The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-06
IMPORTANCE OF THE PIG.
How One Caused the War of 1871:

From st. Nicholas.
1t all happened in this wise: Two citizens
of Providence, r. l., fell into a most un
seernly discussion on account of the lawless
trespassings of pig owned by one of them.
The aggrieved party possessed very fac
garden, in which it was his custom to spend
his hours of leisure, wedding, grating and
transplanting the flowers and vegetables in
which he delighted. But often, as he en-
tered his garden in the evening his ears
would tie Saluted with grunt and rustic,
| and the fat form of his neighbours pig
might be seen making hasty flight from
| the garden in which it had been placidly
roofing all day.
In high dudgeon the gardener sought his
neighbor and complained Of the pigs fire.
l quent visits, declaring that a little time
| spent in repairing the pig -sty would restrain
| the animals rowing propensities. But to this
| the owner of the pig responded that If his
neighbor would keep his rickety fences In
proper repair, the pig might take its daily
airing without temptation, and the garden
would not be endangered.
Repeated misdeeds on the part of the pig
famed the smoldering fires of dissension
into the flames of open hostility. At last
| the crisis came. The owner of the garden,
rising unusually early one morning, discov-
cred the pig contentedly munching the last
of fine bed of tulip-bulbS. Flesh and
blood could stand it no longer. Selling a
| pitch fork which lay near at hand, the out
ragged gardener plunged its sharp tines into
| the hapless pig and bore the body, thus
fatally impaled, to the sty, where it met the
| gaze of its owner an hour or two later.
| Thereafter it was war to the knife between
the two neighbors.
Now what had all this to do with the war
| of 1912? The answer is simple. The two
neighbors belonged to the political party
known as the federalists.
Through all the outrages that Great
| Britain inflicted upon the United States;
| while seamen were being impressed, Ameri-
can vessels stopped on the high seas, and
while every possible indignity was being
| committed against the flag of the United
| States, the federalists remained friendly to
Great Britain, and contested every PROPOSE
ton for the declaration of war.
But tie democratic party was eager for
war, and as British oppression became more
unbearable the strength of the democrats
increased 1t so happened that the election
district in which the two neighbors lived
had been about equally divided between
democrats and federali,ts, but the latter
| party had always succeeded in carrying the
election. But in 1911 the owner of the gar
den was a candidate for the legislature on
the federalist ticket. His neighbor had al
WAYS voted that ticket; but now, with his
mind filled with the bitter recollection of
the death of his pig, he cast his ballot for
the democrat. When the ballots were
counted the democrat was found to DO
elected by majority Of one.
When the newly elected legislator took
his seat, his first duty was to vote for a
United States senator. He cast his vote
for the candidate of the democrats, who
was also elected by a majority Of one.
When this senator took his place i'll the
United States Senate he found the question
of war with Great Britain pending and
after long and bitter discussion it came to
a vote The democrats voted for war, and
| the federalists against it. As a result of the
voting. war was declared-again by ma
! jority of ono vote.