The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-13
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Attends Big Baptist Meeting
Pleased With Preacher-Dis-
cusses Taxes

Deer edditoral: IT you has dlgeSted
what i had to say on the tax sub
jeck a few days ago i wood like to
give you a nuther dose. This here
tax bizness is bothrin me and the
ralerodes and other big copperra-
tons as we'll as sum luther peepui. i
CESS by the time they pay all the
! difurnt taxes sessed ginst them it
will bout bother evry boldly from
foster Kroner to john, D. Rocker
bilt. Well i see that they have fixt
urnuther tax. lizzie has jist bin
reedin bout it to NEE in the paper
today. it is callt the luxurious tax.
you wood thing frum that that it
was a tax whut he ritch wood pay,
but no sir it air AIMED at the poar
man. it is on Kokola and chawin to-
hacker, things which the poar man
is bliged to have. and they let the
ritch man off it seam frum payin
emmy of this heer tax. They jist
name it after the ritch mar and
call it Luxury" and then pile it on
the poar man agin. j say it is not
ginst the ritch mar at all, becos as
stated it is on evry drink of gingy
all whut you drink, lemmernade,
kokola or any luther poar man
drink, but i wood like fur you to
pint out to NEE whur there are
tanything in the law which put a
tax on a fellar when he talk a
| drink of moonshine corn at six
dollars a quart, or emmy of this
Savannah Skotch Ticker which
sum of the boys bought but which
has not came yet. where do it say
anything bout taxin the man whit
is taken a drink of fine wine, Ticker
of saturn. it is'not in the law. the
ritch man whut kin drink the good
drinks, he pay nuthin, but you let
wun Of our boys step up to the
founting and call fur a lemmernade
out must KUN the taxes. i clames
that whole caterclism is ginst the
konstertushun, sham and muller
boner and shood be knocked up.
has you bin to the preechin at
the baptust church. we'll, if you
hasn't bin you better go bekos j
know you neads it, and so do the
luther greanvil streat crowd of set
back Sollermons. they has a fine
preacher at the Baptist and sum
good singin too. the singer is as
good as any i have. heered. the sing
er he teeches all classes to do the
singin, he calls on the martingales,
and the nighthawks, the oryoles,
and the peepul in one section, then
in unuther. Lizzie and i went up
and We listened to the singin and i
thort it was the best j ever heerd
until they begin to spot about and
call fur fust this klass and then the
luther and i begin to slip towards
the end Of the bench bekos i spected
him to call fur all the ticker drink
ers to chant a stanzer or too and j
knode that every boldly wood look
to me to doc the leading, so i thort
i wood slip out, but lizzie she grab
bed me by the cote tail and kept me
in, and then they didn't call on US
at all eether on the setback sing
ers Gather. but it wus jist as bad
bekos bout evry sin what the
preacher mentioned it scanned to me
that he was hittin at NEE. and he
put it to me strong too. i CESS he
has reference to sum of my
naburs but i am not shore Of it be-
kos he was eyein NEE the whole
time. lizzie set he suttenly did hand
It out to stitch as NEE but j tole her
i thort he was talkin about her.
enny-way j want to say that if he
was talkin bout me he knode whut
he was talkin bout, and j guess if
you 60 and he git on you you will
think he is a fortune teller, or sum-
boldly done tole him sumthin on
you. but i wood 60. try and git all
the greanvil street crowd down to-
morry mite if you kin and every