Show f nil PI IGUE or I 1 AXI not from the bible out of the wilderness came the tribe of tax eaters yea verily like locusts came they and ravaged the fair land under the banner of PROGRESS they came worshipping i the golden calf bond issues in terest on the public debt and many other idols yea and john henry taxpayer girded up his loins to do battle bittle with the foe even on the plains of manes maries but the hosts of king lets spen ditt before we get t rallied the people on the need of it on the night and day before and hell held up the need of it that all might see and the rally round the flag of PROGRESS took hold of the people so that ver illy lily they lost their heads yea vot ed ev and leveled the fortress of economy and the battlements of prudence and overran the city until there was left only the ruined heaps of political oal gance to show right sorely did the people corn com plain of the tax gatherer and his whip hip yet none would curtail nay not one verily the people are dumb and the Tax eaters took the land and 28 per cent of all increase there of and dressed their women in silks and satins and smelled em up good with myrrh and frankincense for the people worship PROGRESS in good times but verily they corn com plain sorely in lean years when the god of progress must be fed sundry shel els hard to run down for lo 10 they will melt down the output of their sons and grandsons to cast the gold thereof into present need but plan not against a rainy day nor a jot of consequence si 4 so long as they get PRO GREaS now and the path to the poorhouse be came well trod and the Tax eaters waxed fat in the land and pressed many a swivel chair yea and with feet on the mahogany hitting the spittoon like are archers hers under caesar so be eth it and none can change for they lack noodles for let one arise in their midst and say before a bond issue don t and they impale him v ith reeds soaked in vinegar and sarcasm so great is their wor ship of false cods PROGRESS ana ano the golden calf of Borl borrowed owed coin A wail from the desert happy the man mair who has a hobby thrice happy he who can make if ft pay therea is more aristocracy in amer ica than in europe but heie it its I 1 brawn not blood |