The Saloon-Keeper's Ledger; a Series of Temperance Revival Discourses
The Saloon-Keeper's Ledger; a Series of Temperance Revival Discourses
Banks Louis Albert
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And so again the dirty hand of the liquor saloon grips party conventions and legislatures by the throat, and turns legislation into license instead of prohibi- tion. It reminds me of a dime museum advertise- ment which I used to see on the fences over in Massachusetts, which declared that there wag in one of the museums of Boston a two-headed man. The advertisement, which probably lied, said that the man had two well-formed heads and two necks, but that the necks ran down into one stomach, so t...hat he had only one pair of arms, and one pair of legs. When he ate and drank, talked and sang, or when he prayed or cursed, he was two men ; but when it came to digesting his food, or to going about, he was only one man. He could be two men while he Digitized by V300QIC DEBTOR TO POLITICAL CORRUPTION. 10$ was sitting still talking ; but when he got up to go and accomplish anything, there was only one pair of legs that carried off the whole mena- gerie. Now I say, with all due respect to the great political parties — and every man should treat great combinations of his fellow-men with re- spect — that the condition of the Democratic party in the South, and the condition of the Republican party in the North, seem to me to be aptly illustrated by that figure.
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