Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 10, 2025
Shortly after this editorial, entitled "Carthage, California" appeared, the Intelligencer swung to the opposite side and Le ffaçasé offered the prosalt argument under the heading "Lot's Wife." The Daughters of the American Revolution declared themselves in favor of salt and refused the use of Constitution Hall to an antisalt meeting.
There arose a bitter antisalt faction taking pleasure at hurling sneers at these optimistic predictions and delight in demolishing the arguments. Miss Francis, they said, who ought to know more about it than anyone else, claimed the grass would break down even the most stable compound and take what it needed. Well, salt was a compound, wasnt it?
Fistfights started in taverns over the question and judicious bartenders served beer without offering the objectionable seasoning with it. The Intelligencer, at the start, was vehemently antisalt. "Is there an American Cato," Le ffaçasé asked, "to call for the final ignominy suffered by Carthage to be applied, not to the land of an enemy, but to our own?"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking