The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-10-22
EQUAL TAXATION
ExP0UNDED
Lawyer Henry Condict
Shows What Hudson
Will Gain by Nh.
Blacks Plan.
ST. MIcHAEL's HALL CROWDED
Audience Applauds the Ex-
cellent Addresses OF
Treacy, Fielder
and Noonan.
ST. AalCRAEl's HALL CROWDED

and Noonan.
A great Democratic and Equal Taxa
tion meeting was held in st. Michaers
Hall, Tenth and Erie streets, last night.
Seats had been provided for only about
half the number that attended. The
hall was packed. Intelligent addresses
ON national and local issues were made
by Lawyer Henry " Condict, ASSEM-
blyman james Fielder, Lawyer john ].
! Treacy, Judge Thomas Noonan and An
| drew j. Corcoran. The latter made a
| very brief speech, because, as he said,
the people of this section are hospita-
| Bile people and believe in serving the
guests frst.i' He was the last speaker
and the hour WAS growing late, and
workingmen, who composed the bulk of
the audience, were retiring to rest for
today's toll. Mr.. Corcoran promised
that he would speak later on.
The speeches by Lawyers Condict,
Fielder. Trcacy and Noonan were intel
lectual treats. 1t must be remembered
that it was an equal taxation meeting,
but many splendid things were said by
the eloquent orators in favor of the sue
cess of national Democracy. Mr.. Con-
diet is a Republican, who is out for
Black ON the great local issue of Equal
Taxation Before he consented to speak
he had this big legend tackled up in a
conspicuous place.
Roadbeds 100000, 600. 90
| Personal property .... 25,201. .1lS. 90
franchises ...........s... 59,loasy00 w
Second CLASS property. Rs5e-o91 .oo
Hudson Comfy
Roadbeds ....,.... $21. .g23. 900 90
Second class property !. 3054t,S94. 90
Hudson receives in
taxes ...-.... 4,S l2S 81
Iotu ......... .... Szzi ,l9o, lio
Under Mr.. Blacks. plan Hudson will
receive $1,6oo.O00
| Mr.. Condict would not speak until the
| placard faced the audience. Those fig
ures were the text of the speech. He
| said he did not appeal to the audience
as Americans. Irish. German. Italian or
| any other nationality. foreign born,
| Catholic or Protestant, but all as free
! Americans. 1--WE have arrived at the
time when people are permitted to die
| tate to officials Of the State" The
question Of equal taxation he maintain
| ed. is not involved in constitutional law,
but that it was simple. 1t is merely.
the question as to whether the property
owned by you and me shall be taxed at
the same rate as that of the wealthy
railroad corporations" he said
| Mr.. Condict reviewed the history OF
| the fight for equal taxation. As Re
| publican he could not otherwise than
give the Democrats from the days of
Leon Albeit down the credit for the
great fight that has been waged in the
| interest of the people. He went back in
to history to show that as far back gas
1881 the State encouraged the
| building of railroad from New York
| to Philadelphia and how the state en-
| couraged the enterprise by exempting the
railroads from taxation. The enterprise,
said the speaker, was a great thing at
the time and should have been encour-
aged. At that time it was. like encour-
aging flying machine. The law then al
lowed farmer to drive his wagon over
the same road bed.
| Mr. Condict then reviewed the success
full career of railroading in this state. He
called attention to the fact that the
State was so filed with money from rail
road corporation tax that it .scarcely
knew how to eSpend it. He called AT
tention to Gov Werts's utterance that
this is the. richest State in he Union
and he richest government in the world,
and yet, said the speaker, the municipal
tiles of the State are SO burdened that
you gentlemen stagger under the burden
of local taxation. After explaining the
rates of taxation of RAILROADS.&C. per
$1,000 on main stem, depots, franchises.
etc, and SIS per ST. 600 on second class
property. Mr.. Condict went on TO say.
that the railroad corporations didn't care
/ a cent whether any municipality went I'M
TO bankruptcy or not. He. in most el-
oquent manner. satirized the railroad lob
byists, Of which Gabernator Candidate
Stokes was one, in their cry to the state:
10 vou want to rob the railroads. Mr..
Condief told Of the repeated efforts Of the
Democrats e bring about Equal Taxa