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    "text": "Did you ever hear of Editor Whedon",
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   {
    "text": "Giving to the public treasury any of the money he received",
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   {
    "text": "For supporting candidates for office?",
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    "text": "Or for writing up the canning factory",
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   {
    "text": "To get people to invest?",
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    "text": "Or for suppressing the facts about the bank,",
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   {
    "text": "When it was rotten and ready to break?",
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   {
    "text": "Did you ever hear of the Circuit Judge",
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    "text": "Helping anyone except the “Q” railroad,",
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   {
    "text": "Or the bankers? Or did Rev. Peet or Rev. Sibley",
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    "text": "Give any part of their salary, earned by keeping still,",
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   {
    "text": "Or speaking out as the leaders wished them to do,",
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    "text": "To the building of the water works?",
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    "text": "But I⁠—Daisy Fraser who always passed",
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    "text": "Along the street through rows of nods and smiles,",
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    "text": "And coughs and words such as “there she goes,”",
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    "text": "Never was taken before Justice Arnett",
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    "text": "Without contributing ten dollars and costs",
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    "text": "To the school fund of Spoon River!",
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