The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-09-24
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Our good friend OF The New Haven
Register is worrying somewhat over
the appellation OF "The Nutmeg state"
to Connecticut. A. writer In The New
York Tribune goes somewhat extern
sively into the matter and proves to
his own satisfaction at least that the
megs Of wood which they mixed with
the genuine article and peddied them
among the unsuspecting people as the
real products Of the tropics hence the
nickname which has become so 4firmly
attached to the old State.
But The Register is not satisfied and
wants to know of the writer where did
he get the evidence to support this
theory OF the manufacture and sale OF
the wooden nutmee2 We have heard
it before Of course. and we all proudly
wear the wooden article when we visit
other parts OF the world as delegates
to conventions. thus in sense perpet-
uating the tradition. but that does not
answer the question Here is maH.
who. with all OF the paraphernalia Of
! his trade. states 1t is fact that our
progenitors were the original fakirs
and aduItefators OF food. He not only
says that their thrift, which we should
call their theft. led them to meet the
nutmeg trade with wooden counter
feits. but that they fed their own
horses with wooden oats, which is
neither thrift nor theft but stupidity.
Where does he get the evidence to sup
port this assertion? We are ready to
admit that our progenitors were queer
birds In many ways. brutal in other
ways and prodigal in several ways, but
there is no evidence worth the paper
it is written on to prove that they were
traders in wooden nutmegs."
Our contemporary may as well pos
sess its soul in peace. The name of
Nutmeg State" is fastened on to Con-
iecticut and there 1t will remain as
long as water runs or leaves grow.
Somebody once said that the word Ala
bana means "Ifere We Rest" and
though there Is no foundation for the
legend. and though 1t has been repeat
ediv disproven. 1t c1tngs on with the
tenacity of burr to a Sleeps TAIL and
we suppose it always will find some be- |
levers.
Just SO with Connecticut's appeliation |
The famous laws of the Modes and Per-
SLAMS we're not more invulnerable than |
is The Nutmeg State" Still. we can't |
say that we blame the people UP there |
for feeling rufffed about 1t, for II the |
story As true 1t has two bad features to |
only one good one, especially when we |
take in the woodsn oats referred to. It |
certainly required remarkable degree
OF skill and Ingenuity to Manufacture |
nutmegs that would pass for genuine,
or oats that would fool horse but that |
very ingenuity is reflection ON the |
honestly of the artisans. That is one
bad feature OF the business, and the |
other lies In the fact that the people |
OF Connecticut were SO simple as to al |
low themselves guiied into buying the !
limitations
And so. however disquieted The Reg /
lister may be, and however anxious 1t I
may be to see the preposterous nut
meg tradition expelled" we are very |
decidedly of the opinion that the time
will never come II may be that me 4
story is d SANDER on the people OF the I
State, past and present without q !
shodow of truth behind It, but It viii
stick just The same.