The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-01
TO-DAY
New Revenue Law Goes Into
Effect.
STRUGGLE WITH STAMPS
viii Characterize Today's
Business in Wichita,
STRUGGLE WITH STAMPS


merous inquiries on the subject, the com
missioner Of internal revenue today stated
that postage stamps could be used in place
Of revenue stamps, except such as had
been imprinted by the government with
he letters II. R." If the ordinary post
age stamps not so imprinted were used
for internal revenue purposes, the docu-
ments or articles to which they were ap-
piled would be regarded as unstamped and
treated accordingly. Attention is also
called to the fact that imprinted stamps
cannot be used in payment OF postage.
Wichita will go all a-tangle today try
ing to put the new revenue stamps where
they belong, for the war revenue act is
in effect.
Bankers, druggists and all sorts of bust
ness men went home last night scratching
their heads in anticipation of the back-in
complexities of the first day under the
new law Everybody is patriotic and more
than willing to pay the tax. but every
body is kicking on the trouble anticipated.
But they must put on the stamps.
When Governor Stanley comes down
town this morning and issues a check of
s25 for office rent and another check Of
50 for groceries, they will cost him two
cents apiece and he must put on the
stamp. He will probably bring a crate of
early ripe peaches from his Riverside place
and express them to friend in Kansas
City and the receipt for them from the
company must be stamped. He may send
a telegram to Mort AIbaugh, chairman OF
the state central committee and Mr.. Stan
ley must put a one-cent stamp to the mes
sage or it will not be received at the coun-
ter. About the next matter of business
Mr. Stanley will attend TO will be 10 take
out life insurance policy for 5000, and
that will cost him 81 an stamps, or eight
cents a hundred, and the stamps must be
stuck on to the policy. He will go over
and take $50 in stock in a creamery sta
ton at Andale and be compelled TO stick
on five cents in stamps. He has succeeded
in collecting an old debt for an eastern
investor, who saw the boom and was con-
quered, and today when Mr.. Stanley re-
mlts net proceeds by draft, he will stick
on a stamp. He will take a proxy for an
associate in the Wichita nursery, but he
cannot vote in the corporate election I'M
til said proxy is stamped good and full
with Uncle Sans carmine stamp, an inch
and half in length bearing picture Of
the Maine and reading "U. S. Inter-reve-
nue-Documentary." He may want to
lease an extra acre Of ground next to his
Riverside home to extend his patch of
Strawberries and If the lease reads for
more than three years it will take fifty Of
stamps, and the probability is that Mr..
Stanley will have to paste on foot of
white paper to the lease for stamp margin.
Mr.. Stanley will have volumes of trouble
today for he'll be bound to forget some
times while he is hurrying. And If any
other man in Wichita has less trouble
than Mr. Stanley, it will be because he
does less business. For the stamps must
be put on.
Mr.. Stanley frequently has occasion to
telephone TO Arkansas City and yelling
ton on matters of business, and today
when he calls up Wellington it will cost
him, besides his regular toll three of the
carmine colored two-cent revenue stamps
And when he makes his bank deposit at
the close of the day, it will cost him an
other stamp. Before he leaves the office
the last mail will bring him a deed to
another lot and the deed must be stamped
at fifty cents a hundred. The prescription
he gets at the drug store on his way home
will be stamped and the sack of flour he
has the grocer throw on TO his road cart
will be stamped. When he gets home and
sits down on the porch to cool, he'll come
as near to swearing as ne ever does when
he remembers that in making out a mort
gage renewal for a client ne forgot 70 at
tach a stamp, and he'll sweat worse than
ever for after day Of licking and stick
ing stamps ne has fallen short of lng
a law abiding citizen, and when he goes
to supper he will abstractedly ask Of Mrs.
Stanley if the plates are properly stamped.
And he'll moan in unison with the bal
ance OF Wichita: Let US have peace"
It will require some running around TO
get these stamps. for not many have de-
cided TO deal in them. All the banks and
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