Equity Settled It

Equity Settled It.
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Jim and Sue, as lovers true,
Impatient wait the happy day,
When they as one the paht of life
May travel all its happy way.
But stiil they waited.

For Jim the anxious word delayed.
Although he farmed with utmost skill,
He made no gains.
When crops were sold
He’d little left his hand to fill.
He thus debated:

“When Sue and I a home set up.
I know expenses will begin;
With beds and carpets, cradle, chairs-
To get such things requires the “tin,”
And I have missed It.

Jim knew his income was too light;
His labor brought too little pay;
He dared not say the word to
Hi heart so long had bade him say.
He feared to risk It.

But Sue, alert, had wiser grown;
Iiad looked the problem through: through and
And why Jim was so slow to speak,
Her heart informed her that she knew,
And how to fix it.

Jim came again as oft he had come,
And talked of everything but that.
“What think you, Jlin, of Equity ?”
Sue put the question square and flat.
An ipse dixit.

“It’s for the farmers, don’t you know,
A farmers’ union, grand and great;
“Twill make their prices sure and good;
I read of it in Up-to-Date.”
Jim oped his eyes!

“Will make our prices sure and good?”
Jim asked with undisguised amaze;
“Of course, It will, It cannot fall.”
Jim looked at her with loving gaze,
And growing wise.

“If prices thus may be awarde
Why can’t I our waiting’s done,
And safely say the word to Sue,
That makes us two happy one-
Its proptly said it!

All over the world are waiting Snes,
That from this may a lesson learn;
Teach Equity to doubting Jims,
That better profits they may earn-
You’ll soon be wedded.