Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1915 — PERHAPS. [ARTICLE]

PERHAPS.

When cows fall ill the government proceeds to take alarm , And sends a veterinarian to sanitate the farm. The cow herself is put to bed and plied with drugs and pills, And Uncle Sam comes forward, when she’s cured, to pay the bills. But when a baby falls in need of medicine and care, The government contends that that is none of its affair. When pigs and lambs are threatened by a deadly pestilence Their tender lives are guarded at the government’s expense. They’re coddled, nursed and dieted until they’re well and fat, And never reckon of the cost—for Uncle Sam pays that. But when an epidemic marks the babies for its own The government, untroubled, lets them fight it out alone. Some day,, perhaps, when all the pork ha* lavishly been passed. When every scrap of patronage is handed out at last, When all our noble congressmen have got all they desire, And have attained whatever heights - to which they may aspire, To unknown heights of common-sense the government will leap And do as much for mothers as it does for cows and sheep. —Chicago Examiner.