Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-04-29
THE TAX QUESTION AT THE CORNERS.
BigIer and Pollock Instigate M ct ing to
Protest Against High Taxes.
CoNFEDRIT y ROADS,
Which is in the State Nv Kentucky
March 70. 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 which money
wood buy; and the niggers and others at
the Corners which don't stimulate, sed it
wuz pity that so much NV their substance
shood be taken in taxes Nv which they got
no good.
Bigler and Pollock, onto whose heads
lite causes, ez yoosual, took up the cry and
ekkoed it. Eff we'd he'd the sense NV a
yerlin calf we'd hev dropt it the moment
Joe Bigler pickt it up, for when did he
ever jine US except 10 bring US to con-
fooshin?
But we did ekko Joe's words-Bascom in
pertikeler-and we determined to hev a
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 the taller candles to lite it; thus furnish
the whip with which to secure hisself
We met at early candle-lite, and / wuz
made chairman, NV course. / stated to the
meeting that taxis had risen to pint that
crushed us. / felt myself that eff they Good
not be lessened / shoOd be compelled to
quit the Corners
THANK Hevin ~ involuntarily ejacke-
lated Deekin Pogram.
Not that pay taxis myself, but they
so grind the citizens ez to make keepin me
"a serious matter"
And 1 continyood by invitin any one to
say wat they he'd to say.
Bascom rose and remarkt that taXis he'd
got TO roonious pint, and he pledged
hisself TO yoose all possible diligence
in assertainin the coz NV the high taxis
and unrelentn viggelance in rootin out the
coz when he he'd found it. He moved the
the adopshen NV the folleTin resolooshen:
ResOlUed, That is the sense NV this meet
in that the increase, year by year, NV tax
ashen in the Corners, hez bin so great ez
to eggscite the most serious alarm, and that
we pledge ourselves TO yoOse all possible
means to assertane the COZ, and remove ii
forthwith
The resolooshen was yoonanimously
carried
Then Joe Bigler rose, with Pollock be-
hind him eggin him on and suportin
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 il wuz.
And the cuss pulled out Nv his breast
pockit lot Nv papers.
Here" sed he, Il hev Figured up
me and Pollock-wat the county poor
house costs US, and tiud it's terrible. Six
thousand dollas is the sum totle. Doorin
the year, old Spiggins hes bin taxed there,
and his wife and 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 70 be ineapible
Of pervidin for hisself. Then Thompson's
wifeand children are there too. Thompson
700 will remember, got drunk one mite at
Bascom's, and fell Oft the bridge on his
way home and wuZ drowned. Then there's
the Hugging children and Sammy Smiths
children, all NV EN- provideded for by taxa
tion. Lets see, " sed this disturber, :" Bas-