Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1873 — The Hand that Holds the Bread. [ARTICLE]

The Hand that Holds the Bread.

Brothers of the plow Tiie power is with you; The world ill expectation waits For action prompt and true. Oppression stalks abioad, Monopolies abound, Tlieir giant hands already clutch The tillers of the ground. Chorus: AwakeJ then, awake! - The great world must be fed, And Heaven gives the power To ihe hand that holds the bread. Yes, Brothers ol -the plow!;. The people must be fed, And Heaven gives the power To the HAND THAT HOI.DSTHE BREAD. Brothers of the plow! In calm and quiet miglit You've waited long and patiently For what was yours by right, A fair reward for toil, A free aud open field, An honest share lor yife anti home Of what your harvests yield! Chorus; Awake! then, awake! &c. Brothers of the plow! Come; rally once again; Come gather from the prairie wide, The hillside and the plain; Not, as in days of yore, With trump of battle sound,— —— —, But come and make the world respoct The tillers of the ground. Chorus: Awake! then, awake! Ac. ■■■ ■ The South Bend Register denies that Mr. Colfax has any wish to reenter public life, and says: “We have heard him say repeatedly and uniformly that lie did not want an office of any kind—thht fof' the Urstrttme fir twenty years lie belonged to his family and himself instead of tile public, and enjoyed the rest aud quiet it brought to him too well to think of consenting that his ownership should be changed.”