The Red Cloud chief., 1895-04-26

MIN 10 40 cxaCtly WUaJ hnanlaS ulu.
And to go still further with the smile
he is supposed to report the income Of
his vito Sapphira. Sapphire is not u
citizen. She has 10 rights, and the col.
lector has no authority to question her
about her income; but /, for instance,
still carrying out this idea, will DO re-
quircd TO report my wifo's income, and
IL our united incomes should be over the
stipulated amount l must pay a tax on
1t, so my wife is not only DISTINGUISHED,
but the fact is emphasized by making me
q detective, and / must not only pay q
tax on my efforts to earn moro than
So, 500 per year, but | must go through
my wifo's pockets after she has retired,
no matter how difficult it may bo to as
certain where those pockets are and how
to get into them, in order to ascertain
what she got for her butter and eggs
during the current year, and If fail to
do this and to add it To my own income
/ am u traitor to my country.
Whatever future generations may
say Of our intelligence and statesman
ship / know not, but | am positive that
their remarks regarding tho income tax
will be entirely u~nfavorable.
am also required to report tho in
como Of minor children and to 90
through their little toy banks while they
are asleep.
was q postmaster once, and | point
to that era of prosperity with pride. |
held tho Office but four years, and yet it
was n period of uninterrupted peace and
comfort. Wheat was 81 "a bushel and
hay $50 per ton. Everybody had en-
ployment, and dress sleeves did not re.
quire crinolino to hold them in shape.
There were no strikes, and poor people
did not study Dolsartc.
My Office was rinsod out thoroughly
every spring, and have never repeated
q word outside Of my family which |
read on any of the postal cards passing
through my hands. | regarded the Office
rs "a solemn trust, and | never failed to
put back tho illustrated papers and
magazines into their wrappers after |
had glanced over them. Good white oak
and hickory wood sold for 81 per cord,
and wo wCro at peace with all tho ma
tons of the earth. Letters left uncalled
for for the required time were advertised
in my own paper, and patrons Of tho
office who suffered from drought had
their stamps licked for them without q
murmur.
Only once / had congressional ambi-
tions. and that was temporary. l visit
cd Wyoming Mt the time of her admis-
sion to tho Union as n state, and the
legislature offered to make me n senator
il | would become u citizen, and was
tempted to do it, for it was u great hon
or, but | remembered how close the air
is in the senate chamber and how many
Interruptions | would have while doing
literary work and while other senators
wcro speaking and when ] needed alb
soluto quiet, so ! declined the seat. Be
sides, too, the salary is only 50, 200 per
year, and | would have to make cam
paign speeches every fall without any
box office receipts. | would have to give
a large part of my salary to various
, charities, and little red babies would be
named after me, each of whom would
, have To receive a silver mug. Tho pa
pers at home would attack me every
( timc l failed TO vote, and even harder
perhaps when | did vote. My business
ut home would go to the dogs, and if
failed of a reelection | would be mad
, and sick mt heart. My boys would grow
, up to think the government ought to pro
vide for them and tho railroads give
them passes. My wife would need /;
now dress, and wo would feel hurt i
! | we did not get rs much attention rs tn,
4 cnators from New York and Massachu
sets. | would have to bring my team
here to Washington, where feed is high
and tho reporters would be all the tim
asking me what was done during TIL
executive sessions, and they would roas
me and rake up old personalities if re
fused to tell them, and the senate woul'
despise me if did not refuse, and thcr
you are.
On the whole, l decided to remain
free as a bird, free to eat with III,
knife, free to express my opinions, fire.
to ride on the horse cars, FREQ to atton'
whichever church l chose, free to crit
else legislation, FREQ to 80 To sleep i
the press gallery and free to write rs
an now writing.
\ Yesterday | received advance sheet
vi ~ IltN Dbtilt NbllllIt W IlINil VIII NOb
astonish the world. Ii is by a risin
poet, who asks mo to mention the boo
casually in tho paper, SO that the pull
lie may be prepared for it and not foe
away its money on other literary tras
s. prior to the appearance of this work.
/. In q frank outburst of poetic passio
n tho poet writes OF tho title page rs 70
" lows:
M all the poems | have written
Was piled together in n pile,
-. And with y Cuudcl u was litton,
You could SEQ the fire for u mile.
10 II all the gold that | have gotten
"a For all the poems | have wrote,
~ 1t would not hurt the fccblcst kitten
III To pour 1t molten down hcr throat.
Tho book teens with such beautif1
!" figments of the brain as this and wi
10 mark an era in tho literary history
the United States. was about to 81
~ that it sounds the tocsin Of n Literal
revolution, but perhaps l should say ii
antitoxine instead.