{"id":9147,"date":"2023-01-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9147"},"modified":"2023-01-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T06:00:00","slug":"story-of-the-little-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/story-of-the-little-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Story of the Little Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1915-01-24\/ed-1\/seq-35\/\">The Birmingham Age Herald, January 24, 1915<\/a>. By E. B. Barry.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>We are the little brothers, homeless in cold and heat,<br\/>Four footed little beggars, roaming the city street,<br\/>Snatching a bone from the gutter, creeping thro\u2019 alleys drear,<br\/>Stoned and sworn at and beaten, our hearts consumed with fear.<br\/>You pride yourselves on the beauty of your city, fair and free,<br\/>Yet we are dying by thousands in coverts you never see;<br\/>You boast of your mental progress, of your libraries, schools and halls,<br\/>But we who are dumb denounce you, as we crouch beneath their walls.<br\/>You sit in your tinseled playhouse and weep o\u2019er a mimic wrong;<br\/>Our woes are the woes of the voiceless, our griefs are unheeded in song.<br\/>You say that the same God made us; when before his throne you come,<br\/>Shall you clear yourselves in his presence on the plea that he made us dumb?<br\/>Are your hearts too hard to listen to a starving kitten\u2019s cries?<br\/>Or too gay for the patient pleading in a dog\u2019s beseeching eyes?<br\/>Behold us, your little brothers, starving, beaten, oppressed\u2014<br\/>Stretch out a hand to help us that we may have food and rest.<br\/>Too long have we roamed neglected, too long have we sickened with fear,<br\/>The mercy you hope and pray for you can grant us now and here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, January 24, 1915. By E. B. Barry. We are the little brothers, homeless in cold and heat,Four footed little beggars, roaming the city street,Snatching a bone from the gutter, creeping thro\u2019 alleys drear,Stoned and sworn at and beaten, our hearts consumed with fear.You pride yourselves on the beauty of your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-9147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-e-b-barry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147","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=9147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}