Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968). rn The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915.
To a Nine-inch GunP. F. McCarthy
(This poem came to the New York World office on a crumpled piece of soiled paper. The authors address was given as Fourth Bench, City Hall Park)W
Your cost is Five Hundred Dollars a Shot.
You thing of noise and flame and power,
We feed you a hundred barrels of flour
Each time you roar. Your flame is fed
With twenty thousand loaves of bread.
Silence! A million hungry men
Seek bread to fill their mouths again.