{"id":9219,"date":"2023-03-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9219"},"modified":"2023-03-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T05:00:00","slug":"the-father-of-mischief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-father-of-mischief\/","title":{"rendered":"The Father of Mischief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030272\/1915-03-14\/ed-1\/seq-33\/\">The Sun, March 14, 1915<\/a>. By Alfred J. Hough.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Men don\u2019t believe in a devil now as their fathers used to do;<br\/>They\u2019ve forced the door of the broadest creed to let his Majesty through.<br\/>There is not a print of his cloven foot, of a fiery dart from his bow<br\/>To be found in earth or air today, for the world has voted so.<br\/>But who is it mixing the fatal draught that palsies heart and brain,<br\/>And loads the bier of each passing year with ten hundred thousand slain?<br\/>Who blights the bloom of the land today with the fiery breath of hell<br\/>If the devil isn\u2019t and never was? Won\u2019t somebody rise and tell?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Who dogs the steps of the toiling saint and digs the pits for his feet?<br\/>Who sows the tares in the field, wherever God sows His wheat?<br\/>The devil is voted not to be, and of course, the thing is true;<br\/>But who is doing the kind of work the devil alone should do?<br\/>We are told he does not go about as a roaring lion now;<br\/>But whom shall we hold responsible for the everlasting row<br\/>To be heard in Home, in Church and State to the earth\u2019s remotest bound,<br\/>If the devil by a unanimous vote is nowhere to be found?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Won\u2019t somebody step to the front forthwith and make his bow and show<br\/>How the frauds and the crimes of a single day spring up? We want to know.<br\/>The devil was fairly voted out, and of course, the devil\u2019s gone;<br\/>But simple people would like to know who carries his business on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Sun, March 14, 1915. By Alfred J. Hough. Men don\u2019t believe in a devil now as their fathers used to do;They\u2019ve forced the door of the broadest creed to let his Majesty through.There is not a print of his cloven foot, of a fiery dart from his bowTo be found in earth or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219","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=9219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}