Huddersfield Chronicle (04/Nov/1893) - Why and Wherefore?
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Why and Wherefore?
- Who would be a Councillor,
- Who would be a Mayor,
- Who would be an Alderman,
- In elevated chair;
- When none but one strait, heartless lot
- Divide the honours’ spoils,
- And choke ambition in the bud,
- No matter how it toils?
- Who would serve a town for years,
- Who would nobly strive
- To elevate their native place,
- That all in it might thrive;
- When no high state is possible,
- When party spirit blinds,
- When party ignorance discards
- The work of noble minds?
- Who would interest himself,
- Who would ever try,
- In all that tends to betterment,
- To raise his town on high;
- When every post is swallowed up,
- When each committee’s chair
- Is held by the unscrupulous,
- Who by the Rads, will swear?
- Who would stay in such a place,
- Who would associate
- With such a crew whose meanness is
- But equalled by their hate;
- Whose chief ambition is to grasp,
- And hold till end of days,
- Each coign of honours’ vantage,
- Feed on each others praise?
- What but dead level can there be
- On such a town attendant,
- What else but mediocrities,
- Servile, non-independent,
- Can rule the roost in such a place,
- Where the chief honours’ chair
- Has for two decades and a half,
- Contained a Liberal Mayor?
CID.