Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1882 — How One Phrase Originated. [ARTICLE]

How One Phrase Originated.

The phrase “acknowledge the corn” is variously accounted for, but the following is a true history of its orign : In 1828, Andrew Stewart, M. C., said in a speech that Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana sent their hay-stacks, cornfields and fodder to New York and Philadelphia for sale. Wickliffe, of Kentucky, called him to order, declaring those States did not send haystacks or cornfields to New York for sale. “Well, what do you send?” inquired Stewart. “Why, hor.-cs, mulps, cattle and hogs.” “Weil, what makes your horses, mules, cattle and hogs? You feed SIOO worth of hay to a horse ; jou just animate and get up on top of your haystack and ride off to market. How' is it with your cattle? You make one of them carry SSO worth of hay and grass to the Eastern market; how much corn does it take at 33 cents

a bushel, to fatten a hog?” “Why, thirty bushels.” “Then you put that thirty bushels into the shape of a hog and make it walk off to the Eastern market.” Then Mr. Wickliffe jumped up and said: “Mr. Speaker, I acknowledge the corn,”