RIGHT SHALL RULE by J. A. Edgerton

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 10, 1904

RIGHT SHALL RULE.

By J. A. Edgerton

[J. A. Edgerton, in the Denver News.]

Short is the triumph of evil, Long is the reign of right; The men who win by the aid of sin, The nation that rules by might, The party that lives by corruption, The trickster, the knave, the thief, May thrive for a time on the fruits of crime, But their seeming success is brief.

Sneer if you will at honor; Make virtue a theme for jest; Scoff at the man who strives as he can To seek and do the best; Make goodness a butt for slander, And offer excuse for vice, Proclaim the old lie, the corruptionist's cry, That every man has his price—

Yet know that the truth shall triumph, That evil shall find its doom, That the cause of right, tho subdued by might, Shall break from the strongest tomb, That wrong, tho it seems to triumph, Lasts only for a day, While the cause of truth has eternal youth, And shall rule o'er the world for aye.