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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12
A Pertinent Question.

To Editor of the Journal and Courier: Mir. Head, ex-mayor of Nashville, made quite a speech yesterday (sun- day) afternoon on the condition ot Nashville.
 In the Journal of Commerce March 6, 1907, appeared an abstract of the re- port of the Committee on Fire Proven tion of the National Board of Fire un- derwriters concerning Nashville. The gist of the report is that there is grave danger from serious contlagration, due to numerous structural weaknesses and many confagration-br breeders in the congested value district, together with poor water distribution, narrow streets, bad overhead electric wire Instructions and inadequate fire-flghting facilities"
 Some of these items come directly within the scope of a municipal admin istration wilich, as Mir, Head states, owns and manages or controls the war ter electric light, highway and fire de- partments of the city.
 The National Board of Fire Under writers does not make public the re- ports of its committee on Fire Pre- vention" until there is positive neces- sity for such course-until 1t becomes obvious that the community deserves the whip, lash and sting of publicity In order to force 1t to do its public duty.
 One item of the report deserves care- full consideration, in view of the gran diloquent claims made on behalf of Nashville by Mayor Head
 Commenting upon the deficiencies of the fire department, the engineers say: Department recently enlarged, but still undermanned. Methods of ap- pointment and promotion poor (poli- tics?),* Engines in good condition, but capacity limited, ladder and chemical service deficient; hose supply inadequate and poorly cared for. Discipline fair, drills few and inadequate. Fire methods only fair; building inspections inade- quate. Service as a whole only moder- ately efficient. Fire alarm system of automatic type, inseeurely housed. No department telephone system. Service inadequate for city of this size and importance" "The fire alarm sys- tenn is of the automatic or village type, and only fairly reliabe.' "Tte fire department has not kept pace with the growth of the city"
 These are only a few extracts from the engineers report.
 What shall it profit the city of Nash vile if it gains all the profit there may be in municipal ownership and by req son of it's incompetent management be wholly burned up?
 OPEERVER
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OBSERVER.
COMBINATIONS.

Budding Poet-Have you read my Descent into Hell?"
 Worldly Person.-No; but I should like to see 1t very much!-Illustrated Bits.
 Reporter-To what do you attribute your great age? Oldest Inhabitant-I bain't sure yet, sir, There be saveral O them patent medicine companies as is bargaining with me.-Punch.
 Tom-I suppose Werner is deep in loves young dream"
 Dick-Oh, he's past that stage He's troubled with insomnia now.-The Catholic Standard and Times.
 Beggar-Pity poor man with a family and out of work, sir; give me your cigar butt.
 Swell-No, my man, can't; I have bad cold, and you might catch it, Le Sourire.
 She" Have you ever written any po- etry?
 He (proudly)-T had a sonnet once in one of the leading magazines.
 She-No, but I mean real poetry?- Someville Journal.
 "Yes ma'am," the convict was say ing, I'm here jest for tryin' to fatter rich man." ''The ideal" exclaimed the prison visitor "Yes, ma'am, I jlst tried to initiate his signature on a check. Philadelphia Press.
 q figure that advertisinb costs me a af ,1 doll a ,Ore than can afford
 What are you talking about? You don't advertise"
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FAors KEEsus 1 rHEoRF.

In another column a correspondent calls attention to some things in Nash vile which ex-Mayor Head didn't call attention to in his remarks in Woolsey Hall Sunday afternoon. They show that municipal ownership and operation there are not what they are cracked up to be. There is much evidence to show that they are not that anywhere. The reaction against them in London is an illustration of what is bound to happen in many places. Business is business, and politics is politics, and they can't be advantageously mixed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12
NOT A11 PLAIN sAILING.

In the popular craze for attacking railroads and other corporations some things have been omitted from the cal culations of the attackers. For in- stance: The legislatures of Nebraska, and Illinois have passed the two-cent- a-mile minimum passenger rate bill In turn the railroads have published a circular abolishing all classes of reduc- ed rates, such as excursions, commut- CTS, government and State officials, clergymen and theatrical people have been receiving. This means the aboli- tion of the special and limited train service at little higher price than the ordinary fare, such as prevails between Boston and New York or New York and Philadelphia and Chicago and Dem yer. In short, Q uniform level of prices is to be established by law, and to meet that level all classes of service are to be raised or lowered.
 Such things as these indicate that perhaps legislatures don't know all about railroading and may not be fully competent to decide how the railroads should be run. The great problem has got to be tackled with patience and discretion, It if isn't the condition predicted by President Mellen and oth- CTS will surely come. If the people really want to hurt themselves they can do it by hurting business.
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"No; but the department stores do, and my wife has the bargain habit. - Philadelphia Preess.
 First Lieutenant-Yes the bankers daughter is a good looking woman, but no longer young. Second Lieuten- ant-Why, she's only just arriving at the best years of her life. First Lieu tenant-How is that? Second Lieu tenant-Next fall she will inherit 10O, 900 marks in her own right.-Fliegende Blatter.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12
rA1K, BUr NOT JUST As coop.

Connecticut has been accused of manufacturing and selling wooden nut megs, and now it is disclosed that ar- tificial nutmegs are made in Belgium in so clever a manner that they can hardly be distinguished from genuine ones, especially if mixed with the lat ter A chemical analysis has shown them to consist of a mixture of finely powdered nutmeg from extract ed or injured kernels) and about 20 per cent of mineral substances. The following means of detection are rec ommended When the kernels are cut the well-known plantlike structure so characteristic in genuine nutmeg is ab- sent; if the kernels are treated for three or four minutes with boiling wa ter they become soft, and can be rub bed up into a powder with the fingers; or on being burned they leave about IS per cent. of ashes, while true nutmeg contains only 2 to 3 per cent. the im- itation nuts are generally much hea- vier than the genuine articles.
 Artificial nutmegs made largely from real ones are not so very bad. still, they can't fairly be called just as good.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12
CONNECTICUT DEFEND FRS.

The Defenders Monument committee, composed of several of Flew Haven's most public-spirited citizens, is asking the legislature for the modest appro- priation of $1O,OoO, with the modest pro- viso that it shall be given if an equal amount be raised here. This request should meet with prompt and hearty favor The Defenders Monument will be a State memorial quite as much as a local one All in the State who have any interest in the noble history of Connecticut will have an interest in it. It will be a monument to Connecti- cut patriots.
 As to what might be called New Havens fair claim to ask for this small appropriation, it may be mentioned that she is the largest city in the State, pays more taxes into the State treas- ury than any other city, and is quite as much entitled to legislative favcr in this matter as Hartford is in the much larger sum which she expects to ge. for memorials for Connecticut defenders. Nobody objects to that, so far as we know. We hope nobody will object to the granting of New Havens request f n oiI ty, all o orial for Connecticut defenders.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12
Who is Molly cOddles

Pray, who is Molly Coddle Whom the President dislikes, And at whose harmless weakness He so vigorously strikes? Is she kin to Mamie Taylor, That maiden of renown Who is known and somewhat courteC At every bar in town? Is she kin to Helen Blazes, Another lassie who Has got a reputation That is warm enough for tWoG Is she any kin to Kitty Kitty Whats her -other-name, Who always gets the rakeoff In the great American game? Is she kin to Sara Toga Who's an angel without wings, A most attractive spinster Of fifty-seven springs? Is she any kin to Sallie, Sweet Sallie Lunn, you know, Who always takes the bakery At every cake-walk show? Is she any kin to Charlotte, Charlotte Russ, the fluffy maid, Who is in desert places Appetlzingly displayed? Is she any kin to Hittie The maid who knocks to win, The belle of the solar plexus The lovely Hittie Maginn?
 No?
 So? Then who is Mollie Coddle,. Of so much college fame? Is she Miss Nancy Harvard Under another name?
 w. J. l.. in the New York World
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12
THE PRESENT NEW HATEN.

Tn his annual report Labor. Commis- sioner Scoville says much about New Haven as a place where there are many and great industrial opportunities, but he doesn't say a bit more than is war ranted by the facts New Haven is a large and growing city. There is plen- ty of room for her to grow in. There is a good water front which can and will be made better. There are avail- able sites for all kinds of factories. There is enterprise here of a kind that has not always been here, and it is making itself felt. There is a growing spirit of cooperation and regard for the general good. Many are active in various ways for betterment. And all are as busy as bees in one way or another. New Haven has never been more lively and promising than she is now, and she well justifes Commis- sioner Scoville's comments and com mendation
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents and other small advertisements. One Cent Word. RAch insertion. Eve Cents Word fOrI . full week.
 Display advertisements. per inch, 0nsi haGsrtion. S1.2O5 each subsequent inssT- saon, 70 cents; one week. ss.SOi ens| nasnth. slO, one year, $40.
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The Independent points out that we have made good deal of fun of the Frenchmen, and thinks that perhaps we shall wish we hadn't when we ob- serve that we have done less work and spent more money than the De Lesseps Company did in their first three years, notwithstanding that we have ninety five-ton steam shoyels where they had pick-axes and spades.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12

"She says her husband is not good provider." '.He isn't" answered Miss Cayenne. "He loses so much at poker that she has to curtail her bridge play ing. Washington Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12

''When opportunity arrived at my door," said the Harlem pessimist, T suppose the electric bell, as usual, was out of order. Puck
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12

Is there more danger? An English physician James Camille, speaks in strong terms of condemnation of the growing custom of using entrants in bread and cake. The baking, he says, makes them wholly impervious to any digestive fluid, wherefore they result in serious intestinal disturbances, es- pecially in children
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12

It has been discovered that yarn, with powdered stone, can cut a steel bar. Major McClaughry, warden of the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, found prisoner who was sup posed to be pounding stone working away at one of the bars to an outside window The man was induced to give demonstration. A grating of the same description was placed in his cell and guard stationed over him to watch the cutting process. With the limestone dust and silicate from the stone pile, the yarn from his sock and little water the man cut the besse- mer steel bar in eighteen working hours. With some fine emery, a chalk line and two wooden handholds to save his fingers he made a clean cut of the other bessemer bar in five hours.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12

District of New Haven. ss. Probate Court, March Sth, 1907.
 ESTATE OF PATRICK GILHULY, late of New Haven, in said District, de- ceased.
 Michael Gilhuly, of Bridgeport, hay ing made written application praying that administration de bonis non of said estate may be granted as by said application on file in this Court more fully appears, it is
 ORDERED, That said application Sc heard and determined at Court of Probate to be held at New Haven, in said District. on the 18th day of March, 1907, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and that public notice of the pendency of said application and of the time and place of the hearing thereon, be given to all parties interested in said estate by publishing this order three times in a newspaper having a circulation in said District. By the. Court.
 JOHN LD GIBSON, Clerk Clark, Hall $ Peck, 152 Orange St. New Haven, Conn. Counsel for tho applicant. m9 St
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12

Edinburg is to try new way of dealing with the unemployed. Recog- nizing that a permanent scheme is de- Birable the corporation has bought a farm, fiftaen miles from Edinburgh, which has 2S5 acres, seventy being un- Improved moss land Refuse from the city destructor is Ito be deposited on about 100 acres, rendering that land ready, in course of time, for tillage. The aim is to use the whole farm for spade work, and to sell market garden produce.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12

William Rossiter, in an article in the current Review of Reviews on "Why We Need the Immigrant" shows that if the foreign element were eliminated from the population of many States, the proportion of persons gaihfully em- ployed would be completely disarrang- ed. Mines and Guarries would lose two- thirds of their workers; approximately the same proportion of the servant class would disappear; about half of the 10,0O0,O00 wage earners absolutely essential to the manifold activities of complex modern life, as we'll as of per- sons in commercial callings, higher and lower, would hs among the missing. It is only agriculture and the professions that would be comparatively little af- fected, says MT, Rossiter,
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 District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court, March 9th, 1907, ESTATE OF FISK PLATT TREAT, late of New Haven, in said District, having been absent from his home and board and unheard of for pe- riod of more that seven years, to wit: since July 5, 1S76
 E. Knight Sperry, of New Haven, having made written application pray ing that administration of said estate may be granted as by said application on file in this Court more fully appears it Is
 ORDERED, That said application be heard and determined at a Court of Probate to be held at New Haven, in 1907 at ten o'clock in the forenoon. and that public notice of the time ,.1! and to all parties interested in said estate, by publishing this order three times in d newspaper having a circulation in said District. By the Court.
 JOHN L. GIBSON, Clerk. Clark, Halls & Peck, 152 orange street, New Haven, Conn, Counsel for the applicant. m9 st
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12

District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court, March 9th, 1907 l ESTATE OF SILAS E. BURROWS. late of New Haven, in said District de- ceased
 An instrument in writing, purporting to be codicil to the last will and tes- lament of said deceased having been presented in Court, and The Union Trust Co and H. Stuart Hotchkiss of New Haven, having made written ap- plloation praying that the same may be probated, as by said application on file in this Court more fully appears, 1t is
 ORDERED That said application be Probate to be held at New Haven. in in said District. on the 18th day of March, 1907, at two-thirty o'clock in the after noon. and that public notice of the pen denoy of said application, and of the time and place of tho hearing thereon, be given to all parties interested in said estate, by publishing this order three times in newspaper having a circu- lation in said District.
 By the Court.
 mil St JOHN ID. GIBSON. Clerk
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12

District of New Haven, ss, Probate
 Court March Sth, 1907
 ESTATE OF MOSES JONES. late of
 New Haven, in said District. de-
 ceased.
 John T. Sloan, of New Haven. hav- ing made written application praying that administration of said estate may be granted, as by said application on file in this Court more fully appears, 1t Is
 ORDERED, That said application be heard and determined at a Court of Probate to be held at New Haven. in said District, on the 18th day of March and that public notice of the pendency of said applicationsand of the time and place of the hearing thereon, be given to ail parties interested in said estate, in a newspaper having a circulation In said District. Bysthe Court ms 3t JOHN l.. GIBSON, Clerk.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12

It is related that one of the questions in grammar test in Cambridge iMassachusetts) school was to com pare the noun 'ill' No difficulty was experienced by one of the boys in re- membering that the comparative was worse" but when it came to the su- perlative the little fellow was stuck. After deliberating for quite a white time was up, and he was compelled to hand in his paper Not wishing to leave the superlative out, he finally wrote the answer as follows: Positive. ''ill;"; comparative, "worse;" superla- tive, dead"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12

In Lake county, Indiana, there is a strip of land that has caused much worry and expense to the management of the three railroads which cross it. Where the Erie line traverses the strip there has recently appeared a crevice that refuses to be filled, although hun dreds of thousands of tons of gravel have been dumped into it; The depres- sion continues for twenty feet on eith- er side of the track, and has entirely @baf1ed the engineering department. This sinking is an annual event.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-12
EAMrat&u1x

MIR. FREDERICK WELD will engage the services of a limited number of good singers for a corus choir. Voices tried at lS9 Orange St.
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An Impartial Statement Of the Problem

has nowhere been contended that the time the income
needed federal
n
then desirable
Would
end be attained graduated
On the other hand of
difficulty he found by
should
This problem
but O its tution
g. desirable problem
possible
and would accomplish the ends desired?
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be measure of national safety to obtain from
the court the reversal of the decision that Congress
could not make greenbacks legal tender for private
debts. This had been decided by, the Supreme
Court four to three, Chief Justice Chase, who had
issued the greenbacks, leading the four. As soon
as the membership of the court had been sufficiently
changed, by adding new judges another was
brought on, and the decision reversed by divided
court. Not content with this, when the member
ship had been further changed, third
brought on, and the congressional power to make
greenbacks a legal tender asserted with only
one Judge dissenting, and will never again be
denied.
The decision that income tax is direct
tax, which, like head tax, must be apportioned
throughout the Union according to population,
is palpable absurdity; for tax upon the vary
ing incomes of different individuals, the gross
amount of which cannot possibly be deter
mined beforehand, cannot possibly be apportioned
according to the whole number of all the. peo-
pie, like capitation tax. To make Section
of the Constitution read No capitation or other
direct tax and no tax upon the incomes of in
dividuals shall be laid, except in proportion to
the total population of the country" is a legal
conceit which will not last twenty years from its
first PRONUNCIATION. 1t will go the same way as the
adverse Legal Tender decision went.
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better than dted
be made fit general of
When this
themselves which, although
the scheme problem of
Shall the levied
Shall
the Civil War abandoned England method
schedules
to
The problem whether all should
whether there should
and incomes derived from
The final problem Should the
the abroad should they be high the national bill s9
should should
fall with severity the higher Does equality
equality
a in
United States will the fullest
Without
either incomplete failure. EDWIN R. A. SELIGMAN
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THE inherent justice of income tax cannot be
disputed, and its constitutonality never
questioned until 1905, when, in reaching its decision,
the court, then constituted, divided four to five
The four justices who sustained the tax stood by
the decisions of the court for a hundred years,
while the five who decided it was unconstitutional
had to override what thought to be well settled
principles of law. The question is not practical
one unless Congress shall reach the conclusion that
the complexion of the court having been changed
by death and retirement, the constitutionality of
such law might be sustained at this time. There
many who think that the court itself needed
amendment rather than the Constitution because
on the rehearng it understood that of the
Justices, who when the case was first argued had
stood for the constitutonality of the law changed
his opinion. The line then between it's constitu-
tonality and its unconstitutionalty is not we'll or
deeply drawn. and would appear by no means to
be indeble.
The arraignment of the majority of the court
in the dissenting opinions of Justices Harlan and
Brown has been rarely, if ever equaled in severity
by any similar utterances ever made from the SUI
prene BENCH and there be little doubt that
if national crisis arose, demanding immense X
Penditures of money, the sentiment of the nation
in favor of an income tax would compel return to
the original and long sustained attitude of the
the subject.
What was once thought by the ruling powers to
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Capital Should Pay

n equality of opportunity and equality of bur-
den Invested capital, aside from paying taxes
its proportionate share of itself for ordinary pur-
poses, should be made to contribute to the sup
port of the Government a part of the increment
coming to it's owner. A man with one hundred
thousand dollars income can better afford to
of the Government than can farmer contribute
fifty dollars out of one thousand dollars derived
wholly from his labor The first will still have
ample means to live in luxury and reinvest some
port and educate his family
Another thing; immense fortunes the most
dangerous things in Republic, and it will take
both graduated income tax and a graduated
inheritance tax to prevent the inordinate growth
of wealth in the hands of a few, and to compel
a reasonable redistribution of the wealth of the
country.
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The Affirmative
By Benjamin R. Tillman

70HE people are bound without delay to consider,
and are now considering, the question of equal
ity in sharing the public burdens and the neces-
sty for relieving the taxpayers from unnecessary
unjust burdens. The idea that taxation should be
borne largely by capital rather than by labor is
immensely popular resting asst does upon the solid
foundation that the Government should be sup
ported by the wealth which receives it's protection
and fostering rather than by labor. The poor
man. in the event of war, will have to bear arms to
support the Government and defend the nation
without having any stake in the country. other
than those of the citizen whose patriotism and
of duty would make him fight