{"id":565,"date":"2021-02-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2021-02-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T06:00:00","slug":"cyrus-bottsfords-candid-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/cyrus-bottsfords-candid-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyrus Bottsford\u2019s Candid Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-02-08\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, February 8, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n There\u2019s a lot of folks who always keep a-growlin\u2019 at the rich;\n Every man who has a million they\u2019d have put in boilin\u2019 pitch;\n They will not forgive a person who contrives to get along\n But I don\u2019t believe that havin\u2019 lots of cash is always wrong.\n \n Mind I don\u2019t pretend to argue that the rich are always right;\n There are lots of men with millions that have souls as black as night;\n But I\u2019ve studied the thing over, and I guess there\u2019s one thing sure:\n It\u2019s no sign a man is noble just because he\u2019s keepin\u2019 poor.\n \n I\u2019ve a sort of crazy notion that there may be here and there\n Some rich man who\u2019ll go to heaven and secure a crown to wear\n For I\u2019ve met some wealthy people as I\u2019ve traveled round about\n That I don\u2019t believe that heaven can afford to do without.\n \n And I\u2019ve got another notion which I\u2019d like to have you know-\n All the poor may go to heaven; I can\u2019t half believe it, though.\n There are poor men who are worthy, but I can\u2019t help feelin\u2019 sure\n That you\u2019ll not get past St. Peter just because you have been poor.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> There\u2019s a lot of folks who always keep a-growlin\u2019 at the rich;<br \/>\n Every man who has a million they\u2019d have put in boilin\u2019 pitch;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-s-e-kiser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}