New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-24
PROBLEM OF TAXATION.

The ease with which estate and the difficulty
with which other forms of property can be reached
for taxaoP of STATE and local eovernmen
For Twenty-Five years the Republican party in
e an 1fN the three great acts which in that time
It has placed upon the pqokS
seemed TO have rendered the solution final and
mat passed and generally Republican Governor
who signed these important statutes and the acts
PT Iaei true that no dollar revenue for State
baF been Worked out with much difficulty and often
in the face of bitter Democratic opposition
versally approved, which. after paying 100000
into the state Treasury supplies to the cities and
obtained under the license system. was enacted
AFTER 1se s n the face Of their 6rea H9
"a repeal it. The first collections from corporations
for han ] q Today wnR yesf 6
no dollar OF Gapa in an neorpo
as is engaged in manufacture The same intelli-
fsri o legislation has controlled its treatment Of
or Pas BEEN en- fhs State d of
and promote them e ana by the first
Gste was the response the Governors wise and
liberal o. that the first
of three times as much capital in manufacturing
previous year The receipts from corporations for
the fiscal year about to close will reach 5000 60o
has annually Increased from less than 100000 to
more than A'gNp ana the enormous sum of
years from these Republican WIS for the na ,welIt
of State expenses 10 the direct relief the burden
repeat that these are Republican laws-RAn,,b-
lican in conception Republican in enactment pup
so far the best results concerned Pen 1ri,
lican in execution 1t necessary for tbe tIa+
Democratic State government n6twit @ I ,fst
some help from these Republican laws and aI
though our exper ses then Were far less than the
have become since the State assumed the care ' Of
10Ic0.G0 from taxes real estate and even them
the Treasury was charged with deficit So Prov
ton in public expenditure. and thorOuph bS.
neen MS enforcement OF these three great taxing
Of liquor, that when, a year from now the 600 >
9 OF appropriations by the last legislature
an unexpended balance in excess of S. 600 COO 'uS
Inc signal service which Governor Odeu has
legitimate expense of State government with thn
st CI P1ig iair and proper economy can be
the farm owners the house owners and tbe -
PAYERS OF any community. and without wing barj
erty, 1t is true that ne inherited from his ~ Rp
Puohcah Predecessors many of the conditions which
teihgent and farseeing statesmanship of The Pn
bT I4 legislature twenty years ago began them
since met has extended them added to them mas
nStrs mem But with this how money from
same h also tendency toward extravaganza toward
p ng IgtIheanon OF government bureaus and de-
system OF government All Of these evils Gdvernor
He has kno 9incK WIN stern and unyieding force
MG is and he has permitted it to cost no more
tees Of the legislature to prevent 5n ene commit
pToptla uons and when that did not suf1ice he Sas
his veto. He has known what bures po over or
H rs were doing good work and what were nor
wisely be consolidated or othepW;sa brnnpbt nm NJ
i' WIFE Ioys, and less expensive operation
MINI he has made what arrou1Ys RI q seua-aS an
srsion OF the methods and machinery of State gov
'lAu with The imposing result that more