THE BALLAD OF BETHLEHEM STEEL OR THE NEED FOR PREPAREDNESS
Colbron, Grace Isabel
The Ballad of Bethlehem Steel or The Need for Preparedness A Tale of the Ticker By GRACE ISABEL COLBRON In "The Public" A FORT is taken, the papers say, Five thousand dead in the murderous...
...What matters the waste of blossoming lands...
...And......Bethlehem Steel has a rise of ten...
...We'll fight to the death" sigh the weary men...
...If Bethlehem Steel at six hundred stands...
...What matters the loss of a million men...
...A sigh, a prayer from a torn heart rent...
...A murmur of Peace on the death-laden air...
...No, just another grim day...
...A victory...
...But......Bethlehem Steel drops thirty per cent...
...As the battle roars to the shuddering sky...
...The children's cry or the women's pain...
...Thai Bethlehem Steel may hold its state...
...A whisper, a rumor, one knows not where...
...And so WE must join in the slaughter-mill, WE must arm ourselves for a senseless hate, WE must waste our youths in the murder drill...
...The Ballad of Bethlehem Steel or The Need for Preparedness A Tale of the Ticker By GRACE ISABEL COLBRON In "The Public" A FORT is taken, the papers say, Five thousand dead in the murderous deal...
...But......up to five hundred goes Bethlehem Steel...
...We'll fight to the death" the diplomats cry...
Vol. 7 • December 1915 • No. 12
