This sad question “How long will depression stay?”

Can no Economist, Philanthropist or Statesman,

Solve this great problem, to our hopes forlorn,

Before our land becomes a hunting-field for great men

Dependent on foreign corn?

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Our old Homesteads are as dear to us my brothers,

As your Factories are to you,

And we cannot starve our children with their mothers

For quack maxims preached as true;