The Ely miner., 1934-05-11
Howe About:
More Holidays
Taxes
Bad Habits
a Bell syudfcate-WNU Service.
By ED HOWE
q. Bell svndicate.-wNU Service

BY ED dOWE
NHAI the people are really try
W ing to achieve is for every day
10 be the Fourth of July, Christmas.
Labor day. Washington's birthday.
Sunday, Mothers day, New Years day
holidays merging into each other;
every mornings sun to light up a new
day when we will have nothing to do
but get In our cars and attend picnic,
liberty -ally. or show. OF course. "a
few must work. to operate filling sta
tons, hot dog stands and the like.
That can be attended to by making
slaves of the rich we capture and put
ting them to work.
The excuse for public extravaganza
in the United States is that only the
well-to-d do pay taxes, and that tax
alton is the quick and proper punish
menf for scoundrelS. Ii the
reader will call on me will show him
the poorest man have ever known.
He lost his home lately through tax
sale after paying 1896 in taxes on IL
during long and struggling owner
ship. He had eight lots They were
assessed at 500 each. although ne
originally paid only $50 for all of
them: at no time during his owner
ship were the lots worth half the
amount at which they were assessed
year after year.
do not know how much longer 1
shall be here. | have a shorter ex-
pectatiOn than many others, being old
er. but | am determined while here to
pursue the course best calculated to
produce most comfort
am still able to keep my hands out
of the fire and prevent unnecessary
and painful burns: am still able to
avoid shooting those of my neighbors
with whom | disagree, or breaking in
to their houses. Such actions would
land me in Jail where accommodations
are poor; | can better afford to prac-
tice honesty and remain at home with
a. its natural discomforts. | hope to
continue to the end to avoid other bad
habits which do not pay; gormandiz-
ing. swearing. drunkenness, cheating,
idleness.
| do not much fear punishment aft
er am dead, but have lively appreci-
alton of the punishment threatening
drri--g the remaining days of my Jour-
ney.
Ii l am extremely practical Ii is
what life has taught me: | have en-
countered nothing to cause me to
greatly respect visionary things.
In the old days, when there was a
disaster at sea, the women and chill.
dren were first given seats In the life
boats it has never made much diff
ference what happens to men). Mod
erns are forgetting that gallantry. In
Iowa mobs of armed farmers blocked
the roads and would not let milk
wagons pass on the way to town with
necessary supplies for the women and
children. There were plenty of food
supplies In the country. town people
were willing to pay for them, and
farmers needed the money, but the
farmers were mad and determined to
starve women and children to show
their Indignation.
We are becoming worse than the
Russians. The Russian peasants have
always been willing TO sell food sup
plies to town women and children. IL
paid for; the Russian town men went
OUT into the country and took things
before the peasants rebelled
believe the American farmers
should rebel but in the name of COM
mon sense why don't they Jump on the
politicians who have robbed them, in
stead of innocent women and childrenf
God hasn't deserted US; IT is our
senses.
| know little of Sir John Falstaff
except that he is acclaimed today as
the worlds favorite rogue. Sir John
thought himself one of the few good
men of his time. and said: There
live not three good men unhanged in
England. and one of them is fat and
grows old" tmeaning himself). +.
Capt William Kidd. another famous
scoundrei declared on the gallows he
was a much wronged man. book
has lately been announced to prove
that Captain Kidd was an eminent
New Yorker, and a bold and capable
navigator of high standing among the
ftx, In,
and New York; that the New York
legislature voted him $3.50 for his
services as patriot; that q ship was
given him by popular subscription be-
cause of his defense of liberty, and
that he was hanged by gnilty capital.
that in his own city. where his virtue
was known. he would have been ac-
Quilted.
know a farmer who has shot away
two farms, mainly at ducks, but with
considerable fox hunting and fishing
on the side. AS matter of cold fact
and justice. are the rest OF ns black
hearted villains because of this mans
trouble with the loan companies.
| know stout goOd.looking young
man who lives at mis- mothers and
she supports him by taking In wash
ing. Is Capitalism entirely TO blame
for this yonng man being talked about
very roughly In his neighborhood?
If man Is born fool. must he re-
main one forever? At least one
philosopher holds out the hope that