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Butler's family, he was "anti-everything," including smoke, yet he mentions constantly in his Personal Narrative that in Syria during his missionary journey there in 1830-3, the fact was that he himself smoked in the fashion of the country, and by no means disliked it in his own young manhood. He begins on the Temperance and Teetotal question thus: "Llandudno, "17th Sept., 1863.
On Sunday she hears Stephen Archer, the great Quaker preacher, who was at the head of a large Friends' boarding-school at Tarrytown, and says: He is a much younger man than I expected to see, and wears a sweet smile on his face.... The people about here are anti-Abolitionist and anti-everything else that's good.
. . . have maintained and consolidated our position in the captured trench. EXTRACT FROM OFFICIAL DESPATCH. Number nine-two-ought-three-six, Sapper Duffy, J., 'A' Section, Southland Company, Royal Engineers, had been before the War plain Jem Duffy, labourer, and as such had been an ardent anti-militarist, anti-conscriptionist, and anti-everything else his labour leaders and agitators told him.
I was becoming known, and smiled at mockingly, for my earnest devotion to the extreme of the Daily Gazette's policy, which, if it made for anything, made, I suppose, for anti-nationalism, anti-militarism, anti-Imperialism, anti-loyalty, and anti-everything else except State aid by which was meant the antithesis of aid of the State.
He was, in a sense, "anti-everything," and though, sometimes through the training of previous environments, sometimes through other reasons, he was "anti" things that were right and of good report, he was never against social reform never against "the cause that needs assistance"; never against the oppressed wherever and whenever they crossed his path.
He was often wrong; but never cowardly, never philandering, never vacillating. "I am anti-everything," as he said humorously of himself. And so he was.
Jolly idea, isn't it?" Bleak was aghast at the temerity of the man. Bishop Chuff, the fanatical leader of the Anti-Everything League jocosely known as the Pan-Antis was the most feared man in America. It was he whose untiring organization had forced prohibition through the legislatures of forty States had closed the golf links on Sundays had made it a misdemeanor to be found laughing in public.
"He's anti-everything everything, I mean, which experience has established or prudence could suggest." "In addition he wants to sell the navy for old iron and abolish the army." "Yes," said Dick, nodding his head amicably. "He's like that. He thinks that without an army and a navy we should be less aggressive. I can't deny it." "I should think not indeed," cried Mr. Chubble.
Bourron possesses twelve hundred and odd souls, most of whom are peasants who make a living out of their small patrimony. Destined perhaps one day to rival its neighbour Marlotte in popularity even to become a second Barbizon it is as yet the sleepiest, most rustic retreat imaginable. The climate would appear to be not only anti-asthmatic but anti-everything in the shape of malady.
The Westphalians seem to go on the let-us-alone principle; they seem to be anti-everything from Bismarck and Protestantism downward. I sang the last evening of our stay here. The piano belonging to this hunting-lodge is as old as the alte Herr, and must have been here for years, and even at that must be an heirloom.
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