WHY HE VOTED “DRY.”
The story is told of an old village “toper” who w f ent to the poll one polling day declaring that he was going to vote for Prohibition. The bystanders scoffed and sneered at him when he cast a temperance vote. “A pretty temperance voter you are,” said one. “Why, if there was a bottle of whisky at the top of that pole, and if you could have the whisky by climbing the pole at the risk of your life, you know you’d climb.” The drunkard straightened himself up as best he could, and said; “Know” it! Oh, yes, I know’ it! And I know’ another thing, gentlemen: If the whisky wasn’t there I wouldn’t climb.” My business and yours is to see that the liquor isn't there. —“Grit.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 30, Issue 362, 18 August 1925, Page 5
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