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April 1, 1897
Mexico Weekly Ledger
Mexico, Audrain County, Missouri
What is this article about?
Satirical piece from the New York Sun mocking the Kansas Populist Legislature, referencing a speaker's alleged remark that it 'doesn't know enough to come in out of the rain,' and jesting about their ability to pass absurd laws like making rain fall upward.
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From the New York Sun.
The defamers of virtue and the enviers of greatness are grinning unctuously over the remark which the Speaker of the Kansas Legislature is said to have made about that illustrious body: "This Legislature doesn't know enough to come in out of the rain." If the remark be not apocryphal, it is evidence of a strange ignorance on the part of the Speaker. A Populist Legislature doesn't have to know enough to come in out of the rain. It doesn't have to shield its sublime head with an umbrella. It simply has to pass a bill declaring that henceforth all rain in the State of Kansas shall fall upward, under the pains and penalties hereinafter provided. If the Populists had nothing more difficult than rain to deal with and abolish, they wouldn't have to have one-sixteenth as many conventions.
From the New York Sun.
The defamers of virtue and the enviers of greatness are grinning unctuously over the remark which the Speaker of the Kansas Legislature is said to have made about that illustrious body: "This Legislature doesn't know enough to come in out of the rain." If the remark be not apocryphal, it is evidence of a strange ignorance on the part of the Speaker. A Populist Legislature doesn't have to know enough to come in out of the rain. It doesn't have to shield its sublime head with an umbrella. It simply has to pass a bill declaring that henceforth all rain in the State of Kansas shall fall upward, under the pains and penalties hereinafter provided. If the Populists had nothing more difficult than rain to deal with and abolish, they wouldn't have to have one-sixteenth as many conventions.
What sub-type of article is it?
Politics
What keywords are associated?
Kansas Legislature
Populist
Speaker Remark
Satire
New York Sun
Where did it happen?
Kansas
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Kansas
Event Details
The Speaker of the Kansas Legislature reportedly remarked that the body 'doesn't know enough to come in out of the rain.' The article satirizes this, suggesting a Populist Legislature could pass a bill making rain fall upward instead of seeking shelter, and notes they hold many conventions to address issues.