The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-07-28

Hooppolc township, Ind.
Nix. NEwsPArERMAN:-My son
tells me that Dubois county has a
board If Internal revenue, which
needs legislature mighty badly,
He informs me Of the supposition
that if this board Of Internal revenue
is not Immediately looked after by
a large and influential legislature OF
about fifty memb r., that il will
run the county into the ground,
and land every son and daughter of
its virgin soil into that glcrlterous
Poor House they aie building near
Ireland.
| now look ahead with enthusi-
ASH for the time when the Poor
House, or the poor mans castle, Is
completed in its splendidness.
am going to move there al once OF
maybe sooner, that Is if the castle
building is not discontinued for
want OF funds which viii never hap
pen, il the present board OF internal
r, venue continues to raise the taxes
and increase the burdens Of the
citizens as they have been doing
for the last month or two.
! have a farm Of forty acres on
which | raise three bushels Of craw-
fish to the acre, and it is loaded
with stones, underbrush, mortgages,
bills OF sale and othe, incumber
ances. have my pension, my
hopes for the p. o., and a reaper
and mower, mortgaged by note OF
habeas corpus to a Jasper magnate
from whom bought it. And that
is al! | have, except a wife and SIX
teen children, those two gray mules
who balk one at a time, and a pair
of goats, no kin 70 the sacred fam
lily. For these possessions am
taxed to death.
Say, Mr.. Newspaperman, | am
going to Cuba or the PHILIPPINES If |
can't get into the Poor House at
Ireland. cannot continue to live
on my farm in Sassaf as Jungle il
the board of Internal revenue, Of
Jasper, continues to load taxation
on her.
Mr.. Newsnaperman, please petit
ton the Governor Immediately for
a legislature to look after that
board. 1t needs looking after. Ii
j. a mixture Of inidelity and ignor-
ance and revenge and stupidity.
Mr.. Inspect, I" the disgrunilcd re-
pudiated politician Of Dubois
county, whom the democratic par
ty has east off, and whom the re-
publican party will not claim, and
who for neither love nor money can
get another Office in Dubois county
unless the Judge gives him one,
which my neighbor says he is obli-
gated 70 do for services rendered in
his chase for votes in the last elec-
tion when the Judge ran for Judge,
i the head boss of the board of In
fernal revenue review. Dutch Gus
is second lieutenant, and the sou
venir from wooden shoe township
is sergeant. There are two othefs,
but they are wall flowers.
Mr.. Newspaperman, the Internal
revenue review boss. Mr.. .sInspectN
raised the t.xes on my sow-pen be-
cause it was whitewashed. What
is common farmer to do in tue
future? The Health Board, anoth-
er Institution to feed half-starved
doctors, wants farmer 10 white
wash his hog pens, and then the
board of informal revenue review
comes along and raises the taxes on
the hog pens because they ale white
washed.
The Health Board orter 10 white
wash itself and orter to put carbolic
acid on the board Of Internal review
They are all boards made Of sassa-
fras wood, which is no count for
Can we not send sensible men to
the legislature of tie State. com
posed Of farmers and newspaper
men, to pass some common sense
laws and do away with county legis-
latures, Health Boards, Boards Of
Internal review, boards of foolish
ness, etc.
Mr.. Newspapcrman, what are the
Filipinos lighting for Liberty?
Then let us telephone them by
grapevine from Sassafras jungle to
dispcrse. They have more freedom
than u. II they have the army Of
the u ;. killing them off, they at
least can die. but we citizens Of
Sossairas Jungle are taxed to death,
voted to death, imposed upon by
Boards Of Health, crushed to earth
by boards of Internal revenue, have
to fight the Jasper Ring and the
Dubois County Machine, have tc