Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1916 — No Such Thing. [ARTICLE]

No Such Thing.

John L. Sullivan said in a temperance address In Chicago: “Too many people are like the London navvy. In London, you know, the saloons are only open now an hour in the morning, an hour or so at nson, and another hour in the evening. The navvy didn’t like this. “No, the navvy didn’t like It, and he was expressing himself very forcibly about it one night at the Marble Arch, when a stranger said: “‘But, friend, the workin’ clawses need to economize these ’ere war times. Don’t you know there’s too much money altogether spent on unnecessary beer?” “ ‘Unnecessary beer?’ roared the navvy. ‘Unnecessary beer? Why, there ain’t no sech thing!’ ”