Quotation by H.L. Mencken

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?
H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (1880–1956), U.S. journalist, critic. Originally published in the Baltimore Evening Sun, November 1, 1920. A Carnival of Buncombe, p. 32, ed. by Malcolm Moos, Johns Hopkins University Press (1956).

Article written on eve of election of President Harding.
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