The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest / The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice; selected from twenty-five languages; covering a period of five thousand years

by Unknown

Scarce had they brought the bodies down

Across the withered floor,

Than Max Rogosky thundered at

The District Leader’s door.

Scarce had the white-lipped mothers come

To search the fearful noon,

Than little Max stood shivering

In Tom McTodd’s saloon!

In Tom McTodd’s saloon he stood,

Beside the silver bar,