The Ku Klux couldn’t get much of a footing here in New York. If there
was some man they wanted to take out and Tar and Feather they wouldn’t
know where he lived. People move so often here their own folks don’t
know where they live.
And even if they found out the Elevator man in the Apartment wouldn’t
let ’em up.
See where there is bills up in Congress now to change the Constitution
all around, elect the President in a different way and have Congress
meet at a different time. It seems the men who drew up this thing
years ago didn’t know much and we are just now getting a bunch of real
fellows who can take that old Parchment and fix it up like it should
have been all these years. It seems it’s just been luck that’s got us
by so far. Now when they get the Constitution all fixed up they are
going to start in on the 10 Commandments, just as soon as they find
somebody in Washington who has read them.
See where they are talking about another Conference over here. The
Social Season in Washington must be lagging.
Well, I think they ought to have it. These Conferences don’t really do
any harm and they give certain Delegates pleasure. Of course nothing
they ever pass on is ever carried out. (Except in Greece, where
they are all carried out.) But each Nation gets a certain amount of
Publicity out of it, and us masses that read of it get a certain amount
of amusement out of it.
Borah himself admits he don’t know what it’s for or what they should
do. But it looks like a good Conference season and there is no reason
why we shouldn’t get in on one.
BESIDES, DID YOU EVER REALIZE THIS COUNTRY IS 4 CONFERENCES BEHIND NOW?
I want to apologize and set my many readers straight as to why I am
blossoming out as an infliction on you all.
It seems a prominent newspaper syndicate had Lloyd George signed up for
a pack of his Memoirs. Well, after the late election Lloyd couldn’t
seem to remember anything, so they sent for me to fill in the space
where he would have had his junk.
You see, they wanted me in the first place, but George came along
and offered to work cheaper, and also to give his to charity. That
benevolence on his part was of course before England gave him his two
weeks’ notice.
Now I am also not to be outdone by an ex-Prime Minister donating my
receipts from my Prolific Tongue to a needy charity. The total share of
this goes to the civilization of three young heathens, Rogers by name,
and part Cherokee Indians by breeding.
Now, by wasting seven minutes, if you are a good reader--and ten to
twelve if you read slow--on me, you are really doing a charitable act
yourself by preventing these three miniature bandits from growing up
in ignorance. So please help a man with not only one little Megan, but
three little Megans.
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