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Show "It is only a penny on a tin pail," cries the high-taxer, when he looks to ' fee industry "fostered" at the expense of the people, and the Chicago Times says: It is only a penny, but that tax meets the American producer at every step from the cradle to the grave. It enhances the cost of his bib and shroud. It is laid on the cradle and the grave. It taxes the Bible in which is recorded birth and death, but threatens free whisky lest the sacred book go untaxed. The aggregate thus filched has been sufficient to create the favored class in this country which now assume the right to rulelecause of their wealth. |