Daisy Fraser by Edgar Lee Masters

Did you ever hear of Editor Whedon / Giving to the public treasury any of the money he received / For supporting candidates for office?

Or for writing up the canning factory / To get people to invest?

Or for suppressing the facts about the bank, / When it was rotten and ready to break?

Did you ever hear of the Circuit Judge / Helping anyone except the "Q" railroad, / Or the bankers? Or did Rev. Peet or Rev. Sibley / Give any part of their salary, earned by keeping still, / Or speaking out as the leaders wished them to do, / To the building of the water works?

But I -- Daisy Fraser who always passed / Along the street through rows of nods and smiles, / And coughs and words such as "there she goes,"

Never was taken before Justice Arnett / Without contributing ten dollars and costs / To the school fund of Spoon River!