West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1891-10-15
K1xowooD Drsrn1cr. Oct. u. ,e1

KINGwooD DISTRICT, Oct. 13. '91.
EDITOR ARGUS 81 propose to
fight the high tax grizzly to his den
and there show him no quarters SO
long as Tommy keeps that aperture
open to deyour the people with high
taxes. We arc loaded for men of
his avaricious appetite who feed off
the telling farmers, and in his fren.
zied way allow the writer of bis let.
ters, who is politician of very
small calibre, to forget to argue his
read system or really to let the
reader know that he has the only
system that has been brought to
light, was the excess in pay that
Tommy got for working the road =,
which we will admit was wrong.
and then in boyish manner goes
OF into political twattle abusing
the postmaster and some one who
owns a saw-mill. | know nothing
about them, but suppose from your
antagonistic way Of vlllifying them,
that they are honest men, and this
is why you have no use for them.
AS for the Farmers Advocate
you mention, you and Tommy have
been pouring hay-sced into one an
others hair, but precious little of il;
would stay-not enough to deceive
the farmers into increasing their
taxes. "Tho dear old farmer. !"
lie is mighty dear to you indeed.
The farmer has heard the crack
OF your whip and your blatant voice
before in tones of oppression and at
the same time use your deceptive
guile OF better times, more money.
great public improvements, vote the
tax, get the moss from off your
back. No, sir, the farmer does no,
any more weakly cringe to mas
ter whip nor q cunning political
boss who would burden them down
with taxation and oppression and
then stand on the corners and sneel
at the old farmcr--pay your taxes,
hay-seed, we did it up for you this
time, old moss back, pay your taxes
or We will sell you out, and then say
this is q progressive age. II must
DC done; this is the way of grea.
intellectual enterprise. Walk up.
hay-seod, its right to take orr la
Dor and give you nothing in return,
for this is according to your auto
cratic ideas Of progress. You try
to palm yourself Oft as new Moses,
but you will End yourself deluged
as a Pharaoh. The people will no
longer be oppressed, and if you
want to argue the road system, sick
to the text or quit preaching, or if
its political airing you want, | will
take pleasure in accommodating you
AS to your political complexion,
you are hard to locate. You are
found with willy smiles telling
Republican his bright future; next
you are found trying to palm him
on on a Democrat as genuine goods,
but poor Republican tumbles to
your deceptive methods and leaves
you where Moses left Pharaoh. and
there IS where farmers and taxpay-
ers will leave you--you can no lon
ger trade them Off for few garden
seeds. They are already in this
District groaning under a bonded
debt Of about $4,000 and it's ma.
tured interest, while our county in
debtedness will reach from $4,000
to ~, 900, and then want to increase
our road taxes. The people will
never be brought to this bondage
lana not reducing our taxcs) aud
be the victims OF q rolostless tyrant.
completely menacod with an extir-
patton Of all hope Of ever being free,
and ] am no office-seeker and will
never have to bow to you who
claims tie honor Of a political boss
who has the right to peddle out the
political patronage, and when that
last great day that you are croakinQ
about comes, you will get your meas
are full Of high taxes and oppres.
sion Of the poor, and your yells and
screams will not be moss back, old
hay.seed, but High taxes, taxes.
taxes, will be the wall that will car
~ you down to your last resting
place to perish with the tyrants who
ground the people down with OBJ
preston.
FARMER AND TAxpAYRR.
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