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From <\/em>The Tacoma Times, November 8, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll is well\u201d\u2014the word is said
    By the blind men to the blind,
And the Tory nods his head
    Quite contented in his mind;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll is well\u201d\u2014men starve and die
    In the midst of plenty\u2019s store,
Babies weep and mothers cry,
    Famine lingers at the door,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children toil in roaring mills,
    Robbed of all their hours of play,
Doing work that stunts and kills\u2014
    \u201cAll is well,\u201d the Tories cry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women take the wage of shame,
    Driven by the scourge of want;
Still the slogan is the same,
    \u201cAll is well,\u201d resounds the vaunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Law is trampled under foot,
    Right is sunken in the mire
And the thug, the vicious brute,
    Beats and slugs and kills\u2014for hire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Men who dare to speak the truth
    Pace within a prison cell;
Power rules that knows no ruth,
    Yet men murmur, \u201cAll is well!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fetid street and filthy slum\u2014
    Toil that makes men\u2019s lives a hell,
Want and woe and vice and rum\u2014
    Let\u2019s be thankful \u201cAll is well!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Tacoma Times, November 8, 1913. By Berton Braley. \u201cAll is well\u201d\u2014the word is said    By the blind men to the blind,And the Tory nods his head    Quite contented in his mind; \u201cAll is well\u201d\u2014men starve and die    In the midst of plenty\u2019s store,Babies weep and mothers cry,    Famine lingers […]<\/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-7625","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\/7625","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=7625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}