im there
and made preparations to destroy me.
But it was interestingfor the beggar was working out in his own way
an evolution of primitive society. Now Iby virtue of the hooch
monopolydrew a revenue in which I no longer permitted him to share.
So he meditated for a while and evolved a system of ecclesiastical taxation.
He laid tithes upon the peopleharangued about fat firstlings and such
thingsand twisted whatever twisted texts he had ever heard to serve his
purpose. Even this I bore in silencebut when he instituted what may be
likened to a graduated income-taxI rebelledand blindlyfor this was
what he worked for. Thereathe appealed to the peopleand they
envious of my great wealth and well taxed themselvesupheld him.
'Why should we pay' they asked'and not you? Does not the voice of
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God speak through the lips of Moosuthe shaman?' So I yielded. But
at the same time I raised the price of hoochand lohe was not a whit
behind me in raising my taxes.
Then there was open war. I made a play for Neewak and
Tummasookbecause of the traditionary rights they possessed; but Moosu
won out by creating a priesthood and giving them both high office. The
problem of authority presented itself to himand he worked it out as it has
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