The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-05-02

James Deering- 5.62o 900
Charles Deering ---. 5.s25, 0O0
Richard F. Howe. 1875, 600
John J. Glessner ISIS. 600
W. H. Jones 1884,
Total $S4 .SSs 800
The tax payer sets forth in his pc
ution that these big stockholders in
the Harvester Trust now owe to Cook
county. $500. 600 of unpaid taxes for
the years 1908. 1904, 1905 1906 and
1907: that up to and including 1906 the
net earnings of the company were over
81. 0Oo 900. after setting aside 81, $780,
600 for reserve. and that the earnings
for 1906 were $500. 900. The COM
pany has laid by for a rainy day the
comfortable surplus of about 50 $780,
600.
Roy o. West is chairman OF the re-
publican state central committee of
Illinois He is also chairman of the
Board of Review of Cook county. for
which he receives a salary of $1,000
per year. and his duty is the review
the assessments of all real and person
al property
At some hour in the day Mr.. West
puts aside his personality as lawyer
for the International Harvester Com
pany and takes up his personality of
employee of the state with the duty of
determining how much taxes the In
ternational Harvester company should
pay At exactly four o'clock in the
afternoon. let us say. Mr. West lays
down the papers in case of the Inter
national Harvester Company versus
Merritt. West counsel for the plaintiff.
and takes up the papers in the matter
of determining how much taxes the In
ternational Harvester company should
pay
The stock of Mr. Vests client. the
International Harvester company is
now earning over seven per cent. and
is. therefore, worth par
The Board of Review should assess
Cyrus H Mccormick alone $15.0O0.-
600 annually on his stock in the Har-
vester Trust. and the other stockhold-
ers should be assessed in proportion
During the four years from 1908 TO
1906. inclusive. this representative
business man of Chicago paid not one
dollar of taxes ON his great fortune.
represented by stock in the Harvester
Trust
The small assessment made in 1907
for back taxes. total of less than 81 :
o00. oeo ON the stock of all the biz
stockholders of the company. has
forced Cyrus H Mccormick TO pay
about $500 per year for each of the
four years of delinquency, or about
one-four-hundredth of his honest
share His associates have lodged
their taxes in the same ratio
Why do not the proper officials Of
the city, county. or state collect These
unpaid taxese Why should private
citizens have TO do the work that theiI
public servants are paid to do,
Because the officials are a part OF
the syStem-a combination between
big business and big politics in Hin
| los, Roy o. West. counsel for the In
ternational Harvester company, Roy
O. West chairman of the republican
state central committee. Roy O. West
chairman OF the board of tax review
for Cook county
/ These two lawsuits will grind theil
way slowly through the wheels of jus
tice. or injustice. in the courts O
Cook county
j In the meantime back OF the fades
curtain that divides the small Twin,
room from the candy store in the Mea
rift household another baby has al
rived
i While these captains OF industry
stockholders of the harvester trusl
, are making about SIC. OOo 600 per yea
/ profits, and while they fail to schei
ule for taxes a dollars worth of thei
. great wealth. represented in the stOc
r Of the trust. the Mccormick Theolox
, cal Seminary of the Presbyteria
5 church founded by Cyrus H. NeCol
/ mick. pioneer in the harvester field.
turning out young ministers who 8
{ forth 10 spread the Gospel of Chris
1 Meanwhile the wheels in the facsorse
1 Of the Harvester company periodical
|. rorn out erippleS, to become charge
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