Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-01-18 | Page 26 | Your Uncle Samuel is Busy

Your Uncle Samuel Is Busy Uncle Sam is a grunt business man and a great boss He Is like the millionaire mil-lionaire head oil a big concern who signa a 10000 check in one breath and with the next observes lhat Willie Pay the entry clerk smokes cigarettes Nothing IB too big or to little to escape es-cape his ey eye At limes his glance is cyclopic again It is microscopic but hardly ever myopic Today Uncle Sam Kettles a quarrel between two nations tomorrow ho appoints ap-points a fourth class postmaster l Today he Issues 3100000000 worth of honds tomorrow to-morrow hfl pinches a moonshiner Today To-day he defies all Europe nnd 1 tomorrow he sends some poor devil to Jail for four years ror stealing t 30 cents worth of postage stamps So it Is today After balancing hit books for the year and finding himself ftoen umpty billions to Ito good he turns around with a great show of severity se-verity and commands his army officers to wear only a certain color and make of shoes because one of thorn one out of nil his thousamlB was discovered wearing tan shoes with a dress suit Which thow that besides being a great manager and organizer Uncle Sam Is an old gentleman i of exquisite tasteSt Louis PostDispatch