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Show AT LEAST IT ''GOT 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 l(i, 1773, has within 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 and the cherry tree, and casting reflections on Paul Revere, the famous equestrian hero, tlie Idol-smashers have sought to prove that the tea party was. In fact, a beer party. It was not the spirit of patriotism, patriot-ism, hut the spirits Imbibed in John Duggan's tavern which animated the Immortal 02, disguised as Indians, according ac-cording to the assertion made by a member of the United Stales congress a few years ago. This assertion naturally nat-urally aroused much indignation, and a great mass of evidence In rebuttal has been offered. According to the defenders of the tea party, John Duggan. the saloonkeeper saloon-keeper who is said to have supplied the beer which tired the patriotism of the drinkers thereof, was only seven years old at the time of the Boston occurrence, and, moreover, was still in Ireland. Mr. Duggan, who later sold liquor refreshments to the. thirsty of Boston town, was horn in 1700, and did not come to America until many years after the 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 Duggan conducted Ibe tlrrxt parlor of Boston. Whether inspired by indignation or beer, however, the result of the "tea party" was the same. Detroit News. |