{"id":9681,"date":"2021-01-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2021-01-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T06:00:00","slug":"the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1913-01-14\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Tacoma Times, January 14, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n If \u201cbusiness\u201d cannot thrive unless\n It works a child to weariness,\n If \u201cbusiness\u201d to be \u201cgood\u201d demands\n The toil of little baby hands,\n And takes the tiny child away\n From sun and fields and merry play;\n If \u201cbusiness\u201d makes the young its spoil\n And drags the mother forth to toil\n At tasks that rob her eyes of light\n From bitter morn to gloomy night;\n If \u201cbusiness\u201d can\u2019t afford to give\n A wage on which a girl can live,\n But drives her out upon the street\n To gain her clothes\u2014and food to eat;\n If \u201cbusiness\u201d only thus can feed\n By heartless shame and ruthless greed,\n Then \u201cbusiness\u201d is a foul disgrace,\n A menace to the human race\n Which should be fought with will intense\n Like some vast, spreading pestilence.\n \n But business can be cleansed and purged,\n Its evils fought, its scoundrels scourged;\n The Plunderbund may rage and rant,\n Swearing, \u201cIt can\u2019t be done, it can\u2019t!\u201d\n Proclaiming Ruin and Despair\n If we should make the game for Square;\n But, spite of Scribe and Pharisee\n We strive for right that is to be!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> If \u201cbusiness\u201d cannot thrive unless<br \/>\n It works a child to weariness,<br \/>\n If \u201cbusiness\u201d to be \u201cgood\u201d demands<br \/>\n The toil of little baby hands,<\/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-9681","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\/9681","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=9681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}