“1 cannot speak for temperance more effectually,” said Booker Washington, “than* to ...quote old Uncle Colhoun Web,l|er. He said: ‘When I sees a going home wid a gallon o’ whiskey and a half-pound o’ meat, dat’s temperance lecture enough fur me —and 1 sees it ebery day. And I knows that ebery thing in dat house am on de £&iue scale —a gallon o’ misery to ebery halfpound o’ comfort.’ ”*■■■
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2066, 11 December 1919, Page 2
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