The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-11
THE TROUBLES OF A DEMOCRAT.
The single Tax Worries Him, aod ne
Takes His Pen in Hand.

1--WE have received the following co1s-
rnurlica ion from an esteemed, though eFl-
IDENTIFY perplexed. correspondent. ts4'
there may be 10 question Of its anthem
itchy. we have printed = just as received.
save that we have added a few punctu2-
ton marks 20 make the sense more PLAIN
10 our reade=sl
Seattle wash Oktobsr the sivinth-ss
MiSshsr eiitur: We no me wen an no
I'm dimoSTst Ode ts1 n a,,, Sn 1v Nh wssks
after landed az the Cassel sardln a.:
got a JOB on ths big pipes II heMForH i
BIN dinokrar.. Twas niisiher IWseon
god rest his souI-;hat got me the job an
proud am Of NE diTaokracy but I'm get
lin ratified. There's sumihin the mattner
wild me or there's sEiTnthin the mattner
dunno which. 50 i take up me pin TO
rte We. There's domned little dimckracy
in you but j no you'iil tel ne the truth
wv il. Sure you'll make a faie NV yer
self" ses kitty-kitty's me wife an Gums
ov very dacent peepel In the county Az
magh-"Ya cant rite iagliSh."
''InC}ish'' seq. wat the diyil hav 20
do MD anythin ingiish: Its riun united
states am.
I'VE don't underestimate" ses Kitty, 'fts
grammer name. Ye cant .ite good gram
mer."
''Shmau odds that" ! ses. don't father
Terence-god bless hiu,-whin he reeds as
the even!n paper say the srammer Is
awful an that every time the Teller VINO
runs, the paper rites a idit9rial ne tair
mer murders the inglish N Wild ii avery
time. bedad, so be easy" but 10 re-
Saume-
holt ov n thing they call s.neletax. an
they say ye cant be a good dtuokrat less
ye behave in it, It's TO help the poor man
thin feiiers ses. an make him conunted
an happy, an il vii play the divil wild The
rich min-plotokrats they call the rich
min-who have no rites. Az course that's
al rite-i'm fur the poor man livery time
but whn they egspiane this sistim ov
singletax ! git ratified as sed before.
This is what the singietax mn ses-"The
land ses they, nanin just the dirt itself.
was intended by the Greater FUR livery
body. but the rich min tthim plutokrats)
has sobbled it al up, an the poor man
cant gel at H." an that's the rason me
frlnd McCarty. who wuz a-taihin' 70 me-
sits drunk livery Saturday mite that Gums
round so long as he has sint IN rs
poket, an the Teller who has no trade,
an the tramp who's always huntin fur
work an afeard hell find il is KEEP down
an cant git along.
So" SEES they, well not tax the bid
ms an houses on the land, but we'll tax
the land Gut ov site. an then the rich
man Will let so an the Door man can
git Il. Wen have only wun tax on land,
an Wen tax that al! it'll stand, an If the
rich man wont pay the tax Wen just
take the land from him an Civ it 10 the
But" sess /. 'ff the rich man cant pay
the tax, how the div can the poor man
pay i.?' ,.. ., .,,o -,.
min wont let go but E.i, thin do sum
thin wild his land to make it earn the tax.
He'll nut biidinS on II an not let IL lie
Idle Wild more bildins rints viii be cheap"
But" SEES J. sure the rich man vii
put your sinsletax on to the Cint IN make
his tinints pay IL"
Thin We'll rase his tax ses he.
Thin he'll rase his Tint,' ses.
n
Thin tride 10 pacefy him. My frind."
j SEES, sit semes 10 ME you an the dino
krat!k party ar maxim fules ov yerseyes.
Sure there's pl.niy ov land in this country
fur all ds wants IL av course land in Il
CRATE big city is valuabil-so is brik-
bekase peepel want it. If ye take brik
OUT in the woods where there's no need
fur it. what's it good fur? Your poor
man cant bid a fone biloxi in seattle If
lac had the land an your rich man-yer
plutokrat. as We call h.m-wont if ye
tax the life out ov him. So what good'n
yer sistim do? Outside its different. If
man wants land an cant be cont'nted Wild
out It sure there's plinty fur him. hay
tin akeTs mescf beyant lake washinton.
any man can 90 on it an farm ii. glad
I'll be 10 have him do X, an can hay all
he makes after pawn the prisnt taxes.
which you admit is much less than
Sihg!etax wud be. an there's plinty more
in the same fix. But u Teller that n.ver
did days good in his loif, an that's
mostly thin that's shoutiu yer siuglctax
wont do better on land. Let a man be
sober an s.ddy an dacent an he can soon
GIT all the land he wants in this country.
If that's what he's akin fur to make him
happy"
But me singetax frind sed didn't I'm
dersthand it-faith dont-hut that Il was
IN the dimokratik platform, an TO be a
good dimokrat / must vote fur il, So
ask ye. m!sther editur, whats cum over
the dlmokraCy out here any how
Yours in dout,
DINNIS DELANEY.
a dimokrat ov the tinth ward.