Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-09
TAXED FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE.

What a Good Old Couples Rheam a,,s ~
Nets TO the Government Per Year,
Correspondence of the Gazette.
WAsHIN GToN, May 5.-Mr. Guenthe
Of wisconsin made the most humorous
speech Of the session to. d.y on the tarif
bils which created considerable merri-
waht. He spoke In favor of the abolition
~ the internal revenue taxation. He re-.
Fferred to recent speech made by Mr.
Hudd OF Wisconsin, who closed his re.
marks with the stsnza:
We are taxed from the cradle plump into the
grave
Mr.. Gruenther then said: The poet must
have thought Of the internal-revenue col
lector when he wrote it. Laughter I
Hardly has the baby been ushered into
this internal-tax ridden world and
stands in need OF little paregoric
or few drops Of essence Of peppermint,
or some other remedy laughter to sooth
the gripping in its little bowels, up steps
the internsl-revenue collector, clothed
with all the powers of the g neral govern
mept, with the army and navy ut his
back, and inexorably eIacts from the lit
tie yelling infant SIS per cent. internal
revenue on the paregoric, 425 per cent on
the essence of peppermint. 1t is pay or
yell. fGreat laughter Being bright
American child, with an eye to business,
1t takes the psregoric, because that bears
the lowest tax, saving thereby ninety
cents on the dollar [greet laughter and
giving an object lesson in ECONOMY is
wealth Renewed laughter and sp-
plsuse.
But soon the little one succumbs, and
thereby at least thinks it escapes the coz
slant demsnds OF the revenue flend. But
Oh, no! 1t is taxed even after 1t is dead,
The sorroWing mother, in order to pre-.
seryRthe dear little features for dsy or
.tuo, places ipiece Of cloth saturated
with alcohol upon the pale face. There
Is that omnipres sent revenue spy sgain
and demands 400 per cent. for the benef;
OF the government with surplus Of three
hundred and thirty millions In the Treas
ury. Laughter and applause That in
fernal internal tax we Republicans want
to abolish. Applause. 1 take Il for
granted that my colleague hiss sent at
least one copy OF his speech to Wisconsin
to his friend Farmer Goodman, In Ke-
Waunee county. Laughter
O.d Mr.. Goodman WAS q former con-
stituent OF mine, when l had the honor to
represent Kewaunee county In the Forty
seventh Congress. know him well He
Is nice old gentleman, unfortunately a |
great sufferer from rheumatism, as go |
many farmers are in that portion OF nv
state. which is not noted for the wiIdness |
OF Its winters. daughter ! XPNMesas
81 smiable ola lady, but also v5f71
rheumatic. Renewed laughter LII I
&c MIN cefOIe me now sitting hr<S4ha
blazing pine-knot fire and TAXING great
comfort In his pipe, Mrs. G. knj1arg h3t
his side. He reads aloud the speech 6f1
my colleague. The further he proceeds
The more indignant he becomes over the
utter depravlty Of that party OF highway
robbers that even stole their name from
he Democrats. Great laughter. He
8 shocked "at the many perniclous sets
,f tarih legislation"
When he comes to the 102 per cent. ON
;astor oil his Indignation knows mol
pounds. His wife becomes almost hys.
erical, contemplating that she uses q.