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1 T. S. Arthur, Growler's Income Tax 1 (1864)

handle is hein.slavery/growinct0001 and id is 1 raw text is: LOYAL PUBLIOATION SOCIETY 863 BROADWAY. No. 57. GROWLER'S INCOME TAX. BY T. S. ARTHUR. My neighbor Growler, an excitable man by the way, is parti- cularly excited over his Income Tax, or, as he called it, his War Tax. He had never liked the w*r-thought it unnecessary and wicked; the work of politicians. The fighting of. brother against brother was a terrible tiling in his eyes. If you asked him who begun the war?-who struck at the nation's life ?-if self defence were not a duty ?-he would reply with vague generalities, made up of partisan tricky sentences,' which he had learned without comprehending their just significan ce. Growler came in upon me the other day flourishing a square piece of blue writing paper, quite moved from his equanimity. There it is! J ust, so much robbery! Stand and deliver, is the word. Pistols and bayonets! Your money or your life ! I took the piece of paper from his hand and read: Philadelphia, Sept., 1863. RICHARD GROWLER, ESQ., To JOHN 3M. RILEY. Dr. Collector nternal Revenue for the 4th District oy .Pennsylvania. Oice 427 Cheptnut St. For Tax on Income, for the year 1862 as per return made to the Assessor of the District, $43,21. Rec'd payment, JOHN M. RILEY, Collector. You're all right, I said smiling. I'd like to know what you mean, by all right ! Growler was just a little offended at my way of treating this serious matter-- serious in his eyes, I mean. I've been robbed of forty-three dollars and twenty-one cents, he continued. 1Do you say it is all right! A minion of the Government has put his hands into my pocket and taken just so much of my property. Is that all right ? The same thing may be set forth in very different language, I replied, Let me state the case. Very well-state it ! said Growler, dumping himself into a chair, and looking as ill-humored as possible.

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