1930 The Saloon in the Home
but nothing was said until the smell from the package became so disagreeable that it was opened and the ingenious but dis– creditable fraud was discovered. Temperance Almanac, i869.
AN APPRECIATION OF NEW ENGLAND I SEE much to admire in New England. I like your skule– houses, your meetin-houses, your enterprise, gumpshun &c., but your favrite bevridge disgusts me; I allude to N:ew England rum. It is wus nor the korn-whisky of Injianny which eats threw stone jugs and will turn the stummick of the most shiftless hog. I seldom seek consolashun in the flowin bole, but t'other day I swallered down sum of your rum. The fust glass endused me to sware like a infooriated trooper. On takin the sekond glass I was seezed with a desire to brake winders; and after imbibin a third, I knockt a small boy down and pict his pocket. People of New England, adoo. From Artemus Ward. Q.UITE SO! "" - W E have no interest in either party and nothing against them unless they get in the way of this child of the church. If they do we do not care by what name they are called, we will trample them under foot and destroy them forever. Report of speech by Clarence True Wz'lson, N. Y. Tz"mes, July Ist, i929.
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