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: THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1898-14 PAGES. Wash. B. Williams, newspapers. SMES MESS ASAE SAEAAEN RENAE RE ASONPON ASOD SAPO MNEgAgNEONENNENAC NAS APNOEA AAA NM AeA for $2.50. offered. : CHAMBER SUITES. 3pe. Curly Birch Suite. 3-pe. Mahogany Suite. . wn enes: Ladies’ Dressing Tab japle Dresser CHIFFONIERS. Solid Oak, 5 drawers HNN ROA ec Neg eg eee N ¢ ; Tet! JING CHAIRS. 1.00 1.50, . leather se : $2.00 or Mahogany-finish nag oseasaas aeaze « $1.30 OCCT TUE TS CETTE ie Challenge Sale Continued. le wemiture at less than Factory Prices This Washington's Birthday will go down in our history as one of the biggest business days of our 53 years of storekeeping. It is gratifying to note that so many hundreds of Washing- ton’s housekeepers have such unbounded confidence in the excel- lence of our Furniture and the reliability of our promises in the The sweeping proposition we made yesterday still holds good. 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BOWLING AT WASHINGTON A 6, Hotly Contested Game of Ba:'>t Ball. CURRENT SPORTING NOTES The result of the match for the A. W. L. trephy between Minneapolis and Cincin- nati, which was to take place at Minneap- olis Saturday night, has not yet been learn- ed, though it was generally conceded that Minneapolis would win against all western teams. Judge Bunn, who fs the whist au- thority of the Whist Journal on all doubt- ful questions, is recognized as one of the strongest players in the country, and his services can be depended on by his club on all occasions, while Briggs, also of Minne- apolis, Is the hero of many championship matches, his play at all times being of tour- nement order, not posing for brillidncy, but satisfied to get all cut of a hand that is pessible. Mortgomery, too, stands very high as a player, his adaptability to the game of others making him a desirable player on a team. Hemphill, although a yourg player, is one of the shrewdest, marked with great card sense and {s quick to take an advantage of any opening offer- ed by the adversaries. Bronson has al- weys beea known as a steady trick winner, a close reader of the cards, knowing the last five cards in every hand, never given to “kiting” ard always turns up with the right card to stop an enemy’s long sult. This team in their present form will hold the trophy against all comers, possibly with the exception of three eastern teams. C. Bi. C. Compass Whist. The usual Saturday night compass at the C. Bi. C. furnished a surprise for some of the talent, and “Uncle” Nick Young goes west with quite a whist record, which will be hailed with delight by “his base~ ball friends. The club nights are VERE and Saturday, and as they have a contract for the 5th of March with Balti- mere, they will have to get down to serious, whist, as Baltimore includes Walbrook’s strong players and, will send sixteen to twenty experts. In ‘the last match the C. BL C. had the assistance of the C. A. C. and the Washington players defeated Bal- timore by 29 tricks. The coming match will be very close, with Baltimore a shade the better, although Wooten and Borden are to play with the C. Bi. C., both being members of that club. Baltimore and Walbrook will play a matcn temorrow night, sixteen players a side, and as the rivalry. between these clubs is great the incentive for good whist can readily be ceived. Pithe score at the C. Bi. C. Saturday night was: North and South. Carr & Matting): Yeung & Taliferi Low & Barrick. Wirt & Stephen: Spaulding & Ulke cl & 1116 Lewis & Costen. Cooper & Myers. Brock & Clark. aylor [104 | Broel i Sere (Average, 124. Whist Points. ‘The contest between the Baltimore wo- men and men, twenty-eight players a side, took place-Saturday mght at the Baltimore club. The men won easily, as-waq expect- ed, though it furnished good practice for women. es William Ruff of Washington, form- erly Miss Parker Ramsay of Baltimore, Is visiting her native city, and played Satur- day night. She has been playing beautiful whnst during,.her stay there. Mr. Beverly Smith has-asked her to be his partner for the mixed pair match at the woman's con- gress to be held in PhiladéIphia the last week in Apirl, and Miss Goldsborough and Harvey McCay of Baltimore, who won the prize last year, will have to look out for their laurels. | Washington will have a strong delegation at this congress. The trophy donated by the Washington women, and now in possession of the Trist Club of Philadelphia, will be the chief ob- ject of contest. The Washington mixed pair club is playing in great form, and the frequent practice matches have strengthen- ed the team work of the different fours. There will be many teams go down before the first four of the Washington club. New York, Brooklyn and Newark, N. J., are having whist contests. Fifty and a hundred players are considered very few in some of their matches. Brooklyn went over to Staten Island twice last week, and the drubbing they ad- ministered to that club will long be remem- tered in whist circles, as it won by thirty- six tricks in each match. What excuse the Staten Islanders will give for such a de- feat, except that the other side played bet- ter whist is unknown. One was a woman's contest, and the other mixed peirs. C. F. Lindsay, formerly of Washington, but now residing in Baltimore, has formed up_a plan to incorporate the views of the different whist experts throughout the country on some particular subject about whist. Finesse, false carding, forcing, sys- tem and underplay will each be treated succinctly. He will publish a weekly paper, a sort of Round Robin, each number to have the picture of an expert, and an ar- ticle on the subject they represent. Atlantic Auxiliary. The Atlantic Auxiliary Association will play their second match at Philadelphia next Saturday against the New Jersey. New Jersey has promised to send forty players. Washington has been asked for six of their strongest men. In the last match the contest was very close, and the New Jerseys have been playing great whist, heading the list in all recent matches, irrespective of numbers engaged. Otis’ team with the Park of Plainfield, who defeated Baltimore for the A. W. L. trophy, are reinforced by twenty-fqur very strong players, and Philadelphia, Wilmington, Bal- timore, Scranton and Washington will need thelr best players to have any show of winning. Mr. Chute of Boston, who played such a prominent part in the seventh congress at Put-in-Bay, being one of the committee, did not have a chance to play till the last evening, is a guest of the C. A. C. for a few days. Wednesday evening he, with several Baltimore players, will meet four strong players at Dr. Wall’s in a contest of thirty boards a side. Mrs. O'Brien of Detroit, Mich., manages the whist column of the Detroit Free Press. At Put-in-Bay last summer she made sev- eral victories in side matches with Harvey McCay of Baltimore as partner. She is one of aia ieat whist strategists of the est, and her all-round play is of high order. rem Secs CARROLLS LosT Two. ra ‘Average Washington A. C. Bowlers Surprised Their Visitors. With the possibility of the championship of the District Bowling League staring them In the face the Carroll Institute ten- pin team went to the Washington Athletic Club lest night determined on capturing three straight games. The Washingtons Proved too many for them, however, and succeeded in taking the first two games, leaving to the Carrolls the morsel of satis- faction contained in a single victory. The first game resulted in a tie, the only game so played in the Bowling this year, and the Carrolls did so poorly in the rol! off that in the single frame the cult spares of 5-6 Kidd and 5-7 by Rice enlivened the match, wh‘le Burch, with 182 in the opening game, had the honors for the best single game. 4 The scores follow: r eet S eee See 180 147| Merrit 188 125 147 18 120) 129 138 186 if is ist 138 100 681 766 score. 868 score. 838 The standing of the clubs follows: ‘Won. Lost. P.C. “8 iar 2B 1 fea ‘Washt eH Be Business Men's Bow}ing Ciub 8s | Tomorrow evening there will be a hot when the Saengers C. A. C. alleys for the last time this season. The Columbias are determined to improve their standing, nd with that end in view will bring out neir best team, le the Saengerbund, <nt on clinching tiibir hid on first place, will make a strong fight. Exciting games are expected. {oa DEFEATED THE INSTITUTES. FS at the Cdfuibiga Athletic Club, National Fencibl et Ball Team . Wins ‘tote 3. The National Fencibles defeated the Carroll Institute basket ‘ball team in one of the most exciting 62! this season in Globe Hall by 6 to 3.” The strong feeling between the teams-and the great desire to win last night's game made it one of the most hotly contested matches in the National League series. Free open passing was fgnored last night, while scrimmage plays and fouls were indulged in, which resulted in numerous free goals. The score at the close of the first half stood 4 to 3, in favor of the Fencibles, which the Carroll Institute team could not overcome. Childress of the Fencibles team secured one goak from the field, the only field goal made during the game. The work of Daly, Pierson and Brick of the Carrolis and the all-round playing of Magee and Childress of the Fencibles were features of the game. Ravenburg of the Fencibles did excellent work, securing five goals for his teat The line-up: : Field goals for Fencibles—Childress, 1. Free goais—Ravenburg, 5. Free goals’ for Carrolis—Daly, 2;. Pierson, 1. Umpires— Mr. Meyer and Mr. Crupper. Timer—Mr. Mathews. Scorer—Mr. Hilbreth. Present standing of teams: Won. Lost. PC. 7 2 TTT 7 3 -700 6 8 +866 5 4 555 2 eaeeeeee +0 6 000 Jones Knocks.Out Dixon. Arthur Jones of this city krtocked out Billy Dixon of Philddelphia in seven rounds at Steubner’s Road House before a small but appreciative crowd of sports last evering. The fight: lasted seven and a half rounds, and was one of the gamest exhibitions of the kind ever seen in this city. Jones had the better of it in every round except ‘the sixth, in which Dixon made a fine rally an@ knocked the local man Clear off his feet with a, hard right- hand swing, Dixon succumbed’ to a fusil- lade-of left-hatid swings on thé jaw. By this victory Jones retains his title of feather-weight champion of the District. Lush to Mamiwe Springfield. William L. Lush of. Bridgeport, who played with the Toronto Base Ball Club last year, has been elected manager of the Springfield, Mass., team. Tom Burns, who will leave today to assume the man- agement of the ‘Chicago team, was ban- queted Saturday. He received $200 in gold, two shares of the -base ball association stock and a testimonial expressing appre- ciation for his five yearsiservices ag man- ager of the Springfialdifclub. ~~) Ives and Schmefer to Meet. Jacob Schaefer and Frank C. Ives had a conference in Chicag$. Sihday and decided to settle their differgnogs by a 600-point game of eighteen-irtchysbalk-line billiards for the championsh®p -#? the world. The game will be played"M Oéntral Music Hall April 2. asim eit A. A. U. Spring €lampionships. The spring champYonsHips of the A. A. U. will be held in New’ Orleans May 14. It.is the first {ime that.these.games have been held so far south,nd the Southern Association is’ maldng:> special.» arrange- ments to maké the eccasion noteworthy. Association Feut Hall. That association 1466 ball was never so popular in England ‘as now may be gath- ered from thé fact that over. 60,000 per- sons watched the sixteen cup ities on the last Saturday of January. Cycle Races Sanctioned. Mr. Albert Mott, chairman of the L. A. W. racing board, has announced the grant- ing of sanctions as follows: Excelsior Boat Club, Paterson, N. J., May 30; International Athletic Park and Amusement Company, Washington, D. C., May 30, July 4, September 5; Bridgeton Bicycle Track Association, Bridgeton, N. J., May 30 and July 4; P. M. Carter, Balti- more, Md., May 30; Atlanta Wheelmen, Newark, N. J., May 30; Kenilworth Wheel- men, Philadelphia, Pa., July 4; J. E. Car- gon, Charlotte, N. C., May 20. Richard Ireland, Newark, N. J., is trans- ferred to the professional class, under clause C. —— WHISKY IN INSIDE POCKET. William Henson’s Mlicit Brings Him Trouble. Willlam Henson, a colored hod carrier, was fined $250, with the alternative of ninety days on the farm, by Judge Kimball today for illegal traffic In Mquor. Some months ago William was in ccurt on a similar charge, but the jury tn his case cculd not agres. A young woman named Nellie Hill was a witness against him to- day. She told Judge Kimball she had been acquainted with William for about a year. “Did you ever buy unything from him?” Mr. Pugh asked. “Yes, sir, I bought something on the 13th and 20th of this month.’ “Bought what?” “Whisky.” Nellie said sha first met Henson about 10:30 o'clock in the morning. She knew the time of the morning because she heard the church bells ringing. sae said she had two companions with her and they bought 30 cents’ worth of whisky. Two hours lator auey) bought 30 cents’ worth more from “Did you drink it?” she was asked. “Yes, sir,” she replied, “Henson had a glass in his side pocket and a four-corn ed bottle of whisky in his inside pocket.” toive cents a drink was the price she paid ‘or it. “My name is Mary Jackson,” said a col- ored woman called as a witness, “but they call me Minerva Burke.” She was with Nellie Hill wh2n the latter bought whisky from Henson, and Mr. Pugh asked; “Was there anybody else with you?” “There was another lady,” was her re- sponse. ei She told of a discussion about chewing snuff and said that Nellie Hill complained about th> quality of: whisky. Judge Kimball in Misgpsing of the case said he could not undersiand what there was in the nefarios, business to entrap both good and bad people. Why working people should violaté. 1H@ idw in this way Sundays he could no} understand. . “I’m satisfiad,” ‘the prisoner’: mark, when the court had passci sentence, and he went down in-deryuit of payment of the fine. . ai Denies Being, a, Vagrant. “Guilty of carrying a:pistol, but I’m no vagrant,” was the pi¢a‘of a comfortably dressed young man Wheif arraigned before Judg> Kimball this morning. Daniel Scan- lon was the name he gave, and he told the judge that his legal’ lence is in Phila- delphia. Policeman Cochran's charge was that he found the young man on ®th street begging. i ‘When TI arrested him,” said the officer, “he had the weapon im his pocket.” “I had the pistol,” admitted Scanlon, “but I’m not a vagrant.” Judge Kimball held Scanion guilty of both charges and gave him thirty days on the farm as a it. In ‘the concealsd Vvagran’ ‘weapon case the penalty of $50 or thirty days in jail was imposed. Traffic re- ees Acauitted of the Charge. Thomas H. Clarke, colored, was acquitted late yesterday afternoon, in Criminal Court No. 2, of a charge of forgery. Clarke is the man who was recently arrested in De- troft and brought here ‘to answer tho charge pending against him. His case was conducted by Attorney Tracy L. Jeffords. —— “I have been : some inne, He cured fay ote Seay bad Ge cI delleve it was the means se oe HARRISON'S WARNING Ex-President Says Evasion of Taxes Menaces the Republic. DUTY OF RICH 0 PAY JOST SHARE Too Much Disposition to Shirk This Responsibility. SPEECH AT A CHICAGO CLUB CHICAGO, February 22—Ex-President Benj. Harrison spoke today at the Audt- rium, at the central meeting of the annual celebration of the Union League Club, in honor of Washington. All the historical and civic societies of the city were fully represented. Among the distinguished guests of the Union League Club present at the meeting were Dr. John H. Finley, president of Knox College; Gen. John M. Palmer, Major Gen- eral John R. Brooke, former Gov. Richard J. Oglesby and Chas. Emory Smith of Phil- adelphia. The Apollo Club of 400 voices furnished the music for the program. Mr. Harrison's Speech. The subject of ex-President Harrison was “The Obligations of Wealth.” He said, in part: “Monuments and birthday anniversaries should be commemorative. of *the virtues that are still imitable. Scientists have re- produced some of the gigantic animals and reptiles of the world’s early history. We look at them with fear and wonder, and congratulate ourselves that they are ex- tinct types. We have no needs that they could supply. They could not live in our envirorments nor we in theirs. So there have been among nen monsters of power and violence. We cannot forget them, but we are glad they lived in another epoch. The almansc maker notes their birthdays, but there are no assemblages of the peo- ple. If monuments have been builded to them, they are Hable to be overturned when the dynasty changes or the commune supplants the state. “But there are men who have so won our hearts that we would recall them if we could. We feel the need of them. No change of dynasties, no outbreak of the mob threatens their nonuments. One can hardly conceive of any civil revolution er ary riotous outbreak in our country that would not respect the monuments of Wash ington and of Lincoln. While they lived they were at times hated by men and by communities: but, when the full stories of their lives were unfolded, when motives and purposes were explored, when the universal beneficence of their public serv- ices was seen in the establishment by one and the rescue by the other of free consti- tutior al govérnment, all their countrymen rendered them homage. “We assemble on this anniversary of the birth of Washington not so much. If at all, to bring tribute to him, as to learn at his feet the lessons of a conscientious citizenship. The imitable qualities of Washington's character and life; those that did not exhaust themselves on a lo- cality or a period; that are instructive not only to military commanders and chief magistrates, but to the unofficial citizen; the lessons that he taught, not for the march and battle, but for quiet days when ro drum beat calls to duty—these are the qualities and lessons that should engage our thought today. The Lesscn of His Life. “In choosing for my theme ‘The Obii- gations of Wealth’ I am not wresting this anniversary from its legitimate use. We do not need to forget—indeed, we cannot forget-Washington, when we reflect upon our obligations to the state. His life teaches no lesson more strongly than that the citizen is under obligation to serve the state; never to shirk his full share of burden and labor and sacrifice, but rather to do more. “The word ‘wealth’ in its modern use has suffered a Imitation if not a perver- sion. Originally and strictly it means weal or welfare, external happiness. When Paul admonished the Corinthian Christians, ‘Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth,’ he was not anticipating the modern law of the wheat pit and the stock exchange. “Wealth is a comparative term, and my address is not for that very limited body of multi-millionaires, called by the popu- list orators ‘plutocrats.” A smaller au- dience chamber would have sufficed for them, and perhaps the orator should have been cf the guild. I want to speak of the Obligations of the ‘well-to-do’ peopie, the forehanded, prosperous men and women of our communities, whether their estates are reckened by thousands or by millions. “We live in a time of great agitation, of a war of clashing thoughts and interests. Men, no longer satisfled with what appears above ground, are uncovering roots. There is a feeling that some men are handicap- ped, that the race is sold; that the old and nweh-vaunted equality of opportunity and of right has been submerged. More bitter and threatening things are being said and written against accumulated property and ccrporate power than ever before. It seems to many that, more and more, small m>n, small stores and small factories are being thrown upon the shore as financial drift or wreckage; that the pursuit of cheapness has reached a stage where only enormous ccmbinations of capital, doing an 2normous business, are sure of returns. Social Seams Widening. “The seams which mar the face of the social landscape seem to be widening chasms, and if these gulfs are to be filled w2 must establish dumps on both sides of them. it will aid the work if those on either side uze the bridges to get a view of it from. the other side. Wealth should neither be the object of cur enmity nor the basis of our consideration. The indiserimi- nate denunciation of the rich is mischiev- ous. It perverts the mind, poisons the heart and furrishes an excuse for crime. No poor man was 2ver made richer or hap- pier by it. It is quite as illogical to des- pise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. In the discussion of all these social questions good temper is essential. Men must get together and use facts, not rhetoric. “The special purpose of my address to- day is to press home this thought upon the prosperous, well-to-do people of our com- munity, and especially of our great cities; that one of the conditions of the accruity of wealth {ts @ proportionate and full con- tribution to the expenses of the state and lceal governments. It 1s not only wrong, but it is unsafe, to make a show in our hemes and on the street that is not made in the tax returns. “Equality is the golden thread that runs all through the fabric of our civil institu- tions—the dominating note in the swelling symphony of liberty. Equality, not of con- ditions, not of natural endowment, but of rights, is the foundation stone of our gov- ernment structure. id as a corollary, necessary and imperative, to this doctrine of an equality of right, is the doctrine of a proportionate and ratable contribution to the cost of administering the government. The duty of the state to protect life, liberty and property is conditioned upon a fair contribution to the cost of government. A full and conscientious discharge of that duty by the citizen is one of the tests of good citizenship. To evade that duty is a moral delinquency, an unpatriotic act. Cannot Depart From the Rule. “If we do not hold by this rule of propor- tion, which I think is an essential part of the definition of taxes, then everything be- comes subject to the whim of the legisla- ture. The whole revenue of a state may be derived from contributions exacted from a very small minority of its population, the majority going free. To allow such tem is not only to rob the minority thus unduly burdened, but is to rob the state of that which is essential to its healthy ex- , and, indeed, to the If yf republi- can institutions. Hone: — eo in public will have no effective watchers. watch of the minority wil} be “ineffectual ity be careless as to the use of funds, te the ac- OOF Or ree ee nee ak conteiiatel. “For years an of the denominated ‘securities, in cluding stocks, bends, notes, mortgages and such like, has escaped taxation. With & very fow exceptions, the great fortunes in this country are invested in such se- curities. The delinquency appears to be located largely in our great cities. Recent investigations of students of political sci- ence, and recent tables prepared by state officials, have disclosed an appalling con- dition of things. The evil seems to have been progressing until, in some of our great ccnters of population and wealth, the: ferms of personal property seem to hav been almost eliminated from the tax list. “In New York state’ the proportion of Personal property assessed for taxation is only about 12 per cent of the total amount of property taxed. Yet Controller Roberts of that state expresses the opinion that the taxable personal property owned in the state is at least equal to the amount of real estate. Illinois and many other states present the same condition, differing only in degree. “It is easy to see how this offense against Patriotism has grown to such proportions. The very sense that inequality is injustice has promoted it. One man sees that his neighbor is not making a conscientious tax return, and that if he returns his property honestly he will pay disproportionately. The result is that his conscience finds a salve in the saying ‘Everybody does it.’ “It is probably also true that under the tax laws of many of our states double tax- ation results, and taxpayers take it upon themselves to remedy this defect ir the law, not, by the methods prescribed in the Constitution, but by leaving off from their tax returns such stocks and securities as they suppose to be taxed in other states. An Honorable Obligation. “Taxes are a debt of the highest obliga- tion, and no casuist can draw a sound moral distinction between the man who hides his property or makes a false return in order to escape the payment of his debt to the state, and the man who conceals his property from his private creditors. Nor shouid it be more difficult to follow the defaulter in the cre case than in the other. If our taxes were farmed out io aa individual or to a corporation they would be collected as fully as private debts are now collected. There would be a vigilant and unrelenting pursuit. The civil and criminal processes of the law would be in- voked with effect, just as ther were against fraudulent debtors under the bankrupt law. “When to this encrmous aad crying evil is added the corruption which it is alleged has characterized th raisements of real estate we have a condition of things with which we dare not palter. We must inavgurate, and at once, a system that shall equalize tax burdens. The men of wealth in our great communities should lead the movement. This great club, or- ganized as a rallying center for loyalty an] patriotic citizenship, should hear a call as loud and imperative as that which came to it during the vears of the civil war. “Mr. Lincoin'’s startling declaration that this country could not continue to exi half slave and half free may be par phrased today by saying that this country cannot continue to exist half taxed and b free. his sense of inequality breathes a fierce nd unmeasuring anger—creates classes, intensifies social differences, and makes men willing to pay their debts in half dol- lars. The just sacredness of these money obligations, the right of the holders to be paid in money of full value, will be clearer tot ee that these secur! their lawful taxes. “Where is the moral distinction between the act of putting one hand in his neigh- bor’s' pocket and clandestinely abstracting his pocket book and the fraudulently shift- ing of a debt that I owe to another? “If there is not enough pullic virtue left our communities to make tax frauds able; if there is rot virility enough ur laws and in the administration » in our courts to brirg to punish ment those who defraud the state and their reighbors; if crimes of fraud may sta'k uked and unpunished in our streets, how long will it be until crimes of violence make insecure the fortures that have re- fused to contribute ratably to the cost of maintaining social order? Evasion Brings Trouble. “The failurés which have accompanied, in an increased retio, the attempt to col- lect the personal property tax have led many tax reformers to favor its total abo- ition, and the substitution of other forms of taxation. The failure of the wealthy holders of these intangible securities to pay their just proportion of the cost of gov- ernment has stimvlated a demard for spe- cial forms of taxation and for progressive taxation with a view in some measure to recoup to the community the losses which are inflicted by evasive and fraudulent tax returns. These efforts should serve as a warning. The people will not consent that this state of things shal! be eccepted as a permancnt condition. If we are to leave no taxes save such as in their nature neces- sarily exclude concealment and bribery, what tax will remain? If we admit the disgraceful conclusion that the state of public and private morals has become such in our country that the wealthy may not be brought under the law and compelled to yield it reverence and obedience, have we not confessed the failure of republican in- stitutions? “Before the adoption of the Constitution, when each state made Its own tariff law the power to levy imposts was practica! ly nuliified by the competitions between the states. They underbid each other in the competition between their ports. The solution was found in confiring the tax upon imports wholly to the national gov- ernment. In a measure the same embar- rassment fs now being felt in the framing and administration of the tax laws of the several states. Real or simulated changes of residence are made from one state to another, with a view of finding the most favorable tax condition or the most pliable assessors, “It is not easy, however, to see how a federal control of these questions can be established. The states are not likely to surrender such important powers to the national government. It ig more than questionable whether New Jersey and Connecticut, for instance, could be induced to forego the inducements which their tax laws or the administration of them may offer to wealthy New Yorkers. “Yet, I think it would be quite well to assemble a convention of tax commission- ers from all the states to discuss this in- tricate and exigent problem. Possibly some general principles might be agreed upon that would remedy the just com- plaints of double taxation, especially in the case of corporate properties and se- curities. “I do not believe that it is impossible so to stir the consciences of our people, so to stimulate the independence and courage ef our assessors and of our courts and prosecutors as to secure a fairly general enforcement of the personal property tax. I know that men hesitate to call a neigh- bor to judgment in this maiter. We have too much treated the matter of a man's tax return as a personal matter. We have put his transactions with the state on much the same level with his transactions with his bank, but that is not the true basis. Each citizen has a personal inter- est, a pecuniary interest, in the tax re- turn of his neighbor. We are members of. @ great partnership, and it is the right of each to know what every other member is contributing to the partnership and what he is taking from it. It is not a private affair; it is a public concern of the first im- portance. “Perhaps there should be a general proc- lamation of amnesty and a fresh start. For a Tax Renaissance. “We should discard these old notions, and, wiping the slate off, proclaim a tax renaissance. Every agency that deals with public and social questions should lend its help. The grard jvry should be charged to investigate and to indict the delinquents. Returns and assessments must be honest. If there are inequalities in the law thi must be remedied by legislation, and not by the usurpation of the individual. “I think we must assume that there are very few, if any, of our states prepared to consent ‘to the abolition of our personal property tax. “AS a supplemental tax, levied within the requirements of equality.and uniform- ity, a succession or inheritance tax may be well enough, if the state constitution per- mits it; but the principle of progression, a higher rate for large estates, seems to me to be inconsistent with that rule of propor- tion and equality which should character- te all taxation. he practical qi ie one our people must solve, and solve speedily, is the enforcement of the personal paying fully in Q | surgeon, pronounces Co- covena highly nourishing Price Talk. Whe wonld than go further Mertz’s for any prepared mod! x they should need? ak v where they'd prefer te buy—pri \ freshness of the goods and general /) satisfaction considered. 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Address, THE MAYPOLE SOAP DEPOT, 127 Duane Street, New York. 7-th.t a, forms; that they should not only show a Willingness, but a zeal, to bear their full proportionate share of all public burdens If they do not, the tense of injury is so strong that weys will be found to exact more than ts eqval. To do Justice is the best sufeguard against injustice.” : > Transfers of Real Estate. I street northeast between 24 and streets and Parker street between and 34 stre2ts—Judson T. Cull et al., trustees, to Lauretta F. Boyd, part lots 33 to 36, lot 87 and part lot 38, part lots 14, 15, 16, 19, 3a lots 17 and 18, square ; %. Same to Leonidas Triplett, jr., part lots 33 to 36, 38, 13, 14. 15, 16, 19, and lots 20 to 22, square TW), $5. Morton place northeast between 6th and 7th streets—George M. Moore et ux. to Clarence F. Norment, lots 2” to 253, square 855; $10. M street northwest between 24th and 25th streets—Sanford N. Whitwell et ux te Ernest A. A. Dunn, lot 49, square 24; $10. Ernest A. A. 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