Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1906-09-14
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Your Subscriber" of last Fridays
issue, got in some pretty good licks at
our village trustees; his criticisms were
ilst and true. He asked some very
pertinent questions about the village
taxes, namely; why, and for what is
this tax levied?" what will he done
with the money when colected?" and
Where is the money which the good
people Of this village have paid as taxes
in the past?'
Subscriber" says that he under
stands that the village has a plenty of
money collected in the name of taxes,
and that it is lying idle in the Bank Of
Deming, Ohio, McCarty! Lying idle
is it? Not on your tin-type, my son,
not on your tin-type; those Bank Of
Deming absorbers don't let money lie
idle. Every dod-gasted nickel of that
money % bringing them-the Bank of
Deming, mind you, not the village - II
per centum; and further our little old
fire department has a snug little surplus
IN said bank, and it is bringing them
the bank, not the fire department the
same little old y per cent. per annnm.
Aha! Lying idle is it? The Bank of
Deming letting money lie idle! Mushal
Musha! It's locoed ye are!
The very fact that "the streets of the
village are overgrown with weeds
and the alleys are full of tin cans, dead
cats, etc." proves the assertion that
the money paid into the said bank as
taxes is not lying idle, but is out at in
terest at the limit, and therefore can
not be obtained for the purpose of pay
ing men for cleaning up the streets and
alleys, the highways and by-ways Of
this, our progressive, up-to-date little
village, Deming, the pride of the prai-
res, Deming, the gem Of the South
west but hold! methinks I'm off the
trail; Demng isn't that, at all! That $
what we COULD say about Deming, or
may hope to be able to say after the
next election; but not just yet; those
mortgages are not due yet; the II per
cent. racket is still on tap.
Subscriber, dod-gast you, you walk
doun ahe alley back of the chink chop
house, yourself, walk through the alley
hy Nordhaus' store, and take in all the
smells and aromas, too, but YOU will be
everlastingly habbergastel if you run
up against any Of "Ctylon's spicy bre-
zes" in that neighborhood; but well,
'nuif's enufT! | don't want to be too
hard on the village dads Of to-day, for.
hy letting them down easy they may
soften up, call in one or two small loans
aud use the money for the good of the
people who have favored and hOnored
them for the past five years.
Subscriber, now from this on, it's
YOU and me for it. I've agreed with you
upon the village (boreD bDari subject,
and I've been kind and condescending
enough to put you right on the money
question, answering your questions as
true as the needle to the pole;" so oyou
needn't get your dander up at what |
now am going to say, for can lick you
anyhow, for weigh 1856 pounds, that's
my fighting weight and I'm right in my
prime; so, whereas and wherefore, be
it resolved, etc, I'm going to tell you
that when you quit telling the truth
about the village bored" and com
menced that jargon about the county
commissioners buying lots for the court
house site (see the dictionary for the
word, jargon; but probably you don't
know what dictionary is, so | will tell
you that on page liO Of my Webster's
it gives jargon AS, confused talk, "