New-York tribune., 1906-11-01
TIE EQUITABLE
TRUST COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
Fifteen Nassau Street
C,uital. S 100000
Surplus and Profits. 10. 100000

following: your rent has gone up. and it
Will go up again more than once If you don't
vote to teke part of the load off the homes.
As long the Streetcar Trust the Gas
Trust and other criminal corporations dodge
their taxes real estate must pay the whole ex-
penses of the government. and the man who
pays the rent pays the tax real estate be-
sides the landlords profits"
Now, what do you think of that? That's in
''The Evening Journal Now, THE Evening
Journal is published by the New York Even
ing Journal Publishing Company, and that
corporation was assessed for the year 1906 at
100000. And thereupon, on February 2S.
1906, Clarence j. Shearn, as the secretary of
that corporaton-not to say corporation lawyer
presented a petition to the Board Of Taxes
and Assessments to have that assessment re-
EIseu ana corrected. ANA an alhdaNII was put
in which my opponent did not swear to, and
Mr. Shearn did not answer TO, but an employe
did swear to, and that showed this:
1OS9O
Indebtedness. S219.o3521
So, of course, if it had been liquidated Feb
ruary 2S, 1906. and it had realized the full
value of all its property, according to the
estimate in that affidavit, and it had dis
went it would still have owed $4,000 and
on that statement it got rid of its taxes and
assessments and put this burden upon the
home and raised the rent.
Yet, despite its miserable financial condition
last February it has been going on in busi-
ness uninterruptedly and is now giving away
papers all over the state
As to THE New York American" which Is
publishd by the Star company. I can find no
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yet TO hear word from my opponent that ii
pays dollar for the support of the city govern
@ @nent and yet we read in the paper about the
streetcar trust and the gas trust and other
criminal corporations that dodge their taxes
ana put the burden upon real estate and raise
If mans desire to serve the public is not
strong enough in matters of his own business
% over Whlch ne has control. to render to the pub
nc nc thal Whlch is due to the public in return
for its protection, and he departs from the line
- ~ Pupmc duty to serve his private interests,
now VIII you be sure that there will he no an
peal to self-interest or no vanity or ambitian
which viii defect him from the path of OFFICIAL
government? VI
Ihe part where Mr. Hughes showed the
evasion of Mr.. Hearst on the tax lodging oues
uon was received with particular enthusiasm
But when the speaker came to his declaration
that he did not seek the nomination and that it
came, as he believed, from demand of all tho
people 1t seemed as though the sides Of the audi
torium might be ripped out with the volume of
the noise.
Meantime, hurried arrangements had been
made to open up the City Hall for an overflow
meeting and nearly thousand of the thou
SANDS on the outside Of the Alhambra had gone
there There are only two small passenger ele-
vators and most Of those who wanted to hear
Mr.. Hughes had to toll up four long flights of
stairs. 1t was estimated that If there had been
another auditorium the ground floor as large
as the Alhambra it might have been filled Mr.
Hughes was enthusiastically received by the seq
ond audience when he arrived at O'Clock. He
repeated some Of the most effective parts of the
Alhambra speech.
Over the entrance to the City Hall was an cleo
trio sign bearing this inscription: Syracuse bids
you welcome"
Chairman Shanahan of the county committee
said after the meetings that there was no doubt
in his mind that Onondaga would give Mr.
Hughes more than its normal Republican plural
ity, which is in the neighborhood of $500
NJ. z. HAVEN GREETS CANDIDATE.
A reception was given to Mr.. Hughes at the
Vanderbilt Hotel at 430 o'clock In half an
hour he met and shook by the hand over fvs
hundred persons. The lobby was packed. and