, 1935-11-14
Still More About Taxes!

Editor Brownsville Herald:
In two recent Editorials. IN effect you said that those Of Us
who have been "b~elyaching' about Taxes are a bunch OF con-
Mmmate peSdmists and fun Of crack-Orained' impracticabie
schemes to cure our imagined tax evils.
i am quite sure that you are right about US being crack-brain-
ed pessimists. however, We are not cutters. We are sure that $50
growing up in willows huisache. retama. mesquite and Johnson
grass and win soon be a dense jungle. However, it seems neces-
their sweet dreams and visions We are appealing for the help of
the opimiSts and great constitutional lawyers.
May I respectfully suggest that you render a tremendous
service to your county by helping drive back the jungle which is
about to envelope Il. BY putting up as vigorous o fight as you
recently put up to protect your circulation figures by tearing into
this tax matter and the Bankhead Cotton Tax Bill, starting early
in the morning when you are carrying about 800 pounds Of steam.
instead Of waiting until you are all tired out and cranky and your
steam gauge does not register enough to blow the whistle.
Taxes against Real Estate must be reduced at least 1871
and the Bankhead Bill must be repealed, or your A. 3. G. Crcula-
ton Audit win look about like it did in the happy days Of 1904,
when I crossed the Arroyo Colorado" with q horde Of wild Irish
cans. tearing up the jungle BY the roots, ripping UP the dirt like a
Gulf Coast Line into Brownsville.
II you and other Texas News Hawks don't find out that YOU
navigation district, drainage district, irrigation district, County,
State and National Taxes, and on the Bankhead, Wallace. Roose-
Welt e. Company program. TO destroy the land owners and cotton
planters OF Cameron County and eventually the entire south.
you and other sportsmen and our Tourist Crop will be able to kill
deer, javelna. Mexican lions coyotes. wild turkey, chachalaco and
"conejos." no farther from the Herald office than the Junior Col
lege. and Snake Kings Zoo will only have to send their snake hunt
ers a few hundred feet into the jungle in order to supply all Of the
geological gardens in the .. {. A. Western Europe and Ethiopia
with diamond back rattle snakes. as he did in 1904 and for some
time thereafter. His snakes now have to be imported from Mexico,
but the happy days are enroute once again, thanks to our optimists
or adjusted compensation certificate. which YOU EARNED. serving
VIII eS huACAAld AIMy III 4A hlOug the MUSCLE, III MeuSe III
Marine, the Are and the Akne. viii not purchase to exceed half q
canteen cup fun OF "muligan," and you viii be drinking mescal
distilled from the Juice OF Nopoltos, instead Of drinking the fine
win Blink" you enjoyed in the Argonne. which your efficient sup
ply officer stole from the French Wine Tank trains which navigated
over the Slim Vague Railroads OF the Argonne. And II ali this tax
fooishneSs keeps UP, you win have much luck II you are not a
doughboy again, or gorilla fighting along the south bank Of the
Arroyo Colorado 20 drive back the bolshevik and communists, being
made by the New Deal College Professors and other Professors and
"ProfessoreSses,' who are being manufactured by mass production
methods BY the hundreds Of thousands In our schools and colleges.
with funds extracted from such farmers as Fred Barton OF El
Jardtn.
But one blessing you viii enjoy win be your A. 3. c. cir
culation Audit. FOR the Herald will not cost much and you may
not be kept poppy and happy BY the 81 varieties Of internationally
cross-bred coolies, which you enjoyed IN sunny France, but you
viii be able 70 get some pep from the neas, ticks and pinilios Of
the Cameron County Jungle.
Most respectfully submitted for your consideration, Mr..
Editor.
SAM A. ROBERTSON,
lance Corporal Auxiliary Reserve
U. S. Army.
Il am not an auctoneer. hence I am not entitled TO higher
Military Rank than Lance Corporal
Ps.
I am pleased that your Publisher is now showing signs Of
becoming as poppy" again as he was when a news hawk in Mex
ico. 1910 70 1915, when chasing after Lucio Blanco, Lopez and Villas
armies. where he exhibited the same quality Of "guts" as his an
estor David, Of the bout with Goliath fame.
s A. ROBERTSON
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