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Show AT LEAST IT G0T RESULTS" Boston "Tea Party," However Inspired, In-spired, Blazed New Pathway for the World's Progress. Boston's celebrated "tea party." which was held December 10, 1773, has wilhin recent years been the subject sub-ject of attack by Iconoclasts. Not content con-tent with branding as a myth the story of George Washington hihI the cherry tree, and easting reflections on Paul Revere, ihe famous equestrian hero, the Idol-smashers have sought to prove that the tea party whs. In fact, a beer party. It was not the spirit of patriotism, patriot-ism, but the spirils Imbibed In John Diiggnn's tavern which animated the Immortal 02, disguised as Indians, according ac-cording to the assertion made by a member of Ihe United States congress 0 few years 'ago. This assertion naturally nat-urally aroused much indignation, and a great mass of evidence In rebuttal lias been offered. According to the defenders of the ten party, John Diiggan, the saloonkeeper saloon-keeper who Is said to have supplied the beer which fired the patriotism of the drinkers thereof, was only seven years old at (be time of the Boston occurrence, and, moreover, was still In Ireland. Mr. Duggan, who Inter sold liquor refreshments to the thirsty of Boston town, was born In 3700. and did not come to America until many years after (he tea incident. inci-dent. Admitting these facts, the allegations al-legations of the iconoclasts, disproved In one Important particular, fall flat, unless It can be shown that another John Duggau conducted the thirst parlor of Boston. Whether Inspired by indignation or beer, however, the result of the "tea party" was the name Detroit News. - t |