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August 14, 1934, A Day of Infamy
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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 726798" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>December 15, 1791 was the date that Jedediah Smith, the ancestral head of the Smith clan, received his special exemption from Congress. The basis for this was that Smith's fledgling delivery company used donkeys instead of the horses that his competition utilized. Smith's donkeys could crap wherever they pleased, and the local town or city would have to pay for and deal with removal. Smith's employees were also prohibited from organizing based on the argument that interfering with urgent deliveries by donkey could disrupt the economy. Horse riders, on the other hand, could and did organize, and built a hugely successful and profitable company that far surpassed Smith's organization.Eventually, Smith's riders revolted, hung him in effigy in the town square, then tarred and feathered him and rode him out of town on a rail. Rumor has it that he and his family fled to Memphis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 726798, member: 12508"] December 15, 1791 was the date that Jedediah Smith, the ancestral head of the Smith clan, received his special exemption from Congress. The basis for this was that Smith's fledgling delivery company used donkeys instead of the horses that his competition utilized. Smith's donkeys could crap wherever they pleased, and the local town or city would have to pay for and deal with removal. Smith's employees were also prohibited from organizing based on the argument that interfering with urgent deliveries by donkey could disrupt the economy. Horse riders, on the other hand, could and did organize, and built a hugely successful and profitable company that far surpassed Smith's organization.Eventually, Smith's riders revolted, hung him in effigy in the town square, then tarred and feathered him and rode him out of town on a rail. Rumor has it that he and his family fled to Memphis. [/QUOTE]
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