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Show 4- Walt Mason GOVERNMENT The cost ( government's loo great, we shudder at the figures sprung, and lone., the voter, pays the freight and feel? that he Is being stung Kconomy Is thought fl l. ore It s not by governments desired; It takes nine men to do a. chore that one could do and not feel tired Ths government can t buy a mule without ion miles of tu-ariet ui f- Inspectors round the critter fool, ar.d wrl' report upon Us iiape, and v tis report upon Its looks, de-i de-i nbc 'he places where. It sweats; and forty clerks In forty books write down the findings of the vets The mule would bring but little rnon. if offered at a farmer's far-mer's eale. but when our I'ncle Sam get done It costs hlni half a ton of kale. And everything our Unels does Is done the most expensive way; employes In his buildings buxr like flies unon a summer ds Vnd sratmen vlndily orate, und grauers crowd th public trough, and Jonea. he sadly pays the freight, and wonders whero he will get off. Oh. you are Jonee, and I am Jones, and wo have bunions on our backe. and we have tired and aching lmn, from toiling 'neath ., beastly lax The ,-ounlry for retrenchment retrench-ment groans, some pressing evils to abate alSI rm friend" Wt all are .Innev .ml. I ,l..n--. y ou know, n lUL ii,, freight. |