The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-06-07
DAY OF RECKONING.
Uncle Sans Agents in Kenosha Begin
the Work of Taking the CensBs
of the City.
MUST GET PERSONAL WITH ALL
Questions will Be Asked Which Some say
Not Want to Answer. But Uncle san
will Not Be Put OF.

Uncle Sans day of reckoning mas
arrived and Friday morning Chester
Barnes. Theodore Abel, Louis Rahr
and George Villnow started with the
work in Kenosha. It will proba bly,
take them all day to get over the en-
barrassment of the work, but after
tomorrow things will move smoothly.
1t should be held in mind that the work
| is a government work and people
should be ready to supply the enumer-
ators with the information they desire
when they reach their home. Hrr-
dreds of others throughout the State
and United States have commenced the
same work.
Here are some of the things which
the enumerators will want to know
yourself and the inmates of your house
| hold, and he won't necessa -1y depend
upon the evidence of his eyes either.
He will ask you outright your sex and
color, and the fact that you wear trOu-
sers and white skin won't excuse you
from answering. He will ask you the:
date of your birth, month and year.
whether you are single, married, wild
owed or divorced; how long you have
| been married to your present consort,
| how many children you have had and
| how many are now living; whether
| you are deaf, dumb or blind, and he
will require to know these things about
each member of your family. You will
be expected to tell where you were
born and if you are native of another
country, when you came to this country
and what steps, if any, you have taken
to become a citizen.
Then your business will come under
considera ton, and here is where the
enumerators anticipate the greatest
| trouble. The enumerator wants to
know just what your occupation is, and
| if you have more than one you will be
listed under the head of that one from
which you derive the chief part of your
income. In case you aren't sure Of
that, the one you spend the most time
and effort on will be that under which
you will be described. Thus, if you
tend bar in the daytime and usher in
the theatre in the evening, you will go
down as a bartender. You will be
asked whence your income is derived,
and if you receive most of it froan
loaned money, stocks, bonds, or other
securities, you are a capitalist by the
| government definition. You are to tell
whether you own your own home, and
if so, whether it is mortgaged. Also
you are expected to state whether you
can read and write the English Ian
guage. If you can't, but can read and.
write some other language, that's duly
set down to your credit, and saves YOU
from the stigma of i11iteraCy-
When the census enuneratOr gets
through with you, he will probably
know things about you that your most
intimate friend doesn't know. AS
soon as he has asked and received the
answer to his last question he is ex-
pected to leave your premises and
promptly forget everything he has
found ott. If he doesn't forget it, or
behave as if he had forgotten it, he
will get into very hot water.
Severe penalties are established for
the punishment of any betrayal of in
formation received by the enumeratOr~