Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1908 — Our Thankfulest Thanks [ARTICLE]

Our Thankfulest Thanks

By ROBERTUS LOVE.

[Copyright, 1908, by American Preao Association.) OH. we are thankful for manifold blessings, Thankful for life and for home and for health. Thankful for turkeys with aavory dress Ings. Thankful for progress and wisdom and wealth. Thankful for corn and alfalfa and clover. Thankful for money and faith In the banks. Thankful, so thankful, election is overThat Is the source of our thankfulest thanks! One year in four is a leap year, remember This Is one of ’em, and many a man Sworn to stay single if this we're Decern ber Now would give thanks to be freed of the ban. Tat there’s a bother that’s still more distressing One year In four—all the rest It out ranks— Namely, election, which keeps us a-guess-ing . v Now that It’s over, our thankfulest thanks Man can escape from the maiden pursuing. Man can resist the Importunate miss; Simply a system ot shunting and lngThat will avoid matrimonial bliss But there Is never a man so evasive He can escape the political tanks. Always a-drlp with palaver persuasive. Now that they’re quiet, our thankfulest thanks ’ Season of roaring and ranting and raving Period when It is perfectly plain Every man’s uppermost duty is saving Washington's country from bondage** chain: Time when your friend or your father or brother For his opinions you class with the cranks. Now for four years we cannot have another. So let U 6 offer our thankfulest thanks. Maybe twas tariff and maybe 'twaa labor. Maybe ’twas courts that so split us apart; Maybe the trusts so affected your neighbor That he dissevered himself from your heart: Maybe Injunctions or guaranteed banking. Any or all of the partisan planks. Well, it is over, so now for the thanking— Now for reunion, our thankfulest thanks! Oh. we are thankful the nation Is living. Thankful the dear old republic is etlll Bure of a band to proclaim a Thanksgiving. Thankful, so thankful, hla front name to Bill! Thankful are we that Columbia to leaping Four, years away from political pranks. Such a relief is occasion for heaping Thus on Thanksgiving our thankfulsat thanks