West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-08-10

turned over TO the sod as a sacrifice
for my new tax laws ! ovid hur-
raining and yelling in chorus: Bully
for the old Family Journal May
Bro. Whetsel be able TO hold II TO
the sod and convert the poor PEG.
pie to the Governors tax laws y
Men Of the Machine, observe by
your enthusiasm that you have the
spirit of the patriots Of 1870, and
so long as that spirit abide within
you we have no fear of the Insur
gents and the safety of Bro. Steve
Eikins whom you all seem TO wor.
ship. This is as it should be, for
without Steve there would be no
Machine, and without the Machine
there would be no pies for us. So
let us all be thankful that we have a
Steve, new tax laws and tax leases
which is untold blessing to the poor
people command The Rambler
to send out these tidings of good
news to the poor people and tell
them TO entrust to us their welfare
and prosperity until the Judgment
Day I"
When the Governor finished we
all actually wept from JOY. How
the people could doubt such a good
and sincere p:eman as Gov. Daw-
son is beyond the comprehension
of the members of the Machine.
The Governor has provided for us
members o { the Machine most
sumptu ously and his new tax laws
has wonderfully increased the value
of the poor mans property and re.
duced the value of the Standard Oil
Company, the Gas Trust and the
Coal Cos. property from $780,
900, 900 to 81, 900, 900 in tax leases
alone. II after due consideration
the Governor finds that the poor
people are not satisfied with the in
crease in their property he will or
der an additional increase for neat
year. This will mean a further de
crease in the coal, gas and oil
barons. Could a Governor be more
generous and save his pie We'll,
let it be understood and never-to be-
forgotten by the poor people that
the first duty of a Machine is 10
protect Its pies, for without pies
there would be no incentive to keep
Machine in running order. Those
who have never had possession of
Machine don't know the value of it.
1t is the only thing our new tax laws
exempt from taxation. This shows
the goodness of Machine.
The Governor is particularly
anxious that our good farmer friends
back in Preston understood that Il ey
will not receive the full benefit of
his new tax laws until 1906. He
says he is receiving many letters
from the farmers back in Preston
complaining that the new tax laws
have ignored their calves, colts,
lambs, pigs and old speck and her
brood this year which does not give
them the financial standing in Wall
street that the spellbinders and the
old Family Journal promised them
if Bro. Bill Dawson and his new tax
laws went over Pringle Run falls in
a wash tub and they came out safe
with the wash tub sitting on its own
bottom. Bro. Bill and the wash tub
went over the falls all right and
came out safe and won the race,
and he directs me to inform the
farmers that he proposes to make
them financially able to sit on their
own wash tub and praise his laws.
The latest reports we nave the
storm is still raging in Grafton.
The sudden change from lager and
liquor to water was too much
for the inhabitants. | have dis
tinct recollection that when / would
visit Grafton on the goth day of
May to strew the heroes graves with
flowers that the Grafton people
took particular pains to caution me
to not drink the Tygart Valley river
water as the mitrobe was dwelling
In il. This would drive me to the
saloons where my friends would
hold a reception in my homo, and
congratulate me on my narrow es.
cape from the microOe. The Graf
ton Teople must nave exterminated
the microbe since they have gone
back to water. This change will
not increase the patriotism for the
Both Of May. You cannot arouse
patriotism with cold water when the
people are still suspicious that the
microbe has not been wholly exter
minated. This seems 20 be the
condition Of Grafton from the re-.
ports we arc receiving through the
Leader and Sentinel. The people
seem to be wonderfully excited over
the condition of their fnace. They
object to paying more for water