.. that's easy to do.
The hell of it is, to stop it, after you've got it started,"
philosophised "The Colonel"....
"Just what is it that you propose starting?" asked practical, pop-eyed
Tom Jenkins.
"Oh, anything that will cause excitement!" waved Travers, serenely.
"If you boys really want some excitement ... and want to do some service
for the community at the same time,--I've got a scheme to suggest ...
something I've been thinking over for a long time," suggested Jerome
Miller, president of the club....
"Tell us what it is, Jerome!"
"The Bottoms ... you know how rotten it is down there ... nigger
whorehouses ... every other house a bootlegger's joint ... blind pigs
... blind tigers, for the students....
"We might show up the whole affair....
"--how the city administration thrives on the violation of the law from
that quarter ... how the present administration depends on crime and the
whiskey elements to keep it in power by their vote....
"_That_ would be starting something!"
"I should say it would!" shouted Jack Travers, ablaze with enthusiasm.
"Then we might extend operations," continued the masterful, incisive
Jerome, "and show up how all the drug stores are selling whiskey by the
gallon, for 'medicinal' purposes, abusing the privilege of the law."
"But how is all this to be done?"
"Through the _Laurelian_?"
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