Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1919 — JUST LIVES TO SEE WHAT’LL HAPPEN NEXT [ARTICLE]

JUST LIVES TO SEE WHAT’LL HAPPEN NEXT

H. J. Kuhns is in receipt of the following from a Western Correspondent who seems to be somewhat abnormal on account of burdens. He says:

Dear Sir: I have vour letter requesting a dona tion for no doubt. what you consider a very worthy cause. I flatter myself that I have been a high example of public loyalty and generous. I have contributed to each and every object that has been presented to me, but I shall have to decline helping your cause along for the following reasons: I have been held up, held down, sand bagged, walked on run down, flattened out and squeez- £ First hv the United State Government for the Federal War Tax, the Excess Profit Tax, the Liberty Loan Bonds and the Bonds of Patrimony, for the State, bounty and City Tax, the Highway Tax, the Auto Tax and the Sin-Tax and by every society and organization that inventive mind of man can invent to extract what you

may or may not possess. From the society of John the Baptist the G.R.R., the Womans Relief, the Men’s Relief, the Stomach Relief, the Wifeless Relief, the Husbandless, the Childless, the - ° less the Conscientionsless the Navy League, the Red Cross, the Double Cross and every other cross of every other color, size and shape, until 1 feel that I am a cross and get cross bv-the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.GyA. Sd the Y.R.U.S., DAM. M.E..A. N. the Children's Home, the Dorcass Societv and every hospital in town. The Government has so governed mv business that I don’t know who owns it. 1 am inspected, required, and commanded, so I don’t know where I am or why I am here. All I do know is I am supposed to have an inexhaustible supply of money for every known need, desire or hope of the human race, and because T will not sell all I have and go out and beg, borrow or steal money to give away. I have been cussed, discussed, boy-cotted, talked to, Talked about, held up, hung up, robbed, ravished and nearly ruined, and the only reason I am clinging to life is to see’ what in hell is coming Monon News. Yours Sincerely, A Taxpayer.