Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1906 — Silhouettes of Peace. [ARTICLE]
Silhouettes of Peace.
I’d like to own an auto car If some one else would pay For gasoline and batteries And broken parts each day. ’TwouM be a heap of fun to skip Around on asphalt street, To get the air and toot my horn At everyone I meet! It’s fun to see the people Jump, To cut off poodles’ tails, To scatter workmen right and left And "pi” their dinner palls! I’d like to own an auto car— If I had lots of money— To scare the proletariat— Now wouldn't that be funnyT It is the man who is never asked for advice that is always' the more ready to give it. A friend of mine does not believe in the devil because in all pictures of his satanic majesty that he has seen, the devil has worn clothes. Now Mow, in hades, could he?
