Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1908 — Don’t Be a Goat. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Be a Goat.

An Indianapolis dispatch says: “There is a movement on foot among democratic metnbers of the j legislature to get the republicans to | take the initiative in bringing about a repeal of the county local option law, if it is repealed at all. Some of the democratic members of the house are behind the scheme.’’ it is related by an ancient writer named Aesop that a fox once fell in a well. To extricate himself he invited a goat who peered curiously into the well to come down and take a drink. He said the water was the most delicious he ever tasted. The goat leaped down, and the fox, using the goat’s horns for a ladder, sprang out of his ugly predicament The goat then appealed to the fox to help him out, but the fox jeeringly replied, “If you had half as much brains as you have beard you would have looked before you leaped.” Moral: Republicans should not let their whiskers outgrow their gray matter during the coming session.— Monticello Herald.