Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-09-02
BREWERS MUST PAY Big TAX
In Order that the Notorious Gas Trust
May Be Let OF Very
Lightly.
Its Assessment Was ScandaIousIy Low
Under the Old System that Was
Wiped Out,
But 1t Is Lower This Time than It
T. Has Been for Several
Years.
The Gas Trust Owns sixty.eight Million Dol.
lars in Assets in This
City.
Il Earned Over Two Millions Of Big Golden
Dollars Net Over All Ez.
penSeS,
And Yet the Assessors Gould Only Find One
Million One Hundred Thousand
Dollars
, To Charge Up Against This Aggregation Of
Wealth and Capital Banded
for Spoil
Business Men Would Like to Know why They Are
Hounded for a Full valu-
alton,
When This Notorious Octopus Can Buy Immunity for
Itself from Paying Just
Taxes.
To Charge Up Against This Aggregation Of
Wealth and Capital Banded
for Spoil
Business Men Would Like to Know why They Are
Hounded for Full Valu-
ation
When This Notorious Octopus Can Buy Immunity 10,
Itself from Paying Just
Taxes.

How much did 1t cost?
The Peoples Gas Light and Coke
Company has been at 1t again?
1t has had Its assessment reduced,
while that Of everybody else In Chi
cago has been raised.
Merchants and clerks,
Poor and rich,
Brokers and manufacturers,
Grocers and doctors,
High and low,
All have been raised ana the daily
press has been bounding the Assessors
into seeking 1t to every poor man In the
community.
But not one word has been uttered
or enc protest recorded against the
crime OF the year-the lowering Of the
taxes Of the notorious Gas Trust.
The Gas Trust does as 1t pleases.
1t tears up the public streets just
after the taxpayers have been mulcted
to pave them, and 1t Is not charged
dollar.
1t charges the city for $50 street
lamps which are never lighted. and
nothing Is said.
1t violates the antitrust law and II
Is unheeded.
1t charges the people 200 per cent.
more than 1t ought to for gas, and they
have no remedy.
And now It shows the new Revenue
Law to be farce, for 1t bids open de-
flance to II, by openly securing reduc'
ti0n Of its taxes, while everyone else
II raised.
The official statement of the Peoples
Gas Light and Coke Company pub
llshed in the Economist of May Q. 1900,
gave the net assets of the Peoples Gas
Light ana Coke Company at $0S,5s5,-
500.
Yet the Assessors found only 81, 1OO,.
600 worth Of property belonging to 1t.
The president of the Peoples Gas
Light and Coke Company at Its last
annual meeting, proudly announced
that the net earnings of the Peoples
Gas Light and Coke Company, over
and above all expenses, for 1893
amounted to $2,OOO,OOO.
Net earnings, mind you!
away $2,O0O,OO0 In net earnings last
year, aud which has sos, 5S5, 800 worth
of assets, according to the official state
ments of its Offices, has only $1,1OO,00O
to tax, according to the Assessors!
Shame upon such Assessors!
They are disgrace to the community
and deserve cOndign punishment ut the
hands Of an outraged people.
Just Assessors, fOrsO0th!
They make the Lehman estate, which
Is worth $4,000 900, pay as much taxes
as this scOundrelly trust, which Is
worth $6S,OOO,OOO.
They make Marshall Field and every
other merchant pay. big and full
tax on full valuation.
Marshall Field does not maintain q
bribery bureau.
Every labOring man who has plano
for his daughter has to pay tax ON IT.
Every struggling rent paying citizen
who Is living from hand to mouth hal
to pay tax on the full valuation of hii
property.
But the corrupt Gas Trust knows til
business. 1t has an advantage ovel
other people.
Who Is the fellow in the Assessors
office with the itchy palm?
The people win ask this question
with a voice of thunder one of these
days and all the bride money ever pale
out by tho Gas Trust win not save thu
culprit from bis just fate. 4
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