The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-07-26
Reply to Taxpayer.
EDITOR INDEPENDENT:

TAXPAYER saws he had ceased his moaning
but have started him again. l am very sorry
for Taxpayer. for | am too poor to pay much
taxes, and Taxpayer has to foot the bills for
the County, because he is so immensely rich %
YOU see | am sorry to see him so rich be-
cause he has to pay the taxes on all his wealth.
He SAYS the paper of Clarke County is below
par. United States Currency is below par,
also, but that does not argue the poverty OF the
Union. But it is too 'phunny" to think OF his
loving, doting friendly familiarity-"my DEAR"
INV love-" farewell pet" my dear Cos" If
I were Young lady l would Jump up, fall
down and roll over, and laugh until could see
stars in mid day: unless | got so mad could
not laugh at all. For my part it makes me
laugh. | couldn't help it. l wouldn't If
could, and l couldn't if | would. Taxpayer
had better have fixed up his Fourth of July
speech, which he delivered in Vancouver few
days since, and have it published in the INDIE
PENDENT. People could then judge of his
true merits As to "twaddle," Taxpayer is
about as much given TO the use OF "twaddle"
and bran porridge" as is the Hon. D. M.
Fletcher, who advertises himself as Attorney
and Councillor at Law. know of no one who
uses "bran mush" unless he does. Sensible
people generally use corn meal, oat meal, and
wheat meal, known as Graham flour, Tor por-
ridge. He says 1t takes money to buy bran
mush and you Cd know it does" l never buy
bran mush nor bran. In fact never heard OF
any one who sells the article. And, further,
nevey use anything so substantial as bran
musE prefer something nice and palataDle
when l eat, and good variety at that The
idea that Cosmopolitan would eat bran mush.
that is not sufficiently materialized, TOO thin
as Taxpayer says. As to Galvanic shocks,
have no Leyden jars with which to give
shock. Secondly, do not use shocking things
| nor advise others to do so. Thirdly, it would
require a small earthquake to shock even the
modeSty of some men in this County, and the
| conclusion is inevitable, that it would take
| tremendous force to shock all the tax payers
| One could not make his salt at such work.
Taxpayer asks where / live and what is my
occupation. | live on the corner OF Main and
: Ninth streets with DR.. Goddard; and, having
! great confidence in his skill physician, |
! am practcing with him. The truth is, l think
just as much of him as do of myself When
Taxpayer gets sick may go and see him.
think | can cure him unless he is too far gone
with alcoholisms. Again he says, DO you
mean to say, Cos, that those little bills were
paid against her Mrs. Russelps) consent" |
did not say anything of the kind. / said that
without the knowledge or consent Of his wife,
whom he left with four helpless children, just
in the hours of her bereavement some few
! provisions were furnished her, and a little
wood" And now | add that those provisions
were furnished on the day of the burial, and
not only with the understanding on the part
would probably pay for them, but she was in
formed by some one, the same day, that she
was on the County. She paid no attention to
this fact so far as her own efforts were con-
cerned, but as fast as she got washing and
| sewing to do she was hard at work earning
4 bread for her self aud family. And she said
also, that she expected TO be able to pay all
her bills and refund To the County all that she
had received. And since Taxpayer has start
cd in to make public talk of this matter
she has said number of times that rather
than have had Mr.. Russell buried by the Coun-
ty she would have preferred to have had him
! taken to the grave on an OK cart and went on
foot herself to the funeral. l will close by
saying that when l penned my first reply to
! Taxpayer did not know, nor care to know, who
he was But as | now understand all abou,
the matter, have endeavored TO answer his
"open letter to Cosmopolitan" SO that any one
who reads this article may know that Hon
Joseph NJ Fletcher is the man replied to by
w. H. GODDARD.