The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1906, Page 15

Ny t laeeenee ty the Preae Publishing Company, No, A to @ Park Now, New tered at the Post-Ofice at New York ax Second. Ciass Ma eo ——___- — VOL M E a7. _———— - NEW YORK’ Ss BAD DEBTS. ple to make igemen he he and of personal taxes is, as Co Metz says, “‘a farce of the ceder, It results in peri ought to be’ done away with. New York City is the cen! assessment ; The owners of the great rai iid the huge trusts reside here ., They receive the benefits of prot “by the Fire Department and police force, of the public parks and s They pay next to nothing in return, ‘ No réal attempt is made cither to assess or to cotfect taxes their personal property. assessed at a much lower percentage of the cost than tenement Property pays. | Ms Pay their dues to the community. 80 difficulty in collecting taxes from the rich. The inheritance ta WHistead of according to poverty. Every man, even a muifi-millionaire, dies some day. then be appraised andes He cannot take it with him noi ceal it in his coffin. Chicago has utilized this fact by assessing upon estates the c inexorably as the man who owns the tittle New York City is growing rapidly tion makes both its franchises and its | nd of immense vaiue. Matter. NO 16,472, Nei ‘York's funded debt is to “be ¢ 100,000 he taxes on personal property are uncoll I years th audit ta This bad deh is big enough to pay-f i je three-cent fare © Any private h wo nd cond afairs in this nr ) nly reas the wealth of the United States Even on their palaces on Fifth avenue they are «There should dbe.2 speody method of making these multiemillionaires England, France and Germany find dncome tax and the tax on groutid rents Sd Tong tessehetes prove eft ‘Cient and effective elsewhere in apportioning taxation according to wealth His estate must Which should have been paid before death. The Marshall Field estate and ‘Others are now paying the back taxes which their poss¢ssors dodged. No statute of Mmitations caf run against undiscovered frauds, and ‘very estate should be compelled to pay with compound interest and full ities its back taxes a5 to pay his back taxes. The great landed properties of the city should also be adequately taxed. The ground rents which the Astors, the Goelets, the Rhinelanders ‘and the other idle landlords of New York draw at the expense of the ‘community can be readily ascertained and should be taxed for thei creased density of popul September | \20,, 1900" . A The FIFTY GREATEST EVENTS in HISTORY By Albert Payson ferhune™ No, 32. Wednesday, | Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows. By J. Campbel! Cory. | Tors —OLIVER CROMWELL, and the Overthrow of Divine Right,” J A MIDDLE ED farmet y of drenm, ai wan ny AingUe the meventes 1 refuned 1 ve wirtially ivine right of king@i? dt fave, slover chee wootally 1 nd fh th “ cabeth had been #7 “who newer Charlee hy y Wie woe, Mur neonwid sie Ur were d orst au Angio-Sarxor Kings Was wa in and ing wa jf Oliver ¢ § tre of | 1 Cavalier and R Se oundhead, $30: | Gannon ection mt Lora.” “the Partiamentar treets. Little by ainerit Drought b the King wae omwell and ott "art upon Parihemen aplured. fs sought f -house eG fament were cle 1 eed. a ate reb 1 : re {fitcee ‘ Kote wee om . ne te . and wa « « a, x, the Parliament's met for if ® (e r con- taxes house whole ir full Cromwell bas been var person amtlour dem nese epithets are wholly in THE MEN IN THE NEWS Straight Talks to Them—By Nixola Greeley-Smith. io the Mighty Muck-Raker Who Has Ui ae agree Wilh you about inspector Suumittberger, We don't like see a man being tried by his accusers. Nobody dors, outside of France, and Exchanged His Implement for a Fine-Tooth Comb. ince the Dreyfus affair even the French have had their doubts about confound STEFFENB Mus ing Judge and proseoutor in o1 But smaller people with smaller and less active rakes co EAR MB. J. LINCOLN What is there New York Thro’ Fenny Glasses. rant D:; n the end of your eraxk rake? Look! Or maybe matters, Mr. Steffens. have to get a tmicroscape to wee it We dont want any simplified mock-raking from 4. though " cement that raked the United States from Roosevelt dignified the ppelling book with hie disapproval. [ sus By Irvin S. Cobb. om petty d back clogged with some excuse for other reformers wanting their « San? Fra ergios S: > and came 1 M i of the Cities w bears on One of its sharp: From slrplifying the Police Department th sat one step to simplifying A Few Minvtes with the Voice Flamber ‘ It is only just that the men whose wealth is derived from these} ened prongs something glittering and distinetiy frritable the tousehold. Boon, if you keep on, n Mr. and Mra. Tenders tave a | (BN a pinin , ‘ { Sources should pay at lea ta proy n: are of the put lic burden. <a my Seat the ambulance tat will be summoned. “Turn tn 9 calf for J, Lincoln Strffens,”* Heataacietnte a; cultivated it's num og i Improved transportation uld lower rents. More bridges, more Mr. Steffens, do you think a petty police squabble ts Swill be the cry. And you will arrive, and with your tr implement rake the | om the sob tn a vacuum cleaner the best thing to wap : bways, more parks, more schools, better pa Ss, new water pipes, worthy of your steel pen? secret sources of trouble fore and aft, and leave behind you a neconctiwt noune- It's all very weil for « gitl to hires © { sudwa) Pp ‘og Pavements, new water pipes, ty. you think that you who have brought bose-ridden hold to bless your dtminished name over # “rabbit’” and a can of mixed ale. that her fond pana itl to hiirry Ean with the nares mew sewers and other needed public improvements cannot be had without Governors and squirming Sonators from the hidden holes But you won't. You must ese tint the Schmitiberger squabble fan't your | traito have a little talent grifted oo 4 ik trys ying for them. Either the mass-of the people must pay for them in ot gratt into the glare of public knowledge and disap- | size other Latin er vocal bas | Us a he P i Ho pay ‘for them oo afford to wasle your muck-rakish time on @ Teatify the truth, of course. whatever ite dimensions But don’t dignity @ crowded out o Pera nl cle Even tho’ she he still higher rents or the taxing s) t be so adjusted that wealth wrangle? Mulberry street mud puddle by bringing its patressence to the surface with the On thd part of Melba, Fumes oa vive etaie ‘ ap ry sitall pay its shares; jy eves the big rake dwindles to a fing: take that has swevt @ continent to greater advantage i Be nit of Melba, Famen and 0. Unmmersiein abe aes 4 Asta } Let the small {ry alone. Mr. Steffens’ hunting for There's alwaye soggy Mr. Stefr with so many political You may make Gen, Bingham squirm, to be mure. But meantime nattonal | Mr. Abou at! age ping about to fodder at the panics) Corry dat Falves its Otwilnivhed head and the scotehed snake oF municipal graft e Md moll ber eye 3 (wriggies back into power! i Nnnearroh kat soon, If the in — Pin-feathers o'll have hits Meuring o AUy callow & raonage ona nalary that ian't bg enough for one arn we fail her she falls back'on the leader of the choir, who ir ve Stop Laughing! ‘The Diary of a Bad BOY se ae ee By Pop,t t Savs saw ate ons eet ne sionable nature, large pink eurs and steady work na a, | Farmers’ National ant bookkrep = < But with a mere tan. how dit iacauies ‘ Ne. | | DEEN OMANTS Coe falls, But he banks upon the Impression secs nnet awaits. him raises rents and ® tax on land doen| ¥ N aia: } | RATELY Ewan vocal teachers of New gitied plumbers she canes not, the Obvious thing to do is to ex piimente “| | You To SPAIR RE and switch his pipes around and give him any kind of a vaiee te ee A empt former and increase the tax! yw ie r dni . moe THs Hs Gis: His parents are ati Te ee to that extent on the latter 1s | \ ee dentist te of his fret Ailing, and the home pa fae pat agar “ hin a8) yore p ——e it by jake of s ISHN J. MURPHY said oan tty, hut the only place Lis nage appenrs in print locally is on the Unive “pean i Address Chamber of Commerce, | No ©. n 7 I of the programme Immeliaitely preceding the brief mention of tle lady \ Mi 24 . : os | | alaned the contumes and the gentleman who painted the scenery es 0 be 4 airganbhenae con H * R F Truc, he is on the stage regularly, but the aud/ence never ge " soi thane ehat , ‘; bur t | except when the back row of the male chorus comes down & . wll sr nat. > ’ “i : Teg | He wots the magnificent sum of 815 a wook for being a brigana inne nerom Waen baby + - = unmnt make so's t velvet coat. “Ww tb bis limbs bandaged between tre knees and a “a in a foolish Bat avove ¢ 5 A A Workers’ Sovtety. cromsed ta, @ noticed that ail: comme nkles with crinse Sagehtialioy 2 ne : | posed to , ams opera brigands are spe You can sand A In the course of years. if he is faithful an a * © he ts fai 4 steady. hi BErVes ae aw 1 be . e Me and he le promoted to a speaking part, something like than? | tet 3 ‘ | "See, comrades, here comes our ant leader! [ soe : , ayn | THE FUNNY PART ati Bish SntRG Bengt? ‘ | Y Yot a freeh crop of them come every fall a —— 0 ——_________ adnate TWO- MINUTE TALK A great deal is said t th * p from dogs run ‘ . W ~ Bp pe te from toe oar vn ITH NEW YORKERS 7 Im ¢ mak é a ° st wee that : i By T. O. McGill. Piate anywhe t t . day to talk about ines a ‘ 4 lime when ab when he first mee me act twenty robbed of nemted ix and k The Fork. tw Proper ia} people be- | ¥e Hed id ) loc long time) Si aeetire Wi tm ‘th je ot enthusiastic ways tortured. Th A in to tatk about | used to do. “He talieed igpass wom s a pers word eile . what you used to the parte he had seen me in, and gave . the pabll: How 8. ¥ A ye do or what you a4 ® fine imitation of a Yoteran at NOPHILA ie or Mothert in auch snd ouch a 4,2 lox talking of soine veteran Kone 4. A ui : ——— Geaue es yore og it ee sean he was a recruit, 7% * Separate y baer Hiri STANT GoT ITE AT aus veny," ye) om tHe talked about old times til 7 To the » n . it a ros p " 236 , UN LARS fvin OF CAT 1S yp tee Shea is one of = ot , bs 2 he Ore IS LUCKIER Tren By the time he hi SE oes ’ gp ft 3 Cre! me oap'™ | Neck eke Clarice Promeharrs |yeartie the, imme, he, had wot back ‘ y His Ca oe wee OAD SEAT THING Feiler ony representatives and 994 began to lose my ¢ pe re Vhe Rent Proview + | } Z aa Ne 5:4 Is ohe of the solid, ing alol h : ee! oye ANY watt on tick, wi Mocks weaieat of tke 3 WS { Ae of B Bs) eet. vit 7) well grounded back.’ stl" with ‘a bent and wou A wish « y adult ir ” ‘ Bieta {OA ~ pole F | who make the the "He says that after this; when he fend Your admirable eat | IX |atrical business @ fixed proposition [goon ,t calle te man for work wm Mad Treneportad What's the pccasion for that Part he is going to start right in turn! dimits Cwhieh -eon 1‘ | graph of philosomhyt we asked. re i (which he Fas L ‘ cause start § There ls, including » a i “One of the 14,000 actors there are in life am y ' boy. tuenbl iroun), parks, Bxt0 bo e * ln the late of available members of 20%, ‘unm se tn i ll ona or ay, W@xkO' for a ¢ No. ‘QT William Stree. the profemion at present met me yes five, 20 thal one ed not rt ‘ | * | waid: ef» swparate Nome ahs casilen plot fo - aba ac o Nee Yak PPuRnt ber’ Pngers mak s joes Teiogreph office in New Ye? i sek, Aweul earn (amily, As @ tam ob iubrovemente: W. 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