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Show QUEER FIXAXCING What would you think of a matt who would beg or coerce you into lending him money on his notes at four per cent, and then later, when you needed money to pay him the rent you owe him, he would buy back his notes at 85 cents on the dollar, besides raising your rent so you would have to sell more notes back to him. This is exactly what the present administration is doing to its bond buyers. It has raised your taxes so high that you hare been obliged to sell bonds or other securities to pay, and at the same time the Treasury department de-partment has been in the market buying Its own paper, (bonds) at a big discount. In fact the government govern-ment has bought enough of its own bonds at the market price so that the discount has amounted to $ 50,-000,000 50,-000,000 quite a nice sum of money to take away from the patriotic bond buyers who bought these same bonds at par. We do not like our Uncle Sam in the role of a scalper, discounting dis-counting his own paper. YOUNG FOOLS WHO MARRY This article Is written especially for the kids of various towns who make a habit of chasing out after every little girl In town and country whose petticoats reach below their knees with the purpose of inflicting matrimony upon some poor victim. A raw boy without a dollar, present or prospective, sparking a girl regular reg-ular and talking about marrying is a spectacle for gods and men. He should be reasoned with and if he will not quit It until he is able to support a wife, and to know why he loves and the difference between love and the chicken pox, he should be quarantined or put in a convent erected for such cusse9. Nine tenths ten-ths of the unhappy marriages are the result of green human calves being be-ing allowed to run loose in the society soci-ety pasture without any yoke on them. They marry and they have children before they have mustaches and they are the father of twins before be-fore they are the proprietor of two pair of pants, and the little girls they marry are old women before they are twenty. Occassionally one of these gosling marriages turns out all right, but it is a clear case of luck. If there were a law against young galootes sparking spark-ing and marrying before they cut their eye teeth, we suppose the little lit-tle cusses would evade It some way. but there ought to be sentiment against It anyway. Contributed. |