The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-14
T,fr TERRoRs or TAXATION.

y COlleCtCT, nOlOB OH tOOs ne IL HnogueL
model member OF our civil force. Tne
II enthusiasm. He has an idea now that
Wl1enover man gets anything new Ii
II ought to be taxed, and he Ia always
&k hand to perform the service. had
~ &b0ut fifteen feet added to one OF my
1l5imn0yg last spring; and when IL was
A done 6llngeby called and assessed 1t
11nder the head improved real estate, -
&nd collected per cent on 1t. "A few
9yD later, while I was standing. by the
lG2co, 6lingsby came UP and said
sBeaut dog you have there ?"
ssfndej n setter? The tax on set
III ID d T. dollars. ri collect it now nov
while have IL on my mind"
7 nettled the obligation, and the next
&Ny blingsby came round again. He
EoConed the conversation with the re-
'sBlliy Jones told me at the grocery
1tpre that your terrier had pups
a AM Isrss's li'ser'"
ssfndeed! Less see; tax is two dollars !;
&otar times two 10 eight--yes, eight dol.
fos1 can, For they have got new batch
Y an Kittens over at Baldwin's and / want
1 III ketch old Baldwin before he goes out.
nv tho way, when did you put that
athercock on your new stable2"
You dom say! Well, hold on, then,
& Four times tt$o IL eight, and four ON
lIe Weathercock, you know--is twelve.
Il Twelve dollars Ia the exact amount"
What do you mean by four dollar
81 0n = weathercock2 l never heard OF
Dlfch y thing"
Didn't, hey? Why, she comes In
nnder the head Of scientific apparatus.
3h0se put up there to tell which way the
Wind blows, amt she? Well, that's
oIentifc Intelligence, and the apparatus
Al Hubble to q tax.
M. Sllngsby, this Is the most absurd
ffhjnR ever head OF. You might just as
ell talk Of taxing Butterwick's twins"
Butter-you don't mean TO say that
utterwick has twins2 Why, certainly,
1oy are taxable. They come in under
6e head Of poll tax Three dollars
plece. I'll 60 right down Low there; Glad
I1xtd Sc left with Butterwick's twins on
Tn old memorandum book.
day or two aftesward Slingsby
&1ied TO SEES me, and he said:
I've got case that bothers me like
6under. You know Hough, the tobae.
&0nists Well. he's just bought wood
|XE Indian to stand ID front OF his store.
Now I have q strong feeling that
onRht to tax that figure, but don't
know where to place 1t. Would 1t come
~ ~ '6tatuary?' Somehow that don't
EDeom exactly the thing. was going to
InGs0es Ii under the head OF idols, but
6o Idiots who got UP this law haven't
ut word Id reference to idols. Think OF
fhnt, will you? Why. we might have pa
1&nism raging all over the country, and
(e couldn . get cent out OF them. I'd put
3lp tint Indian under craven images,'
0nly II Amt mentioned either. I sup.
pooe could tax the bundle of wooden
f9are tn his hand as tobacco, but that
raves out the rest OF the figger; and
e's not liable to poll tax, because he
N&nst vote. Now, how would 1t strike
YOU Il levied on him as an Immigrant
A1e Was made somewhere else than here,
Nnd he came from there. consequently
Hen an Immigrant. That's my view.
Fhat do you think of ftp
advised him to try IL upon that plan,
md the next morning Slingsby and. MIR.
Tough had fight on the pavement in
HUNT or the Indian. because Mr.. Sings
~ tried to sieze the immigrant for un-
lid taxes. Slingsby was taken home
md put TO bed, and the business of COL
cting Was temporarily suspended. But
tlingeby will be around again soon
With some new and ingenious ideas that
6e has thought Of during his illness.