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KANSAS STRUGGLING FOR A FOOTHOLD

In '58 another dose was mixed

And it was a bitter pill!

It was got up by a dough-faced son,
And known as the "English Bill."

For thirty years they've made their home
Upon the Kansas soil;

But grasshoppers, drouths and prairie fires
Have made them double toil.

But now, such things she looks upon

As a relic of the past;

For in her mighty strides to win,

Some states she's sweeping past..

In '59 they tried to get

The first pre-emption through;

But the blue lodge clan, who lived in the south Said, "Boys 'twill never do!"

Next they tried for a homestead bill,
And they thought they'd get it;
It passed the house-Republican,—
But 'twas defeated in the senate.