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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-03-28

G. j. Cutler, of Modale, was
in the Valley yesterday at
tending the Crowder funeral.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-03

All stocks OF corporations organised
under the laws Of other States than
Illinois, that are owned In Chicago, arc
taxable here.
But through some oversight Of the
Board OF Assessors and Board Of Re
view, a majority Of the most valuable
escape taxation.
The Chicago Eagle has been looking
up the facts In this matter, as It In
of paramount importance to every man,
woman and child In the city.
Already enough valuable stock In
outside corporations has been found
omitted from the tax schedules to foot
up Il good total In taxes alone Of $3O,-
100000.
Twenty millions Of dollars!
Just think Of It,
Why, that sum would buy all Of the
street railroads in Chicago, equipment
and all.
II would raise the salaries Of the
firemen of Chicago, and they ought
to be raised.
1t would raise the salaries of the
school teachers and they ought to be
raised.
IT would give US the hest lighted and
best paved and cleanest streets In the
world, and lot of other good things
besides.
The Chicago method Of taxation Is
| To take the total valuation and then
make the owner pay on one-fifth OF that
valuation.
The tax Is about 7 per cent on this
fifth.
Where taxes have not baen paid on
any foreign capital stock, the Supreme
Court has decided that the authorities
can 60 back and collect taxes for five
years.
This is where the twenty millions
will come IN.
Let us look at few corporations,
for example, and see what We can fig
ure out.
Here is foreign corporation to
commence with that We don't find on
recent tax books:
Swlft's Refrigerator Transportation
| Company, organized under the laws Of
| the State Of Maine.
Capital stock, $5yO0O,CO0.
Every cent Of this stock is owned In
this city.
How much Of 1t 10 taxed 6y tive
| Board of Review?
If, as is alleged, this stock has es-
capped taxation here, then there is due
the people from this source alone for
five years, Mt $4,000 per year, the fine
sum OF S35O,0OO, enough to raise the
salaries OF firemen and school teachers.
Under the decision OF the Supreme
Court Of Illinois, you can SO back ave
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-03

years In each and every case for back
taxes and all stock of foreign corpora.
tlons held In Illinois. Is taxable. the
rate being per cent on onc-fifth Of
the par value
Governor Denecn II now going after
tho Illinois Central Railroad for its
! back taxes for Ave years
In tnis connection he should not
overlook tho Chicago Junction Railway.
Neither should the Board Of Review.
The Chicago Junction Railway is
capitalized as follows;
Common stock, $6,6OO,O0O.
Preferred stock, $0,5OO.OOO.
Total stock value, $13,OOO.OOO.
The Chicago Junction Railway Is In
corpOrated under the laws Of the State
Of New Jersey, and every dollar of its
stock In owned In this city.
And every dollar Of 1t Ia taxable
here. Don't you forget that.
Let us see how the taxes Of the Chi.
cago Junction Railway figure up for
five years:
The tax is Z per cent on One.fifth of
the valuation.
Onc-afth of $l3,OOOOOO Is $4,000, 900,
and the taxes on this for one year
amount to $4,000.
For five years this reaches the re-
| spectacle sum of 100000.
What do you think Of that?
How many school houses would this
sum build?
How many flremen, school teachers
and policemen would 1t pay?
How many electric lights would It
put In service?
Where Ia the Board of Review?
! What is the Board OF Review going
to do about it?
The North American Transportation
and Trading Company Is capitalized
for $5,OOO,OOO.
| Let the Board Of Review get busy in
this direction and add $35OOOO more
in taxes TO the credit of the people.
The stock of the Union Stock Yards
Company of South Omaha, n Nebraska
corporation, is all owned In Chicago
and taxable here, but 1t seems, like
Others, to have been overlooked.
The Union stock Yards of South
Omaha, is corporation capitalized at
$I,3OO,OOO.
The taxes on this stock, II collected
for five years, would put $525 900 In
the peoples treasury.
Where Is the Board Of Review?
Why Is tbs concern overlooked?
Libby, McNeill & Libby Ia New
Jersey corporation capitalized at $2,-
100000.
Every dollar of 1t owned In Chicago.
The taxes on this for five years foots
up $4,000.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-03

Libby, Of Maine; John p. Squire &
Company, New Jersey corporation.
with big packing plant In Cambridge,
Mass. and branches all over New l1n.
gland; Boston Packing & Provision
Company, Of Massachusetts; New En.
gland Dressed Meat & Wool Company
OF Maine; North Packing & Provision
Company Of Maine; Sperry & Barnes
Company Of Connecticut; Sturtevant
4 Haley Of Boston; =. Merwin Com.
pany, Worcester, Mass; Springfield
Provision Company, Springfield, Mass {;
White, Percy & Dexter Company,
Worcester, Mass; Halstead 4 Com.
pany, New York; G. II. Davis & Co.,
Norwich. Conn.,; Blmbler, Van Wagen.
on & Company, Newark, New Jersey.
The capital stock of all Of the above
corporations being owned In Chicago.
Why don't the people Of Chicago get
the benefit Of It?
The Board of Review certainly ought
to get enough out Of them to enable
the city to equip good street Car line
Armour 4 Company, a big Chicago
and Illinois corporation, owns a great
deal OF stock In outside corporations.
Among others Armour Il Company
Of New Jersey.
The following taken from pages 20l
and 202 of the report of the United
States Commissioner Of Corporations,
tells us something upon this subject
''rhe New Jersey corporation was
formed for the purpose Of transacting
certain business which the Illinois
corporation was not authorized to
transact. Armour & Co. Of New Jer-
sey operates practically all the branch
houses for the sale Of beef and other
packing house products supplied by
Armour & Co. OF Illinois. 1t also owns
the Armour packing houses at Sioux
City and Fort Worth. For cOnven-
fence the accounts Of Armour & Co. Of
New Jersey are carried on the books
Of Armour 4 Co. of Illinois. 10 ascer-
tain the business transactions Of the
New Jersey corporation, 1t Is merely
necessary to take the accounts relating
to the branch houses and those relating
to the Fort Worth and Sioux City
packing houses. The company, how
ever, Is genuine one, having large
actual assets of Its own, not Il mere
paper name. 1t has no separate books
and no profits separate from those ap-
pearlng In the accounts Of Armour Il
Co. of Illinois"
After reading the above from the no
port of the United States Commissioner
of Corporations, We would like to ask
where our Board of Assessors and
Board of Review have been?
by going back for Ave years and
collecting the taxes on the stock Of this
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-03
Would Not Only Receive Just Compensation but More Schools Eect
Lights, Parks and Other Needed improvements Could Be
Secured by the City for the Peoples Benefit.
IT IS TIME FOR THE PEOPLE TO DEMAND AN ACCOUNTING

| The Kansas City Stock Yards II an
other outside corporation.
1t n from Missouri, but every dollar
Of It's $9,O0O.OOO capital . owned IN
Chicago.
We have failed to find whore the Chi
cago men who own this stock have paid
any taxes on It
The taxes on this fine bunch for five
years. II collected. would net the peo
pie OF Chicago $83OOOQ
Swift & Company, Of Illinois TINT
great corporation capitalized for $50.
600. 900. should pay taxes Oh every dol
lars worth OF stock It owns In foreign
corporations.
Has the Board of Review ever taker
any steps to ascertain how much thii
corporation or Its officers own IN cor
poratiOns outside the State?
Perhaps We may help them by quot
Ing the following list Of outside corpo
ratlOns owned by Swift & Company, OF
Illinois, according to the report of thu
United States Commissioner Of Corpo
ratiOns:
Swift & Company, OF Maine. corpo'
ration which sells the output of Swift
& Co., of Illinois, In the New England
States and parts Of New York and New
Jersey, and owns a controlling interest
In the firms of the Swift Beef Com
pany, Of Boston G. Il. and Il. c. Swift
Boston; G. i. Swift & Company, Bos
ton, and n. u. Hollis & Company, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
Swift 4 Company, Of West Virginia
which operates many branches In sew
cral different States for selling beef
pork, mutton, canned goods, ETC., etc.
Swift & Company, of New York
which controls large number OF
branch houses In the State of New
York, all doing a big business.
Swift Fertilizer Works. engaged In
manufacturing fertilizers In the State
Of Georgia.
Swift Refrigerator Transportation
Company, and Swift Live Stock Trans
portation Company, corporations OF
the State Of Maine.
Swift Beef Company, Limited, doing
business in Great Britain.
Swift Packing Company, selling
agents for Swift & Company of Iii
nols, In Germany.
Swift 4 Company Of Illinois are
said to own large blocks of stock In the
Union Stock Yards Company of Oma-
ha, the Kansas City Stock Yards Com,
pany, the Fort Worth Stock Yards
Company, the st. Joseph Stock Yards
Company, and the st. Paul Union Stock
Yards Company.
Besides the corporations already
named, the swlfts are said 10 own and
absolutely control Libby. McNeill &
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-03

foreign corporation owned In Chicago,
our hremen could have their pay dou-
bled. our school teachers could be bet
tor paid, and the city would be much
better OF.
The Board Of Review should sum-
mon the following well.known citizens
and interrogate them with reference
to the amount Of stock In foreign cor.
poratiOns owned in Chicago, which they
have knowledge Of:
]. Ogden Armour.
Louis +. Swift.
John A. SpO0r.
Laurence A. Carton.
Arthur Meeker.
Mr.. Swift ana Mr.. Armour are both
reported to he public-pirited.
They should both bc willing to help
In this matter.
They can. II they will. help a great
deal by telling the Board Of Review
what they know. .
Mr.. Armour Is a director In the e.
lowing corporations and the Board OF
Review, II 1t wishes, can ascertain how
much stock he owns In each, or what
ChicagOans do own 1t, as It 10 taxable:
Armour car lines,
Armour Grain Company.
Central Leather Company,
q. II. Hammond Company,
Hammond Packing Company,
National Packing Company,
Stut Tn
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Raii-
way Company,
Fort Worth Stock Yards Company.
Fort Worth, Texas.
Hutchinson Packing Co., Hutchinson.
Kansas
Northwestern National Fire Insur-
ance Company Of Milwaukee, Wis.
Omaha Packing Company.
Prissian National Insurance Com
pany Of Stettin, Germany.
Mr.. Louis F. Swift is a director In
the following. How much stock does
lie own? At all events he can give the
Board Of Review much valuable Infor-
matlOn:
Union Stock Yards. Chicago.
Fowler Brothers, Limited.
Libby, McNeill 4 Libby.
National Packing Company.
St Louis National Stock Yards Com.
pany.
swift's Refrigerator Transportation
Company.
Hollis Cold Storage Company.
nAA
Mechanical Manufacturing Company.
South San francisco Land & I'M
prOyement Company.
Springfield Provision Company.
Swlft's Fertilizer Works.
Western Meat Company.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-03

ton, be fined for each offense not less
than 500 nor more than 5000 and
IMPRISONED IN THE COUNTY
JAIL not exceeding one year, and shall
also be liable upon his bond to the
party injured for all damages sustain
cd by such party.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-03

The Board of Review has again fixed
S2.OTOUoo as It's estimate of the value
of the Illinois Tunnel COmpany's tangi-
blc property, on which construction
more than SlOOoo,OOO has been spent,
The supreme Court held that IT, tan
slblc property should Dee taxed adc'
puur"ly, and last years S3,Do,r0 full
valuation was an Increase from $500.
600 In 1870. The capital stock assess
iurut by the State Board of Equal!za-
ton was made $4,000 last year.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-03

Armour and Swift should take a hint
from the following concluding para
graph in an editorial in the Chicago
Daily News, July "a:
"rhe corporation counsel Is planning
to take an active part in the proceed
lngs before the board of review, with
the special purpose of dealing with tax
dodgers, AS the community has need
Of all the revenue that can rightfully
he raised from taxes, the tax doiger,
who seeks to make others pay the costs
Of government of which he has the full
benefit will receive no sympathy IL he
comes to grief at the hands of the au.
thorities."
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-03

come nearer TO bringing on a reyOlu-
tion IN Chicago than anything rhat
ever occurred here, Yct these packers
dodge" their taxes.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-03

The Goodrich Transit Company is a
corporation organized under the Laws
Of the State of Maine. Capital stock.
100000.
Every dollars worth Of this stock
owned in Chicago Is taxable here. The
Reviewers should call A. W. Goodrich
and ask him who owns it. Mr.. Good.
rich ought to know and the people want
to know
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-03

The Board OF Review should sum-
mon Messrs. Armour, Swift, Carton,
Meeker and the rest and flnd out just
how much stock OF outside companies
Is owned by their corporations
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-03
Sgll

Mr.. Armours great scheme for fllS
n,shIng heat, steam and power through
the new tunnels he has purchased, will
do much towards making the "citv
beautiful"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-03

Chapter 100, Section 800, Revised
Statutes Of Illinois, provides the fol-
lowing:
Any assessor or deputy assessor
or supervisor Of assessments or other
persons, whose duty it Is o. assess
property for taxation, or eluallze any
such assessment, who shall refuse or
knowingly neglect TO perform any duty
required OF him by law or who shall
consent 10 or connlvc at any evasion
Of the provisions Of this act whereby
any property required TO be assessed
shall be unIawfully exempted in whole
or In part, or the valuation thereof en-.
tered or set down at more or less than
s required by law, shall, upon conylc-
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-07

appointed as local conditions OF require
ments may suggest their need.
In addition to the organization Of the
wage earning women and the assistance
that we give them when they strike for
better wages and improved conditions the
league maintains as we'll a legal advice
department for the women workers who
are the victims Of accidents In factories.
Whenever an infraction Of a factory law
Is discovered this department takes the
matter up and prosecutes. Last year, with
a few exceptions. we won our cases, some
Of them peaceably, others through the ac-
ton Of the courts"
Miss Macarthur does not apparently be-
lieve in the woman who stands alone, but
she does believe in the woman who stands
side by side with the man. She pays "A
great compliment to the men who are un-
firing in their assistance to this worthy
cause at is not only the men in the labor
party in Parliament that help us, but a
great deal OF our success is due TO the
support that we receive from the unions OF
men. / have found out in this short first
trip here that our British unionists seem
to treat the women unionists quite differ
emily from the way your men Of the same
class treat the women in the United States
who have organized. So far as 1 have
learned, It seems that the Woman's Trade
Union league in the United States Is looked
upon either with indifference or at least
with good-natured tolerance. In Chicago
they say that II Is a fad. and the fact
that a good many women who are affiliated
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-07
THE coMINa PROTECTION.

on a London paper, but no sooner had
she settled herself than she met Lady
Charles DlweaGG became affiliated with
the wcmeus trade unions.
I'm some respects" says Miss Macarthur
'the Women's Trade Union Leage Of
Great Britain is without a counterpart in
this country The organization which bears
the same name viii probably in time oc-
eupy tho same relative position, but Il
certainly does not do so at present Our
league Is labor union, as It is called, but
20 be strictly accurate one should speak
OF Il as a federation OF unions II Is not
as yet self-supporting, as We depend on
voluntary contributions 20 a certain ex-
tent which with the per capita tax Of 60
cents year for every 20 women workers
helps us maintain permanent headquarters
IN London with four salaried officers. who
are under my direction, and one salaried
organiser. who does outside work In sys-
tematiEing end arranging new branches.
Besides these we have a number OF what
We call temporary organiEers, who are
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-07

with It are not active wage earners has not
tended to improve this viewpoint Every
where the men complain that they are be-
ing supplanted by women who are salts
fed to work for less wages, but they make
no effort, apparently, to help the women
organize or to assist them after they have
organized and place them on an equal foot
ing.
I'm Great Britain the union men not only
lend their active support to the women 5
unions, but they do more than that-they
contribute largely from their treasures to
help the work. The result is that we have
10000 women workers at home organized
for mutual benefit, while 1 am told that you
have not half that number here, where
opportunities are so much greater.
That 10000 represents certain small
percentage OF the 100000 women wage
earners who, roughly speaking, exist in
Great Britain today; but when you con-
slider that of that large number many are
in domestic service and in other avocations
where organizations is not at present
necessary or practicable, the. percentage is
not so small as It would seem at first sight
We have about 100000 male workers and
only 100000 of these, approximately speak
ing. are organized. The men have been
organizing for hundred years, while this
same problem has only confronted the
woman worker within the last generation. -
Asked what bearing the marriage ques-
tion has on the wage earning woman Of the
unions, Miss Macarthur admits that 1t is an
obstacle, but an obstacle that is not per-
mitted to interfere seriously with the ques-
ton at large. She tells the story of the
Yorkshireman and the friend of whom he
had for some time lost sight:
" Did you ever get even with that lass
| that took your job at half your wage?
| said the querist.
"'Get even with her? Why I married
| her. was the reply, and she's keeping me
/ and herself as we'll.
THE lack OF permanence in women's
: employment certainly does argue against
their successful organization in that It dis
! courages the acquiring of technical skill
and thus lowers the standard OF their work
but we find that men are affected In the
! same way by a knowledge of a lack Of
! permanency in their employment.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-07

"a G eater difficulty 10 my mind than the
marriage question is the low standard Of
living In the unskllled trades, for in Great
Britain there Is an average wage of only
Z shillings a week for this class OF labor
How can this be overcome? Why simply
by raising the wage and standard OF living
Of the more skilled. the other is raised
automatically This is not a theory, it is
a fact 1 saw II demonstrated in Lanca-
sE!rc, where a powerful union of women
textile workers indirectly raised the wages
OF almost every other class OF female
labor In the country"
Miss Macarthur becomes very enthusi-
aste when she speaks Of the unions Of Ian
cashire, where 5000 females are organized
Anyone" says she, who has seen a
Lancashire demonstration with its file after
file Of women and girls among the mems
ranks, each one wearing the badge OF her
union-the cottonbud In her dress-has had
an unforgetable object lesson. l wish you
had something Ike IL here that / might
see Perhaps you have, but I do not know
OF it."
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-07
WOMAN LEADER OF UNIONS
Miss kary Macarthur Finds America IL
Far Behind.
ENGLAND LEADS THE UNITED STATES
In the Organization Of Women
workers and in the Good Ac-
cOmpIIshed by such
Consultations.

NEW YORK, April 6.-One OF the most
interesting visitors TO New York In the last
few weeks Is a young woman who has come
and gone without creating the stir that she
might have excited II she had had time and
opportunity.
The young woman. Miss Mary r. Macar-
thur Is secretary to the leader Of the
Women's Trades Union League OF Great
Britain. an organization which since It's
inception I'm 1874 has grown to a member
ship OF more than 10000, or more than two
thirds OF the organized women workers Of
Great Britain.
Miss Macarthur came here on a flying
visit TO speak at the recent Industrial ex-
hibit in Chicago. These addresses have
been supplemented by others in Boston,
Washington and Philadelphia, and while
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-07

representative the cab is at the door to
take her to the lecture room at Columbia,
where she is to make her last speech before
sailing for home her visit altogether hav-
ing taken six weeks
Miss Macarthur is tall and fair, with an
English back and a Scotch brogue. Her
head is inclined little forward, in the po-
sition we are familiar with from Mrs. Lang
try. Mrs. Pat Campbell and other profess
sional beauties. She is only %.
Miss Macarthur Is rather epigrammatic
In her talk which may be due to the fact
that her time lie limited. She speaks of
Parliament as the registering machine of
the matured thought of the people," and in
regard to the attempt of the majority of
English suffragists to limit the ballot to
the holders of property she says:
POLITICALLY / feel the disqualification OF
class IL more real than apparent, while
the disqualification of sex is more apparent
than real"
OF the comparative methods of the two
countries she asserts that America Is about
thirty years behind Great Britain in mat
ters pertaining TO labor questions.
Like many English women she does not
give the question of the ballot undue prOmi-
hence, but considers it merely ono of the
many stepping stones. She does, how
ever, say that we have been given, per-
haps unintentiorally, an erroneous opinion
OF the women engaged I'm this novel ex-
perience, who are in reality some Of the
finest women intellectually and from the
best families in England.
Miss Macarthur brushes aside a reference
to the antisuffragettes as not being
worthy Of account. They may get a news
paper paragraph occasionally" she says
''but we hardly know Of their existence
She meets the information that such a
society has hourished in America with
surprise. II had never even heard Of It,
She says, but Of course 1t will not have
any prolonged life"
Miss Macarthur was brought up in tn,
manufacturing town of Ayr, where sh,
assisted her father in secretarial work
occasionally using the experience so gained
as basis for short sketches about III,
women I'm the factories
Looking about TO enlarge her sphere o
action, she was induced to take a plac
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-07

Given away free with a purchase of 800
or over-or sold for $685., actual value
$1,000, on credit terms of only S1.00
cash and Use monthly If at any
time purchaser Of set buys goods amount
ing to 500, purchase price of S695 is
credited to account, thereby giving you
the set absolutely free.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-07


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seven oO Ire ~ N
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-07

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Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-07

These rugs have no inter seams-are Of highest
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