Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-03-23


every ditch meeting held at
Missouri Valley the last few
years and also the one in De
cember last year. and listened
to the absurd arguments Of our
friends from Pottawattamie
county, was going to answer
but a passage in the Scripture
came to me: do not whisper
any wisdom in the ear of a
know it all, and the writ
er kept his seat. But the oppo-
sition to these drainage bitches
has since been carried on with
more vigor and it seems the
members of the Pottawattamie
county board have been intlu
enced to a large extent.
1t may be not too late to tell
this Jones of Pottawattamie
county of all the freight they
are paying, public and private.
To pay their just share is the
main spring of the opposition
this Jones is making against
the bitches. Do you fellows
know that you pay more than
eight dollars indirect tax to
Uncle Sam for each one of your
family on the beer you drink,
on the fire water you consume,
on tobacco you chew and smoke,
on every drop of alcohol that is
in the medicine you use, and
on other articles too numerous
to nentiono Did you ever kick?
Do you know where all this tax
is going what the Uncle does
with it, He will build the Pan
anna canal, he builds great war
ships and he deepens and levees
the Mississippi to protect some
other land not yours, and he
does a great many other useful
or foolish things. The Uncle
deposits with the bankers from
100 to 120 million dollars free
OF charge, and when you want
any you pay s to II per cent
freight. You don't believe this?
Write to Shaw and ask him.
In the west is lots of land
that was given to certain par
ties just for asking for it, but
the land is not like yours. 1t
is no good except it has water
on it, where yours is no good
on account of too much water
on it. These favored nephews
know how to work the good
Uncle and he builds dams and
canals for them to irrigate this
land, so these nephews can sell
it to some Jones for $50 to $50
per acre and you're the Zones
that helps pay the freight Of
course you don't believe this.
Get the Omaha Daily Bee, April
l6. 1904, or write to Represent
atives Mondell of Wyoming or
Hitchcock of Nebraska. These
nephews know how to get water
on their land, but you don't
know how to get this surplus
water off yours, except to come
before some board of supervis-
ors and protest against taxation
and confiscation. But you never
appeared before a house or SEN
ate committee that fixes up the
bills where Jones pays the
freight" Did you ever go and
see your senators and your re-
personalities when they voted
privileges and concessions to
their friends, such as land
grants, water rights and way
rights; everything, including
the issuing Of watered stock for
some Jones to buy? But it is
very little that the Uncle taxes
you. He lets you down easy
and besides gives you rebates,
such as gardenseed and pamph-
lets on agriculture, including
irrigation and farm drainage,
for which you of course have
no use for you know more than
government experts. The Uncle
gives you taxation with repre-
sentation, not like the one who
comes next, where you simply
pay the freight.
Did you ever appear before
the railroad magnates and set
up a howl when they take a
corner of your land, move your
house, fill up your wells, take
down your fences and tax you
over $500 per family a year?
You don't believe this? Write
to Washington and get some
railroad statistics and you will
find out. Did you ever come
before the "Big Six" the meat
trust, that lowers the price of
your cattle and hogs over night