The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-25

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Criticism on the Last School District
Meeting'-Yale Should Pay Taxes-In-
stitution of No Value to the City.
An audience Of about $50 was pres
ent in st. Aloysius hall on Meadow
street yesterday afternoon to hear An
thony Carroll lecture. The subject Of
the lecture was cause of the General
Increase of Taxation and Criticism on
the Last School District Meeting" Mr..
| Carroll in opening his lecture said:
with your kind permission, before
proceeding to discuss the subject which
is advertised for discussion desire and
deem it my duty to make the following
statement of facts, to wit:
First wish to say that / propose
to discuss this subject with frankness
of expression and firmness of convic-
| tion, and all the surrounding circum-
| stances which l may have occasion to
refer to will be beyond all doubt fair
| just, true, honest and without fear of
contradiction, and as charitable as
truth will permit. I will further state
| that have motive in view and what
that motive is and the consideration
attached thereto 1 will leave 1t to you
| for Judgment.
II will proceed with the said men
| toned subject which is first-the cause
| of the general increase of taxation;
| second-criticism on last school district
| meeting. I mean to be understood by
| this first statement that the increase
of taxation of our city, which is known
| by the name of the city of New Haven,
| is unfair, unjust and dishonesty i'm
posed on a certain class of the COM
munity
'I wish to say the word taxpayer
| according to the English language
| means a person who pays toward the
support of the government. The causes
| of unjust and unfair taxation of any
government are due to dishonesty and
| corruption of officials of the govern
| ment and their political friends, suck
| ers, henchmen, heelers, etc.
First, I will refer to money spent on
| the improvement of New Haven har-
Dor. Second, l will refer to money spent
| on the New Haven and Derby railroad
Third, will refer to assessments, etc,
| relative to horse railroad companies
and others.
millions of dollars have been spent
on the improvement of the so-called
New Haven harbor but for all this no
one yet knows where the New Haven
harbor is. What properly ought to be
called New Haven harbor is owned by
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad company. Part of that
money spent on the harbor comes from
the national government and part from
the city, but no matter where 1t comes
from, we have no New Haven harbor,
and the money spent to improve the
harbor was not spent to benent the citi-
zens of New Haven.
MANY of the mayors of New Haven
had been interested in the. New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad, and
some were interested In the Derby rail-
road. Mayor Lewis and the rest Of
those citizens connected with the Derby
road were in the chamber of commerce
and the chamber of commerce was back
of that matter as it is back of every
thing. 1t was back of the paving with
asphalt A prominent member of the
chamber of commerce went around
some years ago lecturing on what q
necessity the Derby railroad was, but
when the road became a paying invest
ment he took an active part in selling
1t out
"They wouldn't take an offer of $780,
900 from the New York and New Ha-
ven road for the Derby road, but a
few years later Colonel Stevenson
made $780, 900 out of the DEAL by which
he disposed of the Derby road to the
New York and New Haven road.
'I believe in taxing all land and the
improvements thereon, such as Yale
college, which has all the most valuable
part of the city taken up and pays no
taxes. I claim that the college is no
benefit to the city of New Haven, for
this reason-it is no benefit financially;
1t has money out at loan and pays no
tax on it. A delegation from the col
lege attends town meetings whenever
it has any scheme to put through, as,
for example, the last town meeting held
in Lincoln rink. I don't care whether
it is a hoodlum or a professor who tries
to shut off an American citizen from
his rights One is as censurable as the
other. and injured ones should have
some redress"
Mr.. Carroll then referred to all the
big corporations in the city, including
the New Haven Gas company and the
street railway companies. He said:
1--WE get no revenue from them, but it
has cost the city $4,000 at least to pay
bills for removing snow and the unpaid
assessments for laying pavements, etc.
Mayor Farnsworth a short time ago
brought up a bill against a street rail-
way company that had been outlawed
The street railway companies used to
claim that they were too poor to pay
taxes, and yet one of the roads was
sold a short time ago for $225, ,000-$225,- -
600 for franchise of no use!"
Mr. Carroll next turned to the city
government and spoke especially of the
large amount of unpaid taxes. He re-
ferred to the city year book for last
year and stated that it showed that
$23, 900 remained unpaid in taxes and
assessments for pavements. He said:
How much did it cost the city to run
the tax commission to try to find how
much in unpaid taxes was due to the
city of New Haven? Yet the commits
sion didn't find out, although it spent
over a year in looking into the mat
ter
1.-The bills sent in to the city are
Jumped and are not properly ftemlzed;