“PUSSYFOOT JOHNSON”
SAYS NOAH WAS STUPID TO GET SOUSED. LVFTRoiih Jan, 22. “There is only oim sin in the world, and that; it stupidity. I have made a study of wrongdoing, and I know. 1 ’ The speaker was Mi I .'' “Pussyfoot" •Johnson, the Prohibition deader, who was entertained by the Anti-Saloon League at its annual banquet. “ft was .stupid of Cain to kill Abel,’’ Mr. Johnson said, “It was stupid of Noah to get soused. .11 was stupid of Air Al. Smith to uttemp to rise to the presidency, representing the ambitions of the underworld.” “Attempts to regulate’ alcohol have proved failures for 4000 years,” declared “Pussyfoot,” who insisted that America had discovered that prohibition was the only successful manner of handling the situation.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11126, 8 February 1930, Page 3
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