Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — Silenced. [ARTICLE]

Silenced.

“I ain't predictin’ nothin’ now,” Said Hezekiah Bings. “I ain’t pertendin’ to know how To do such lofty things As mappin' out a nation's fate. * In days of anxious care. I'm willin’ now to stand an’ wait My turn to do my share. “I ain't predictin’. What's the uSe Of wastin’ time an’ strength, A-turnirt’ your opinions loose, Vociferous and at length? The hope an’ pride that’s in my heart Is silent, stanch an' true. I’m ready,- should the action start, But as for talk, I'm through." —Washington Evening Star.