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 An Administration Delegate Reports

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(Ted Miller―that isn't his name, but it will do just as well―is a rock-ribbed reactionary, a defender of the American Constitution and protector of the sanctity of the home. He is down on all Reds. So the bureaucrats in the central labor body picked him out to represent them at the A. F. of L. convention at El Paso. This is what Ted reported when he got back. It is not fiction. Ted is a real person, and the story was taken down pretty nearly verbatim.)

"Well, brothers,

I got back from the Texas Convention last night,

And I sure want to thank you for the trip.

The convention was called on the Seventeeth

And adjourned on the Twenty-fourth.

We all had a good time.

Most of the boys spent their time in Juarez.

That's sure some town

They don't have keys in that town

Whisky two dollars a quart  good stuff.

Plenty of beer. The Mexicans make a drink

Called pulki it would make a man kill his mother.

We sure had plenty to drink

Now I've seen lots of bull thrown around here,

But down there I saw them killed by the car load.

And cock fights! Christ, them long-legged birds

Can fight like hell never seen anything like it.

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