{"id":8425,"date":"2022-08-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8425"},"modified":"2022-08-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T05:00:00","slug":"civic-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/civic-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1914-08-26\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, August 26, 1914<\/a>. By Henry Howland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve made gains at Pumpkin Center, as the census figures show;<br\/>We have twice the population that we had ten years ago;<br\/>We have outstripped Cherry Valley and left Podunk in the rear;<br\/>We are catchin\u2019 up with Bingtown and are crowding Rensaleer;<br\/>By annexin\u2019 all our suburbs we have made a mighty stride,<br\/>So you\u2019ll see it ain\u2019t no wonder we are full of civic pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, our grafters keep on graftin\u2019 in the same old busy way;<br\/>There\u2019s another scandal started nearly every other day;<br\/>Can\u2019t somehow persuade the voters that it wouldn\u2019t be a crime<br\/>To quit votin\u2019 the same tickets that their dads did in their time;<br\/>Got a council full of rascals; gettin\u2019 robbed on every side,<br\/>But we\u2019ve gained in population and are full of civic pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>There is rubbish in our alleys and the air is full of smoke;<br\/>We\u2019ve a waterworks department, but it\u2019s got to be a joke;<br\/>There is graftin\u2019 in the courthouse, likewise in city hall;<br\/>The streets are full of mudholes and get no repairs at all;<br\/>We\u2019re in debt and gettin\u2019 deeper so the crooks can be supplied,<br\/>But we\u2019ve outstripped Cherry Valley and are full of civic pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>We should have another schoolhouse\u2014issued bonds a year ago;<br\/>It appears the grafters somehow gobbled up the money, though;<br\/>We\u2019ve a law forbiddin\u2019 gamblin\u2019, but the gamblers never mind,<br\/>And the town looks like the dickens, but we\u2019ve left Podunk behind;<br\/>We are catchin\u2019 up with Bingtown; we\u2019ve spread out on every side,<br\/>So you\u2019ll see it ain\u2019t no wonder we are full of civic pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Rock Island Argus, August 26, 1914. By Henry Howland. We\u2019ve made gains at Pumpkin Center, as the census figures show;We have twice the population that we had ten years ago;We have outstripped Cherry Valley and left Podunk in the rear;We are catchin\u2019 up with Bingtown and are crowding Rensaleer;By annexin\u2019 all our suburbs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-8425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-henry-howland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425","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=8425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}