The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1907, Page 12

h ‘ork. sa he Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to @ Park Mow, New T Sy eatare £ the Post-Office at New York as Second-Clase ifnil Matter. seeee NO.16,645, FRANCE’S NEW TAX PLAN. RANCE Js devising a new scheme of taxation struct- urally different from the system that any great na-) tion has in practice. In the search for some method | of equitable taxation applicable in the United States; this French plan should be carefully considered. ’ Nominally it ts an income tax, but it lacks the defects-of the recent income law which the United States Supreme Court decided to be unconstitutlonal. It does not look to the receiver for payment, but col tects the tax from the source of the income. - - Also- the: tax. is computed on_a ‘double. sliding bale, varying according both to the source of the in- 13 lo its amount. Wages and salaries pay at a lower rate than Tents, dividends, and bond coupons. _Business-profits pay at a rate a lit- tle higher than wages, but less than rent. The exemptions are on a sliding “Scale according to the population of the community. On farms and in ‘Small villages the maximum exemption js smaller than in Paris, onthe ry that the purchasing power of wages and small incomes is ‘higher i “he country than ina large city. "| Beginning with the exempt class ‘the percentage of tax increases in iproportion to the size of:the incqme. A man with an income of a hun- K rell thousand doildts a year from bonds or rents pays fifty times as much jtax|as the man who carns four thousand dollars a year by his, own’ ef- forts, The man who e2ms ons thousand daliars‘a*year rays’ Only sev ‘entéen dollars tax, wap ¥ , This'system exenvpts entirely all small farmers, who. are ning-tenths the Frencit agriculturists. It also exempts all laborérs and members the mechanical trades. Professional men, storekeepers and manu- facturers are taxed'mocerately. The deficit in the necessities of the +> French treasury caused by these exemptions and a-scaling down of taxes te. on business and professional incomes is more than made up by the slid- | ~ ing increases on the great landlords and capitalists. ” = Since the tax on rents is based only in part on the value of the prop- _ erty, and to a large extent on the size of the landlord's estate, the increase caused by the sliding scale cannot be collected from the tenant. Such a f > tax applied to New York City would exempt entirely cheap homes owned cby their occupants. It’ would cut in half. the taxes paid by individual Agndlords, and thereby reduce their tenants’ rents. It would greatly in- 9 se'the taxes of the Astor estates, of the Trinity Gorporation, the Gc lets, the Rhinelanders and the other large landlords of New York, which ‘increase could not pass on to their tenants, because the competition of 0% >... All'suchr properties as Mr. Carnegle's Steel Trust bonds, Mr. Rocke- : feller’s Standard. Oil ¢: Mr, Herriman's railroad securities, would pay 4 percent. up of their annuat interest and dividends to the Govern- _ ment. This tax would not be collected from Mr. Carnegie, Mr. Rocke- feller and Mr. Harriman, but from the corporations from which. their in- foe flows. es : = Some of the same problems confronting the people of the United States exict in Fra’ Like the United States, France is a republic, gov- emed in theory for the benefit-of the mass-of the People, and-under-laws _ Made in theory by the will of the majority of the people. j-Yet it is doubtful whether France ever assessed the property of the mall man at double {he percentage of the property of Trinity Corpora- Hon and of the Astors, It is doubtful whether France ever permitted its “Camegie to pay taxes oni less than one-sixtieth part of his wealth, and al- Towed its Astor to be wholly exempt from paying on his stocks and bons It is also doubtful if France would allow its public service corporations ta elay the payment of their franchise taxes, Quite possibly this explanation ofthe French plan isso many waste “words 1o-a-communily which-does not insist uporr the vetiforcement= of tthe defective tax fws which it has. One thing France does not do, ‘and that is tax savings bank déposits. They ar wholly exempt In France from one of the few. taxes which are rigorously enforced in New York. Letters from the People. es ~ ¢ Dixeane-Nreeding Sirecta, ‘Te the Faltor of The Evening Wert t-makes -one-prefer-a tent in’ Death Valley to a New York mansion after obxerving our mud-soaked streets, and {{ arouses even « deeper eense of dis- Rust In the most optimistic to expert- our clyic authorities deal [thow forth the. rest of the year In hor- rible contrast. Boast of your city’s sire and beauty if you will, but not of Ita elimate—the worst on earth. - BRIAN K. CALTHER. A Hot Undergrourd Race. To the Editor of The Prenine World: ag, eutnarl This morning as I boarded a Bubway Poor people, who! can til afford it! are| jocay aaa direc ine wan ee nt ge Wid up in hospitals with all the tia due | we tect to, Coney ne ntntion, As | We Kot to Colyimbus Circle that local to this deplorable conaitfon, the rexpon- | ‘At Grnid Central we were p | pissed ur ible officinis of the city apparently do neck and neck, but th beat i to Uxtle to check the outrage. A news- | Fourteanthi street, Thee A earat caper of the character of + y fe Eventng| of especd we whizzed past th World {a alone instrumental in relley-| pineoker atreet and I tele as if Fees) {nx intolerable conditions, and the pub-| riding a winner, But mol At Canal; lle have come to look upon thia paper| streat me slowed down and the local f% thelr lone and substantial friend. beat um to the Bridge, This is not a merry feat, but solemn truth. ‘Time of | Face, 291-2 minutes, The only funny part of It wan that pansengers stood for It. G, V. ELMEN Saloon and Home. To the Editor of The Evening! World: 1 A correspondent says many men| Grink because they can meet pleasant People In barrooms and chat with them on ‘various themes If the octal | conversation that leads men to the walooi could be confined to business 2nd politics {t could be carried on as Well at home. No sensible woman would object to recelving her hua- band'n respectable friends. The great | | Hyening, World reporters cite, obs Wut a handful of men and an occastonal . €1rt clearing the snow. PNEUMONIA VICTIM. Vorat Climate, on ditor ef ‘The Evening W: $ T have lived and travelled jn most’ parts of the world. Bince aw year ago © Mast month I have lived in New York. | Twist to state on actual experience that New York's climate during “mkt. tines hhan'been the very worst on\earth. It combines the worst features of weather ef every foreign city\London's fors ana rain, Moscow's snows ahd biting (old, Bombay’s exervating dainpness, a etch + pittbesa r iy, eietnas streets Nery montha thet » IR | Tty ts that men who fhequent saloons are allowed to have homes to go after leaving those stationa to perdi- tion, whose gruduates aro candidates for the prisons, madhouse and electric of Madrid, en of fifty because it !a.a more hopeful view. of the {Ilustona of youth Sometimes we meet_an_eMerly woman. who-has-pre-{ ne howe served her {Illusions and gained wisdom as well. She fs to be envied, I refer to! Sov'es. And no Jullet has‘a clearer Sew—pititully “tew—| chair, Oh, sociebliity, what tragedies “a Ma Daily gazine ; Ma iy -~Monday, | whe Way of Nest o YING TO ENTERTAIN , THE "DAUGHTERS (OF ST PATRICK? GO IN THE DINING ROOM TS Nice AND Quiet THEeae- {CANT STAND THis! mayBe LLL \ HAVE! PEACE IN ‘THE SITCHEN Sorry To Put You OT, SAR, BUT I'M GIVING A RECEPTION in HONOR OF ST PATRICHKY WH Love Gives Clear Vision. | said Dr.J.J__Waish "ina recént_lecture_onJoan—of+ arc, "They are {ts true interpreters." The doctor in need in support of his assertion Jullet, fourteen; Imogen, nen, and Cordelin, sixteen. apparently not re-aliing. thot though these characters themselves were extremely young they are rarely, If ever, ruocessfully dnterpreted by x en-uniler thirty years of age, ‘ pdern Jullets and Imogens and Corelias If allowed to Interpret life in tnetr own 40 o most frequently by stoping with thetr riding: teachors- or with “bell boyW or the? hotels In which they lve, cover, ve over mother wants a Jullet in the fami] rat a safe distance of five hundr Walsh ts right in this, “ ie Is the youny women Who see moat clearly into Iife,"") irespeare's Jullet, but no | Sie woyld rather view 1 yeath or ao. however. The woman of vo uaually has a better view of 1% than the wom- / The embittered woman accepta as the wisdom of age what ts really the loss twen! Pe p petteva yo) *) match ‘her ideal By Maurice Ketten. CAN | READ. tay PAPER HERE? i aan NTE as fi Gd Gy» By .Nixola Greeley-Smith, the woman Tennyson propliesied his Amy in “‘Logksley Hall’? would become, “ftted-to her narrow part with nm ittie hoard of maxims preaching down a naturally AND Wa Tare Dotter WHAT IS ROOT For IC than wishes to preserve her chiki f But I unhappiness. ever tell (t) and ee the mere 1 woman, no matter how young, ts allowed to choose for herself the greater her chance of happiness 1s, Even If the marriage she arranges for her- cell brings ho: ‘mispry, I belleve misery she has chosen ‘« better for the develop- ment of her character than the cold content a parent-made niatch might havo Drought about. x Love clarifies the vision. The only: perton that’ secs a man as he really ts ts the woman who loves him, To hear her tall: of his virtues or his greatness may sound very ridiculous to you or me, to whom ‘he seems a most ordinary person. But she ls probably more nearly right sbout him than either of us. And even {fahe' ls not Ne la ashamed to admit it and sometimes males himself ower to Es view of life because roves It has forgott 4 gixteen.year.ald vision of life than these, have che clearcat dgrides love micrel n, however, pres they love. Age when n everything It ever ein Afty-year-old tn tts wisdom’ dcnew._ Bome_wi By C, W. Kables, DO ay ee SIXTY HEROES By Albert Poysorn Terbune.. No. 28—-HERNANDO CORTES: The Hero Who Wron hy RTT “Rinting?’ ¢ ; SPANISH boy of eighteen had resolved had eo interfered with his plana that by 1503 he had gtven up hope. i He was Hernando Cortes, desoendant of an olé but tmpovertuhed fazh- ily, andl had been intended by his parents he was sent at fourteen to the University of Salamanca, unruly disposition and thirsted for excitement. Bo he {ea and joined an expedition bound for Ban Domingo. Starting he wes wounded in waa Pik 8 fight and left behind. A again baffled, this time by a long, dangerous illness. Hoe til, in 1504, he seized an unexpected oppartunity to All Burope at this time was bisring with’. Ce reports of Promise beyond the Western Ocean. Columbus had discovered it in 1 while on a scarch ‘for 9 western passage to the Indies This peerless Yenturer’s career has been depicted in full in a former series. -The news of & country said to be overflowing with fabulous wealth of all sorts proved’a glittering lure for penniless, Gown-at-heel adventurers and for cupid. ity. The centre of interest at this time clustered nbout the West Indies These islands were practically monopolised by Spain. For seven’ yenra young Cortex remained at San Domingo, where he Speedily won famo‘as a fearless soldier and # man of rare diplomacy. But bie jebltton rae not content with the goodly, share of money end fighting pic Up there, and he sought a) Noi long for them., Men of daring ate Gabawanat CpSOeeaE CHR quality, « jown as “bluff,” Cortex persuaded the Army. of_ 700 spgattacks, a Yehole: Nation.) more did Cortez rely on the game of bluff; | {imited resources and vast population, he took with him leas than 700 4n- jfantrymen, 18 cavalrymen and ten small cannon. Governor thought the expedition would be one of discovery rather than ¢on- | But Cortez had ‘other ideas. This was :hta-chance-in-iife--He-waa-not-the | sort of man to let {t slip or'to work merely in behalf of n Governar. The Governor, suspecting something of Cortez's plans, sent after his to recall the little army tention to the recall; jmaginary) reward, pressed on and landed on the‘coast of Mexico Mari , 1619, according to prophectes, was one day to rule them. They at first sent him s{{ts and peaé embassies. ‘From. the envoys Cortez learued that Mexico wassan !mmense, treasure-filled empire,-riled by one Montezuma, and that (thé Emperor's riches were beyond all computation. This ws enough for Cortez. He did not long continue his policy of pacifying his awed oppo- nents. The fron hand quickly showed whder the velvet glove. sain re- sorting to-“bluff,"-he- exst-away all final traces of allegiance to Re Gov- ernor of Cuba and declared his Intention of annexing Mexico to the aya throne. In other words, with 700 men to overwhelm a country with a pop ulation of many milllons. He bullt the town of Vera made if sol {ts Governor-General, burned his ships in order to cut o hance of “j treat by" the” or dle. He won over to himsblf several caclques (princes) ¥ a with Montezuma. By supertor generalship 2s well as by the fright | by his canton and horses and the natives’ Lcllef in his diy | filght such armies as were sent to check him. With trul ho put to death all who stood in his way and at last (N tered the City of Mexico ht the head of his Spanta alfics. Montezuma received him with-the bellef thr But suddenly affairs toAy-a turn for the worse. Saud the li 2. | Several his renters | killed in a fight and the head of one of them was hrourht Mordor, | The Mexfcans thus saw that thelr visitors were noc pods but mere | | adventurers, Cortez gave the amazed natives no time to act Now came the supreme “bluff” of-the man who stood almost dicue. |p | hostile land. He selzed Montezuma, burned alive the Mexican soldic had slain his-men, threatened to kill the imprisoned Emperor ux ‘ latter woyld acknowledge himself the new Moc re } A Sensatlonal Change of Fortune, Governor of Cuba had sent a larger exp “s yw tion to arrest Cortez and carry him Cuba_by force, Ho. attacked and defeated tao Governor's troeps- ands forced the soldiers of the beaten expedition {0 servo unde The Mexicans. now ese 2a one man_asainst tho tuvaders,— Mon: was promptly ‘killéd, but Cortez was driven from the City of Mexico. Ent when the Mexicans pursued the retreating Spaniards Cortez drew them into ®. larger army of natives who by fear or cupldity were tempted to ‘join him, Cortez ravaged the surrounding country and in the next summer rocaptured) the City of Mexico. This completed the conquest. Success such as few men have known, and against seemingly hopeless odds, crowned Cortez's campaign. Charles V., King of Spain and Emperor of Germany, allawed thi eral of Mexico. % court. Charges-of- cruelty and-alleged. maladministration were trumped -up- He pressed his explorations, and in 1536 he discovered California. At last, shorn of most of his honors, he was forced to go to Spain, there to oppose his enemles In person. ‘But Charles V., whose mind had been polsoned. against lis brave servant, received him coldly. Neglected, chagrtined, {l= treated, the conqueror of Mexico finally-went once more to the Emperor to- demand recress. = “Who is this person?” asked Charles V,, looking on him without appar ent recognition. - po Sian the than your father left you towns!” This daring reply, robbed Cortez of his last chince of court favor. He withdrew to his country seat and there died, in 1547, alone and: heart- standing out through-all-times-as-a_pathetic example of the anality of royal gratituilé. : = WHO MADE HISTORY the | Mayor of Ssntingp, | ertior of Cuba to put him in charge of en ex Pedition to invade that great country, Onos: It'is probable the Cuban of Spain fand’ pay an enormous ranse. ve i gold and jewels. News now came that ile iybretorted Cortez, *who-has-won-for-you more provinces— broken, leaving -a—name—unequalled—for—daring~and— resourcefulness and— i cs for, In attacking a nation .of almost un | : Quest, and he had not oyermuch trust jn tho ‘solf-contident young leader. ies and ordered him under arrest.’ Cortez pald no at— but, winning over his troops by promises of a great (if | ‘ He marched along the gulf and stormed: the important town of, Tobasco, the roar of his small cannon scaring ‘the natkres into submission...-* The Aztecs: (original inhabitants of Mexico) had never seen sailing ships, 4 horses ‘or flrearms before, Ther thought Cortez was the White God who,. -atrap and July 7, 1520, routed them with <orriblo slaughter. —_Then,-raising—a-—— j Mexican treasure sent him by the conqueror to outwefgh the charges drawn/ up by the Governor of Cuba and made Cortez a Marquis and Governor-Gen-+ S5it} a4 But the hero's triumph excited the envy of his enemies at the Spanish!" ngitinst him, For_a thine Cotez stood out ngfinst this growing 1 nfluence..; MILL ‘ON GOOD GOVERNMENT. HE reason for which government ertsts ts that one man, if stronger EE than another, wlll take from him whaterer that other possesscs an: he desires, But {f one man sctll do (hia, so tolll several, And if powers are put into the hands of a comparatively small nurder, called an Aristocracy—porers shich make them stronger than the Pest of the community—they sill take from the rest of the community as much as they please of the olijects of desire, They will thus dejeat the very end for which government was instituted. The uufitness, therefore, of an Gristocraop to, be intrusted'with the powers of government reata on demonstration, : AS PTS “_Oddest Strike on Record. DD asthe London music hall strike may seer, there ts an e¢on ofder one O {n Switzerland, in tho cwRton of Geneva. Some parts of the canton infested with vipers,-o-much-so-that-viper-lilllng laa regular calling and In toctowed BY Aderable number of perkons. A reward of 20 cents for every viper, kjjled used to be given by the Department of Justice and Police, whica has these reptiles In charge, but lately the department lowered the reward to 10 cunts. But the viper-killers objected, as they truly sald that their calling had got no jess dangerous, and so they went out on atiike. As long as the disputh insta people are advised not to walk in the woods near Genova. Bullet-Proof leather: : MILANESD barrister, Signor Amedo Bucci, has invented @ flexible fabric, A able to plerce. Recently, writes our Rome correspondent, ‘Bignor Dict. : made a tour around a large aquare in Romo with a motor car, the tires of whiche “Dear Children; Itis . PA-PLER MACHE PROPRER-TY SAFE. had been-covered with the fabric: Nalls of large dimension were stuck In thi: ground point upward, and thy.car passed over them without damaging tho rubber: tires.. Later on the inventor) called on the Minister of Marine, who personally experimented on @ piece of fabrio, which he w to perforate’ ay Oty i somewhat resembling leather, which no bullet or hard steel instrument fy 7 i it i