The evening world. Newspaper, January 16, 1907, Page 14

Daily Magazine, Wednesday, January Tee Entered at the Post/Ofice at New York as Second-Class M: issues NO. 16,884, —— VOLUME 47 ANNUAL TAX FARCE. i A flood of new schemes accompanies the annual Janua ‘ “personal assessments: - Every -year at great expense the Tax Commis- sloners compile a guess at the owners of personal. property. in NewYork City ‘and give public notice that their ssments must be s' ~ the tax will be collected. “Fhis annuat invitation to perjury-is repeated. this yea farcical manner, .Last —year..the tentative personal assessment _was | <$3,492,015,682,..Nine-tenths of .this-was sworn off, and most of the | _ other tenth was mistakenly assessed ‘and is represented by revenue bonds ‘Instead of cash. y farce of the he USL: The three men who own the public franchises of New York City do'-nat- appear on the personal tax roll at-all. ! Mr. Thomas..F. Ryan retains a legal residence in Virginia, >Mr.- Ant! N. Brady in Albany and—Mr,- August Belmont -out on Long Island. James’ Stillman is assessed for $100,000, all the Rock- efellers for less_ than $3,000,000 and J. Pierpont Morgan: for $400,- 009. Andrew Carnegie-is-assessed for. $5,000,000, although he owns nt. Steel Trust bonds, not to mention .other. per- hony ° $30,000,000 5 per ce sonat property. To meet this iniqui reported an elaborate s) tous condition the Special Tax Commission has tem_of remedies which for absurdity, injustice match at a cranks’ convention. They propose an income tax beginning vith incomes_of_$500,-2-tax on-the gross earnings of public service cor- Porations, a tax on savings bank deposits and a-habitation tax. The distinguished_-members-of {his-commission should be sent back to school to learn primary. economics, ; There-are two -great-classes. of wealth: One wealth created by. the community and the other wealth -produced or created by individual Wealth created by the community has two forms—the value of land —and-the-value-of public: franchises—The-valué of Jand-depends upon the density of population and the earning power of the people who live there. ‘Ima sparsely settled community the value of land is low. In a city the -value of land is high in almost geometric ratio to the population. In like manner with public franchises. The right to supply gas or electricity or transportation or telephones is like land—valuable in proportion to the density of population. p That other form of wealth which is produced by individual labor is _ Bpproximately of the same value everywhere. The difference in the value | we Oa -barrelof flour.ora_ham or_a suit of clothes or a thousand bricks between one place and an&ther is merely the cost of transporting them. ~But-an-acre-of- ground “cannot be transported from—anywhere—else—toy acrate of chickens. _ It follows from this distinction that since taxation is f~r the. benefit of the community its burden should be borne by the wealth which the community has collectively created; that is, by a land tax and a franchise tax. To tax-incomes of $500 up would-relieve the great landlords an¢ raction trinity at the expense of the wage-eamers. To impose < bitation-tax-based-on rental values would divert-taxation from the land: Jord'to the tenant. To tax savings bank deposits would punish individual If personal taxes are not to be collected betier atiolish them al obviate the:perjury-they-breed: ; oe Jn the mean tire might it not be advisable to divert this ingenuity from new forms of taxation fo an energetic effort tirst to make the public “sérvite=corporatisns paiytie=$30,000,000-of- back -taxes-which they owe and henceforth to assess every public franchise at its full value and all the holdings of the Astors, Goelets, Trinity Corporation and the other ‘great landlords of New York at their full value-anc-make them-pay their faxes in-like-manner “with little taxpayers? A It will be time enough to tax savings bank deposits, tents and wave- earnings -when-every just iy -has_been exacted Trom-those whose riches have not come from: any good service rendered by them. c Letters. from the People. Those Emotional “Southerners.” lam avenue car-to-ubout Third iro the Editor of The Evening World: {@yenue cars. There are thousands of T would like to know if all the patrons | people who simply cannot ride tn the of the Broadway restaurants that cater |mubway because of an inborn timidity 40 after-the-theatrs trade are fr and a sn ed feeling caused by the Bouth. The orchestra no sooner bad alr tn In there any up "Dixie" or “My Maryland’ or other_Southern tune’ than _evérybod: ‘tho place jumps up and begins to make _ @ noise like a rebel yell. If @ lot of people I. see-doing-lt-were ever South ‘of South Ferry tn thelr lives their fuces —ere-untruthtul in expression. A pecu- jar thing about these restaurant South- The Evening World’s —and—ignorance-of-fundamental_economic principles would be hard_to}_ all street, and a street. car franchise cannot be shipped like | The Man from By Maurice K “SAYTHE FURNITURE IN THIS ROOM I> ON. THE FRITZ! SEND MEA COUPLE OF VAN LOADS OF MARIE AN STYLE. SHAT ONLY 2 MILLION A DAY? HERE, FLL BUY THe WHOLE 0— HOTEL — HERE, Boy, OnE TEU Wite! | EM | BRING ME song poaun sean Sik DOSEN COLD BOTS = URRY UP THE HAM: AND EGqs ante QUITE NICE Stk OH! I DON £ CARE - Pittsbu etten. | rg. t oi | | TOINETTE, SAY,PoP! SEND MEA Few More BARRELS OF MONEY —_ | HAVEN'T STARTED TO we Love Affairs of Great Men. DISRAELI’S HAPPY MARRIAGE. ORD BEACONSFIELD, Queen Victoria's favorite Prime Minister, who began Mfe as Benjamin Disraell, married a woman fifteen years older than- himself, who made. him an Jdeal wife. Her_years_enabled her to View the young husband's faults with that maternal tol- erance which makes an elderly wife the best possible companion for the easy-going or self-Indulgent husband. ‘The marriage «was on Djarsell's part purely mercenary. He had always declared that he would marry for money— indeed It was essential to his political fortunes that he should do so, and he frequently told his wife that their marriage had on his part been one of Interest. “That may be #0, she would answer calmly, — “but If you were to marry me again you would do it for love,” Sha was the widow of Disraell's friend, Mr. Wyndham Lewis, and had a large fortune which she generously ‘de- voted to promoting her second Hiisband'’s Interests. For thirty years she was hle most earnest friend and best adviser. Disrael! appre: Clated Hier Wisthiterested love; and when= some “iibred~young-men- ventured a That his novel one who have evel pared a Lady nlur on his wife's age and appearance and suggested that his marriage was left them, saying: not. without a mercenary motive, he rose angrily and AGEETANET, -Aa- Ree et Teter ie ere tithe mee ne spirit and gentle nature Whenever he was congratulated on the reault of an electio} “Thank you, My' wife will be very pleased.” = On the 2th of April, 1897, when he defeated “Mr. the Reform bill, the younger members of his party gave a supper in his honor ‘at the Carlton Club, But as Lady Beaconsfield protdly informed her friends “Dirk came home toms." Few husbands would to go home: to a middle-aged wife who in anticipation of his victory had pre- the Carlton supper could have supplied tim, Afler-anotier-Utuniph,- 1t-ts=reported,—Disraeli- and —hie wife danced about thelr room Uke children, and she exclaimed ecstatically, “Oh Dizzy! Dizzy! This phys for all!" Wlols Ade: When she-was quite an—old lady she interrupted a group oj who were discusning the fine figures of several army officers, to exclal you ahould-seo my-Disay-fn ils bathr : When the fond lady years ahe has never given me a dull moment'—tn my opinto we w By Nixola- Greeley-Smith, he fully appreciated her devotion {s indicated in the declaration of “Bybll," "I would inscribe this work," he wrote, “to one whose noble prompt her to sympathize with the suffering, to sweet volce has often encouraged, and whose taste and judgment F gulded, Its pages—the most severe of critics, but m ‘perfect wife.” reply was: Gladstone's amendment to ave sacrificed thls public celebration and joltification ple for. htm of which ho ate half and declared !t better than anything Beaconafeld's devotion, tender and hopeful as it was, had tts ridic- women “An, “For thirty-three the finest tribute ‘as dying her husband sald of her: eausing the flogying of a ned! himself look like n sh Suppo | boen-brought-te- | sellers, |tain for wild be j dead chifd of his own nud had brought up the ebangel atticked tlie Croesis a prise armies overran the © the city of Babylon itself. beautiful,.city on earth. weils and gay patient walting, Cyrus won his wa 6. 3 Clvillzed World. Oa SIXTY HEROES — WHO MADE HISTORY By Albert Peyson Terhune. cei N Mee KING IED tre ATHOUSAND NICABLEGRAMS Be 2—CYRUS-—The Shepher:l Who Conquered Halt thé Barth, Siero mate A TUHE WHOLE. DOLLARS WORTH | T BAR-OLD boy—sitpnosed son of a Medina pherd—stood in BULLY TIGAR= ROYAL FLUSH= OF CABLEGRAMS: A theo presence of-ast eapee Kine qo/sthe Melew A he-lad waa nobusad LIGHTER SOE HOU SIR of trying to make his fellow xeheollors obey hitn as king 4nd of yesed him, © nov did’ the an’ who uch actions were not common to peasant-childr AS c 2 the hd father to torture in orderte clear up tie The herdsr cul thas the boy was not ren herd. ystery an confer Harpasis had biddary ts t0.caL oT, be had not dor Harpagus was then s Ten years earlier Asty warned in adr that t ghter would one day j Wrest Uie kingdom of Media fr { -bitden Harpagus put the child: to-dea! Harpacus he bad instead given tho buby to the herdsmar The chain of evidene boy e¥ dts own grandson a: tbat ume lying in -Pers! Thither (after puntshin a peculiarly hiovrible way {n= Parsia—CYria ernie that young country. Media wa ) Cs ineipality subservient to Medfa: f° tho latter's son! {o death’ in ee iy discov Dray ng—weak wrongs at os in command of t 1 OVEN whelmin: & with the (wo tlt But Cyrus gave Croe: of bia allles. he followed co Ume to awalt the arr! Then after driving ft b subduing thaen shed It, yiila, Cyrus turned his attention to Babrioria, intr: Having annexed 1 Belehazzar,sure-of_{ts_impreen. Belshazzar was feasting and put Garrison to the sword. One by one he subdued the Greek cities on the Tonic coast, who fiercely resented his rule; annexed by conquest ather Orfental kingdoms, and placed Egypt also ui a position of practical subjection. ‘Thus, before he reached middie age the former shepherd doy found himself Emperor of the continent of Asia from the Hellespont to India In ; othe: words,-he was master of nearly all the { Ruled Nearly All of Europe was little better than sava, Cyrus-had conquered pearly all the Ortent. —.-Ent India remained unsubdued. and _progressive.lLong it hac uppea detached frontier led_to Cyrus's cupidity. He of the day, put the ~chicl coun» rocks ofa moun- zes had been {zed the shephord ‘ys paremtsy wete at. d grandson: ~ simple people ot but, lke most Harpagus, the -honds of “ys_to raise o. Persian army Median forces, 59 why not the rest of the ~ suns of Lydia, who ruled ite of-a-Aroup-of Cresk free’ so-rich -that-the Croesus had fore- ré land and making dhe at last opoped up Prince Belshazzar in jon. was the:strongest, 2s well as the most ty, enjoyed Ifo behind tie huge scant thonght to the besiegers. Yet, after two years. of into the ctty by night (538 B. Ci) wile Jt was_an_immense country, povwel e_had j boy c pe {C.), capturing the Media to Persin, combining [the twa Into 0 < Its sovereign. Tie spared bin grandfather's iNated old men to cvelt on him as a Now tha’ s and Ind a ralsed Pers Cyrus was ° ‘e ne fever of conquest was He and His he ‘The Orient~ was (he smoost -fniportant part of the globe. Ang, fut won. provinces of it. Now he planned to atrike at the very heart of the rich territory. Aron preliminary campaign he marched against the wild Seythinns and thelr Queen, Tomyris. bis fe, the world-conqueror was beaten. in those days was the acmo of disgrace. yictoifes he had won were des! later cavsod Its weakness and fall No. 5—Mary of Lamb Fame. By. Margaret Rohe. ‘poppah, I" ep erte eat he's all ready to he flceced."" ~ on the “Now, that's the sort month look lke a fool,’ Hin naine's Lam,’ Just Lamb, If YOU Had a- HENRY PECK Y0U_OIDNT-FIX-THAT HOT WATER FAUCET. IN THE KITCHEN. AND 17” LEAKS: so THAT I CAN'T GET ANY, HOT WATER FOR MY BATH. WHY -Dow’7_You FX IT? TL Fix IT > TOMORROW: SURES NENRIETTA. pover-peld—by-a husband toa mite Wife Like This. 2 2 © » # syr.c-tong|= NOT A DROP! Tit BET-THAT 10107 +3. DOWN IN THE KITCHEN FOOLING WITH THAT FAUCET. WATER - THAT = (TiIOU ies syicorca Haat er) AMMAN! Nerners ‘is that they howl and stamp gust as hard when the band plays “Marching Through Georgia” as they do witen It playa "The Suwanee River." Please search me for any reason why & joutherner should give three cheera for "Marching Through Georgia." : CULPEPER. Uptowners’ Transit Troubles. To the Editor of The Evening W Residents of the <tty north of One Hundred and Thirtleth street and west {a no-pleasant sight fo. Just fresh from rood encounter these nausecti the way fo the cary S-mome peaches are lef sita sideways and cro ut his muddy boot’ rubs woman nelghbor'a dress ts | pendent upon the Mp.and down (own ui take tte long walk (generally up a long, stgep hill) to the Amaterdam avenue weather. He ean care. If oe. desires to go downtown on jrand Central Ahe> west side via Amsterdam avenue, the own. starting from a point north of One Hun- @red ands Twenty-ffth styget, he Ands | a | You Fool! wiy DIDN'T You PEND THAT FAUCET, LAST. WEEK WHEN I ToLo you TOS S = You WAITED Tit oa SARDINES ig | A Philippine Product. mari pressed and salted. Not more than half century ago custom arose of canning them tn Wor a me butter ka uasd, da oduction tn the Philippines, Increased. from 55,000 tons in 1900: to | auction in 1900 place the output at be- ne in 1905. This increase im greater than in any other possession xcept Porto’ Rico, { THE COPPER CROP, Estimates of the country’d copper pro- “e tween 940,900,000 and 970,000,000 pounds. Fat practically. all the refined |The production [a 295 wae ay to-ilght to eay howdy," . 5 Woll, that's nim,” ‘Was he‘easy ft’ from aentla: and fall of the mark give hima few eure. tl / “Ot coUTEE MA-Lamb,”” ead-Maryasthls was some hourw tater ot souree ck wouldn't attempt to advise anybody on the market, but I don't mind telling you Ao hie popes tai teremted: fe-going 1s vieea HITION that-a-certaliafock-in par. cant. .to«morrow.'* “A million,” said Mr. Lamb, thoughtfully; “that you mind buying $19.00- whith of-atosk for met a profit of a million points, and T folly ~well lke to 4 sure to win.” r = i . “Delighted,"' eald Mary. ‘The name of the stock ts Graft Preferred. Thank you #0 much," sald Mr, Lamb, nonchalantly—yes, he did say It quite a r! chalantly—"here ja a Check for $10,000. Now, tell me, are you fond of ping-pongt * Little remaina to’ be told, Kentle reader, The very next day Graft Preterred went to xero, Mary went South for her health. She also went-South with the $10,000. + “We Are Seven.” By Walter A. Sinclair. a Cyrus fought in person on the disastrous field and‘ was slain. Yet the tined to live after him. Chief of these was the founding of the Persian Empire; an cmpire that swayed the rest of the nations as an invincible mistress, until, like Media, {ts own prosperity The Famous Women in Wake-Believe History Fy, Juat Ike that, with the eecent ¢ got a new lamb ond { @ girl that makes the firat of the auld herparent. who was by the way-of-being_in the brokerage business, “\vhat's hid name, 5 aaid Mary, alrliy. ~“t min the Professional \Yoman's, League reception. — Son knosr the kindof aman thar would ¢6-th fine Dt thBas. Ing over thé lapse fh grammar, the old man gently echofd Mary, who was a close student of the Chadwickian brand of finance ‘It waa like taking candy — iefve minutes t-had-tet him know that T wos the only daughter of hanker who governs the Mke-2n elevator boy controls a lift. I told hin I could if he cared for that sort of thing. He's coming around » fan't 1t? Would aid Jolly welt ke te make — Uttle gambling when I'm Here, for the first me jn Beaten by a woman, top, which “ non- t (New York's 4om-Hat-shows that the clty has but seven miMionairesy (| ! but this {a a poor man's town. G ‘obody up and all of ‘em down, Down on their uppers with naught left for suppers, Oh, tatter’d ts Jade Fortune's gown! Gone ta-The Dough'a swelling leaven. Trained for the needle-eyéed heaven, All-milllonatres have shed fortune: Sadly they murmur now; ‘Yes, we E) are dead or fed: @ seven.” What's become of our men of wealth? Have they ducked to improve thelr health? Where's all the money? It seems rather funny, Strange how St-vaniahed with stealth, Who'll loan the price of a dinnar, Lown to some o’er-rated sinner? Who'll stake ex-milifonaires to,a fow street-car fares, While the lone seven grow thinner? Anuy mut have fost quite a lump, Uted hia lake.for @ loose-change Gump? Library buliding and nu spelling guilding His wad hit a, terrible bump. +n Dee—? Oh, Ida, Sehold! : ‘Where {a bls mountain of gold? * ayreye varnished! Gone, melted, Ranished, to.two millions as