The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-04-01
with ALL ITS FAULTS
WE LOVE THE STILL"

and think; as you no, there Is only z
problems frontin US, first, the iker
problem, and 2, the war Diet, and durin
the time rs bin laid up rs bin thinkin
bout them 2 mighty problems. and
tryin to study out sum plan that mite
help Unkel Sam out of the hole; its
bin nifty hard wirk for an ole craker
like me, but / blieve rs hit it; In fac
no / has; its the only plan that viii
liver wirk, and they had jist as wei
git down to it.
1. The hker question; did you liver
look up the stitisticks on it and see
how many pore devils Unkel Sam
works on every year for stillin? /
mean wilcattin. It's awful; there amt |
no less than 1000 cases a yere, and
yu no tina don't git tin per clint of EN-;
that make, if / kin count, more an d
million men who make liker. and
blieve if the truff was none, this amt |
half of EN-; now sens the US is gone
dry, and is goin dry, so yu cant by
any more (less you go to the hotels |
and pay twenty dollars pr OF fur IT'D |
tan no pore devil kin du that the
people is going to make it, and tn hell
wifi the consqences; mans goin to
stick his liberty fur it, barter his wit
and yunguns or ther sochiel standin !
fur it. noin he'll go to jale if he's |
caat; its got to be SIGH nissessty Tor
we blieve it has) that mans COMA git |
it som way, an as the ritter sed, "ne- |
cssity noes no law" so wat chanse has |
Unkle Sam got in the premises, jist by
sendin a man to jale; tibet amt gona |
stop it; it amt Mr.. Ben, an you can |
steak yure last cent of muny on it; |
mans coma have it if he has to lin !
UP wifi the bulsheekivies from RUSSO,
beeume tyrant, Gus the guvermintt. or |
jine the labur yunun; ant got Ian
guidge to spress right like I'd like |
to, but / heard Teller say for toste |
at white mans banket one mite,
"wiff all yer faults, / love yu still"
An its the still tina all luv; its the still |
tibet made me hat to leve home, an
firside, an wife and children; it's the |
stil tibet made me hat to quit home |
this yere and wirk out TO sport my
wifi an children, as there wernt no on
to plant my crop, or git the groun |
redy, an / CESS my plas will be ruint |
by next yere; an there wus fifteen or |
twenty uthers that got the same dose |
got; just caus we made little shine
to drink at hom; but jist as / sed, !!
this am the formost problem Americy |
has got frontin it, an we needs a
change of ther laws on the subjec; a |
man ortc be sent up for maxim it in |
lard can, wash pot. or a gaslin
tank, but if he has descent place to
make it, it orto be incuraged. / shall /
leve this subject for mint now, and |
go to the urther.
2. The War bet; just think of |
what it cost US to lick them honeys
over Their? sa jist think bout it; /
don't no how much it is, but the jaler
told me il wus over ten billions, an
count if he lived a thousand yers;
now hows we gonna pay it; yu sa
taxation; but you sa it viii take us
fifty yeres of it to pay it. caus we've
gotta run the giverment while we
pays, an its gona cost Unkel Sam ten
millions a yere to sen up the hker
makers if he don't change his laws.
This to sa nuthin of the new offises
that we've gotta make to let the pres
idents kin folks have jobs in that
time; an bsides we've gotta feed them |.
blasted Germans, help the russians, an
protec the french; now Mr. Ben, yure
work it out in a thousan yeres, an
peeple1l git nifty tired of bein taxd
that long to pay it, cause in nuther
genration, the children will furgit
bout the trials an tribulations we've
had in this war. an want TO git rid of
them taxes; My boy got killed oven
there, an I'll pay taxs till di, il tina
want it, but few yeres from now. these
yung people who was to yung to go,
and who. nivver suffred from Their war,
wont prechate the sitwashon, an
they'll mabe refuse to pay; then,
gona do? gotta look sum-
fur yure muny. Now, Mr..
Ben, this brings US to the point, an
III precede TO sho it.
2 If Unkel Sam will send these ole
laws hese got on the liker question to
sum of them new republics in Urep
thets just now cuttin there / teef
(theys dun worn out here) an max
him sum new uns, he can pay that
war Diet in ten years, an wont half to
tax US pore devils outa hous an home,
as yer mite sa, in Their meme tim. Let
Unkel Sam make stills. sum decent
uns, meme, an sell us TO us men; he
can make profit of sa twenty FIVE
dollar on Their still. and chage ten dol
lars a yer for stillin privleg; he Good
sci ten million of EN- a yere, and the
stillin privleg wuld bring him a hum
dred million yer; so he'd half (the
jaler figred this fur mel tire hun
red an fifty millions a yere at the lest,
SO instad of it costin Unkel Sam un-
der them ole laws, he'd make a
profit land it amt unreasonable to
blieve that we Good pay this Diet in ten
yeres with the urther incum he's got,
cuttin out a lot of them taxes, thus
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