Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1905 — IN PANAMA. [ARTICLE]

IN PANAMA.

They are bound in red tape in moat horrible ahape While trying to dig the big ditch. And from “Yellow Jack’s” crepe there appears no escape, And many quibble and hitch. From glee they have dropped to lugubrious tone: There is trouble galore in the Panama zone, And the hands of the railroads have clearly been shown, In getting the congress to switch. There is weary delay and they make no headway In getting the old canal cut; And the profligate way tills us all with dismay, They have struck M. DeLessep's old rut. They shovel out gold and throw dirt with a spoon; ’Tia grass-grown at eve where 'twas dug out at noon, And the only pleased people are Shoots and Magoon, Who are getting good salaries, but When Wallace stepped down there was trouble in town, And things were a-popping for fair, And William Taft's frown shriveled Wallace up brown. But Wallace showed never a care. And the railroads looked on and most gleefully laughed; Their managers figured on greed and graft, And there's trouble in plenty for William H. Taft In building a ditch on the square. —The Commonner.