Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-03

Geaersi ID kemper watson, what nave
you been investing IMP
Tlis is sort OF En- ulhesltby season, so
| bought dollars worth OF drugs Erd
chemicals.
Whist did you p.y for them?
They came TO 81 IL.
Then the tax was 81 II?
Yes, they came higa; ou: we must have
them this year.
Speaker Lsmpsor, what did you buy?.
We are somewhat torn up on the Re.
aarve, SO laid in dollars worth O,
good, strong fax thread. The tax WAS
40 cents, aud my bill was 81 40.
Farmer Boothman, what did you Sc
cure?
A DOLLARS worth Of bags.
To put wheat il?
Yes.
Whist cid they Cost?
Ole dol!sr and forty cents.
Why the extra 10 cents2.,
That is the tax.
Speaker Pro Tenn. Alosugh, what have
you done?
Bought dollars worth Of oil-cloth-
abe tsS being 10 cents, it cost ma Sl4Q,
and Pm AFRAID il WON'T keep me in the
dry, either.
Captain Lybsrger, what did you get?
a dollars worth Of tin-tin horns.
What do you want With tin horne?
To run my campaign IL tie s x5eenth
district. The tax On them was 81 cents,
and the entire bill WAS 81 81.
General Carries q. Grosyeaor, you sze
q pretty Wlde-aWske lawyer, s:stesmsI
End farmer, YVES. did you invea.
Salt.
wba: does a dollars worth OF salt
COST?
Onlylsl.s9.
The SO cents Is tax, is st?
Yes, the tariff adds 50 cents to the
price.
Henry L. MoTey, how do you feel this
morning?
just mldduog.
Whst's the matter
Why. Patterson ia making "darned"
nuisance OF this campaign. I've just
ought dollars worth OF cotton yarn to
darn up the raveled edges-and IL costs
How muct:
For!y-six cents tax, or 81 46 for the
whole thing.
Robert ? Kennedy, how srs you?
$3.50, and SO bought dollars worth
Of cotton thread, which cost me 81 10,
the ts1b eng So per cent.
Mr.. Jacob Romeie, you LOOK Ike an
economist.
Ism; bought dollsr's worth of COT
ten hose, for which I psid 81 10. Il is s
blessed privilege foc poor usn TO psy
40 cents tariff tsX OF dollars wor.a OF
cotton socks.
Congressman j. D. Taylor, what are
you Investing 10?
This young Wliiiam lawrence is holy
terror, ard hsve 20, keep orSced up all
the time, 80 bought dollars worth of
corsets.
What did they cost2
Why, thew cost 81 80.
WhsL! L. il possible that there Is
SO IS tsx on dollars worth of corsets2
Tnsi's fact.
Misc Megibben wh.. do you want?
you please, I've jas. j0ined the class.
Have so eYperience2
All CT US working women and the
men ESQ have an expert
ence.
Tell us yours.
sew fer living, snd to-day bou ght
s dollars worth OF needles, and what do
you suppose they cost me after the tax
YVES added?
How much?
They cost me Si.45.
Now, here are tairty-one OF you WHO |!
have bought S30.05 worth Of taing:?
Yes.
Aud you paid s52.2S for them.
Yes.
That is S22 90 OF tain othar words, |
on every dollars worm of purchase you
have paid an average of 73l cents tax?
That's 1t exactly.
Don't you think tbs. If this tsN on the |
things which the great mass OF .lhe peo-
pie must consume every Gay wss reduced |
1t would tighten their burdens?
S-I--s-h-s-h! Don't say ANYTHING |
about il until after election. Give us
ch.nce to fool the people GU. OF their |
votes once more. Keep still while we
yell "free trade" 'psupsr lab ,r," "Cob-
den club" and "Bri.ish gold" All the J
trusts and monopoIies are backing us,
and II you will only let us yell loud !
enough we can fool the people agsin. Say
We will take the tax eff tobacco and |
whisky.
MISS Megib ben, you came late to school, |
but you look as though you wanted 80 |
say something.
lido. The trusts and monopolies are |
not backing the poor workir gmen and |
women, VINO slave snd toll and struggle |
to pay these Durdensoms taxes, which |
the government does not need. Don't |
make Us pay almost Two prices for all |
that goes to make US comfortable. We
don't want cheaper whisky and chesps, |
but we 90 want cheaper and bet. |
tSf clothes to keep Us warm and mike US
look respectable; we do want chesper |
and better shelter from the bitter storms |
Of winter; we do want cheaper and bet |
ter everyday necessities, when the
removal Of al unnecessary tax
will give them TO us. The Oh, with their |
uas.xed or but lightly tex=d Injuries, do |
lot seem to appreciate the wants Of the
million. handed multitude who toll for a |
lean subsistence; but Oh, you men who |
vote and WHO bear your share OF the bur. |
deg, give Us relief. Don's give Us cheaper |
whlsliy and cheaper tob1cco, but cheaper |