Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-09

a live green Potomac frog that tho pres idcnt had in his pocket to fish with aft er i o'clock had escaped and had, after q cold plunge in the inkstand, quietly vetoed bill relative to the collection of tho income tax.
 liko Washington, aS We say ill North Carolina, ri i<ht much. l havo had no leisure for loneliness or Cnnui. The man who can bu cnnuird in Washington must bo an abnormal anthrupUid Hero you sec everybody. Tho people send their statesmen here and then c,rr' here to SEQ how they arc behaving th"m- selves. Thus We have the opportunity of meeting tho eminent and thuSu who made them Su
 Hrru wo find tho blade, then tho gar and after that tho full corn in tho ear. Tho root and branch of government are hore, and if you keep your eye out you will also find tho foliago-the yer dancy, so to speak. It comes to seek ap- pointmont or appropriation and sOme- times blows out tho gas.
 1 am interested in politiCs-only as | every citizen the head of family should | be, 1 apprehcud. As n taxpayer of course am interested 1 am emphatic ally down on the mo tax, as every man Is who has any principle or inter est
 When we got where we must tax en- terprise and impose q fine upon business intelligence by taxing laudiblo ambi- tion and oxempting and rewarding mis- management, we ucUd the aid and com miseration of other nations It is the . r,N citizun to mako of his particular busi- | ness an honorable succesS. Tho income tax punishCS him fur this and encourages him to do exactly what Ananias did. l And tu go still further with tho Simile he is supposed to report tho income of his wife Sapphira Sapphira k not a citizen. She has nu rights, and tho col lector has no authority to question her about her income; but I, for instance, still carrying out this idea, will be re- quired to report my wife's income, and | If our united incomes should be over the stipulated amount l must pay tax on it, so my wife is not only disfranchised, but the fact is emphasized by making me Q detective, and must not only pay tax on my efforts to earn more than E3. 500 per year, but must go through my wife's pockets after she has retired, no matter how difficult it may be 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 I am traitor to my country.
 Whatever future generations may say of our intelligence and statesman ship I know not, but l am positive that their remarks regarding the income tax will be entirely unfavorable.
 am also required to report the in- come of minor children and to go through their little toy banks while they are asleep.
 was a postmaster once, and l point to that era of prosperity with pride. l held the office but four years, and yet 1t was Q period of uninterrupted peace and comfort Wheat was $1 bushel and hay $2O per ton. Everybody had em- ployment, and dress sleeves did not re- uuire crinoline to hold them in shape. Thero were no strikes, and poor people did not study Delsarte.
 My office was rinsed out thoroughly every spring, and have never repeated a word outside of my family which l read on any of the postal cards passing through my hands. I regarded the office as a solemn trust, and never failed to put back the illustrated papers and magazines into their wrappers after had glanced over them. Good white oak and hickory wood sold for $4 per cord, and we were at peace with all the na- tions of the earth. Letters left uncalled for for the required time wero advertised in my own paper, and patrons of the office who suffered from drought had kheir stamps licked for them without murmur.
 Only once I had congressional ambl- tions, and that was temporary. visit cd Wyoming at the time of her admis' sion to tho Union as q state, and tho legislature offered to make me a senator if I would become a citizen, and wa: tempted ta.do it. for it was agreat hon