The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-13
Gilmer County, Va


Peter f0Qg6r, q family HAIL 10 POI
son of plain reasoning and direct appli-
cation. He is in the habit of talking
aloud to himself, and his cogent argu-
ments are thus sometimes Of benefit to
others He was in market the other
morning, looking out for supplies for
Mrs. Podger, himself and the little Pod
gers. His thoughts may be OF benefit to
others Approaching a jovial butchers
stall he bought a nice sirloin cut, ana
when paving for il at twenty cents per
nound reasoned thus to himself:
"Twenty cents per pound. That is
about ten OF awelve cents per pound tor
the license to sell; tax per head for the
privilege to slaughter, and five per cent.
tax On the butchers and raiser's incomes.
a dear bauble was that thing placing the
Republican party in power in 1861"
Passing to butter woman he trans
ferred roll, sweet and golden, to his
basket, and while paying for it at TWEEN,
ty.fve cents per pound, again reflected
aloud:
twenty-five cents we used to CONSIDER
a big price at this season: No reason LOT
this unless it is to pay for license to sell
as q retail dealer and the tax on income.
Verify the expense attending the success
of the Republican party in 1860 spread.
eth itself upon!our bread"
Passing to another stand, and procur-
ing dozen eggs at the rate Of sixteen
cents per dozen, the venerable Podger
reflected:
'Before the Republican party run the
affairs of the nation to ruin, eggs cost
eight to ten cents, but now they have TO
help pay the debt the Republican party
have saddled upon US, and some say that
hens are afraid to deposit an egg with
out a Republican sticking-plaster upon
it, and this materially interferes with the
quantity of eggs prodyced."
Podger found the same high prices as
he bought his potatoes and his salad, his
radishes and onions (the latter taxed, as
he averred, for smelling), his beans and
his berries. His only surprise was that
every seller was not required to make
out and receipt bill, so as to have the
chance of placing Republican sticking
plaster on it. .....
Vending his way to his grocer's he
found his tea and coffee, his -four and
his meal, his suaar and his salt His spices
and his fruits all expanding themselves
to unwonted prices under the stimulus OF
this Republican tax. ...fsa :.
"Ah!'' said Podger, what a psrvading
element Republicanism is We drink it
in our tea and coffee we eat it in our
bread and cakes; we season our veget-
ables with it, and it is an important
part of our buildings, pies and tarts.
Passing saloon on his way home he
observed some young men smoking and
drinking, and murmured to himself:
"The smoker nhales party Republics
ism through his taxed cigar, and the
drinker gulphs it down with his taxed
whisky"
Arriving at home and finding Pod
ger, ir., sick, b. sought physician with
the reflection:
"My child must swallow portion of
the Republican tax, A taxed physician
must furnish him with taxed medicine,
and should he not recover, he must be
buried in a taxed coffin by taxed I'M
dertaker with taxed implements"
Ans, poor Podger And yet he is but
one If the III lions that are now strug-
Cling on und this Republican tax
this load of IT, >ation Every thing they
eat, every th ag they wear, pays its
tribute to tn, folly of electing the Re
publican part in 1860, and when they
step up to deposit taxed ballot, the
leaders and rgans of the Republican
party have I'll cheek to insist that it
shall not be oie looking to their displace-
ment In powe, r' '.'' .-'t