Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-08-11
MAY BEAT MILLER AND RANDALL

why the Board Of Assessors has been SO
lcnicnt with the loan sharks who have
no trouble in getting along and who
get 10 per cent. for their money every
day in the week.
These business men, many of whom
are burdened with debt, but who at the
same time are heavily taxed. will ask
Mr.. Miller and Mr.. Randall few
questions at the polls.
The Democratic party of Cook Coun-
ty, which does not approve of loan
sharks or their methods, will ask
Messrs. Randall and Miller why the
following concerns, reveling In wealth,
were allowed to escape SO lightly:
Louis Weber, pawnshOp, 341 South
Clark street.
Weber Brothers, pawnshop. 100
South Clark street.
Jake Weber, salaried loans, 343 South
Clark street.
Hank Weber, salaried loans, 343
South Clark street
Louis Weber, salaried loans. 3i3
South Clark street.
Dave Weber. salaried loans, 13O
South Clark street.
Max Weber, salaricd loans, 100
South Clark street.
Chicago Credit Company. salaried
loans, Washington and LaSalle streets.
Louis Weber, money loaner. F.5t
Grand boulevard.
Weber Merchandise and Supply Co.,
dealers In policemen's uniforms, police
helmets, ETC., etc., 345 South Clark
street.
And they will also ask Messrs. Ran.
dali and Miller to explain why the
schedules Of these men were accepted
without question. and II they are false
why they were not sent to the grand
jury.
Other business men, including some
Of our best citizens, have been hauled
up, Inundated, exposed and harassed
by the Board of Assessors, and have
been taxed to the full limit ON their per
sonal property, much Of which had q
ficeting value.
But the Weber gang who deal In
money and never let 20 Of 1t except to
get 1t back with 10 per cent. additional
added to It, schedule all told $4,000 In
1890, and the complacent Board Of As
SCISSORS let's 1t go Mt that.
The people are not fools.
They are asking questions.
How do the Webers get or so lightly
on their taxes?
That's what many people would llk,
to know.
In looking over last years published
lists we find that Sam Richardson, tn,
loaner, paid taxes on personal propert,
worth $4,000; that the Chicago LoaI
Company, of 100 La Sale street, pale
on $4,000 worth Of personal property
, and that several other loan people pait
even more.
But we find that Louis Weber onl!
paid on $11,4OO at 341 South Clarl
street, and on 81 800 ut 345 South Clarl
street.
What do you think Of that?
The name "LOuis Weber" covers ,
number Of Webers who are In the loan
Ing business.
1t Is the firm name for them all.
Their headquarters are ut 341 to 34I
South Clark street, where they have
A pawnshop.
A police helmet shop.
A police uniform establishment and
The biggest police and public EN-
plOyes' lOaning business In the city.
What are the Assessors about?
Who swore to this schedule?
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So the Webers have but Sl4,5oO II
personal property ut 34l to 345 soutl
Clark street?
Mind you. this S1i,5OO covers notes
mortgages, jewclry, stock, uniforms
assignments Of salaries, etc, ETC., etc
What farce!
But this is not all.
Dave" Weber and his right bower
Sam Kanter, do business under the fir
name of the "Chicago Credit Con
pany."
The Chicago Credit Company is bus
from morning until night maxim
loans.
1t is a big cog in the municipal loa
crank.
And how much do you suppose tina
the Dave Weber-Sam Kanter cOncer
turned In its assets as worth?
Just Sj4O last year.
This year, nothing.
II this isn't a roaring, undigeste
farce, what Is?
What sort OF Board Of Assessor
have we to permit loan sharks to OF
cape so lightly while business men ar
heavily taxed?
The lists will be carefully examine
In other cases of sharks, but these fie
ures, taken from the printed lists, ar
sufficient to show that 'there Is some
thing rotten in Denmark"
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Mr.. Jim Grow was fatally shot i
Kentucky the other day. His name !
the only unusual thing connected wit
the proceeding.
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10 the Weber gang going to b
permitted to tie up salaries IN tn'