Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1889 — Free [??] [ARTICLE]

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•ft* Ml |Mtiii nninin— m Hcnm ■riling" Mod a sharp reporter to • Bhloonut. “Are you m favor of trot tiros ?* 'Well, I ihonld smile,* anavrered tha barkeeper. "I think this oavm'rj is the hoaae of liberty, and I believe trmrj MM should hare a right to driat what ho pleases, and irhere he pleases, absolutely fpee, and all legislation to the •ontrary u snmptaaiy and therefore aa* eonstitatioaaL ” “You want to be so recorded?* “You bet your sweet life.* “All right; now I’ll take a glass of champagne; that kind yon sell at 26 cents." It was set out for him, and he poured ■ down and poured another in on top if it and started off. “Hold on,” said the bartender, “yon twe me half a dollar." “No, I don’t; didn’t you Just say yon believed in free liquor, and that anything to the contrary is sumptuary and unconstitutional? If there’s anything I do like to see it is a man who lives up to his principles,” and he walked out, wiping his mouth on his coat sleeve, and leaving the saloon man to study up the law points of the esse.