A
little road,
A little spin;
A
little byke,
A good begin.
A
little ride,
A little tack;
A
little flop,
A big kerwhack!
A
little boy,
A little rod;
“No
tacks no more,
So help me
John Rogers!”
May
11, ‘96
Pub.
in Camb. Press,
Oct
17, ‘96
John Rankin Rogers (September 4, 1838
- December 26, 1901) was the third Governor of the state of Washington.
As governor
he supported the "Barefoot Schoolboy Act" which he had first
sponsored while in the state legislature. The Act provided a mechanism of state
funding to equalize support for free public education between counties which
had a large tax base and those without. Rogers was a conditional supporter of
the Single
Tax Movement associated with Henry George.
John R.
Rogers authored many books, pamphlets and articles that followed a
Populist and Arcadian Agrarian spirit. Growing up in New England when Jeffersonian ideals
were talked about frequently was a strong influence on his political future.
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