The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-06-14
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The American working man returns |
at night from his toll, clad In = woolen
suit taxed SIS per cent, stockings and
undershirt taxed rs per cent, q cotton
shirt taxed As per cent. q wooden hat
taxed IS per cent, and perchance;-a pair
of gloves in winter taxed IS per cent.
He carries in his hand his tin dinner
pail, taxed As per cent, and greets his
wife with CHEEKY smile as she looks
at him through the window-pane, taxed
go per cent, from which she has drawn
aside the curtains, taxed 40 per cent.
After scraping his boots on scraper
taxed 45 per cent, he wipes them on
mat of bagging taxed 40 per cent; ne
lifts the dOor-latch taxed As per cent,
gives a kiss to his wife in wooden
dress taxed 20 per cent. She has q
needle taxed 25- per cent in her hand,
with which she has been mending, with
/ thread taxed 40 per cent, an alpaca
umbrella taxed so per cent.
1t is a small brick house which they
have bought with their hard earnings
of building association. The brick
| were taxed 20 per cent, the lumber
taxed I6 per cent and the paint 81 per
cent. The wall paper taxed . per cent
makes the room brighter, with its PLAIN
furniture taxed 80 per cent.
Hanging his hat on brass pin taxed
j As per cent, he hangs his pail on q steel
N pin taxed 40 per cent and proceeds &c
get ready for his supper. He washes
his hands with CASTLE soap taxed 20 pei
cent, in tin basin taxed 40 per CEN
and wipes them on cotton towel taxed
As per cent, He then goes to the look
, ing-glass taxed 45 per cent and likes MI
hair with a brush and comb taxed 81
per cent.
He is now ready for his supper
which his wife has cooked on STOW
2 taxed As per cent, with pots and kettle
. taxed So per cent. The table is sprea'
= with the commonest kind of crockery
7. taxed 55 per cent, and he drinks hi
water out of a cheap glass tumble
a taxed 40 per cent. The little sugar tina
he puts in his tea is taxed 80 per cenl
and he stirs it with q spoon taxed
per cent. His meal is a frugal one b
g cause hard times have cut his wage
= down and he is saving every cent
q can to pay the next installments du
on his house.
With AN appetite worthy. Of mol
e ample meal he takes up his knife an
fork, taxed 40 per cent, and begins
eat a piece of sailed fish taxed 25 pc
q cent. He p0urs on it little Y1negs
taxed SO per cent. Upon his boiled p
tatoes taxed 40 per cent, he sprinkle
o salt taxed 80 per cent. and eats a sma
" pickle taxed 35 per cent. He ends b
- meal with pudding of rice taxed L
per cent and an orange taxed 20 p
!. cent.
After supper he smokes pipe al
, enjoys the happiness of his wife WI
II has this day bought a wooden SHAY
taxed IS per cent, black dress tax
so per cent and pair of scissors tax'
!. As per cent.-AtchisOn Patriot.
a All of the above reads very prettil
{. only it sounds much more like the o
free trade speeches we remember rea
ing in McGuffy's readers when a boy
school. In fact, we believe it is one
% them copied bodily as an editorial
the Patriot. However, the entire g
ticle, as applicable to the situation
= day, is simply falsehOod, as not a 81
gle one of the articles mentioned
taxed a single cent, for the very go
reason that every last one of them
{. Manufactured at home, and thereto
a not subject to tax. In other words,
;, is only those who find home mannfs
70 tured goods not high-toned enough
them who need to pay tariff taxes.