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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27

All stocks Of corporations organized
under the laws of other States than
Illinois, that are owned In Chicago, are
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, rs 1t ID
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 good total In taxes alone of $2O,-
100000.
Twenty millions Of dollars!
Just think of it.
Wly, that sum would buy MI Of the
strecr railroads in Chicago, equipment
and all
1t would raise the salaries Of the
nrcmen of Chicago, and they ought
to bc raised.
1t would raise the salaries of the
school teachers and they ought to be
raised.
It would give us the best lighted and
best paved and cleanest streets In the
world, and lot of other good things
besides.
The Chicago method of taxation Is
10 take the total valuation and then
make the owner pay on One-iifth of that
valuation.
The tax Is about per cent on this
fifth.
Where taxes have not been paid on
any foreign capital stock, the Supreme
Court has decided that the authorities
can 20 back and collect taxes for five
years.
Pms IL where the twenty millions
will come in.
Let us look Mt 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
Swift's Refrigerator Transportation
Company, organized under the laws Of
the State of Maine.
Capital stock, $5,OOO,OOO.
Every cent of this stock Ia owned In
this city.
How much OF 1t Is taxed by the
Board Of Review?
II, as is alleged, this stock has ~
capped taxation here, then there Is dUe
the people from this source alone, for
five years, at $4,000 per year, the fine
sum of $35O,0OO, enough to raise the
salaries OF hremen and school teachers.
Under the decision Of the Supreme
Court of Illinois, you can 60 buck five
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27
lE FOR THE PEOPLE TO DEMAND AN ACC0l

The Kansas City Stock Yards Is an
other outside corporation.
1t Is from Missouri, but every dollar
Of It's S0,OOOOOO capital Is owned In
Chicago.
We have failed to find where 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 pco'
pie of Chicago $G3O,OOO.
Swift 4 Company, OF Illinois, that
great corporation capitalized for $50,'
OO0.OO0, should pay taxes on every dol,
lars worth OF stock 1t owns in foreign
corporations.
Has the Board OF Review ever taken
any steps to ascertain how much this
corporation or its officers own in cor
poratlons outside the State?
Perhaps we may help them by quot
ing the following list OF outside cOrpO
rat!ons owned by Swift & Company, OF
Illinois, according to the report OF tho
United States Commissioner of COrpo
rat!ons:
Swift & Company, of Maine, corpo
ration which sells the output Of Swift
& Co., Of Illinois, In the New England
States ana parts of New York ana New
Jersey, and owns controlling interest
In the firms of the Swift Beef Com,
pnny, Of Boston: G. Il. ana u. c. Swift
t.nStnn 4! L. S,xift 4, f.,nnnnu
ton, ana \. II. Hollis & Company, Bos
ton, Massachusetts.
Swift 4 Company, of West Virginia
which operates many branches in sew
eral different States for selling beef
pork, mutton, canned goods, etc, etc.
Swift g. Company, OF New York
which controls large number OF
branch houses In the State Of New
York, all doing 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 01
the State of Maine.
Swift Beef Company. Limited, doing
business In Great Britain.
Swift Packing Company, selling
agents for Swift & Company of Ill
nOis, In Germany.
Swift 4 Company Of Illinois arc
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 swifts are said to owa and
absolutely control Libby, AcNeill 4
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27

years In each ana every case for back
taxes and all stock OF foreign corpora.
tlons held in Illinois. Is taxable, the
rate being per cent on One-tifth Of
the par valuo.
Governor Dcnccn Ia now going after
the Illinois Central Railroad for IT'S
back taxes for five years.
In this connection he should not
overlook the Chicago Junction Railway.
Neither should the Board of Review.
The Chicago Junction Railway Is
capitalized as follows:
Common stock, $G,500.0OO.
Preferred stock, S6,50O,OOO.
Total stock value, $l3,OOO,OOO.
The Chicago Junction Railway Is In.
corporated under the laws of the State
Of New Jersey, ana every dollar OF Its
stock IL owned In this city.
And every dollar of It Is 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 per cent on onc-nfth of
the valuation.
One-ffth OF S13,OOO,OOO is $4,000, 900.
and the taxes on this for one year
amount to $lS2,0OO.
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 firemcn, school teachers
and policemen would 1t pay?
How many electric lights would It
put in service?
Where Is the Board of Review?
What Is the Board OF Review going
to do about 1t?
The North American Transportation
and Trading Company is capitalized
for S5yOOO,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, Nebraska
corporation, Is all owned In Chicago
and taxable here, hut 1t seems, like
others, to have been overlooked.
The Union Stock Yards of South
Omaha, is a corporation capitalized at
$75OO,0OO.
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 this concern overlooked?
Libby, Mcneil 4 Libby Ia a New
Jersey corporation capitalized at ST.
100000.
Every dollar of 1t owned In Chicago.
The taxes on this for i've years fOots
up $4,000.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27

Libby. OF Maine; John T.. Squire &
Company. New Jersey corporation,
with II big packing plant In Cambridge,
Mass. and branches all over New En-.
gland Boston Packing Il Provision
Company, of Massachusetts; New lan.
gland Dressed Meat h Wool Company
OF Maine; North Packing Il Provision
Company of Maine; Sperry Il Barnes
Company of Connecticut; SturtCCant
Il Haley OF Boston; l.. Merwin Com
pany. Worcester, Mass; Springfield
Provision Company, Springfield, Mass. (;
White. Percy Il Dexter Company,
Worcester, Mass; Ilalstead Il Com
pany, New York c. II. Davis 4 Co.,
Norwich, Conn; Bimbler, Van Wagen-
on Il 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 Il Company, big Chicago
and Illinois corporation, owns n great
deal Of stock in outside corporations.
Among others Armour Il Company
Of New Jersey.
The following taken from pages 201
and 202 of the report OF the United
States Commissioner of Corporations,
tells us something upon this subject !:
"The New Jersey corporation was
formed for the purpose Of transactlng
certain business which the Illinois
corporation was not authorized to
transact. Armour 4 Co. OF New Jer.
sey operates practically all the branch
houses for the sale of beef and other
packing house products supplied by
Armour Il Go. OF Illinois. 1t also owns
the Armour packing houses at Sioux
City ana Fort Worth. For cOnven-
ience the accounts Of Armour l. Co. Of
New Jersey are carried on the books
Of Armour 4 Co. OF Illinois. To ascer-
tain the business transactions Of the
New Jersey corporation, 1t IL 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, In genuine one, having large
actual assets OF its own, not q mere
paper name. 1t has no separate books
and no profits separate from those aI-
pearing In the accounts Of Armour &
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 been7
BY going back for fve years and
collecting the taxes on the stock Of this
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27

hearers In the chamber where the
Board OF Review was meeting by de-
Claring that he has already secured
sufficient evidence against wealthy tax
dodgers in Chicago 10 warrant him in
going before the grand jury upon If
teen minutes notice.
'Srhe corporation CounseNs Office In
tends % keep a stenographer In at.
tendance at the sessions OF the Board
OF Review from now on" declared Mr..
Hill. THAT stenographer will be used
for securing a verbatim record OF per-
sons Of wealth who make statements
before the board in support OF a claim
for reduction OF their taxes.
1T Is a hard problem 10 decide just
where 10 begin, because nearly every
body seems 70 think lightly OF their
oaths when they come 10 discuss the
value Of their personal property with
taxing officials. However, IL Is fact
that ! already possess evidence suft'
Client 10 Justify me in appearing before
the grand jury In fifteen minutes. II
Is also highly probable that tax dods.
ing will be brought before the atten'
t!on Of the grand jurors before the pres
ent hearing ends"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27

foreign corporation owned In Chicago,
our iiremen could have their pay dOu.
blod. our school teachers could be bet.
ter paid, and the city would be much
better OH
The Board of Review should sum-
mon the following well.known citizens
and lnterrOgate them with reference
to the amount Of stock in foreign cor
poratlOns owned In Chicago, which they
have knowledge of:
j. Ogden Armour.
Louis +. Swift.
John a. Spoor.
Laurence \. Carton.
Arthur Meeker.
Mr.. Swift and Mr.. Armour are both
reported to be publlc.sp!rlted.
They should both be willing to help
In this matter.
They can, IL they will, help great
deal by telling the Board OF Review
what they know.
Mr.. Armour Is director In the fc'
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 is taxable:
Armour car lines.
Armour Grain Company.
Central Leather Company,
q. II. Hammond Company.
Hammond Packing. Company,
National Packing Company,
United States Leather Company.
Chicago, Milwaukee Il st. Paul Rail
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.
Prussian NATIONAL Insurance Com
paRy OF Stettin, Germany.
Mr.. Louis y. Swift ts a director In
the following. How much stock does
lie own? At all events he can give the
Board Of Review much valuable infor-
nation:
Union Stock Yards. Chicago.
Fowler Brothers. Limited.
Libby, McNeill & Libby.
National Packing Company.
st. Louis National Stock Yards CON-
pany.
swIft's Refrigerator Transportation
Company.
Hollis Cold Storage Company.
Illinois Cattle COmDany.
Mechanical Manufacturing Company.
SOnth San Francisco Land & Im.
prOvement Company.
Springfield Provision Company.
Swlft's Fertilizer Works.
Western Meat Company.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27

of the provisions Of this act whereby
any property required to be assessed
shall be unlawfully exempted in whole
or in part, or the valuation thereof en-.
tered or set down at more or less than
Is required by law, shall, upon conyic,
ton, be fined for each offense not less
than 500 nor more than $1,000 ana
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,
I'll by such party.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27

Chapter 100, Section 900, Revised
Statutes Of Illinois, provides the fol-
lowing:
Any assessor or deputy assessor
or supervisor Of assessments or other
persons, whose duty 1t is 10 asse-ss
property for taxation, or equalize any
such assessment, who shall refuse or
knowingly neglect TO perform any duty
required OF him by law. or who shall
consent to r connive at any evasion
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27

The Goodrich Transit Company Is a
CORPORATION organized under the laws
Of the State Of Maine. Capital stock.
S5OO,DO.
Every dollars worth OF this stock
owned in Chicago Is taxable here. The
Reviewers should call A. W. Goodrich
and ask him who owns 1t. Mr.. Good
rich ought to know and the people want
10 know.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27

Armour and Swift should take a hint
from the following concluding para
graph in an editorial in the Chicago
Daily News. July "a:
"Thc corporation counsel Is planning
TO take an active part in the proceed
ines 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
be raised from taxes, the tax dodger
who seeks to make Others pay the costs
of government of which he has the full
benefit, will receive no sympathy If he
comes to grief at the hands of the au-
thoritles."
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-07-10
Whips for Horses.

The Maine Farmer recently contain
ed an item about the use Of whips,
which is very good on the whole, yet
it is also true that there are cases
where whip is necessary. For exam
pie, years ago a friend told us of a
man who went to mill with a team
OF spirited horses for which he needed
no whip. While at the mill the team
became frightened and began to back
Ii he had had a good whip and given
them sharp cut with it they would
have started the other way, they might
have run away and broken up the wa
gon; but that would have been better
than to end as it did, for they backed
into the mill pond and were both
drowned. Again there are some very
lazy horses which need a whip to get
any travel out of them. Still we will
agree that too many whips have been,
and are still used
The following is the article:
A dealer in whips says there is
great change as to the number Of
whips that are now sold to drivers in
proportion to the number of people,
Il should think not half SO many
are used as were used, say, twenty
five years ago. Many owners of horses
now never carry whip. | know men
in this country who always have horses
and who never strike them MANY
people hold that if horse is properly
reared from colthoOd up it will never
need whip. What are called the bad
traits of a horse are usually the fault
Of the people who have handled them.
Some bad traits are hereditary, but
they trace back to bad management
Of the ancestry. The more good sense
man has, the less punishment his
team will need 1t is practically all
a matter Of good common sense"
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-07-10
Whale-O Soap and other Insecticides For ForbSa" Sa"
E. O. PAINTER FERTILIZER CO.. Jacksonville. Fla.

1t has been found by pouring the
milk from one bucket to another in
the barn that the bacteria increased
at the rate Of nearly 100 to each cubic
centimeter for each time the milk is
poured from one vessel to another
1t has been found that as the number
OF pourings increase the number Of
bacteria introduced each time will also
increase.
1t has also been found that the milk
IL the udder contains about 48 bac-
terra per cubic centimeter, while that
in the pail Immediately after milking
is nearly 1000 per cubic centimeter,
and that in the cooling tank for four
hours, 10000 per cubic centimeter A
centimeter is little more than a third
OF an inch.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-07-10
Do. YOU WANT TO BUY
The Best
Fruit ana Truck Farm
in Florida
AT a Great Sacrifice !
Can be Made 10 Pay for
Itself in One Year.

Forty acres, cleared, fenced and drained
-Four acres sub-irrigated, on which can be
produced any vegetable that can be grown
Similar land at Sanford, planted to celery
lettuce, etc., yields $1,5OO to $4,000 per acre
Arteslan we'll on premises, from which wa
ter is piped over entire incosure
Grapefruit, oranges and Tangerines, of su-
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1000 boxes this year. Also 100 fine pecans
just coming into bearing.
House, outbuildings and all improvements
modern and up-to- date.
Transportation facilities the best, being
located near two lines of railroad and the
st. Johns river.
The manager of the Agriculturist is au-
thorized to furnish the address and give di-
rections for reaching the premises to anyone
desiring to purchase such a place.