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Snake Bites Allegory in Waverly Town
In a Waverly Christian Herald piece, a tale uses a man selling harmless snake bites to examine civic vice and public finance. Citizens, led by Moralsuasion and Regulation, resist yet continue to indulge, funding alms houses and prisons while debts rise. Avarice profits as Commonsense pleads reform, but the town remains enthralled and the snake bites persist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sobriety
Order
Respectability
Avarice
Moralsuasion
Mr. Avarice
Regulation
Commonsense
Waverly
Iowa