Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1903 — Your Uncle Sam la Busy. [ARTICLE]

Your Uncle Sam la Busy.

Uncle Sam is a great business man and a great boss. He Is like millionaire head of a big concern who signs a SIO,OOO check in one breath and with the next observes that Willie Pay, the entry clerk, smokes cigarettes. Nothing Is too big or too little to escape his e-y, eye. At times his glance is cycloplc; again it is microscopic, but hardly ever myopic. To-day Uncle Sam settles a quarrel between two nations; to-morrow he appoints a fourth-class postmaster. Today he Issues $100,000,000 worth of bonds; to-morrow he pinches a moonshiner. To-day he defies all Europe, and to-morrow he sends some poor devil to jail for four years for stealing 80 cents’ worth of postage stamps. After balancing his books for the year and finding himself ’steen umpty billions to the good, he turns round with a great show of severity and commands his army officers to wear only a certain color and make of shoes, because one of them—one out of all hia thousands—was discovered wearing tan shoes with a dress suit. Which shows that, besides being a great manager and organizer, Uncle Bam is an old gentleman of exquisite taste.—From the St. Louis Post-Die-patch.