West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-06-29

six hours in advance of Brother
Whetsell's.
VIII the Journal kindly compute
the amount of tax revenue that
Preston will get from the taxation
of coal, gas and oil leases2 Pres.
ton is unfortunate in not having any
gas or oil 10 tax. We know of but
one coal mine in the county of
Preston that is being operated on
lease and the output of this mine is
scarcely one hundred tons per day.
What an enormous revenue Preston
will reap from this lease.
We are working over our old &C.
counts and trying to collect up
again and preparing another chapter
OF our Dead Beat List for publica-
ton next week if we have room for
1t. There are some prominent citi-
zens who are eligible for a front
seat in this performance and we are
now looking up their pedigree and
getting ready to give them some free
advertising unless their accounts
are satisfactorily adjusted in a short
time.
We want to caution Bro. Powell,
OF the West Virginian, in friendly
spirit that he must not sprinkle too
much salt on the tail of the Preston
County Leader. We people of in
the Banner county know Gro. Shaw
who is at the helm of the Leader
and we can testify to his staying
qualities in auy kind of a contro-
versy. Bro. Shaw is quite docile
until thoroughly aroused, but once
aroused he fears no political ma
chine.
The Journal grows hilarious over
the last decision of the Supreme
Court in regard to taxing coal, oil
and gas leases. Our advice to the
Journal is not to crow too long and
loud, but wait for the next decision
OF the Court which may reverse the
whole business. Remember [ h G
Court is running on a moon sche-
dule, and thirty days soon slips
around. However the Journal be-
lieves in Growing when it gets a
chance.
We fear for the safety of our old
friend Jeff Iipscomb, of Dan
Tucker county. We are just in re-
ceipt of a postal conveying the in
formation that the ramp crop is a
total failure. AS Jeff has subsisted
on ramps for the past century its
not possible that a diet of straw
hats would satisfy his appetite.
The postal states that the moon
sinners are still abroad in the land.
This being true there is still hopes
for Jeff.
If the Journal has discovered
something In the new tax laws that
will be benefit to the farmers and
the small property holders it has the
happy faculty of keeping it a pro-
found secret from them. If taxing
their property for six and seven
times what it was formerly assessed
at is to benefit them, then we agree
with the Journal for once that the
farmers and small tax payers have
have reason to feel proud of the new
tax laws.
The question which is interesting
the Republican office. seekers of the
second district is, who has control
of the plum tree We can fancy
Bro. Whetsell, of the Journal, sit
ting up all night long debating this
question before the mirror. We
can picture Rev. Title exhorting
the brethren to not forget to shake
the tree that the postoffice plum
may fall in his lap. And then
imagine, if you can, how much fun
this affords pieless man That's
US.
"Great victory for tax reform, 1"
shouts the Journal. That is the way
the people expressed themselves
when they learned of the election of
Col. Tom Davis to Congress. The
Journal is little late in joining the
procession, but it is expecting too
much of the Journal TO think that it
is living in the 2oth century. Hav
ing spent its youthful days on the
sod it would be stretch of the
Imagination to suppose that it had
shaken the haYseed from its CORY
locks.
The youngest child in the Jour
nalistic field of Preston is welding
the most trenchant and pungent
quill of the quartette. We allude
to the Leader. We have always
admired Bro. Shaw's fearless spirit.
even though we have fallen under
his lance ourselves. He is a verifi
cation Of the liquor we keep in our
cellar, for campaign parposes only
he grows better by age. At pres
ent Bro Shaw is exchanging compli-
ments with Bro. Powell OF the West
Virginian.
Wonder if the Intelligencer will
charge the Democrats who voted for
Mr.. Lakin as being bought to vote
for Mr.. Lakin The ARGUS has a
higher regard for the Democrats
who voted for Mr.. Lakin than TO
charge them with selling their votes.
1t believes that the Democrats who
supported Mr.. Lakin did so from
personal motives. The Democrats
Of Preston have nothing brf the