EUROPE'S DUNG HILL.
"One thousand alien cigarette mak»ers, with their dependents, have been ordered to leave Germany within a fortnight, otherwise they will be deported. The reason given for this order is that the authorities fear that the aliens will undersell their Germaa competitors m the trade. Most of the persons thus expelled will make their way, to England . ' '— Ca ble . Out, they go out, with a curse *aad m } kick, '*•" V j From the German's mailed ftoof t ' 7 , With a long, strong sausage, or hall */ / brick— ;" .7 / And they get it, too, if they're not/ damn .'quick / > In leaving the Deutscher roof ! ( J They're aliens, too— ■ ,■! Mi . And largely Jew— / , Hk And they're fired and must keep /aloof. Where shall they go ? To the/ Ed's* they are barred— /\ / ' / To the West they %eJk<Wise free ; Their cash is shorttfjKl tfteir lot is , hard, ?£■* ' X • ! But they may not stay m w& Geteian yard. , ) *\ So they'll "get"--o'er the \GetmaiK sea ! n \' r In London town \ They will settle down— '- »V What matters these thousands three^- \^ There's never a fence to keep them back—' Poor, devils 1 if they but knew What waits them there, at the end of the track— ■Of the bitter toil 1 and/ the outlook' x black ; . In the grip. of the East End Jew I Of the filthy slum Where the scum joins scum, And only the tongue Is new » < They fleer-and the roar of the Londei streets And the mud of the London shuns Swallow them, up— and the East 'Em 4 j greets Three thousand come by the Germaa fleets (/ -•■.".■• \ To fight for t|he Dones antt- crumbs ft And for fSod atwJ fuel, " v: v Strife savage aod cruel, v They wage— yea, Dregs fight Scunufcv^ And. the Dregs, and the Scums, ant v. the, Dirt .Combine, In the hopeless misery there, " "v To thrust out the poor of the British line ; Andthey starve and die, <rr cross the brine To a land where the fight's mow fair. For England now Is no place, I vow • For Men— they are. growing rare ! -
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NZ Truth, Issue 56, 14 July 1906, Page 1
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348EUROPE'S DUNG HILL. NZ Truth, Issue 56, 14 July 1906, Page 1
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