Arizona republican., 1908-12-05

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 New York Financiers Believe Leais-
 lative Restrictions Will Be Less in
 Future.
 New York, Nov. 30.-(Special cor =;
 respondence of The Republican.)-
 Representatives of big corporations
 here profess to see in recent events
 signs of a recession in various di-
 rections in the wave of antitrust
 feeling that has swept over the coun-l
 try during the past few years and
 has led to the enactment of laws
 which the corporations declare have
 made it impossible for them to do
 business in certain states. While they
 are ready to admit that corporate
 business in the future Is certain to be
 far more strictly regulated than 1t
 was down to the beginning of the re-
 cent movement for legal supervision,
 they are encouraged to believe that
 the extreme features of what they
 designate as oppressive legislation are
 likely to be gradually modified. in application at least. As an illustra-
 ton of this moderating tendency they
 point to the recent re-admission into
 Texas of Swift x Company, the meat
 packers, who had been barred from
 the state for more than a year. To
 be sure the application for re-ad- mission was made under Delaware charter. supported by an affidavit that the company was not a member of trust and accompanied by the payment of fine. At the same time, however, the financiers point know ingly to the fact that so far as an. nounced there has been no change i'm the directorate of the National Pack ing company. in which the Swifts as we'll as the other big Chicago inter ests ordinarily grouped under the general designation of the beef trust figure. The developments in this di- rection are being watched with inter est by the big insurance companies the farm machinery combination and others who have found themselves deprived of an important field by the operation of the Texas laws.
 The recent registration for the presidential election, together with the compiling of the tax list, have re- vealed some curious discrepancies and facts here. As a result of an andy sis of these figures the city fathers are considerably mixed. for while the rolls show 618.000 voters, the tax list numbers only 100000 names In other words, less than one voter out of three and less than one out of every twenty of the entire population is a taxpayer. though why this should be no one has yet been able to explain That 41S,000 voters pay no taxes is. | however. a matter needing explana- tion, especially as this conditions in 1 creases the amount paid by taxpaying | voters by more than 200 per cent. The | present average tax in this city is | s603 per capita, for those who pay | it, while it distributed among all vot- CTS would average only SIT apiece. | In any event. however. the total. | which amounts to s120.00O. 900 annually. | must be collected and the fact that | only one out of three voters contrib utes to it merely serves to give New i York one of the highest tax rates in !, the world. In this tax situation Is found the chief explanation of the fact that New York is the most ex- pensive city to live in in the United States. When the fact is taken into that a large number of taxpayers are women who can not vote, the average amount of taxes paid by each voter approaches the s700 mark, very tidy sum even for New York.
 The first school of it's kind-one which will enable women to earn their living in a specialized field, has lust been started here. New York has ilready had various courses of in- struction for the fair sex ranging rom those which through culinary education and initiation into the mys- cries of babies, radiators, furnaces md finances were calculated to en- ible a woman to make a model wife Or mere man. to those which through higher courses of learning aimed to ,nable her to supplant him in the field. The new course, however. which is being carried on t the city's high schools, aims only VI hidNp NOhiub PAbAiNitbh ittA ONii I ield-particularly as saleswoman The course, which lasts nine months, s largely made up of laboratory work, hat is practical instruction in the irt of selling anything from pins to pianos. To the student making the argest sales of special degree will be ,iven, while all who complete the ,ourse will get diplomas. A number f the large department stores have to employ the graduates nd the popularity of this novel line If education is shown by the fact hat the age of pupils already en- oiled runs from 14 years the mini- mum, to S6. The lone student of the alter age is preparing to sell false { air.