{"id":7249,"date":"2021-07-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7249"},"modified":"2021-07-03T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T05:00:00","slug":"the-bosses-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-bosses-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bosses Speak!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1913-07-03\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Tacoma Times, July 3, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n Keep women away from the polls\n For the sake of their lily-white souls,\n Forever forbid them to roam\n For the sake of the washtubs at home,\n Let \u2018em tend to the clothes and the grub,\n Let \u2018em dust, let \u2018em bake, let \u2018em scrub,\n Let \u2018em raise up the girls and the boys,\n Let \u2018em share all your troubles and joys,\n But we beg, with a sob in our throat,\n Don\u2019t give \u2018em, don\u2019t give \u2018em the vote,\n For they might interfere if you please,\n With the three great political \u201cB\u2019s,\u201d\n Whose graft we\u2019d be sorry to lose\u2014\n Breweries, Brothels and Booze!\n \n Keep women away from the polls,\n They vex and they trouble our souls,\n The home is their foreordained place\n Which they deck with their beauty and grace;\n If you go and you give \u2018em the vote\n They\u2019ll start to get after our goat\n In a wholly undignified way,\n Which ain\u2019t like a lady, we say.\n So we beg, with a sob in the throat,\n Don\u2019t give \u2018em, don\u2019t give \u2018em the vote.\n They\u2019d never give comfort or ease\n To the three great political \u201cB\u2019s\u201d\n Whose graft we\u2019d be sorry to lose,\n Breweries, Brothels and Booze!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Keep women away from the polls<br \/>\n For the sake of their lily-white souls,<br \/>\n Forever forbid them to roam<br \/>\n For the sake of the washtubs at home,<\/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-7249","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\/7249","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=7249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}