"You got a little dividend coming," exclaimed Babbitt to each of them, and eachintoned, "Squeeze it, Georgie, squeeze it!"

When, beyond hope, the pitcher was empty, they stood and talked aboutprohibition. The men leaned back on their heels, put their hands in theirtrousers-pockets, and proclaimed their views with the booming profundity of aprosperous male repeating a thoroughly hackneyed statement about a matter ofwhich he knows nothing whatever.

"Now, I'll tell you," exclaimed Vergil Gunch; "way I figure it is this, and I canspeak by the book, because I've talked to a lot of doctors and fellows thatought to know, and the way I see it is that it's a good thing to get rid ofthe saloon, but they ought to let a fellow have beer and light wines."

Howard Littlefield observed, "What isn't generally realized is that it's adangerous prop'sition to invade the rights of personal liberty. Now, take thisfor instance: The King of--Bavaria? I think it was Bavaria--yes, Bavaria, itwas--in 1862, March, 1862, he issued a proclamation against public grazing oflive-stock. The peasantry had stood for overtaxation without the slightestcomplaint, but when this proclamation came out, they rebelled. 0r it may havebeen Saxony. But it just goes to show the dangers of invading the rights ofpersonal liberty."

"That's it--no one got a right to invade personal liberty," exclaimed 0rvilleRoberts.

"Just the same, you don't want to forget prohibition is a mighty good skinnygfor the working-classes. Keeps 'em from wasting their money and lowering theirproductiveness," said Vergil Gunch.