THE CAPTAIN AND THE PRIEST.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 270, 18 December 1917, Page 10

THE CAPTAIN AND THE PRIEST.

(H\ Ks;el e Lawton Lindsey.) Th captain of finance nas to. acted the wheat. . "Stand hr in,’ said the Captain, tiu> people must eat.” ... “Have \ou tnouKnt, asked the I not “a n.it the suffering will he t “Of com >e,’ grinned the Captain, “it * millions to me?. “My mills, *' laughed the Captain, “are livers of gold ’ "It's minted li»>m pain and from hunger and cold.’' "Have vou th Might. asked the I !•«*’» “wn.ii thoM uiloren wul be? "I have,” said tne Captain, “it’s noth* ing to me. • In the stores of the Captain pale women and grim Coin soul, blood and body to money for him. "They’re starved,” said the Priest, so they sin; don’t you see?” “Just so,” said the Captain, “but what’s that to me?” “The nations, like spinxes now brooding and dumb. shall wake, ’ said the Priest, “and vour judgment shall come. Have >ou thought on the day when jhat judgment shall be?” “Thev’re fools,” said the C aptain, "They never will see.’’ Part Two -The Women to the Captain. “The day of your judgment is here; we demand You yield to the voice of the Lord in the land. That many shall labour, a handful hall i t ap, The idler shall laugh while the workers must weep, “That babes shall be broken in angu’sh and pain To mould their young lives into illgotten gain. Is wrong,’” say the women. “The judgment HAS come; We cm it aloud who for ages were dumb; “And the sound of our crying shall never be stilled Till the soul of the nation is quick- ■ I .1 nd ’hrilled, \nd th* hand of the spoiler relaxes because The love of the mothers has written the laws!”