liquor-votes

Updated: June 4, 2025

There wus a few the doctor, who knew how rum ruined men's bodies; and the minister, he knew how it ruined men's souls they two, and a few others, worked awful hard to get the saloons shut up. But the executor, who wanted the town to go license, so's he could make money, and thinkin' it would be for her interest in the end, hired votes with her money. Her money used to hire liquor-votes!

Marietta Holley - Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician