{"id":710,"date":"2021-03-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2021-03-23T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T05:00:00","slug":"lessons-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/lessons-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons in History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-03-23\/ed-1\/seq-24\/\"><em>Evening Star, March 23, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n We\u2019re a-goin\u2019 to the dogs,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 History sure points the way,\n \u2018Cause what happened way back there\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Is what threatens us today.\n Rome is busted, Greece is busted,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Babylon is busted, too\u2014\n Putterville would better profit\n \u00a0 \u00a0 By their fate, I\u2019m tellin\u2019 you!\n \n Not to beat around the bush\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 What about old Col. Toake?\n Is the turnin\u2019 out of his cows\n \u00a0 \u00a0 On the public streets a joke?\n Rome and Greece and Babylon\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 All them had their priv\u2019leged class,\n And I\u2019ll bet their first graft was\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Runnin\u2019 cows on public grass.\n \n Little thing, some folks\u2019ll say,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And not worth the fussin\u2019 at;\n If me or you or Tuttle Gibbs\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Should let our stock run out like that\n It wouldn\u2019t be a little thing;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They\u2019d have the constable on us\n And have us hauled before the law\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 You bet there\u2019d be an awful fuss!\n \n It always is the high up chap\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That benefits by what is done;\n And that\u2019s the plan on which those old\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And ruined nations all was run.\n Rome went under, Greece went under,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Babylon went under, too\u2014\n Putterville can learn a lesson\n \u00a0 \u00a0 From their fate, I\u2019m tellin\u2019 you!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> We\u2019re a-goin\u2019 to the dogs,<br \/>\n     History sure points the way,<br \/>\n \u2018Cause what happened way back there<br \/>\n     Is what threatens us today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","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=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}