Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-09-24
a1oo Many Families u Support.


as we'll as we did ten years ago r work hard
or now than then, and more hours 10 day.
lspsnd not cent UNNECESSARILY and yet I find
II struggle to live. We used TO live plenti
fully; dressed well, and lhavo help for YOU,
wife, when house;worA, got too, hard; aud still
4cop|d pr lay up something forbaar rainy tlnyla,
the end ofevery week. ~
WIFE.--True, John; but then you only
had one family to maintain !, now you supp.,,
. great number R:anba5iab ln6Hhzaih p
= JoHN.--A great number, do you say !? I
don't understand you. lsi 81 3ae, 1a ii
edWIFs.--Well, I'll tell you, John for you
have worked too hard, and been too tired to
read the he'newspapers, and too much harrassed
in providing for the family 70 think and iu,
vestigate. I said you now have to help sup.
port a great many families, wilhelm old times
you hadn't any to labor for but your own
There is The "Colleotor," and the Assessor"
and sho Detective who Informs on your niegh-
bors. You haye to support the fsmiliosiof all
these; help to'buy painos and silk for'their
wives and daughter', and help to educate
their ohildren.s Then there d the bondhold-
or, who gives ohaWpangpe dinners, and bur-
dens his table with silver plates, and travels
in Europe, and pays no taxes. All this he
does on his gold interest which 10 paid him
twice year. And then there is the Tariff
Robber, who iAakes an annual profit ola hun.
drea per cent, almost all Of which is a theft
from honest toll. So you see, John, after
you give a part Of every days earning to each
of these purposes, there can be no great deal
left for your family. You didn't have to give
your earnings for any ofthcse purposes, when
james Buchanan was President, and so we
lived easily and we'll. ~ l,aS - .9"13 r I,
oHN.-Why, wife, you amaze me. I me-
YER stopped to think of these matters, though
I knew something was wrong Nor do now
exactly soc how am robbed for these pur-
poses 11 "lti @ 81n@
WIFE.-Well, Johp,, ri tell you. We
usedto get coffee for ten cents "a pound
Now we pay thirty.6ve. We used two pounds
a week; and on this single article fifty cents
are taken from your weekly wages and diyid
ed between bondholders, collectors, assessors,
and detectives. There is like addition on
the cost oftea. andSof sugar ,loIasses and rice.
Every addition to the price of these articles is
a tax, imposed by the Government, to raise
money to pay boudholders, collectors, asses.
sors, and detectives. Every pairof boots you
buy you pay q heavy tax. Every suit 4of
clothes you buy, you pay just double price
for. And the extra cost all goes to the sup
port Of Tariff Robbers, or Government lcech.
es, who had no existenge ip Demooratics days.
Our rent, you know, is great deal higher;
aud the landlord says he had to raise rent be.
bapse he has TO pay income Sax, and the high
er for tea, coffee, sugar, aud other provisions.
than ten years ago, when he gave us rent SO
cheap. Sometimes you chew tobacco, or
smoke Cigar and for these you have to pay
just thrice what you had 70 pay 10 Bnehahan's s
time snd al! this extra cost is tax, t. enable
bondholaerss COLLECTORS, assessors, 4dnd deteo !
tives, to livo'in luxuiy and idlenGss.; Ga YOU
see, John, Yhep your weeks hard. toll ~,
made to contribute TO the support of so many
families, it,is no wonder we live poor and
hard, that we have sometimes barely tn, ne.
cessaries of life, and that our children don't
60 to school because we haven money to buy
them books and suitable clothes. asI W bgs I.
Exit John, determine to vote with the ,,ar
ty hereafter which desires that the laboring
man shall have fair days wages for & fair
days work, and that the proceeds shall 40 to
the support Of his own family, instead ofbeiug,
divided among a set Of idle and luxuriant Il.
ver' known as Government pets and officials.
Work AND WIN.-Whateyer you try to
do in life, try with all your heart to do we'll
whatever you devote yourself to, devote your
self to completely; 10 great AIMS and small
DO thoroughly in earnest. Never believe II
possible that any naturs! or improved ability
can claim immunity from the conpahionship
Of the steady splain hard working. qualities
and hope to gain its epd.'si Thsresis no such
thing a. spch fulflmeut 9p this SarttIy;9 Somn,oo
happy talent and some fortunate opportunity,
may form thetwo aides Of. the lsdderan which
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