<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373839" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>John Hancock Otis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As to democracy, fellow citizens,<br>Are you not prepared to admit<br>That I, who inherited riches and was to the manor born,<br>Was second to none in Spoon River<br>In my devotion to the cause of Liberty?<br>While my contemporary, Anthony Findlay,<br>Born in a shanty and beginning life<br>As a water carrier to the section hands,<br>Then becoming a section hand when he was grown,<br>Afterwards foreman of the gang, until he rose<br>To the superintendency of the railroad,<br>Living in Chicago,<br>Was a veritable slave driver,<br>Grinding the faces of labor,<br>And a bitter enemy of democracy.<br>And I say to you, Spoon River,<br>And to you, O republic,<br>Beware of the man who rises to power<br>From one suspender.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373839" data-title="John Hancock Otis de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="As to democracy, fellow citizens, Are you not prepared to admit That I, who inherited riches and was to the manor born, Was second to none in Spoon River In my devotion to the cause of Liberty? While my contemporary, Anthony Findlay, Born in a sha..."></div> </div> </div>

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