Bill Nyes Sparks

the wants of the people. I write on the subject of political economy ; also on both sides of the paper. Sometimes I write on both sides of the question. When I do so I "write over the name of Tax-Payer, but my real name is Veritas. I am the man who first suggested the culvert at the Jim street crossing, so that the water would run off toward the pound after a rain. With my ready pen?ready, and trenchant also, as I may say?I have, in my poor, weak way, suggested a great many things which might otherwise have remained for many years unsug- gested. I am the man who annually calls for a celebration of the Fourth of July in our little town, and asks for some young elocutionist to be selected by the committee, whose duty it shall be to read the Declaration of Independence in a shrill voice to those who yearn to be thrillel through and through with patriotism. Did I not speak through the columns of the press in clarion tones for a proper observance of our nation's great natal day in large gothic extended caps, the nation's starry banner would remain furled and the greased pig would continue to crouch in his lair. With the aid of my genial co-workers Tax-Payer, Old Settler, Old Subscriber, Constant Reader, U. L. See, Fair Play, and Mr. Pro Bono Publico, I have made the world a far more desirable place in which to live than it would otherwise have been. My co-laborer, Mr. Tax-Payer, is an old contributor to the paper, but he is not really a taxpayer. He uses this sig... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.