Tax-Paying
—0 (By WALT MASON.) The time has come to pay the tax upon mv chattels and my dwelling? of rupees many hard-earned lacs from my strong box I must be shelling. And when I've paid the goodly sum for which the Tax Collector itches, wit! hats in hand men still will come, to touch me for my meagre richer. This slogan is forever called, "Dig up! Dib up! We need your money, to buiH a refuge for the bald, and buy old spinsters cake and honey 1 Dig up, to buy the paupers grub, forgetting that they loafed all summer; dig up to help the country club pay off the carpenter and plumber. Dig up, to purchase roller skates for soldiers in the foreign trenches. Die; up. to buy the heathen clothes, and saddles for their alligators; dig up," to buy the Esquimaux some up-to-date refrigerators." My yearly tax I'll pay today, on house and lot, and other rigging, and gladly, gladly would I pay, if that would end the constant digging!
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 8 February 1917, Page 3
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173Tax-Paying Levin Daily Chronicle, 8 February 1917, Page 3
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