Show Wisdom of Woodrow I (When the manufacturers of the mlddlo west called on President Wilson Wil-son and hsked (or help he told them blandly their troubles were psychological). psycholo-gical). The Democratic tariff came to bless a happy land; And moderate reforms wero planned to break the blooming banks, Official peace, with doves to match, camped by the Rio Grande. The South was drawing prizes whtlo the North was drawing blanks. Unseemly toll was frowned upon; the lowly and oppressed. Were sent Into the verdant fields, far from the sweating mob, Where free from work and master, they could enter Into rest And study Woodrow's wisdom undls-I undls-I turned by any Job. r. I ! L. f-flT TV J .-( V " Though their food was graminivorous, Cool ascetic, non-carnivorous. Still they murmured at great Wood-row, Wood-row, V And they prayed, "Good Lord, deliver . us." ' ..' '' Some foolish manufacturers then waited on the boss, With beaming smile he spoke them, as father to a child; Why worry about trifles such as Idle mills and loss? Jt was nobler to be bankrupt than to be with cash defiled. Great principles were now at work to. make the people think; Fine theories were now being spun to elevate the land. Why grurablo over Industry and trade gone on .the blink When altruistic virtue makes our hearts and hats expand? 1 ' ' & For a student biological, Whose mind Is philosophical, Never worries about troubles, v That nre purely psychological. Then a gang of hungry voters ,out of work and out ot bread, Waited on the mighty Woodrow with his pedagogic smile, They spoke of homo and hunger and of wage and work" now fled. And the wily Woodrow answered, "I will place your case on file. There is, nothing In our platform that " wonhTteeft ft yoar,c.ei, -Jost t pret I mt busy with the things that I moat do, To malts Villa's peona nappy and to elevate hU raco. And probably a year from now I mar get around to you." "Your complaints are well Illogical. Crude, and somewhat tautological, 0 And to academic minds they seem . Unsound and psychological." The pedagogue Is living In a castle built In Spain, Whoro vulgar things like wage and work aro utterly unknown, Whero trifles such as Idleness, and hunger, grief and pain Aro never seen, and where for bread tho beggar gets a stone. I .Thero Woodrow sits and dreams of I fields Elyslan, far awn, I Of stopping ovory wheel that turns I except thoso In his hat, I Dlsdninful of tho ldlo men who soon, will liavo tholr day. , 3, Torgctful ot tho voters who soon will asj be nt tho bat. Soon will como days penological, Angry, hot, unphllosophlcal, When Woodrow's rot will got a swut In moments psychological. |