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EMBEDDED
LINUX SYSTEM
DESIGN AND
DEVELOPMENT

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EMBEDDED
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DESIGN AND
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vii
Dedication
Raghavan
In memory of my late father
Amol
To Lord Krsna,
. . . my parents, my wife Parul, and my brother Amit
Sriram
To my family and all Linux enthusiasts

ix
Contents
1 Intr oduction ............................................................................................. 1
1.1 History of Embedded Linux .................................................... 2
1.1.1 Year 1999 ..................................................................... 3
1.1.2 Year 2000 ..................................................................... 4
1.1.3 Year 2001 ..................................................................... 4
1.1.4 Year 2002 ..................................................................... 5
1.1.5 Year 2003 ..................................................................... 6
1.1.6 Year 2004 ..................................................................... 6
1.2 Why Embedded Linux? ............................................................ 7
1.2.1 Vendor Independence................................................. 7
1.2.2 Time to Market............................................................ 8
1.2.3 Varied Hardware Support ........................................... 8
1.2.4 Low Cost ...................................................................... 8
1.2.5 Open Source................................................................ 9
1.2.6 Standards (POSIX®) Compliance............................. 10
1.3 Embedded Linux Versus Desktop Linux .............................. 10
1.4 Frequently Asked Questions.................................................. 11
1.4.1 Is Linux Too Large?................................................... 11
1.4.2 Is Linux Real-Time Enough?..................................... 11
1.4.3 How Can I Protect My Proprietary Software?......... 12
1.4.4 Should I Buy a Commercial Embedded
Linux Distribution?..................................................... 12
1.4.5 Which Embedded Linux Distribution Do I
Choose? ...................................................................... 12
1.5 Embedded Linux Distributions.............................................. 13
1.5.1 BlueCat Linux ............................................................ 14
1.5.2 Cadenux ..................................................................... 15
1.5.3 Denx........................................................................... 17

x Embedded Linux System Design and Development
1.5.4 Embedded Debian (Emdebian)................................ 18
1.5.5 ELinOS (SYSGO) ....................................................... 19
1.5.6 Metrowerks ................................................................ 20
1.5.7 MontaVista Linux....................................................... 22
1.5.8 RTLinuxPro™ ............................................................. 23
1.5.9 TimeSys Linux............................................................ 24
1.6 Porting Roadmap.................................................................... 26
Notes ................................................................................................. 28
2 Getting Started ........................................................................................ 29
2.1 Architecture of Embedded Linux .......................................... 29
2.1.1 Real-Time Executive.................................................. 29
2.1.2 Monolithic Kernels .................................................... 30
2.1.3 Microkernel ................................................................ 31
2.2 Linux Kernel Architecture...................................................... 32
2.2.1 Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL).......................... 33
2.2.2 Memory Manager....................................................... 33
2.2.3 Scheduler.................................................................... 34
2.2.4 File System................................................................. 35
2.2.5 IO Subsystem............................................................. 36
2.2.6 Networking Subsystems............................................ 36
2.2.7 IPC.............................................................................. 36
2.3 User Space .............................................................................. 36
2.4 Linux Start-Up Sequence........................................................ 41
2.4.1 Boot Loader Phase.................................................... 42
2.4.2 Kernel Start-Up .......................................................... 43
2.4.3 User Space Initialization ........................................... 47
2.5 GNU Cross-Platform Toolchain ............................................. 48
2.5.1 Building Toolchain.................................................... 50
2.5.2 Building Toolchain for MIPS.................................... 55
3 Boar d Support Package ......................................................................... 59
3.1 Inserting BSP in Kernel Build Procedure............................. 60
3.2 The Boot Loader Interface..................................................... 62
3.3 Memory Map........................................................................... 66
3.3.1 The Processor Memory Map — MIPS Memory
Model.......................................................................... 67
3.3.2 Board Memory Map .................................................. 68
3.3.3 Software Memory Map.............................................. 68
3.4 Interrupt Management............................................................ 72
3.5 The PCI Subsystem................................................................. 77
3.5.1 Uniqueness of PCI Architecture............................... 77
3.5.2 PCI Software Architecture......................................... 79

Contents xi
3.6 Timers...................................................................................... 81
3.7 UART ....................................................................................... 81
3.7.1 Implementing the Console ....................................... 81
3.7.2 The KGDB Interface ................................................. 82
3.8 Power Management................................................................ 83
3.8.1 Hardware and Power Management ......................... 83
3.8.2 Power Management Standards ................................. 85
3.8.3 Supporting Processor’s Power-Saving Modes ......... 86
3.8.4 Unified Driver Framework for Power
Management............................................................... 87
3.8.5 Power Management Applications............................. 88
4 Embedded Storage ................................................................................. 89
4.1 Flash Map................................................................................ 89
4.2 MTD—Memory Technology Device...................................... 91
4.2.1 The MTD Model........................................................ 91
4.2.2 Flash Chips ................................................................ 92
4.2.3 Flash Disks................................................................. 92
4.3 MTD Architecture ................................................................... 94
4.3.1 mtd_info Data Structure ......................................... 96
4.3.2 Interface Between MTD Core and Low-Level
Flash Drivers.............................................................. 96
4.4 Sample MTD Driver for NOR Flash...................................... 97
4.5 The Flash-Mapping Drivers ................................................. 106
4.5.1 Filling up mtd_info for NOR Flash Chip............ 106
4.5.2 Filling up mtd_info for NAND Flash Chip ......... 108
4.5.3 Registering mtd_info.............................................. 109
4.5.4 Sample Mapping Driver for NOR Flash ................ 111
4.6 MTD Block and Character Devices..................................... 114
4.7 Mtdutils Package................................................................... 116
4.8 Embedded File Systems ....................................................... 116
4.8.1 Ramdisk.................................................................... 117
4.8.2 RAMFS ...................................................................... 117
4.8.3 CRAMFS (Compressed RAM File System) ............. 117
4.8.4 Journaling Flash File Systems — JFFS and
JFFS2......................................................................... 117
4.8.5 NFS — Network File System.................................. 119
4.8.6 PROC File System.................................................... 119
4.9 Optimizing Storage Space.................................................... 120
4.9.1 Kernel Space Optimization..................................... 120
4.9.2 Application Space Optimization............................. 121
4.9.3 Applications for Embedded Linux ......................... 122
4.10 Tuning Kernel Memory........................................................ 124

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5 Embedded Drivers ............................................................................... 127
5.1 Linux Serial Driver................................................................ 128
5.1.1 Driver Initialization and Start-Up ........................... 130
5.1.2 Data Transmission ................................................... 134
5.1.3 Data Reception ........................................................ 134
5.1.4 Interrupt Handler..................................................... 134
5.1.5 Terminos Settings .................................................... 138
5.2 Ethernet Driver ..................................................................... 138
5.2.1 Device Initialization and Clean-Up........................ 140
5.2.2 Data Transmission and Reception ......................... 142
5.3 I2C Subsystem on Linux...................................................... 144
5.3.1 I2C Bus..................................................................... 145
5.3.2 I2C Software Architecture....................................... 147
5.4 USB Gadgets......................................................................... 152
5.4.1 USB Basics ............................................................... 153
5.4.2 Ethernet Gadget Driver........................................... 158
5.5 Watchdog Timer ................................................................... 161
5.6 Kernel Modules..................................................................... 162
5.6.1 Module APIs ............................................................ 162
5.6.2 Module Loading and Unloading ............................ 164
Notes ............................................................................................... 164
6 Porting Applications ............................................................................ 165
6.1 Architectural Comparison..................................................... 165
6.2 Application Porting Roadmap.............................................. 166
6.2.1 Decide Porting Strategy .......................................... 167
6.2.2 Write an Operating System Porting Layer
(OSPL) ...................................................................... 169
6.2.3 Write a Kernel API Driver ...................................... 170
6.3 Programming with Pthreads ................................................ 171
6.3.1 Thread Creation and Exit ....................................... 172
6.3.2 Thread Synchronization .......................................... 174
6.3.3 Thread Cancellation ................................................ 180
6.3.4 Detached Threads ................................................... 181
6.4 Operating System Porting Layer (OSPL)............................. 182
6.4.1 RTOS Mutex APIs Emulation.................................. 182
6.4.2 RTOS Task APIs Emulation .................................... 185
6.4.3 IPC and Timer APIs Emulation.............................. 191
6.5 Kernel API Driver................................................................. 191
6.5.1 Writing User-Space Stubs........................................ 194
6.5.2 Kapi Driver Implementation................................... 195
6.5.3 Using the Kapi Driver............................................. 199
Note................................................................................................. 200

Contents xiii
7 Real-Time Linux ................................................................................... 201
7.1 Real-Time Operating System ............................................... 202
7.2 Linux and Real-Time............................................................ 202
7.2.1 Interrupt Latency ..................................................... 203
7.2.2 ISR Duration ............................................................ 204
7.2.3 Scheduler Latency.................................................... 205
7.2.4 Scheduler Duration.................................................. 207
7.2.5 User-Space Real-Time ............................................. 209
7.3 Real-Time Programming in Linux ....................................... 209
7.3.1 Process Scheduling.................................................. 210
7.3.2 Memory Locking...................................................... 213
7.3.3 POSIX Shared Memory ........................................... 223
7.3.4 POSIX Message Queues.......................................... 225
7.3.5 POSIX Semaphores.................................................. 232
7.3.6 Real-Time Signals .................................................... 233
7.3.7 POSIX.1b Clock and Timers................................... 241
7.3.8 Asynchronous I/O................................................... 246
7.4 Hard Real-Time Linux.......................................................... 252
7.4.1 Real-Time Application Interface (RTAI)................. 253
7.4.2 ADEOS...................................................................... 258
8 Building and Debugging ...................................................................... 261
8.1 Building the Kernel.............................................................. 263
8.1.1 Understanding Build Procedure............................. 265
8.1.2 The Configuration Process...................................... 266
8.1.3 Kernel Makefile Framework................................... 268
8.2 Building Applications........................................................... 270
8.2.1 Cross-Compiling Using Configure.......................... 273
8.2.2 Troubleshooting Configure Script .......................... 274
8.3 Building the Root File System............................................. 275
8.4 Integrated Development Environment................................ 278
8.4.1 Eclipse ...................................................................... 279
8.4.2 KDevelop ................................................................. 279
8.4.3 TimeStorm................................................................ 279
8.4.4 CodeWarrior............................................................. 280
8.5 Debugging Virtual Memory Problems ................................ 280
8.5.1 Debugging Memory Leaks...................................... 282
8.5.2 Debugging Memory Overflows.............................. 286
8.5.3 Debugging Memory Corruption............................. 287
8.6 Kernel Debuggers................................................................. 291
8.7 Profiling................................................................................. 293
8.7.1 eProf—An Embedded Profiler................................ 294
8.7.2 OProfile .................................................................... 300

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8.7.3 Kernel Function Instrumentation ........................... 302
Notes ............................................................................................... 308
9 Embedded Graphics ............................................................................. 309
9.1 Graphics System ................................................................... 309
9.2 Linux Desktop Graphics—The X Graphics System........... 311
9.2.1 Embedded Systems and X...................................... 312
9.3 Introduction to Display Hardware ...................................... 313
9.3.1 Display System ........................................................ 313
9.3.2 Input Interface......................................................... 316
9.4 Embedded Linux Graphics .................................................. 316
9.5 Embedded Linux Graphics Driver ...................................... 316
9.5.1 Linux Frame Buffer Interface ................................. 317
9.5.2 Frame Buffer Internals............................................ 326
9.6 Windowing Environments, Toolkits, and Applications ..... 328
9.6.1 Nano-X ..................................................................... 335
9.7 Conclusion............................................................................. 340
Notes ............................................................................................... 340
10 uClinux ................................................................................................. 341
10.1 Linux on MMU-Less Systems............................................... 341
10.1.1 Linux Versus uClinux .............................................. 342
10.2 Program Load and Execution.............................................. 343
10.2.1 Fully Relocatable Binaries (FRB)............................ 345
10.2.2 Position Independent Code (PIC).......................... 345
10.2.3 bFLT File Format..................................................... 346
10.2.4 Loading a bFLT File ................................................ 347
10.3 Memory Management........................................................... 358
10.3.1 Heap......................................................................... 358
10.3.2 Stack ......................................................................... 363
10.4 File / Memory Mapping—The Intricacies of mmap( )
in uClinux ............................................................................. 364
10.5 Process Creation ................................................................... 365
10.6 Shared Libraries .................................................................... 367
10.6.1 uClinux Shared Library Implementation
(libN.so).................................................................... 367
10.7 Porting Applications to uClinux.......................................... 370
10.7.1 Creating uClinux Programs..................................... 370
10.7.2 Creating Shared Libraries in uClinux..................... 371
10.7.3 Using Shared Library in an Application................ 373
10.7.4 Memory Limitations................................................. 375
10.7.5 mmap Limitations.................................................... 375
10.7.6 Process-Level Limitations ........................................ 375

Contents xv
10.8 XIP—eXecute In Place......................................................... 375
10.8.1 Hardware Requirements ......................................... 377
10.8.2 Software Requirements ........................................... 378
10.9 Building uClinux Distribution.............................................. 378
Notes ............................................................................................... 380
Appendices
A Booting Faster ...................................................................................... 383
Techniques for Cutting Down Bootloader Initialization............. 384
Tuning Kernel for Decreased Boot-Up Time .............................. 385
Tuning User Space for Decreased Boot-Up Time ...................... 385
Measuring Boot-Up Time .............................................................. 386
B GPL and Embedded Linux ................................................................... 387
User-Space Applications ................................................................ 387
Kernel.............................................................................................. 388
Points to Remember ...................................................................... 389
Notes ............................................................................................... 390
Index ............................................................................................................ 391

xvii
Foreword
The industrial revolution appears as a knife-edge change from a rural self-
employed lifestyle to a clock-punching, whistle-blowing corporate urban way
of life. Being in the middle of the current revolution makes it hard to realize
that in fifty years most people will consider the messy, dynamic, no-rules
embedded product development environment of today as an obvious clean
transition caused by technological changes.
The first embedded software project I worked on didn’t use an off-the-
shelf operating system—there was none. It wasn’t until several years later that
WindRiver introduced VxWorks®. In the mid-1990s it appeared that nothing
could unseat VxWorks; yet, recently WindRiver announced a Linux-based
product. Why the change? Today the most common embedded operating
system used in new products is Linux.
For fourteen years I was part of a small army of firmware engineers working
on the development of HP LaserJet™ printers. The printer used a homegrown
operating system that as I recall was called LaserJet O.S. Usually the very best
engineers worked on supporting and extending the operating system. Any
LaserJet O.S. documentation that existed, engineers had created. Any test suite
was similarly a burden placed on the engineer’s shoulders. The effort and
expense of these highly talented engineers seldom led to any features that
differentiated the product from the competitors. The most important lesson I
learned from the experience was to always put your most talented engineers
on the features that make your product unique and outsource the infrastruc-
ture. Embedded Linux is often the best choice for the operating system
infrastructure for products needing nontrivial connectivity.
Whether you support Linux in-house or purchase a Linux board support
package for your processor, you will still need to understand the overall system
and at times the details of a particular subsystem. In this book the authors
have done a good job fitting all the pieces together that are necessary for
embedded Linux development. The book discusses topics such as board
support packages, embedded storage, and real-time Linux programming in

xviii Embedded Linux System Design and Development
depth. Embedded graphics and uClinux are also explained with clarity. The
book is a good attempt to address the concerns of an embedded Linux
developer.
The rapid growth of Linux as the top choice for an embedded operating
system in new products is in part due to the ease of using embedded Linux
to replace homegrown operating systems. Although this book is specifically
for running Linux on embedded systems it can also be used as a guide to
port a system from a traditional RTOS or homegrown operating system to
embedded Linux. It may be the need for TCP/IP networking, USB support,
SecureDigital support, or some other standard that causes a company to dump
their current operating system and switch to Linux. But it is the joy of
developing with Linux that keeps the engineers promoting it for future
products.
An astounding amount of Linux information is available on the Web. I
suspect it is the most extensively documented software ever. How can a book
about embedded Linux provide value over what is already available? First, the
scope of embedded Linux and related applications is so large that getting a
feel for what is available and what can be done is challenging. Seeing all the
pieces separately and working together can help you make sense of the
embedded Linux ecosystem. Second, there are technical reasons for needing
the right information. In an embedded device, the bootloader, kernel, and file
system containing the applications all need to be developed in concert for
the solution to work properly. Understanding the interdependencies and
getting the development environment to properly build all three images is not
straightforward. Also, when you encounter a problem, understanding the tools
available to debug the problem and knowing the techniques used for debug-
ging embedded devices can save a significant amount of time and effort.
Finally, the best reason for reading this book on embedded Linux is because
the technology is so fascinating. Anyone who had developed embedded
products the old way, with one single executable image, will be amazed at
the flexibility and power of using embedded Linux. Anyone new to embedded
development will find most of the power and flexibility available on their
desktop PC works the same in their embedded development environment.
Todd Fischer
President and Founder
Cadenux

xix
Preface
When we were in college in the mid-1990s we heard of an exciting new
technology called the Internet that was to have a profound impact on our
lives. Along with the Internet we also heard of an open source operating
system, Linux, which was being developed by hundreds of programmers
around the world. Linux gave us an opportunity to understand the internals
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY EPIC ***

The TWENTIETH
CENTURY
EPIC
By R. B. Garnett
THE ROXBURGH PUBLISHING CO., INC.
Boston

Copyrighted 1914
By REUBEN BRODIE GARNETT
All Rights Reserved

Dedication
To the human race this little book is
dedicated, with the hope that it may bring
some cheer, and also teach you a few things
that may lessen your burdens. The subjects
that I have put into rhyme are presented as
they come to me from my life of experience.
My criticisms may appear too severe, but
remember that only your truest friends are
allowed to tell you of your faults.
REUBEN BRODIE GARNETT.
The TWENTIETH
CENTURY EPIC

Preface
By the Author.
This poem that I have dignified with the term epic, was written by
inspiration, and is dedicated to the human race. I have used the
term epic with no intention of assuming a dignity not due my
production; but, in the sense that the precepts and warnings
contained therein, have a lofty purpose; and are graphically set forth
in the plainest words in the English language.
I have not indulged in similes or hyperboles; nor does my epic
abound with those picturesque figures of comparison found in
Homer or Virgil, nor those cadences and swells found in The
Paradise Lost, describing the headlong falls and gigantic flights of
those god-like personages peopling the heavens and earth in the
poetic mind; nor does my inspiration come from muse or divine
breath; nor did it descend upon me from above; on the contrary, it
sprang up out of the deep feeling I have for my kind, especially
those in the strained walks of life.
Our twentieth century shows society in the process of centralizing
itself; and, gradually forcing us into legal socialism. This is plainly
shown in the poem. The process of centralization, for years, worked
slowly in this country. As long as the influence of the founders of our
Republic was potent, liberty was dominant.
The first step in this process was the inauguration of a general
system of free public schools. The direct result of this free education
was to overcrowd the book and head portion of our population at
the expense of the producing classes, making it harder for the clerk
to make a bare living. The idea of every parent now seems to be
that his or her offspring is especially adapted to the learned
professions and to society.

This was also the first step towards the diversion of public funds to
private enterprise. The appropriation of public moneys to the
extensive and widening fields of private affairs has progressed
rapidly in the last decade. This, with its evils, is vividly set forth in
my poem. Unless this is checked by united, immediate action,
socialism will increase more rapidly in the future than in the past, is
my prophecy. This results from the fact that the tax-eaters are the
ones who manipulate our bond elections.
The result is plain, and can be predicted with certainty; the end of
socialism will be the extreme opposite and, that you all know is
anarchy. When everything is so striking that nothing strikes, or in
other words, when there are more laws than we can possibly
tolerate, we’ll naturally rebel and kick them all over; all, as shown in
this epic. The last transition will likely be accomplished by bloodshed
and strife.
The laws for the management of society in a state of complete legal
socialism will be so numerous and complicated; and the bureaus so
haughty and domineering that freemen will not try to learn them,
much less obey them. In fact, no one can now keep pace with the
rapid production of laws under our incipient socialism. The fight I
make is to break off now and go back to fundamentals, as shown in
my poem.
As against socialism or anarchy I deliberately prefer the latter; but,
as against both of them I prefer a government of limited powers,
based exclusively on natural laws that I have so forcibly defined in
this work; with a complete abandonment of the barbarous idea of
punishment for crimes by criminal courts; the man who commits a
crime is to be pitied and helped to a more sane mode of existence,
and not be driven into perpetual criminality. As to how he shall be
handled can be better settled when we clear ourselves of our false
notions on the subject.
Our legal servants, we call officers, are now deteriorating with great
rapidity, as set forth in this poem under “Names.” My remedy for that
is to cut down the salaries of all officers from President down, so low

that no one will seek office for money. Then have the laws such that
men will be selected and compelled to serve, by public sentiment,
for short terms and take out part of their pay in patriotism and good
will.
My observation, over a number of years, shows that the higher the
salary, the more inefficient the officer. High salaries also give birth to
gangs of politicians who fatten off the public funds and salaries of
their appointees, making graft semi-respectable.
Honesty in public and private life seems to me to be very desirable;
and, it could be so easily attained, as set forth in my epic. Of course,
under our prevailing system, honesty is out of the question; and if
any of you think that I have not convicted you of dishonesty, as
defined under that topic, please send me your photograph to be
used herein.
In writing this poem I have no malice in my heart for a single human
being on earth; and, if in any way I have touched upon any of your
pet notions or sacred ideas, and thereby wounded your feelings, I
sincerely ask your forgiveness; with me all truth is sacred. I have no
ill-will against preachers, lawyers, or doctors; I wrote you up to
make you think, and also to let you know you were not fooling me.
In conclusion, I say to you one and all, as brothers and fellow
citizens, let’s work together to save the greatest country and the
greatest civilization on earth.
Let truth together bind us,
And supporting it find us.
REUBEN BRODIE GARNETT.
June 29, 1913.

I never shall appeal to any muse of old
To give inspiration to my story when it’s told,
But, in words all my own, shall my theme unfold;
And, for my love of man, I’ll tell you what I can;
Tell you what I know that you may truly scan
What to do and what to know for the good of man;
Tell you where to go, the places you should shun
On every working day, when your labor’s done.
In telling where to go I will not name the place
Where you should show your face, but let each run his race
And, for himself decide the spot to cast his lot.
I’ll point out mistakes to help put on brakes
Against the evils of our day one often makes.
From the Charlatan and all designing wise
Strip his robe of guise and expose him to your eyes.
The fawning sycophant and all his crafty kind
Will be painted so they’ll not be hard to find.
I’ll speak of laws and customs old with hoary age
Taught by rulers, priests, and many an ancient sage
That now are practically extinct with non-usage;
And regulations new that men had little to do
With bribes sometimes when they put them through
Legislative halls and Congress we’d now eschew.
I’ll speak to you about your manners
When you sometimes march with banners;
And even with hosannas sitting meekly in your pew
Revolving schemes against others you intend to do.
The roving politicians all seeking fat positions
To feed their hungry maws and all their kin-in-laws
Come in for their share when we divide the flaws.
Even the society genteel in their swift automobile
Had better beware their piccadillos to conceal.
Religions of every shade by ancients and moderns made
To subdue the gentle folk with all that they have said
This subject will meet its due before I’m through,
As I started out for things about that need review.

Theatres too, with music, painting and art,
Might all feel slighted not to have their part
In the criticism we bring as they my song may sing;
And the pictures my word recalls may be carved on walls
In the coming days as was done with other poet’s lays.
Developments in science where we place reliance
To alleviate the misdirection of our state
Should all be alluded to in the story we relate.
Wars, with all their frightful havoc spread
Where victorious and routed passed over dying and dead,
And peace too that came at last
That o’er the earth its healing blessings amassed
Should have a place when in plates my work is cast;
Also ethics, that practical theme so misunderstood,
Should here be elucidated for the general good;
And a few short digressions would not be out of place
In an Epic dedicated to and written for The Human Race.
But what is said under each head you may read,
So to my task the work shall proceed.

Take from your statute laws and books
All legal protection for thieves and crooks;
Your complicated bills of mechanics’ liens
That offer to rogues the ample means
The owners of houses with their demesnes
To make go down humbly into their jeans
For the jingly coin doubly to pay
The working man, and padded expenses defray.
Your unjust schemes of municipal taxation
That cause home owners such great vexation.
Your tax upon mortgages, bills and notes
Upon which the poor man’s title barely floats,
Causing him to pay levies upon his lands
As if they were clear like the rich man’s;
By increasing for him his interest and dues
Which the money sharks collect as they choose.
Your laws against usury one may take
Tend solely the poor man’s back to break.
You drive away the cheap money he might get,
And leave him at the mercy of that lawless set
Who fatten upon unfortunates suddenly thrown in debt.
Nearly all your laws for the collection of dues
Into our commercial life dishonesty infuse.
Your regulations of homestead, exemption and stay
Simply postpone our troubles to another day.
By intricate trials with their writs and pleas;
And copious objections about titles and fees,
Remainders absolute, contingent and entailed,
Upon technicalities numberless justice is impaled;
Your instructions, your errors and appeals,
Until the waiting, anxious litigant feels
That the door of the temple of justice is locked;
And his chance of right is securely blocked.
Your free legal aid and your festive welfare board,
Their matrons and clerks, a mighty hungry hoard,
Impose upon the payers of taxes a weighty load;

All for the purpose of sending over the road
Some unfortunate victim of their own slimy graft
Or some poor devil whom they kick “fore and aft.”
Your Juvenile court of which the kids make sport,
Where curtailed haired women and men hold the fort.
And such institutions the wits of man can devise
Are considered by Progressives as blessings in disguise.
Your tariffs for protection passed in Congress halls
To build all around us mighty Chinese walls,
Are sapping from the people their dear blood of life,
And making for politicians no end of deadly strife.
Your proctor with his aids to fight against divorce;
Who by his pugnacity is seeking to enforce
Unfortunate couples bound in unhappy wedded lock
To parade their troubles upon the public dock;
And to bind the chains anew they seek to dissever,
Holding them fast that he may be deemed clever,
In the estimation of all the Christian Endeavor;
And that class of persons who want now and forever
To meddle in the affairs of all whomsoever
Are not able to disclaim the care they obtain;
Who crowd upon the weak the blessings they do not seek;
All to achieve for themselves a home in the sky
When from their missions on earth they fly.
The Commissioners of Vice are pulling for a slice
Of fame as it goes by investigating those
Who employ many girls simply to keep them in hose
And such other fancy articles that they suppose
Will always make them shine when they go out to dine,
As a girl dressed up haply feels fine.
And now here comes Teddy with his big stick and hat
For damages to his soiled name in legal spat,
With a small newspaper man suing for a big chunk
Because he published that T. R. had been drunk.
To tell the names of men who are shams in our times
Would overload my epic with variegated rhymes:

The one named above is more than a man;
He stands for ideas, a party and a clan
Born of disappointment and just turned loose
Sailing under the banner of the Big Bull Moose.
This clique of theirs all swelling up to burst
Decry all our institutions to be the very worst.
They’d have our laws, judges and courts recalled,
And others to suit them forthwith installed.
They’d regulate the wages men have to pay,
Neglecting to tell the laborer he might be in the way
Unless his work he did should his employers pay;
For unless his production his pay did compensate
He and others would soon be off the slate.
They told us too in tones as loud as they could prate
How all the monied men and trusts they’d regulate,
Carefully hiding the man who was running their slate,
And supplying the funds for them to navigate.
The working man too his dinner pail they’d fill
Forgetting also to tell him to send in his bill.
They’d secure to all the women free right to vote,
So they could say to hubby: “We’ve got your goat.”
And volumes of such ideas upon us did they float
All too numerous in this article to quote.
Drop your silly custom not worn off by growth
That judicial bodies must put a witness to oath,
That all he says and all that he shall quote
Will be the truth and nothing but the truth,
About the matters he relates in his witness booth.
The reasons for this habit have long passed forsooth,
It deceives none on bench or in jury box;
It may occasionally aid some old, designing fox
To some youthful, verdant judge deceive
And, of some just debt himself relieve.
On the whole, it does more harm than good
As at present the thing is generally understood:
For in a contested suit with one who knows

Against a trembly one who partially shows
Some lingering faith in “Old Scare Crows,”
The inclination to lie and deceive in the one
Would surely be by the other simply outdone:
The one might be bound by the fears of hell
While the other swears away his lies to tell.
When the witness swears he’s perjured unawares,
For by his plight he must the whole truth reveal
By the rule he must more than half conceal.
Stop your fight for prohibition and do the fair thing;
Our people to temperance themselves will shortly bring.
Take taxes off whisky, wine, liquor and beer;
And, for the cause of temperance you needn’t have a fear.
Let all your marts and markets freely sell
Every kind of liquor they ever heard tell;
Let every one the stuff make from gulf to lake;
Make the price so cheap that with one leap,
Men will forsake the common thing to keep.
At one cent a drink the bar keeper will think
His saloon will sink and soon put him on the brink
Of finding some other way all his expenses to pay;
So out soon he goes not stopping his doors to close.
There still will be drinking and that keeps you thinking,
That by compulsion you can create a revulsion
In the taste of man heap sooner than you can.
The truth is, you’ve always tried in vain
All these cultivated tastes of man to restrain.
The more you try to force men good habits to acquire,
The more you stir up and increase his raging desire,
To show his freedom against which you conspire.
He’ll go to any extent which you’ll never prevent,
To get his booze on which his mind is bent;
He’ll keep his “blind tigers” and his wooden legs,
Hollowed out and neatly made with faucet of pegs,
His whisky he’ll conceal and feel he’s in the right;
So you’ll not stop him no matter how you fight.

The drunkard will drink no matter what you think,
At any cost no matter if you consider him lost.
Make the price so cheap that for his family’s keep,
He’ll still be ahead to buy his folks their bread.

A Digression
I used to tell my friends what I was going to do,
And right away they’d say, “I wouldn’t if I were you.”
I know of once or twice by taking their advice,
A good deal I lost at a distressing cost.
Take my advice; choose your own course to pursue,
And, when you get your plan, just put it through,
And then tell no other man what you’ve been up to.
Then if you succeed you will never need,
Anybody else to claim part of your deed.
Even if you fail, don’t furl up your sail
Nor put your head under the bottom rail,
But try once more just the same as before.

Listen to this story about a little girl,
Who came into the world a short time ago.
I remember the day, only a few months or so;
It was in the month of March over a year;
When all trembling with hope and fear,
We did for her watch—all sincere.
At night she came, and without any name,
Because we did not know what her sex would be;
But at her scream, the doctor said “she”;
And, then, we all at once knew what to do;
About naming her the course to pursue.
We left it to her mother, herself a little bride,
This weighty matter of naming all to decide.
We told her all the names we did hear or see,
But she rejected them all and called her Dorothy.
So Dorothy’s my theme her grandmother’s dream,
During all those years when those babes of hers,
Us did come to see, and, now she still avers,
That she watched through the passing years
Looking to see if one of hers a girl might be,
But they were boys, the whole blessed three.
Now Dorothy’s here to fill our home with cheer
By her little, prattling talk and her shambling walk,
By her little tricks she plays in her winning ways,
Pulling off your hat and fumbling your cravat,
Knocking over chairs, trying to go upstairs,
Picking all the flowers for grandpa to smell,
And more other things than tongue or pen can tell.
She’s a little sprite and good for our sight.
But here I must pause and sadly say,
That one evil day a swelling came on her neck,
We thought for sure had come from us to take
The little brat, and all our hearts to break.
But the good doctor came and now she’s the same
As she was before the blasted swelling came.
May I never see the day till my race on earth is run

When any evil at all shall befall this little one.
Many of you have plenty of such chaps,
That jump up and down upon your laps,
Who are just as pretty and just as sweet;
And you walk with them upon the street,
To the market and to the drug store,
Where you buy food stuffs for them galore,
Just the same as I do for mine o’er and o’er.
But still with me a great difference I see,
Between your brats and my Dorothy,
And the reason that you do not with me agree
Is simply because you are you and I am me.

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