"John T"

I think a great deal too much fuss
Has been aroused 'mid all of us
   About this crude economist John T.
And fellows of his kidney now,
'Mid people up in Sydney now,
   Are slipping in that city of the free.

He wooed them with high promises
And, 'spite the doubting Thomases,
   Cupidity had urged them on to trust -
Political cupidity,
Which, plus a strange stupidity,
   Had lured them to a scheme of "boom and bust."

John T. has perspicacity;
He has a vast capacity
For measuring his moron passing well.
   Tho' men of seniority,
   When they're in a majority
They'll send him into office for a spell.

But even morons think a while
When trembling on the brink a while
   Of chaos, and they've lately come to see,
Subtracting his aggressiveness
And picturesque expressiveness.
   There's noting much remaining of John T.