Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1899 — Greeley’s Rebuke. [ARTICLE]

Greeley’s Rebuke.

Apropos of the proposed “AngloAmerican Alliance,” the story of Horace Greeley’s neat rebuke of the Englishman who once agreed with him too literally, may be worth telling. Mr. Greeley was discussing, in a general company, the faults and needs of his own nation. “What this country needs,” said be, Jn his piping voice and Yankee accent, “is a real good licking!” It happened that there was an Englishman present, and he promptly said, with unmistakable English accent: “Quite right, Mr. Greeley, quite right The country needs a ‘licking.’ ” But Mr. Greeley, without glancing in the Englishman’s direction or seeming to pay any attention to the interruption. went on in the same squeaky tone: “But the trouble is, there's no nation that can give it to us!”—Youth’s Companion.