PUBLIC ENEMIES

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 March 1915, Page 2

PUBLIC ENEMIES

A PROSE POEM

(By WALT MASON.)

if you .iiiikl a line ot railway over .iills and barren lauds, giving lucrative employment to about a million

.'ands; if you cause a score of cities >>y your right-of-way to rise where there formerly was nothing but some rattlesnakes and flies; if wihen bringing joy to others you acquire a little Kale, then you've surely robbed the pjepul and you ought to be in gaol.

If by planning and by toiling you have won some wealth and fame, it "ill make no odds how squarely you have played your little game; your success is» proof sufficient that you are

,i public foe—you're a soulless nialel.ictor, to the dump you ought to go. I c"s a crime for you to prosper where so many others fail; you have surely robbed the peaceful, and you ought to ')e in gaol.

He a chronic politician, deal in superheated air; roast the banks and money barons, there; is always safety there; iiu.t to sound the note of (business is ;i erTihe so mean and base that the follow guilty of it ought to go and hide )iis face—change the Ibuiklcr's song triumphant, for the politician's wail, or we'll til Ink yomVe robbed the peeptll and we'll pack you off to gaol.