Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-16


his anatomy. Whitelaw Reid, who
will have to pay an income tax as big
as the Presidents salary, said not long
ago that he was glad to get 70 week
as correspondent OF a Cincinnati news
paper, and John Wanamaker, another
of these big income tax payers, began
life by working for 1925 week. Phil.
Armour will pay a tax on millions.
He worked hard in the mines of Cal.
ifornia to get his start, and he knows
the exact value OF the tens Of thou
sands OF dollars which he will have 70
pay. 1t is the same with dozen other
rich men whom l could mention.
They all began at the bottom and the
most of them will realize the value OF
the money they will have to give up.
A few OF them will, venture, lie
about it, and say that they make less
than they do, but many of them will
be honest and turn in to Uncle Sam a
fair account of their profits and their
losses.
1t will be the same with professional
men. The best brain and the most
skilled fingers of the United States will
be affected by this tax. There are
a number OF lawyers in New York who
make many times $4,000 year, and
there are railroad officials, editors and
bank presidents in all the big cities
who receive fortunes for their work.
George B. Roberts, President Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, is
said to receive $4,000 a year as his
salary, and Chauncey Depew receives
Q like amount. Both of these men
have big estates outside Of their sal
aries, but on their salaries alone they
will pay 81 ,OOO to Uncle Sam, and the
same will be the case with number
OF other high-salaried men. The Pres
lident of the Western Union Telegraph
Company is said to receive $4,000 q
year. The President of the Equitable
Life Insurance Company gets like
amount, and he is poor bank presi-
dent who does not receive as much as
the Chief Justice of the United States.
Bob Ingersoll is supposed to make
100000 year out of his law practice
and lecturing. He ought to pay g..
900 of q tax. George Hoadley prob
ably makes $4,000, and it is said that
Bourke Cochran still gets the same
amount out of his practice. I know q
lawyer IN New York who made about
$25 600 last year, and who gets big
salary from a corporation, and is paid
in addition 500 q day whenever he is
away from the city on business for it.
It is the came with doctors. There
are said to be hundred doctors in
New York wto make $4,000 year
and upward, and it is said that DIR.
Weir Mitchell once refused fee OF
$25, 900 to go over to Europe and back
on the next steamer to pay a single
medical visit. There are more than
20 doctors in New York who make
over $40, 900 year, and nearly every
profession has its $4,000 men. Even
the preachers will have to pay income
taxes. DR.. T. Dewitt Talmage will
pay $l60 out OF the salary he gets from
the Brooklyn Tabernacle, and the as
sessment on the remainder Of his in.
come will call, 1 venture, for $500
more. DIR. Morgan Dix will be asked
for $500, and DR.. Robert Collyer will
give Uncle Sam like amount. Even
the newspaper men will have to pay.
All of the big editors will be assessed,
and q number Of the literary men.
w. d. Howells will probably give at
least $500 out OF his income to the
United States treasury. John Brisben
Walker will be one whose income
taxes will run into the thousands, and
Mark Twain will shell out several
times as many gold dollars as he made
during the days VIXEN he worked for q
living as a newspaper correspondent
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Among the people upon whom this
tax will most heavily fall will be the
rich women of the United States.
Their incomes are better known than
those OF the men, and the widows of
our millionaires, the exact amount Of
whose estates have been told in the
courts, will be assessed at per cent
OF all they receive over this $4,000.
Mrs. Stanford will have to pay many
thousands every year. Mrs. Senator
Hearst will annually pay fortune to
the government, and Mrs. Zach Chan
dler will be called upon for a large
amount. Every one has heard OF the
great wealth OF Mrs. Hetty Green.
She is said to be worth $50, 600, 600,
and At 6 per cent her income from
this must be $l.S0O.OO0 = year. At
this rate she will pay $4,000 in taxes
Miss Mary Garrett, OF Baltimore. will
be another ls.ge taxpayer, and there
are women in Washington who could
buy diamond necklaces out of the
amounts they will have to pay if this
bill passes.
Made the Judge Apologize.
Apology preceded compromise and
an end has been put to q .rike inau-
gurated several months ago by an as
sociation of lawyers against the court
which during that time had been ne
cessarily closed. In the city Of Riom,
Auvergne, France, a judge improperly
tpootad ol, I.a natlaon