Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-04

| u. loo Between II, UUO anu tS,VUV
The acts of parliament are very strict
| concerning the income tax returns. and 1t
| is generally conceded that they are usual
| ly accurate. The British people have
been accustomed for generations to give
their government share OF their In
comes. and it is believed that there is
comparatively little evasion. Everybody
who has more than $500 year must
| make a return and pay tax.
| 1t would be folly for persons who re-
| ceive large salaries to commit perjury
| in making their returns, yet according to
the tax list only four individuals in the
entire kingdom receive salaries exceed
| ing $4,000 year from private sources;
eleven persons report salaries between
1900 and $4,000; nineteen report salaries
between $4,000 and $4,000, and fifty-fve
persons only report salaries between
e., 900 and $4,000. This seems extraord-
mary with the enormous business that Is
| transacted; the number Of banks and
the services of men Of ability. not only in
London, but in Liverpool, Manchester.
Birmingham Glasgow and other of the
great cities. 1t seems almost incredible
that only eighty-nine persons in all the
United Kingdom should receive larger
salaries than $4,000 year. am sure
that New York could furnish list sew
eral times as long. and that Chicago,
Philadelphia and other cities have very
much larger number Of high paid men
| than Great Britain
High Government Salaries.
Those figures. however. relate only to
persons in private life. The government
pays much better salaries, and 236 public
officials return salaries of $4,000 a year
and upward: ia government employees re-
port salaries exceeding $4,000, and they
are cabinet ministers. ambassadors. judges
of the courts, generals Of the army and
| hy,,{r nj govern
ment officials have salaries between 80
600 and $4,000. The contrast with the
United States in this particular Is also
very striking. W9 have only one official
| who receives more than $4,000 a year.
| and that is our President. who earns his
wages.
| AS everybody knows, postage between
the United States and Great Britain was
| reduced to a penny, or two cents in our
| money, per half ounce. the lst of October,
having been five cents up to that date.
Proposed Postal Improvement.
| The British postmaster general expects
a very large increase in the mails. on
| the theory that more people will write
letters II the postage is penny than
wher it was pence halfpenny. And
now he proposes another reform by in
| creasing the weight limit of packages
that are sent by parcel post from four
and half pounds to eleven pounds, which
| Is the weight limit aiOWeQ between the
United States and the republics Of Gen.
trail and South America. This will un-
doubtedly be opposed by the express COM
! panies, but 1t can be arranged by treaty
! under the postal union. and there is no
| doubt that Postmaster General Meyer,
! who has always been an earnest advo-
| cate of low postal rates, will agree
! promptly to the suggestion.
!! There has been an enormous increase in
! the correspondence between Great Britain
| and the United States. In. 1898 there
| were about eleven million letters sent
| through the mails from that side of the
water; in 1907 they numbered more than
! 2OOOe.OCO an increase Of 81 per cent in
\ ten years.
Where Is Cromwell's Bodye
| The periodical controversy as to what
became of the body Of Oliver Cromwell
has broken out again and is raging in the
! British newspapers. The revival was