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THE PEOPLE’S REWARD

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 6, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 40.

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THE PEOPLE’S REWARD.

By James Russell Lowell

WHENE’ER contending princes fight For private pique or public right, Armies are raised, the fleets are manned, They combat both by sea and land.
When, after many battles past, Both, tired with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why, taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt. —James Russell Lowell.