This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... and opened the meeting. Before introducing him he told Bragg he might talk to the club on any subject except politics or religion, that politics included the question of prohibition or license. His reason for this he stated to be that the last speaker was a fanatical prohibitionist, and went so far as ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... and opened the meeting. Before introducing him he told Bragg he might talk to the club on any subject except politics or religion, that politics included the question of prohibition or license. His reason for this he stated to be that the last speaker was a fanatical prohibitionist, and went so far as to argue that the sale of all kinds of liquors should be prohibited by law, which, if done, would entirely destroy the drug business, "And," continued Dr. Waters, "there is no telling how far the extravagant idiot might have gone if Deacon Goodenough hadn't called him to order." With that explanation he introduced Mr. Bragg. Mr. Bragg began: "I will tell you how I got to drinking. Years ago, when I was a young man, I was helping grade a railroad down among the Catskill Mountains. I shantied out down there in the wilderness with twenty others. Every one drank, lied, swore and played cards but me. I-went to bed many a night and slept on straw between two drunken men, when I was the only sober person in the shanty. They would call me up nearly every hour in the night to get pepper tea and salt and water for them. Sometimes a whip-poorwill would perch himself on the corner of the shanty, in the middle of the night, and pipe his shrill notes, and the way those fellows would wake up and swear at him makes me shudder yet. One night the boys were having a terrible spree. Two of the most intoxicated, Frank Ruff and Bill Savage, were determined to fight. They staggered up to each other, clenched and fell of their own weight, each swearing the most fearful oaths that he would kill the other, but both were so drunk and weak that they could not kill a fly with their combined forces." (Tremendous applause.) "One day the...
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