The New Version

New York Editor- "See here! Don't you know executions by electricity are the law now ?" New Man- "Certainly." "Then, sir, what do you mean by using this old-time, chestnutty, moldy quotation, 'Give a rogue rope enough and he will hang himself ?' What do you mean, sir? We are not living in the middle ages." "What substituto wouldyou suggestí" "Say, 'Let a rogue go on shocking society, and he will get shocked himself,"