Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1913 — Conciliatory Mesmerism. [ARTICLE]

Conciliatory Mesmerism.

General Garfield once aptly illustrated, by quoting the following quotation from an old English nursery rhyme, the policy of those extrableached and super-superior patriots who sought to put down the rebelllqn with conciliatory mesmerism: "There was an old man who said, how Shall I fleet from this horrible eowt I will sit on the stile And continue to smile, Which may soften the heart of the COW."