The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-17

Luminous Discussion OF single
Tax. With Variations.
Seattle Wash cktober the 6fee

SsatIeWash ok.oeer the bfeer. ~
Msthsr edltur: / bad the laf on kitty
wh.n she saw me lethsr printed in yer
paper Father Terence red il out IN his
MLgjnt manner. lie ses me stole is So
paroic g the teller on the avenin paper'
that ne dikshun IS more diret ana turse;
an that ctr ixSintrie.tys n TIC use ov
kanIias leihers givs both our ritins the
same bezare effskt. I'M giyin il 70 ys 1ist
as re SD II. domned II no wot he Tnanes
He's a very larneG man Is father Terence.
He Gums frun Lmerk. as he ses:
20 Limerick prod,Sious.
That stands Wild kays an bridges,
Al ships Up 70 the wincieS,
On Shannon shore.
Hu; iis siugletax started in TO rite We
about. Tha; thin will be the 6etn o. me
yit. Tother day | me, wur ov the fo!nist
d!mokrais IN these parts. who seS he has
the oner TO be me fr;nd. wud tell We hts
name but he IS thai moaist an re,trin TIA.
ne hates lojk the divii 10 hav his nam
in the papers. he grabs me be the hand
on bind avenu al he ses. "fr1nd Dian.s,
how are you am delO1ed to see you-ah--
how IS mIssis Delaney, well trust-Aa.
madam an ne TAX off his hat 70 eddy
a pass.n and bowed I'll the krases in his
lavender pants rinkeld. Thinks 10 meseF
here's me chance. fur he noes iverytain:
"KurneI." i ses-ihe byes all call him
kurneI dunno why--"kurnel, ses /.
whats this here singietax that they does
be gittin in the dimokratlc platforms Sure
/ n.ver herd ov il before.
All frin5 Dinnis," ne ses ''tne single
tax. yes a crate ekonomik principal Not
kerektly stated IN the newspapers per-
haps. Thin newspapers are so inakurate.
The neutrality-suspicious. was Tho
number ov that michigan r.gimint that
whit to the war?-Ah. Mrs. Jones" an
off wint his hat another Teddy whit by
But this singletax. kurnel," ses.
hn
dun
All. frind Dinnis. yes. the single tax.
certainly" he ses. "Fr.nd Dinnis, do you
no yer wan ov the most esteanled frinds
have IN this komunity? hav q CRATE luv
fur this komuniry, frind Dinnis. it's me
home. sab. THESE hands hav bin hardened
by onest toll. Sab, here in Seattle" an he
helt out his hands in a new pare ov lite.
Waller kid gluvs An yet, fr!nd Dinnis.
i've bin msrepresinted-me veracity. frind
Dinnis, has bin attaked-a throifiin mis-
statement about a yat NV mark hanna mas
bin magnitude. frind Dinnis, TO Sigantik
proporshuns by me inimy. the pay OF tbe-
dad. that's you). The prinsipal was rite.
but ME inimies, wild a name, pettifoggin
spirit seased upon a mere mathematics
inakuracy to lower ME proud name IN the
dust. But. frlnd Dinnis, viii evenshually
Triumph, All" Jist thin leddys 10
wanst wint by. an he bint himself dubbed
wild poioitneSS.
trde agin 10 git him hak 20 the single
tax but his moind scanned 10 run on thin
newspapers that had thraduced him. Thin
| saw ledd.es a cummin up togither.
GLORY be 10 god" thinks 10 meself. II
he noes thin he'll have a ii: rite hear in
the strate." so wild that give lep Oh
car that was passin whit UP town.
Now, misther edutur. behave # cud
git me frind where there was no wimmin,
an whn he had relaved his mond about
thin newspapers, he cud tell me all about
that singietax
What do ye think? Yours as before,
DINNIS DELANEY.
oy the tinth ward