VOTE AS YOU’VE BEEN PRAYING.
“Josiah, put your slippers on, And cease your needless chatter; 1 want to have a little word with you About a little matter. “Josiah. look me *n the face, \ou know this world’s condition; Vet you have never cast a vote Right out for Prohibition. “1 heard you on your knees la>t night, Ask help to keep from strayin’, And now I want to know if you Will vote as you’ve been prayin’? 'You've prayed as loud as any man, While with the tide afioatin’, Josiah, you must stop such work. And do some better votin’. • “We women pray fpr better times, And work right hard to make ’em ; \ou men vote liquor with its crimes, And we just have to take ’em. “How long, Josiah, must this be? We work and pray ’gainst evil; You pray all right for what 1 see, Hut vote just lor the devil!” “There now, I’ve said my say, and you Ju«>t save your ammunition, And vote the way you’ve always prayed, for Total Prohibition.” ■—A. M. Brunner.
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White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 251, 18 May 1916, Page 10
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179VOTE AS YOU’VE BEEN PRAYING. White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 251, 18 May 1916, Page 10
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