He begun business, however, by quarrelling with nearly everybody in the village, and asserting that he knew more than all of them.
Twice he had Titus Bright, the inn-keeper, up before the magistrate and fined for selling liquor in opposition to law.

He proclaimed it highly immoral to sell liquor at all, and told Bright to his teeth that no honest man would do it.

For this he had been twice kicked out of the inn by Bright, who damned him as a meddling varlet, not to be tolerated in a peaceable village.

Again he had Bright up before the magistrate, who justified the aggression, but fined the aggressor ten dollars a kick, which Bright considered cheap enough considering what was got for his money.

Bright declared it a principle with him to give his customers what they wanted, and let them be the judge of their own necessities.
Bigelow Chapman held that mankind was a big beast, to be subdued and governed by laws made for his subjection.