The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - Doesticks' Letters: Sampling Taxable Goods in the Internal Revenue Office

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Series: New York Weekly v. 24 no. 43 — page 2
Subject / Tag: Sketch
Part of: New York Weekly, v. XXIV, no. 43, September 9, 1869 (Issue)
Author: Doesticks, Q. K. Philander, 1831-1875
Date: September 9, 1869
First Sentence: I don't know whether the question of the exact moral responsibility of subordinates has ever yet been authoritatively decided or not.
Last Sentence: But what I want to know is this: if there is any sin in sampling whisky- as the temperance-folks ridiculously say there is- and the government, in the shape of Uncle Samuel, requires his clerks to keep on sampling, mustn't Uncle S. stand the punishment in future?

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