St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-18

I, meaning of the term Each country
adopts the classification 1t chooses.
The United States classes the income
tax as an indirect tax, and France
places imposts upon direct taxes. while
Prussia terms the inheritance an indi-
rect tax. All taxes are betrayed by
! income. Call 1t a tax on consumption.
as tariff. or direct tax, as on land
or personality. or an income tax as one
on net receipts, and still each and all
OF them are paid in the first instance
out OF the income of the payer. The
exemption of incomes below $4,000 does
not impair its uniformity any more
lnan the customary exemption by the
states or a certain amount of property
OF OF lnher1tances violates the iniunc-
tloh or uniformity in their constitu-
ions. His argument for the Justice
OF the tax might have been strength
eheu py showing that in one way or
anotner the bulk of the income taxes
are derived from business nearly or
remotely privileged by the govern
ment. The use of the power of emil
nent domain. the grant of subsidies
either in land or bonds, furnish the
basis of fortunes made in RAILWAYS.
the shelter from competition given by
the tariff marks another class of gov
ernment-made fortunes: those derived
from patents form another. None of
these contribute directly to the sup
port of the government, and if now
the income derived is taxed it is but
partial return for privileges received.
one outcome of this growing convic-
tlon that the wage theory is unsound
and unjust and that the Iaborer is en-
Titled to larger share of the product
than is determined by the competition
OF wage earners, as we'll as being a
practical admission by employers of
the justice of the claim, is this sharing
OF the profits with the workmen of
winch Prof. Blackmar gives 1.-TWO Ex-
ampies of Successful Profit Sharing"
lie describes the development of the
plan under experiments in the Proctor
& Gamble soap factory near Cincin-
natl, and in the n. o. Nelson Co. in
LIE Claire, Ill. In the latter plan one
tenth OF the profits was set aside for
reserve fund to meet losses of had
years, one-twentieth for an educational
tund and one-tenth for a proyident
tund, though later the last allotments
were abolished and an appropriation
made for whatever was needed. The
remaining profits are divided so as to
give per cent dividends on wages IN
each per cent given capital. There
are other interesting features of this
company's dealings with its men. the
method of providing them homes.
schools, and the manner in which the
relations of employer and employe are
Kept in touch by committees of each.
Whatever of sentiment there is I'm II
is In the idea of sharing profits and the
betterment of the relations of capitaI
and labor, but sentiment is reduced to
and controlled by business ideas and
methods.
Henry Holt continues his papers on
The Social Discomfort: Some Rene
dies by admitting that no remedy ia
going to satisfy everyone, and that
ne cannot see any remedy that Salts
fies him. II do not believe that there
is any immediate remedy; II has taken
millions of years for Nature to evolve
man as he is and society as ii is, and.
regret 1t as we may, there is no more
reason to believe that now, all of a
sudden, men are going to become ca
pable, or enjoy the results of capabil-
lty, than that they are all at once to
beeome strong and beautiful and en-
JOY the results of strength and beauty:
ana there is no clearer way to dis
tribute evenly one set of results than
the other. The same processes of
development that have raised the race
so far must be trusted to carry 1t far
Their In due time, and meanwhile
sight must not be lost of the fact that
there Is progress and that 1.-The work.
lngman is easily three, probably four.
times as rich as he was fifty years
ago." More than half this is in in
crease of wages, the rest in decreased
cost of what he buys. The condition
OF the working woman is even better
than this. But because this has been
the case, Mr.. Holt does not argue that
nothing should be done to accelerate
the pace, and he proceeds to note
those ways in which the evolutionary
process can be facilitated. A restraint
OF what may be termed the ferocity
or competition, which leads producers
TO crush competitors from much the
same spirit that leads men to slaugh-
ter game they cannot eat; the re-
straint of trades unions within their
ayowed policy of peaceful strikes; the
practice of cooperation, developing
what Malloch terms Ability in the
workers; and last, not least, eduea-
ton; education in sociology, econom-
les, politics, government. civics, given.
not in colleges and universities, but in
common schools, In trade and manual
training schools, and the studies
trades unions might inaugurate; edu-
cation as a developer, not as a cram
ming process. p s.