Life — November 1, 1900 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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HIS OWN IDEA. -LIFE- 353 The Sad-Eyed Poets. WE are the dolorous poets ! And we are the singers of grief, - Campaign Talk. HE discussion of foreign and colo- We jingle rhymes of sorrow betimes, | _, Rial policies, and especially of the The song of our joy is brief; F hilippines question, during the pres- We dwell in a queer Bohemia ent campaign, has been by no means Of corrow and care ‘and sin’ wasted effort. The drift of public Where never a ray, from day to day, opinion which has been shown by it is Of sunshine enters in. sure to count, whoever is elected. The We write in a mournful measure, fact made plain by it that McKinley will get thousands of anti-expansionist We tell of our wrongs in verse votes has worked both ways with the We wallow in grief beyond belie And once in awhile we curse ; voters, and has not been without its We're given to sighing and crying, usefulness to the Republican ticket. And writing the saddest stuff, If there had been no anti-imperialistic Till gentle readers stand aghast, talk except f. the Bi ‘ites, it Unknowing ‘tis all a bluff, ee iansae Chusemteree tet nto would have been by so much the more For really now we never difficult for tho anti-imperialists not Are quite so bitter or sore, to vote for Bryan, As it is, the We relish ourthreesquare meals 8 day nowledgo that there is a strong anti- And h in fe 5 . soa : avers lable pears ere imperialist element within the Repub- Whenever the world goes wrong, lican party has kept the lines from But this is slow and commonplace, so being sharply drawn on the expansion We keep it out of our song. issue, and has helped great num- So we are the aad-eyed poets, bers of voters to take, after long hesi- ‘And we are the writers of rot, tation, such a position as that stated We grind out fears and trouble and by Professor Ames of the Harvard tears, Law School, who says: ‘ Iam opposed We honestly know them not ; to the permanent retention of the We harrow the gentle reader With sorrows beyond his ken, Philippines, but I believe the ultimate Yet, entlrig our food, we call it good, ‘dependence of tho islands is as likely The same as the rest of men, to come through the Republican party Denis A, McCarthy, as through the Democratic party.’ Our Republican friends may thank In Kentucky. their stars that discussion has been so MA™™a : Did yon know, dear, free, and the declarations of the anti- pl your little consin Isabella Bryanites so candid, as to inspire con- in Frankfort is dead ? fidence that imperialism cannot win ISABELLA: Who shot her? no matter who is elected. Saatt Newsboy : EXTREL! EXTREE! ALL ABOUT WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE!