VOX POPULI, VOX DEI.
A rich story is going the rounds about the Demooratio stateamon from Philadelphia, representatives Crawford and Mackin. Sponsler, the Constitutional orator of the House, was making a speech on the Bevenue Commission Bill to regulate tbe aiasasment of mercantile taxes, and closed with the quotation — " Vox populi, vox Dei." Crawford acd Mackin had both been listening with great admiration to Sponsler's rounded delivery, and Maokin, turning aside, cried to Crawford —" Al, wasn't that a fine olimax ?" " Oh, it was grand !" repUed the Eleventh Ward member. Mackin eyed Crawford suspiciously for a moment, and then offered to bat ten dollara that he did not know what he aaid. " I'll take that," said Crawford ; "of course I know what he said. It was ' Wox populi, toex Dei" and it means ' My God, my Ged, why hast thou forsaken me ?' " Maokin plunged his hand into his pooket, and meekly aaid—" There's the tenner, Al ; didn't know you were suoh a good Latin soholar."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4862, 29 November 1883, Page 4
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