Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1913 — Penalty of Having Too Much Rope. [ARTICLE]

Penalty of Having Too Much Rope.

“I note that Mexico is again peeved at the United States,” commented Batsin Garrett. "This reminds me of the familiar yarn of the negro who waß about to be hanged for the murder of another negro, and after a lengthy and rambling farewell to the world addressed the widow who, fat, black and pessimistic, Bat in front of the scaffold: ‘De Lawd in his infinite wisdom has done fuhgiven muh sins and innlckerties, and now I axes yo’, Sistah Wadklnß, to fuhglve me. and —’ ‘Aw, git hung, nigger!’ impatiently interrupted the bereaved lady. ‘Git hung!’ Mexico having been given an abundance of rope, I am grimly awaiting the inevitable outcome. I am of the same attitude of mind, too, toward the person or persons, as the case may be, who has or have, been so long messing with and muddling up the gas situation." —Kansas City Star.