The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-04-06

stock an look after tie yos tibet wus
lamin. / he'd bin redin the demercary
and seem it edith wus In fer the
vets, an his sly jabs at the drys not
bin convincin to me l decided 1
would GO to town an hear tibet man
from Chicago tell folks how to vote.
So / hitched up old Doll an went.
Of course I thot any man from
the great Chicago could help us a
mighty sight in reachin conclusions.
A lawyer intordooced the speaker
nv the occashun by sayin tibet the
business men of the city he'd called
the meetin. Then as if he feared
some NV the business men might OBJ
iect he said, quick an sudden like,
thet sum of the business men he'd
called it.
Well. expected tibet some one, a
minister perhaps. would be called to
open the meetin with prayer, to ask
Gods blessin upon the saioons-but
they wasn't. On the way hum Bill
Spriggins sed them fellers opened
their meetiis with corkscrews.
Well. the Teller from Chicago
figertivly sptakin, tuk off his coat
rolltd up his sleeve, spit on his hand
and made the chips fly. (Bill salt
he guessed thty was poker chips the.
About the first thing he said wus BIT
tibet pronibishum wus oncristian. II
Just pitched into all the drys an
lambasttd prohibishum worse than [
ever licked tibet kitchen COW / he'd
last winter. Ever time the club came
down II swished the air worse then
old Dolls tail in fly time. Pro-
hibishun didn't cry out nor strike
back nor nuthin. An so he pounded
her till ne wore hisself out. l
thought shure he would kill her, but
he didn't.
When the dust cleared away and
he made a perlise bow as the to
apologize to us fur whit he he'd sed
and fell back into the arms Nv his
admirers alost faintin amid thund
erous Ct believe tibet is the word)
applaus Their wus prohibishun wreath
ed in smiles and as putry as ever.
By gum. he hedn Il hurt her at all .
/ jest felt like THROWN up my hat an
yellin. But the meetin didn't belong
to met belonged to Mr.. Swindle
and three or four other fellers who
swarmd around him like vale,
jackets around bruised apple.
But it wus amusin to hear him
plead for the poor farmers. Wunct
he'd to put my handkerchief to my
eyes eff it wusn't very clean When
/ told Mandy about it when I got
home (Mandy's my wife) she said
the farmers wud show him what
they thought of the whisley bizness
they would too. They would knock
If they had chance to vote. And
1T higher than tibet chicken hawk flew
tibet TUX our chickens last summer.
Well, to git back to that Chicago
Teller again. He talked awful meas
about prohibishun He said pro
hibishun was contrary to mater. I
knowed better than that for mater
herself prohibits some things. Mater
won ( grow crop NV taters ii. the
vires air ct by bugs. Mater won {
prosper town morally anr CONNER
sllally if it : bein de-.urc.l -.
saloons.
Sum sa.- II ey make bizt...s They
do make buzness fer a twon Jest Ike
fees make bizness fer my dowg
Mater perhibits mules frum properga-
tin Their species. She stops things
when they don't go to suite her
Boys won't grow up to be useful men
an men won't be good husbuns an
fathers tibet hang aroun saloons. Il
Is contrary to mater.
He said he wuz temperance man
He said prohibishun was insult to
manhood, thet it destroyed human
equality, thet it wuz contrary to the
divine order and the scripters Che
WIZ great on the scripters) tibet it
wuz An enemy to labor and a hull lot
of other things. he said tibet Christ
hisself did not think it wrong to get
tipsy or he wouldn't made wine at
the feast at Cany. I say old Doll
would no better then tibet.
He said tibet Jefferson an Lincoln
wuz agin prohibition. / say he
slandered those men Lincoln wus q
prohibitionist. He said the saloon
was cancer and must be DESTROYED
He fred the slaves and the people of
the sounth said he wuz a iaterferin
with thear liberties. The Almitv il
prohibitionist. He put Adam an
Eve under a prohibitory law. Moses
put prohibition in The ten command
munts.
When / went to bed last n;ta !