“MIGHT IS RIGHT.”

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 12, 6 November 1913, Page 3

“MIGHT IS RIGHT.”

(By Covington Hall.)

Might was Right when Christ was hanged Beside the Jordan's fo.*m; Might was Right when Gracchus bled, Upon the stones of Rome; And Might was Right when Ranton fell, When Emmet passed 3way — “ ’Tis the logic of the Vncient World, And the Gospel of to-day." Might was Right when Spartacus Went down in seas of blood And when the Commune perished In the self-same crimson flood; And Might was Right at Cripple Creek, At Tampa, Homestead—yea i “ ’Tis the logic of the Ancient World, And the Gospel of to-day." Might was Right when children die By thousands in the mills, When jewelled hands reach down and take The gold their blood distills; And Might is Right when maideni give Their love-dreams up for pay. “ ’Tis the logic of the Ancient World, And the Gospel of to-day."

Might was, it is, it e’er will be, The One and Only Right; And so, O hosts of Toil, awaken! O workingmen, unite! Unite! Unite! For Might is Right, ’Tis Freedom’s only way — “ ’Tis the logic of' the Ancient World, And the Gospel of to-day."