Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-05
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further. A man has no right to put several hundred dollars into tombstone. If he does let it pay taxes. Then it will before long be taken out of the cemetery and put where it will earn the taxes. What right any man can have to burn gunpowder for fun, or spend his money in any other way that does not show something to tax, is difficult to see. It is well in considering these questions not to be led too far by the ideas of those noisy declaimers who really are hostile to all ac- cumulation and encourage Communism.
 Once in the history of this town it was very desirable that certain sklilful physician should settle here. He was doubtful about being supported. The town voted him house and lot, to be free from taxes as long as he stayed So much property was taken out of the tax list but doubtless the public were well repaid by the indirect benefit of keeping considerable number of live Yam kees in the tax list The exercise of siIni- lar spirit of iberality in public matters mas often been beyond question most economi- cal measure, within the highest duty of the government.
 Let me take an instance which comes es- peciaIly home to us here in New Haven. The men whose examples and principles gave form to our great government and made IL truly free were thoroughly imbued with the notion that people to remain free must be educated. So they founded Yale College, and as special encouragement they put lnto it's charter that 1t should be free from taxa tion Perhaps they did not under stand the true principles of justice as well as some of our contemporaries
 But passing by the unquestionable fact that there is not an honest citizen of this repub- lie who is not receiving almost direct pene. fits from the teachings of Yale, let us look at it's benefits to our city. The instruction IS so cheap as to be within the reach of any man who can earn his living or get trusted kbro vi. fn State and to the nation many of the finest intel lects which have adorned our history and shaped our destiny. Under this simple en- couragement the institution has grown until it numbers thousand pupils, bringing into this town directly many hundred thousand dollars every year in cash, and indirectly by bringing families here to live and pupils to the schools, &c., bringing over S million dol lars year into the business of this town. Now let the property all be taxed at what It would be rated the meager salaries or the professors would have to be cut down or we should have fewer of them. If the salaries were put lower, then more of them would yield to the temptation to leave. The ex- penses of the students must be increased,- thus cutting of some of the poorer students men who would bring renown and more students to the college as time goes on The tendency would be to cripple the college, les sen it's usefulness, lessen the attracuveness or New Haven as a place of residence, and lessen the general prosperity. It IS pertectly safe to say that there is not man 1n the town who would not lose more than he'would gain, pecuniarily, by putting all the property of Yale into the tax list even now. Then one step further Who shall measure the infi1- ence and power of Yale in the enactment of wholesome laws, in inculcating general un- derstanding of the principles of pubic ac- ton, and an intelligent support of law and in furnishing men so trained as to be trusted by the people? The men who rant about , robbery and injustice in reference to such matters are hardly safe counsellors, much less safe rulers.