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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357647" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Kids!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kids!<br>Hundreds of 'em for the farmer! Kids of an imported brand;<br>Thousands of 'em for the country! Lo, the man upon the land<br> Bids<br>Loud for England's surplus youngster - five whole bob a week, 'tis said;<br>And their value to the nation stands at many pounds a head.<br>But the nation never riz 'em.<br>That 'would tend to Socialism';<br>So we have to fetch 'em over from the country where they're bred.<br>Kids!<br>Send us kids from good old Britain - sons of men who won't be slaves <br>From the land where countless paupers seek dishonorable graves<br> Quids!<br>We're prepared to offer for them. Ship them out across the deep,<br>From that dear old Freetrade country where the cost of labor's cheap.<br>While, of our unmarried workers <br>(Married men are costly shirkers)<br>We will take a meagre hundred at a pound a week and keep.<br>Kids?<br>We can't raise 'em in Australia, where employers by the score<br>For the bloke without a missus in the labor depôts roar<br>Bids.<br>Ship 'em out! The noble farmer yearns to mould their bright young lives.<br>Ship 'em young that for a dozen years they may not seek for wives.<br>When they think of getting married<br>Maybe they'll regret they tarried<br>Where the kid-encumbered worker vainly for a billet strives.<br>Kids?<br>We don't want 'em when they're babies, for their raisin' costs a heap.<br>We don't want 'em when they're married, with their own young broods to keep.<br> Skids<br>And brakes upon the wheels of progress are such futile folk. Just look<br>At the bob advertisement. You'll see their chance of work is 'crook.'<br>Ship 'em out in handy sizes<br>For the cove that advertises<br>For the unencumbered couple <br>' Man to milk and wife to cook.'<br>Kids?<br>Spare our days! Why should we raise 'em? We can get 'em ready-made<br>From a land where there's a surplus, thanks to good old BULL's Freetrade.<br>Quids<br>It will save the careful farmer. He can give his man the sack <br>Costly man who owns a missus and a child or two to whack.<br>Ship 'em out, he's yearnin' for 'em;<br>While they're young he'll just adore 'em<br>Then, when they grow up and marry, someone else can ship 'em back.<br>Ships<br>Pass in with cheap boy labor - 'badly needed farming hand';<br>Shps pass out with young Australians seeking work in other lands.<br>Hips<br>Hurrahs! are loudly sounded for the patriotic bloke <br>He who perpetrated this unseemly emigration joke.<br>Cheers for him who brings the kiddy<br>To a job that's sure and 'stiddy'!<br>It will balance the outgoing of our workless married folk.<br>Kids!!<br>Lo, we want them - want them badly! There is none denies the fact <br>Kids to populate the country. And behold, our noble act<br>Rids<br>England of her surplus toilers - we can do with quite a heap.<br>We can't breed them in the country - boys to plough and boys to reap.<br>And who says it is surprising<br>When we're daily advertising<br>For a hundred men - unmarried - at a pound a week and keep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q>
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Hundreds of 'em for the farmer! Kids of an imported brand;
Thousands of 'em for the country! Lo, the man upon the land
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Loud for England's surplus youngster - five whole bob a week, 'tis said;
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