New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-05-01
THE Nasty LETTERS.
The Question Of Taxes at the Corners
BiGIer and Pollock Instigate a Meet.
ing to Protest Against High Taxes.

CoNPEDRrT K RoAps.
witch is in the State NV Kentucky1 Z
March n. 1874
The taxes at the Corners hev bin for
some years terribly high. and this spring,
when the time came to pay EN-, the people
murmured. We sed it is too bad to waste
so much money on taxes when there is SO
much likker in the land witch money would
buy, and the niggers and Others AZ the cor
ners witch don't stimulate sed 1t wuz pity
that so much NV their substance shOOd be
taken in taxes NV witch they got no good.
Bigler and Pollock, onto whose heads lite
cusses, ez yoosual, took up the cry and
ekkoed 1t. Eff we'd he'd the sense NV
yerlin calf we'd hev dropt it the moment
Joe Bigler picked it up, for when did he
ever jine US except to bring us to con-
fOoshin!
But we did ekko Joe's words-Bascom in
pertikeler-and we determined to hev
meetin to consider the question Nv taxes,
and to ascertane whether or not we cOOdn't
redOOse EN- in some way.
And George Washington Bascom, the
idiot, furnished the wood to heat the hall,
and taller candles to lite it; thus furnishin
the whip with wich to SOURCE hisself:
We met at early candle-litin. and wuz
made chairman, Nv course. stated to the
meetin that taxes had risen to pint that
Good not be lessened shood be compelled
to quit the Corners
THANK Hevin!" involuntarily ejackelat-
ed Deekin POgram.
mot that pay any taxis myself, but
they so grind the cltisens ez to make keepln
me a}serious matter"
And continyood by invitin any one to
say wat they he'd to say.
Bascom rose and remarkt that taxis he'd
got to a rooinous pint, and he pledged his
self to yoOse all possible diligence in asser-
tainin the COZ NV the high taxis, and unre-
lent1n vigilance in rootln out the coz when
he he'd found it. He moved the adOpshen
Nv the follerin resolushen:
Resolced, That it is the sense Nv this
meetin that the increase, year by year, Nv
taxashen in the Corners hez bin oh great as
to eggscite the most serious alarm, and that
we pledge ourselves to yOose all posi- BILE
means to assertane the COZ, and remove it
forthwith.
The resolooshen was yoonanimously car
ried.
Then Joe Bigler rose, with Pollock be-
hind him, eggin him on and supportln
him.
Joe remarkt that he he'd noted the regler
| increase Nv taxes each year with alarm,
and he he'd made some notes, feelin' that he
Good show how it wuz.
And the cuss pulled out Nv his brest
| pocket lot NV papers.
Here" sed he, Il hev fgered up-me
| and Pollock-wat the county pOorhouse
| costs ua, and find it's terrible. Six thou
| sand dollars is the sum tOtle. DoOrin the
year, old Spiggins hez bin taken there, and
| his wife and his ideot daughter, for Spig.
| gins spent all his time and money at the
| bar NV our esteemed friend Bascom till he
| got TO be SO demoralized ez to be incapable
NV pervdin for hisself. Then Thompson &
| wife and children are there too. Thomp-
son, VOC will remember, got drunk one mite
| at Bascoms, and tell Oft the bridge on his
| way home and WIZ drownded. Then there's
the Higgins childrn and Sammy Smiths
children, all NV 'em provided for by taxa
ton. Lets see," sed this disturber, BIAS
com, 700 hev Smiths forty akers, hevn',
| yoo9"
=. Then Pollock he riz.
Il don't agree with Mr.. Bigler," sed this
| hory-headed deceever, Sin ascribing the
high taxes to our public charities. w
| course the pOorhouse costs money, out that
| is only small part Nv it. Its the criminals
that squeeze us. new mace lew hsgers
| witch will show how il is. You all know the
| circumstances of the Mackentosh matter
! Sam Mackentosh got drunk at Bascom's
and went home, and Mrs. MackentOsh moi
| having supper ready, Samyooel split hel
| head open with an axe. Sammy was IN 1al
| eighteen months, wich we he'd to pay for
he wuz tried three times and finally hung
| Il cost us. on a ruff calkelashun, about $b0Ol
| to hang Mackentosh, cOuntln' from the TIME
he rot drunk at Bascom's, excloosiv Nv the
! cost of burryin' his wife and takin' keer o.
his children since.
| "Then WOO remember the Magrath trou
ble Sim Magrath and Tim Edison got drank
| at Bascom's."
!. "Wby doc 700 perpetooally refer to oul
esteemed friend Bascom" shriekt l, seelr
thet G. W. wuz turnin ez pail ez he COCO
| turn.
II reely don't mean to offend nobody, but
l must be historically kerrect. Sim Ma
grath and Tim Edison got drunk at Bias
CONS, and from there they went to Aliens
place and auarreled with Allen, and sot his
barn on fire. The Judge wOOdent take int
account the fact that they wuz drunk, bu
sent EN- to the penitenshary, which cos
us $4,000 or $4,000 more. They sed thel
woodent hev done it eli they hedn'6 BIZ
| drunk
"Then Sandy johnson who drawd a knit
on Pete Larkin and carved him, they WI
both a drinkin at Bascom's, when"
II pertest agin all this kind o'talk.'
shrieked Bascom, who by this time sect
wat they wuz drivin at. II pertest"
1T won't do, G. W." retorted Bigler
"fax is fax, and we must hev 'em out.
insist that our CQafltlcS uO COsU uoAC tASi
the criminals, Mr. Pollock to the cOntrar.
notwithstanding. Does Mr. Pollock remem
Der the Paddlefords! Old Paddleford WI;
alluz drinkin at Bascom's, then Seth, hi
Oldest boy, got into it, and then Andy, ant
finally the old woman herself, and tn
children are all at the poor house. say
"Will Mr.. Bigler pretend to say that tn
Paddlefords cost the county ez much ez Tn
single case Of Artemus Jenkins, who. after
I L toh hsl
Parkins"
swat did that amount to-" sneered Big
Ter. compared to the cost the county WI
nut to in carin for John Otis, who, at Bas
CONS bar, dropped down in tit, an
became"
30 bosh," retorted Pollock, ~ insist
But" sed hastily, call QUE taxes ain
for criminals and paupers, is they! HOY
about yer roads!'
1--WE amt speat dollar on the roads to
six years." retortid Pollock.
"And the skoolsw
"All that the country hez paid for skool
from the time the first settler struck her
amt ez much ez we paid for the hangin u
Sam Mackentosh We hev bin very econ
kle in the matter NV roads and sko0ls.
insist"
"And l insist" sed l, "that this thin
come to an end. This meetln' Is az
journed."
sAll rite, Parson," sed Bigler, and h
and Pollock walked off, latin hilariously.
After them two he'd gone we reorganise
and sot some time in silence.
} "Parson,' said Deekin Pogram. ''wa
J shell we do!"
IL hev written a rssolooshen or two vic
) kivers the point" se9s l, and presented ell
ez follows:
Rcsolced, That taxes amt ez high after e
, ez they mite bee, exceptin Nv course thel
ez is imposed by the tyranicle, consolidate
J government at Washington.
ReSolced, That SIGH taxes ez may resu