The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-01-07

55 per cent, bacon cured with salt,
taxed A per cent, bread made of
flour taken from bag taxed 80 per
cent, and butter seasoned with tax
ed salt After breakfast the farmer
put on a hat taxed 90 per cent,
walked over a taxed carpet which
covered a taxed floor, out of taxed
door hung on taxed hinges aud fas-
tened with a taxed lock, in Gods
air, not taxed yet. He then got
some wire nails, taxed $50 per cent,
and taking hammer taxed 30 per
cent, and saw and axe taxed 90
per cent, he repaired a pig pen with
lumber taxed 20 per cent.
After he had finished that job he
went into the stable and put bri-
die and harness onto his horses, tax
ed "a per cent, led them out from
the taxed stable to taxed trough
and pumped untaxed water for them
from a taxed pump.
He hitchl 1 them to a plough tax
ed 45 per cent. and started to the
field to put in many lonely hours
preparing the ground for another
crnp. The wife swept the floor with
a broom taxed So per cent, went
into the best room, the taxed floor,
covered with an ingram carpet, tax
ed 60 per cent. She got needle,
taxed % per cent. and threaded it
with Gotten thread, taxed "A per
cent. AT first she thoughtshe would
make herself a dress of some print
ed cotton valued at over Is cents
per yard, taxed 40 per cent, but she
at last concluded to make her hus-
band some clothes of common wool
en- goods, taxed Ill per cent. After
sewing some hourson the taxed ma
terial, with n taxed chair on a taxed
carpet, which covered a taxed floor,
she went out to work in the garden
and she took hoe and shovel, tax
ed 45 per cent, with which to dig
up the weeds. After the long, weary
day is over the farmer comes home.
He feeds the pigs, chickens, horses
and cattle and swine and comes
through taxed door and sits at his
taxed table once more, which is
lighted with glass lamp taxed $50
per cent.
After supper the farmer takes.
down his Bible taxed % per cent.
reads chapter from the Holy book,
thanks God that he has cast his lot
in the "frccst country on earth,
and then retires and covers himself
with blanket taxed Ill per cent.
The years slowly pass away; the
farmer grows old; the hair of his
head is white as snow; his good wife
is wrinkled and bent; finally he dies
and he is put in coffin taxed 10
per cent. The minister comes and
reads the services of the church, and
he is carried to his long home, and
over the ground his children erect
monument to his memory which is
taxed 80 per cent.
"That is the way" continued the
neighbor, "that we pay our govern
ment taxes. But you never get any
tax receipts. IF you did you could
take just what you paid and that
would create revolution inside of
six months; but then, these taxes
do not all go to the government. OF
every dollar of taxes raised in this
way one dollar is paid over to the
Government and four dollars to the
millionaire and manufacturer"
Then the old farmer sat and
thought again. AT last he said:
81 understand it now. can ac-
count for it all. The millionaires of
the East got my beef, corn, wheat
andpork. Ihave been robbed. They
have been stealing the proceeds of
my labor all my life. Of all L have
raised they have only left me barely
enough to feed my wife and chill
dren."