Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-24

paid by 106,S60 people.
OF this number 39,5SS people paid
an income tax of 81 ,265, 900 on incomes
ranging from $3.50 paid by 1855 peo-
pie up to an income of over $4,000
paid by two people. Nine people paid
tax on an income over $4,000; Ito
for an income over $4,000; 5,122 for
an income over $500; and 11,S2S for
an income over $3.50.
The business tax was paid BY Al
TAI people and brought in s1,Q9S, 900
of the national tax. The total tax
levied on the whole city in 1904 aver
aged S1la5 per dwelling and $2.67 per
person.
According to very careful compu-
tation made by Professor vickers.
the total of all kinds of taxes paid
by citizen of Toxic amounts to a
little over two per cent on incomes
ranging from $3.50 to $3.50 year and
to a fraction over twenty-five per
cent on incomes of over $4,000 a
year.
In addition to this indirect taxes are
levied through tariff and consumption
taxes, the consumption tax being a
tax on such things as woolens, sugar.
and so forth, which is not only paid
on domestic manufactures but the i'm.
ported article. The chief source of
supply, pays it on being withdrawn
from the custom house, in addition to
whatever the tariff tax may be. Other
indirect taxes are levied through the
government monopolies, such as to-
bacco, spirits and camphor.
The Yellow Peril.
Viewed in. the light of such a bur-
den of taxation, and taking into &C
count other factors which a close
range view discloses, and which the
limits of this article will not allow
discussion of, yellow peril" loses not
only its yellowness, but its apparent
peril, for all this tax must be added
to the cost of production, and when
added to the prices made on the pro-
ucts in open markets must make the
price such as to make competition NOT
impossible. However, no one who
visits and studies Japan can fail to
be impressed by the ability and
energy of the Japanese, and by the
determination with which their pa
triotism and loyalty are now fighting
for the victories of peace. They will
be determined put fair competitors,
having no advantages that are not
well balanced by other advantages
possessed by western nations, and
everyone who believes that even as in
athletics the best records are only
made by competition, will see in Jap
anese competition the means of max.
ing better records for the world, and
will welcome it.
City's Odd Government.
The present form of the city's con.
stitution (charter) dates back only
eight years. Before that, in company
with two other larger cities of the
empire, it did not come under the
same general law or charter that all
cities OF 10000 or over are governed
by. Under the exemption Toxic was
governed by the prefectorial govern.
or, as represented by the same
minister, but about eight years ago
Toxic and two other cities came un.
der the general law and since then
has been governed by the legislative
assembly of sixty chosen by the cleo.
tors.
Every citizen who is twenty We
years old and who has paid a national
tax of one dollar Or more for more
than two years has right to vote in
his ward. The apportionment OF
representation in each of the fifteen
wards Is made as follows: The en-
tire tax levy is divided into three
parts and the men who pay each part
have the right to elect one-third OF
the representatives. 1t may thus hap
pen that in a ward one rich man or a
big corporation pays one-third of the
taxes of that ward, in which case the
one man or the one corporation has
the right to elect one-third of the
representatives. A larger number of
men, but yet a number that is small
compared with the total number OF
electors, pay the second third, and
they elect one-third of the electors,
and the great mass of voters who pay
individually only small amounts or
taxes have the right to elect the final
third of the representatives.
| am told that there is a CROWNS
feeling against giving such dispropor-
tionate representation to the highest
taxpayers, and that there is fair
chance that Parliament will change
the system sooner or later.
The legislative assembly elects an
executive council OF fifteen and a
mayor, whose term is six years. The
mayors powers are so limited that he
Is practically the chairman of the
executive council, and furthermore
the prefectorial governor. and this
council must be consulted; and, In ad-
dition to this, the home minister can
withhold his action on many import
ant measures, and can even dissolve
the municipal assembly. The meas.
ures Of the mayor and bis executive