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Show Horace Greeley's Opinion. Chauncey M. Depew has told of finding find-ing a visitor in Horace Greeley's editorial edi-torial room when he made a call there. The editor's patience had evidently been almost exhausted, and as he wrote on steadily he would give an occasional kick toward the caller, who every now and then put in a word. Finally turning around, Greeley said: "Tell me what you want. Tell me quick, and in one sentence." The man said: "I want a subscription, Mr. Greeley, for a cause which will prevent pre-vent a thousand of our fellow beings from going to hell." Greeley shouted: "I will not give you a cent. . There don't half enough go there now." As Greeley was a Universalist, this reply was not so severe as it sounded. |