Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1899 — To Protect Admiral Dewey. [ARTICLE]

To Protect Admiral Dewey.

A club of old bachelors in Joplin, Mo., in a recent meeting discussed pro and con the matter of taking Admiral Dewey in personal charge when he comes to tbe states to visit, and unanimously adopted the following set of resolutions after dne deliberation: “Whereas, The custom of indiscriminate kissing is deemed by medical anthorities to be dangerous to health; “Whereas, The gallantry of the American saiior is susceptible to woman’s charms, and the tendency of woman is toward hero worehqp; “Whereas, As we realize that late manifestations of this tendency, as exemplified by the wholesale kissing of Lieut. Hobson, at Chicago, Kansas City, and elsewhere, while enronte to Manila, may become chronic and may endanger the lives of oar naval heroes; “Whereas, Admiral Dewey, the hero of Manila, is soon to visit America, where he will incur the danger of being “Hobsonized, by women of ull ages, temperaments and nationalities; “Whereas, if osculation of Admiral Dewey is inflicted in proportion to that accorded to the young hero of the ’Merry Smack,’ the greatest naval offioer of the age will run the danger of being kissed to death; therefore be it “Be it resolved that the Bachelor’s elnb of Joplin, Mo., sends to Admiral Dewey a baseball catcher’s mask, to be worn by him when he returns to the United States, as a protection against a kissing onslaught of the fair sex.”