T;naiT in pictures;
ILLUSTRATIONS SHOWING WHO PAYS
THE INIQUITOUS TAX.
An Eauy I.emoil on the Ona Sliloil O per it
tlon of th IlrptilillrBin' Pet II obb j The
Conolunlona of n Bennlble Old Fanner
Who DDI III Own Thinking.
For liinuv veara the furmptu nt
America hnve been dimly conscious that
mere was something wrong in crar eco
nomic system. They knew that their
profits were growing less every year,
but they could not tell what was the
matter. They bent themselves to their
garden str.ff and other" thinjrTT hava
raised. '
"Didn't we eat itf"
"Why, bless yon, child, we could not
nave eaten one
thousandth part
of it."
"Did anybody
steal it?"
"Now, child,
you ought to be
ashamed of your
self. You know
all our neighbors
are honest. No
one ever stole a
cent from me,
(Right here the
old farmer was
wrong.)
The old man
wnrriod Ahnn f
I What had become of hiartrnnii. Thtnnr
he thought about it the more he felt snre
no naa no consumed tnem. One day he
said to his wife:
"Mother, do you know where the t&
receipt are?"
"In the cupboard drawer."
"Are you snre that they are there?"
"I am sure. There is not annthnr nn
about the house,"
toil with renewed energy. They tried
the eight hour system that is, eight
hours in the forenoon and eight honrs
in the afternoon. But it was no good.
The nrofits irrew still less and ltwa.
Final lv one old mv hnlrml fallnnr ant.
down and went to thinking, and this is
wnat ne tnougut:
"I have worked hard all my life. I
have raised thousands of bushels of
wheat and corn, of oats and rye, of po-
I
want to look
tatoes, apples and beans, and hundreds
tu ueau oi norses, catue, sneep, bogs,
chickens, ducks and creese, and mv tam.
ily has consumed but a very small part
. i ... . , .
vt uw, w nai pecame or tne remain
der? I have given away a little to the
church and charity, but it was very
little; I wish it had been more. But
what has become of the rest? I know
we never ate a hundredth part of the
wneai, corn ana oats, or or tne beef and
pork, or wore out In clothes a tenth of
the wool. Where did it all go to? Who
not it?"
Then he thought and thought, and at
o ne saia:
"I know where part of it went I
pud some of it out for taxes. I wonder
turn much?"
Then he went to the cupboard and
nam a drawer ne took out a bundle of
papers, some of them yellow with age.
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They were his tai receints. TT lm.iiwi
np an old stump of a pencil and called
mimaugiuer Mary, who had been going
to the district school, and said to her-
"I want to call off these figures, and
juu ski em uown ana add 'em up. I
want to see what thev all come to."
He had his tax reneinta for turn vmira
and when Mary had added them up and
-prcveu- me sum, as she had been
"Bring them here.
over them."
The trood old wife broncht them. TTn
spread- them out on the table and looked
inein over, Tney were all there, for
every year, for twenty years. Still the
old man worried and wondered about
wnat naa become of his crops. At last
he said:
'Mother, how much do von' RnrnvuiA
wo have given to the preacher for the
missionaries ana -
V-:
v e nave nev
er paid him," she
replied, "but five
have civ-en him
in all about fifty or sixty dollars, and I
nave Kent an account or what, w hm
donated to the church. I will see."
In a few moments the old hiAv r.
. - ..
turned ana said:
"We have paid to the church, the mis-
.sionary societies
" O tand thinu-a lilr
that 1237.50. It
isn't much more
thun ten dollars
a year. Do you
think it is too
much?"
"No. no. moth
er,"hereplied,-"it
is little enough,
the Lord knows
But it don't ac
count for it. It don't account for it.'
"Don't account for what?" as1rl
mother. "What in the world are you
talking about?"
"Whv. all the wheat and
and pork, horses and cattle, sheen ami
nogs, cnickens
and turkeys, and
everything else
I have raised on
this farm. I
would like to
know who got it."
"The storekeeper trot some.
remarked the wife.
I wish I knew how much." said the
old man
The good wife furnished him the fig
ures, mey were KtKHj.
Still the old man was not satinfipd. It
did not account for it, he said. He was
gathering np his
receipts when
mother asked
him what kind of
taxes those re
ceipts had been
given for
"State and
L county taxes," he
sain.
Where are the receints for the irn
eral iruvernment taxes?" she asked. .
l never had to nay anv government
tuxes," ne said, lint a moment after
ward he dronned the receints and ant
uown in a cnair and thought for awhile.
At last no said
I don't ever remember havincr naid
any government taxes. I must have for
gotten it, but I can't for the life of me
remember any
thing about it. I
suppose 1 must,
mother. Did you
ever seo any gov
ernment tax re
ceipts about the
house?
'What do thev
look like
'I don't know,
j but I must have
paid some gov-
every article the farmer buys, and
when he buys the article a part of the
price he pays is
the tax tho gov
ernment has lev
ied upon it. As
soon as the farm
er is born the
government be
gins to tax him.
.. If the baby has
the colic and his
mother gives him
a dose of pare
goric the govern
ment taxes it 40
tier oent . on! If
never lets p on the taxing afterward
i .i.ii- .i . .... - .
wiiuo mere is a cent in nis pocket. Most
farmers and workingmen wear flannel
smrrs ror a large jwrt of the year.
"At 5 o clock he gets out of bed and
Hit ou a flannel shirt that is taxed 100
per cent. This costly garment, for
wuicu no paid
twice what it
ffould have been
sold for at a fair
profit, having
been buttoned np
with buttons tax
ed 150 per cent.,
he proceeds to
put on a pair of
trousers. Thev are mada nf muma
heavy cloth, and the tux is mndn i-nr.
respondingly heavy, so they cost him
luu ner cent, more man tnev otherwise
WOUld. 110 un a IIS ttimil ovpr his ahnnl.
ders with snsnpiidpra turod TJ! nor noi.f
and proceeds to put his feet into a pair
oi socks taxed lu per cent.
"He wears coarse, hpnvv vta nnl ha
must pay about four times the tax the
ncn man uoes lor elegant, thin light
ones. He then thrusts his feet into a
meekly
nair of iars cowhid kWvs w1ii
have been taxed 25 per cent., after which
ne puts on u coat taxed DO per cent He
Wakes nn his wlfo nnd erne rait intn !.
kitchen and starts a fire with coal taxed
seventy-fcve cents on a ton, and the
smoke goes np a brick chimney taxed
43 per cent.
"Then he goes to give hay to the cattle
with a fork taxed 45 per cent in a
rack taxed 40 per
cent, and feeds
them salt taxed
44 per cent out
of a barrel taxed
40 per cent
"After giving
slop to his pigs
oat of barrel
bound with iron
hoops taxed 85
per cent, lie goes
intn tha afnhla
taxed 40 ner cent., to feed his horses ont
of troughs taxed 40 per cent
"Meanwhile his good wife has arisen
and cooked his bacon, which he had
cured with salt
per
taxed 44
cent, (no rebate)
on a stove taxed
45 per cent The
old farmer come
to the house, and
taking a pail
taxed 20
cent, went
fetch a nail
water (not taxed
yet), which he
got from a pump
taxed 85 per
cent He closed
the door taxed 20
per cent., which
was hung
hinges taxed
ner cent.
was held fast by
a lock taxed
per
to
of
on
85
and
1
45
taught in school, und she was sure she
wan ngiit, bug said that tho sum of all
the tigurea amounted to $110.57. But
tne old man tiiook his head and said:
"It don't account for it all; it don't
ccount for it all."
"Don't account for what, papa?" asked
"Why, ali the cotton and wheat and
..ad l'ykand wool and beans and
eminent taxes, and if 1 did I would take
a receipt. But I ;au't remember any
thing about it."
A knock was heard at the door, and a
neighbor cauie in.
'I inn awful clad you came." said the
old man. '-I want to ask you about the
government taxes. I can't remember
about paying
them, but 1 must
have done so, I
know. When do
we pay them?"
"Every day and
, every hour from
tho cradle to the
grave, and they
levy them on us
afterwnnvoilpnd
and if we don't leave any money behind
us our friendu pay them for us."
now is that?" the old man asked.
"I he government nuts a tariff nn
rwr rnnt Than Via
washed his hands in n tin basin tund
53 per cent., with soan taxed 20
cent., and wiped them on a brown linen
towel taxed 85 ner cent.- H
the dining room covered with an oil
cloth carnet taxed 40 ner cent., and out
down in a chair taxed 83 per cent. His
wife nulled out it table taxad 2f)
cent, and spread upon it a tablecloth
taxed 40 per cent. She put on it some
earthenware taxed 40 ner cent and
white plates taxed CO per cent. The
knives und forks were also taxed 50 per
cunt. The idans tumblers out of which
they drunk milk were taxed 180 per
cent., and the roof under which they
but was taxed 20 per cent.
'I he irood wife nonred coTun nut. nf u
coiTeepot taxed 55 per cent., and stirred
it up with a fcpooti taxed 43 per cent.
The bill of fare was not liihnrniA
It consisted of coffee taken out of a can
taxed 53 .ner cent., bacon cured with
salt taxed 41 per cent., bread nuide ct
Hour taken from a bag taxed 85 per
cent., and tho butter seasoned with taxed
salt. After break
fast the farmer
put on a hat taxed
05 per cent.,
walked over a
taxed carpet
which covered a
taxed iloor, out
of a taxed door
hung on taxed
" hi iges and fas
tened with a taxed lock, into God's air,
not taxed yet. He then got some wire
nails taxed 150 per cent, and taking a
hammer tnned 50 per cent, and a saw
and a tu.ifd r3 per ceut. he repaired
a pijpon with lumber taxed yo per
cent.
"After he had iinished that job ho went
Into the stable and put a bridle uud har
ried onto his horses, taxed 83 per cent.,
led them out from the taxed stable to n
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