Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-04-11

when received and dispatched, the
exact time is noted upon it, and no
one, no matter from or to whom sent,
can obtain precedence over an earlier
one"
Progressive income tax has been es-
tablished. The tax is Cd on the pound
(12 cents on S4.s5) for the first tax
able 1000 pounds (that is the first
1000 pounds after deducting 300
pounds plus life insurance premiums
up to so pounds a year, which
amounts are exempt). On any excess
above the first taxable 1000 pounds
the tax is one shilling in the pound.
To establish and maintain a living
wage, and to secure just settlement of
disputes between employers and en-
ployes, compulsory arbitration was
adopted several years ago and has
worked so well that even the employ
ers are now largely favorable to it
because it gives them certainty, peace
and protection against the cutting of
wages by unscrupulous rivals. There
have been no strikes nor lockouts in
New Zealand since this law went into
effect about five years ago.
Public employment agencies have
been established in recognition of the
right to work.
The eight-hour day has been made
the legal working day in New Zealand.
There are no spoils of Office. The
civil service rules include all officials
except members of the cabinet. and
judges of the highest courts.
Nominations are made by the peo-
pie directly through petitions signed
by the requisite number of voters in
nomination and election the candi-
dates go about the district meeting
groups of voters face to face and an
swering the questions that are freely
and earnestly put to them. The result
of this system and the civil service
rules is that partisanship has far less
hold in New Zealand than in America.
and that political "rings" and ''bosses"
are unknown. In the republic of New
Zealand the common people are more
truly represented in the government
than is the case in most of our states.
In 1893 New Zealand gave women
| the right to vote on the same terms
as men, and Mr.. Lloyd says the women
| do vote in larger proportion than the
| men.
| The net results have been the diff
| fusion of wealth, elevation of labor,
purification of government, substan-
| tial freedom from the evils of pri.
vate monopoly, wonderful prosperity
and the turning of the tide of popu-
lation from the city to the country
The holdings of land have increased 6f
per cent, while population has riser
81 per cent. Instead of one man il
four being a holder of farming land
as was the case ten years ago, on,
man in every two is now such
holder. The employment agencies
cooperative public works. nationa
railways, telegraphs, land laws, pro
gressive taxation of incomes, tn,
eight-hour day and compulsory arbi
tration have done much for the ele
vation of labor and the equalization
of wealth. Better industrial condi
tions, civil service reform, woman suf
frage and direct nomination by tn,
voters have gone far toward achiev
ing a really honest and efficient gov
ernment by and for the people. 4
government that legislates for mar
and not for the dollar; that Judge.
the desirability of laws by their effec
on the great body of the people rather
than by their effect on capital: tha
aims to free from every burden th,
wealth it is good for man to possess
and put the burdens on overwealth
that aims to solve and has gone fal
toward solving the all-important prob
lem of the just distribution of wealth
and the equalization of opportunity
education, power and comfort.-Ad
vance Sheets from Henry d. Lloyd
new book. "Newest England"