Kin Hubbard Quotes
When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.
The president was himself an evangelical Christian and he had gone out of his way to issue executive orders authorizing payments to be made for church operated social service activities where proselytizing was permitted. Many Americans thought bush had jumped over the wall separating church and state and yet some of the evangelical Christians kept insisting on more and more money.
[This has the sound, textural and physical structure of a wonderful quotation. However it does not comport with reality. The second clause does, but the first is contradicted by many who have made money honestly and then had a revelation of one type or another. And then of course there are so many of the thinkers and philosophers who damn money but never earned much himself.]thinkers and philosophers who damn money but never earned much himself.]
Frank McKinney Hubbard, better known as Kin Hubbard, was an American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist. His most famous work was for "Abe Martin". Introduced in The Indianapolis News in December 1904, the cartoon appeared six days a week on the back page of the News for twenty-six years. The Abe Martin cartoons went into national print syndication in 1910, eventually appearing in about 200 U.S. newspapers. Hubbard also originated and illustrated a once-a-week humor essay for the "Short Furrows" column in the Sunday edition of the News that went into syndication in 1911. The self-taught artist and writer made more than 8,000 drawings for the Indianapolis News and wrote and illustrated about 1,000 essays for the "Short Furrows" column. His first published book was Collection of Indiana Lawmaker and Lobbyists (1903), followed by an annual series of Abe Martin-related books between 1906 and 1930, as well as other works such as Short Furrows (1912) and Book of Indiana (1929). Humorist Will Rogers once declared that Hubbard was "America's greatest humorist."
