Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1920 — AN OMINOUS OUTLOOK. [ARTICLE]

AN OMINOUS OUTLOOK.

•Things have come to a doggone pretty pass!” grumbled Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge, Ark. “Before the war I could buy plug terbacker for from 35 to 50 cents a pound, so rich and juicy and full of ambeer that a feller could sit and kill a fly with it plumb acrost the room. Now, by cripes, I pay 90 cents to $1.25 for something they call terbacker; no ’count, dry stuff, with no juice a-tall in it, skurcely. My children just nacher’ly eat It up, and then yell at me b’cuz they can’t spit over their own chins. Lemme tell you; these yur Infernal doin’s are what is going to bring on a revolution. I can’t hardly hold my kids nowI”