{"id":573,"date":"2021-02-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2021-02-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T06:00:00","slug":"big-game-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/big-game-hunters\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Game Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1913-02-12\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Tacoma Times, February 12, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n We are looking, we are looking for the Masters of Finance,\n And it\u2019s no use fleeing from us as we dauntlessly advance\n With a summons and subpoena and a warrant in our hand\n And with double-barreled questions and an air of stern command;\n We are trailing wily captains of the wicked system camp\n And the malefactors tremble when they hear our sturdy tramp;\n There are men of mighty millions who were never known to quail\n Till they heard us stepping softly as we hit upon their trail.\n \n Let the Wall Street powers thunder, we are not a bit afraid,\n We\u2019re the bravest little hunters that you ever saw arrayed.\n We\u2019ve been probing, poking, peeking through the jungle where they roam\n The fierce and savage monsters who are feared in every home;\n And when we\u2019ve got \u2018em captured through our skill and courage high\n We\u2019ll put \u2018em on the witness stand and make \u2018em testify.\n We\u2019re out for big game hunting\u2014there\u2019s a lot upon our list\n And when at last we\u2019ve got \u2018em, WE SHALL SLAP \u2018EM ON THE WRIST!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> We are looking, we are looking for the Masters of Finance,<br \/>\n And it\u2019s no use fleeing from us as we dauntlessly advance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-tacoma-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","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=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}