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mon sense of their fellows who are In
touch with the real life of the day.
.
The danger now is that even II the re-
sponsible leaders of the tory party de-
eide that il would he wisest to let the
budget pass these wild men may re-
fuse to accept their leadership and vote
solidy. even over the heads Of the lead
ers of their own party, against the bud
get They may even force their leaders
to lead them in the direction they are
determined to go rather than exhibit to
the country the spectacle of the great
body of peers divided against itself.
Now. what are these proposals which
have reused sober and serious English
politicians to such a frenzy of excitement,
and have eau ;ed them to use language
about their political opponents the like
OF which probably has not been heard
since Cromwell abolished the king and
the lords and set up the commonwealth
ON the ia re of them they appear
ridiculously trif1ng to raise such com
motion, but it is not the proposals them
selves but the principles which they
establish that give rise To sub frenzy
of fear and anger. This bitter opposition
is confined practically to three features
OF the budget bill. These are the in
rrement value duty" the ''reversion duty
and the duty on undeveloped land and
mineral rights" Taking them seriatim,
these clauses are as follows:
The increment value duty provides that
under certain specified conditions the
state shall take from the holder 20 per
cent of the unearned increment value of
all real estate The ''unearned incre-
ment" is defined as that part of the value
which is created by the action of the
community and not by the una ded efforts
Of the owner. This tax would fall almost
entirely on urban land and on land adj
jacent TO cities. where value has been
created by the growth Of population. and
il is admittedly very difficult to decide
what part of the value has been created
by the efforts Of the holder and what
by the action of the community. a typi-
cal case would be that of new suburb
which has been 'developtd' by builder
II would not have been worth develop
ing # there had not BEEN large ada
cent population wa ting to move into IL
as soon as the buildings were ready, but
at the same time ii would have not
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vexed him for years. And the years Of
struggle and hardship which Elias
Howe had to endure while he was striv-
ing 10 introduce his sewing machine so
completely broke his health that he could
never enjoy the honors and money which
came to him in later years.
Bell. after inventing the telephone.
secured a good part of the world trying
to work up some public appreciation of
his invention. He could find no purchaser
for half his European rights in 1877. and
Chauncey NJ. Depew. when offered a one
sixth interest in the enterprise, took the
advice of the pres dent of the Western
Union Telegraph Company and refused
what would today have amounted TO
ten thousand times as much. or S1OOSo.-
600 Similarly George Westinghouse
waited for appreciation of his airbrakes,
for the first train that ii was tried on
had stopped so quickly that II was
wrecked by the process, but even after
mechanical success was realized this man
'.who had saved more lives than Napo-
leon lost received the rebuff from Com
modore Vanderbilt: Tel him | have no
time to waste on fool. But here
come these Wright brothers bursting into
success as quickly as they blaze into
glory; and doubtless they VIII die mil
lonaiTes.
rromp,er rewards are coming also TO
vr,ter.-not only novelists, but journal
lists as we'll and speaking OF Journalists
we will commence with Mr.. Theodore
Roosevelt one of the latest recruits OF
the fourth estate. Prior to mis- leaving
the White House his sanctum was De-
sieged by publishers, Outbidding one an
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meant certainly 1t is true that he did
not exactly crunt at her then. No, lie
beamed
The next evening she runs to meet him
Where did YOU get the seats dear?
she asks. eagerly.
What seats?" inquiries James. What
are YOU talking about?' and then: oh.
| never gave il thought You don't
sUppose Nou are going to drag me down
town again tonight. do you?'
Yes, he did He said those very words.
Little Jenny opened her big eyes at him
and wouldn't believe the testimony of her
own two pink ears.
oh, but James. we've been home near
" two months now and haven't gone
anywhere at all. You know you think
il far for me to go alone over to
mammals. OF course, you didn't under
stand how much | wanted to go
We'll. | guess you'll have to forget
it," says this poor. shop-worn imitation
of her Jimmy boy. because when | come
home I'm going to stay here. I've had
enough chasing around to do me for the
rest of my life" And this was true.
You think one could say just that
IL his little, brand New Jenny wife? oh.
hut maybe YOU never saw one of those
old mans darling affairs from really
close viewpoint.
So James comes home night after night
and eats his good dinner and goes to bed
early. once Jenny tried to get him to
stay until o'clock and play casino with
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A-NlGHT IVAN

other for anything he might put pen to
after returning TO private life. one pub
Usher is alleged to have offered him
SlO0U0 fiat for travel book and an
other $4,000 for q volume on sports ard
hunting Ard finally lie is said to have
contracted with one firm to furnish To-
600 words from the African juneles for
one dollar word, which means an hon
orarium equal to two years of his last
presidential salary. And in addition 70
this, he is to receive S3o.n1 a year for
editorials in New York weekly. This
amounts To about S571 per editorial.
Never before was there such magic in
the title of ''eX-President."
The first OF them to earn a good rate at
Journalism was benjamin Harrison, who.
II is said, got $1,000 apiece for the series
of articles. This Country of Ours which
ran in a noted woman's magazine. Mr..
Cleveland also got big rates from weekly
journal published by the same Philadelphia
firm But in the old days our White House
veterans had no such chances. Jefferson.
with all Of his mastery of the pen. died SO
poor that his home had to he sold to pay
his debts, while his daughter had to de-
pend for livelihood on funds voted to
her and her children by the states of
North Carolina and Virginia. Then, too.
there was poor Monroe. who spent his last
days urging the government to pay his
claim for the return of expenses which he
had incurred abroad while engaged on
government missions. But the govern
ment did not pay. and Monroe died with
out leaving even enough TO bury him.
OF course these big rates given TO Mr..
Roosevelt are due To the fact that his pen
is dipped always in the sulphtic and
never i'm the bromide fluid. And tho
magazine which is to pay so generously
for his editorials will be the exclusive
channel for his views on political. indus
trial and local topics.
Indeed, for any man with something big
to say, and with a big way of saying II.
this is the age of generous hOnOraria.
That master genius, de Maupassant, was
satisfied to write for - or 3 cents
a word whereas Conan Doyle now esti-
mates that his last Sherlock Holmes
series has been worth 81 a word to him.
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Indeed. to date Sherlock has put into
his creators pocket no less than S4fsl."".
which is eighty times as much as Henry
ESmond was worth To Thackeray. Ana
on her novels Mrs. Humphry Ward real
lied an average of $1,000 more per
volume than Scott did for his-and Scott
once held the record for best sellers,
fs also did Charles Dickens. But our
Winston Churchill from single novel
has realized over S3U,UNO. or more than
the prolific and successful Dickens could
earn in six years when he was at the
height OF his fame. Milton sold the
copyright of Paradise Lost" for f3.
while Tennyson, shortly before his death,
received 500 line for a lullaby printed
in an American juvenile monthly.
Kipiing was glad TO sell his best India
tales for $50 apiece when lie first came
to America, but today our big thirty-five
cent magazines pay unknown writers from
500 to S125 for five-thousand-word sto-
rics And one Of our ten-cent magazines
is row offering 10 cents a word for the
best obtainable stories about prominent
people, witticisms. clever verse and very
short fiction" all OF which again recalls
poor de Maupassant turning out classics
at = and 3 cents a word. One of our
fve-cent weeklies today pays cents TO
TIE unknown beginner.
The musician. too. is receiving imme-
diate reward for his genius. Ii is said
that Leopold Mozart went breathless when
the prodigies. Wolfgang and Nannerl.
drew 100 guineas at one concert. And he
would doubtless fall lifeless were he to
see Paderewski receive his regular $4,000
for one performance. And Paderewski
gets this at eighty concerts within four
months. No wonder he can afford his pri-
vate car, his chef, valet, secretary and
personal manager. When Frederick the
Great wanted to be lavish in his generos-
ity to the noted prima donna, Mara, he
appointed her court singer at 81 go per
year: and of Katherine Tofts-the favor
lite English prima donna of the early
eighteenth century-it was written that
her salary was some $1,000 per season.
over 800 per night,' Her great rival
Margherita de L'Epine received per season
what our great prima donnas now draw
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for taxing purposes Every twenty years
is the period suggested.
The reversion duty clause would do for
IeasehOlds what the increment duty would
do for freehold land. Much Of the land
in England is held on long leases from
ground landlords, who have never done
anything to improve the land. The IA
vorite term for these leases is ninety-nine
years, and when they fall in the landlord
steps in and takes the land and all inn
provements, including buildings. which
have been made by the leaseholders. In
a city like London, for instance. some OF
the holdings of the ground landlords have
increased in value a hundred or even
thousand times on account OF the growth
i'm population and the increased CONNER
cial value of the sites. This. IL is eX-
pected would soon produce an immense
revenue to the government. ana would
correspondingly decrease the pronts OF
the ground landlords. who are looking
forward anXiously to the time when their
leases fall in and they will be able 10
pocket the immense profits which have
been piling up since their ancestors leased
the land. favorite method OF getting
hack some Of the increas ed value which
they have been unable to collect during
the life of the lease is the imposition OF
what is known fine for the re-
newal of the lease.
A case which illustrates this method oc-
Cured a few weeks ago. retail dry
goods company had large shop III the
West End of London, for which II paid one
of the dukes 81. 800 a year That was
fair rent when the lease was made. nearly
100 years ago. but at present the rental
value Of the land is worth just ten times
that sum annually. Not content with
renewing the lease at $1,000 year, the
ducal owner made the dry goods men pay
a fine of soJO,OOO for the renewal. know
ing we'll that they would rather do this
than lose the building which they had
erected with reference to their own re-
quirements, and the good will which
they had esta blished In the neighborhood.
Had LLOYD Georges reversion duty been
in existence the state would have forced
the duke to disgorge sjO.GW of this. which
would have gone toward tightening the
general taxation.
But perhaps the feature most feared
and hated. and at the same time the fea-
ture which seems most insignificant, is
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for each performsnce-S2.en. London
gasred when Mrs. BellingtOn was given
$1,000 for one six-month season Of
seventy eight performances or what
amounted To s192 per night. or less than
a tenth of the modern diva's price. The
whole musical world talked for years
over the $1,000 given To Angelica Catalan
for singing God Save the Queen and
Rule britannia at one performance. but
our newly yiSh millionaires now think
nothing of paying grand opera star
three or four times that sum for cou-
pie of numbers and an encore.
50
Legal and financial genius are also be-
ing rewarded as they never were before.
William Nelson Cromwell is said TO have
received a fee OF 10 less than 81 OO0.OOO
for selling the French Panama canal to
Uncle Sam. and James B. Dill is alleged to
have received a cold million for settling
the suit between Andrew Carnegie and
II. c. Frick. while this same amount
has been credited to w d. Guthrie as a
fee for breaking the will Of the late
Henry Bradley Plant When he was
about to enter upon his cabinet career
Elihu Root is understood to have been
offered S1O0~o a year simply as re-
tainer. insuring his services for the Met
ropolitan Traction Company. And I'm ad-
dition TO this periodical allowance gener-
Gus fees were TO be paid for such work
as might be done for the corporation.
But Mr.. Root declined the offer. prefer
ring to take chances on gaining the pres
t1ge OF a brilliant political career. And
Philander Knox is said to have made
as great financial sacrifice when he
entered public life.
The highest salary ever paid i'm the
United States is said to have been $50
900 per year. drawn by Samuel c. T
DOdd as general solicitor of the Standard
OH Company. But since Mr. Dodd's
death two years ago the distinction Of
being the highest salaried American is
said TO have fallen upon Mr.. John HAYS
Hammond. the distinguished mining en-
gineer. who is now as ~arm a chum OF
President Taft as he was of the late
Cecil Rhodes
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS
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dispassionately can deny that most OF
the principles contained in II are those
of Henry George, watered down little
perhaps. but the same principles never
theless, and no one can deny either that
they mark an entirely new departure In
British politics. In fact. this very new
ness forms the strongest part OF the po-
sition of the opponents OF the measure,
and has induced many moderate men on
the liberal side to throw in their lot with
the tories who are fighting the proposals
tooth ard nail Many of these moderate
men are not opposed TO the principles.
but they believe that Lloyd George has
taken the wrong way OF bringing them
before the country. The theory OF a bud
get bill is that IL should be connned 10
the production of revenue. Now the rev
enue which Lloyd George expects to gain
from his new proposals is altogether IN.
adequate when considered in the light or
their Importance and his opponents de-
clare that he is trying. under the cover
of a revenue measure; 10 sIhussle
through entirely novel legislation which
will change the whole face OF English
life Mr.. George admits. this TO GER
tain degree, when he says that ne does
not expect these clauses TO produce much
in the first wear, but declares that they
are capable OF great expansion. ThlS
expansion is just what his enemies are
afraid of.
At the present writing ne 'Woulu pe Il
daring prophet who would attempt 10
predict the fate of the budget. A couple
of weeks ago 1t looked almost Ger
tairtv that the house of lords "ou'h
throw il out. after ii had been passed
by the overwhelming liberal majority in
the commons. Today the situation seems
more doubtful. In any case il probably
will be all a question of tactics II the
tory party believes il can win in the
face of n red-hOt agitation for the limi-
tation of the power of the lords, such
as Il sure 10 follow the defeat of the
budget. the lords will throw out the bin.
II il believes that IL would not be wise
To risk it's future on this issue. the bud
get will he passed under protest by the
lords. and an effort will he made to bring
about an early dissolution of parliament
So that the whole question may he sub
United to the country with the least
possible delay.
These two alternatives would seem -
be tho only ones i'm country where
politics are taken seriously, hut there is
a third and not AT all unlikely one.
That rests with the action of the vast
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measure IL is true they have heen ac-
ceIted ny some or the advocates az these
clauses, out these are the more extreme
politicians who are not 'fra.d to call
themselves socialists. or a. least to ad-
NIT that there is much that needs TO he
reformed in the present - stem of land
tenure in this country.
To the unpreiudiced observer il IS evil
dent that the mantle Of Henry George.
the American land reformer. has fallen
on his namesakc Lloyd George. the
British chancellor of the exchecquer. No
one who examines the present measure
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on earth except loving and kissing and
such like nonsense.
When such a James decides to take a
wife. great is the fiuttering among the
wise mammas. because Il IS without
doubt the case that James is well able To
support a wife And does he select a nice.
quiet, grown-older Genevieve TO do that
little Hearts and Flowers grand march
with him? Well. hardly.
The James | am going 10 tell you about
was a very fair type OF the gentlemen
who have left their Boy-Jimmy days well
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behind them before bothering with that
moose: and the girl he hon
ored by his choice was just Jenny. laugh
Ing, loving little Jenny. looking forward
into life with such eager eyes. eyes that
dreamed dreams and saw visions.
srhey saw visions about Jimmy-Iames.
stately and handsome and admired. and
with a soul To match. And this wonder
did her the honor to WOO her. She never
stoned to think whether she loved him
or not She just tucked her little head
down on his shoulder-half afraid of her
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7 LLOYD Georges Attempt
l. to Tax Unearned In
crement and Undeveloped
Land Has Reused the English
Tories as Nothing Else Has
Since the Days of Cromwell
Sober Britons Are Shout
ing Revolution" at Him
Fate of His Novel Budget
Rests With the wild Men
of the Woods" Among the
Peers Who Never Take the
Trouble to Vote Except
When Their Pockets Are
Touched-What His Propo-
sails Really Are.
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.
ius Is far more
prompt than il ever
was before, and far
more generous. as
well.
Within a month
after his h o m e.
coming DIR. Cook
was receiving 5000
a night for lectures
on his polar trip.
One le ,ture ha s
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the tax on undeveloped land. Ii is only
proposed to place tax of one cent in
each % OF the capital value on such land
at nrst. but. of course. il may be in
creased later and that is what the land
owners are afraid of. II Is also proposed
TO exempt agricultural land altogether.
ana Tor the purposes Of taxation all land
which Is worth less than $50 I'm acre Is 10
be considered agricultural land. In or
DER To arrive at the value of all the land
In England. however. SO that the officials
may be able to decide what is liable for
tax and what is not, II will be necessary
10 compile new Domesday Book similar
to that compiled by William the Norman
when he conquered England. All the
holders of land at present trace their til
ties to the original Domesday Book
IT is argued against this tax that II
Will have the effect of promoting over
crowding i'm cities. Many houses i'm the
suburbs OF great cities have large gardens
and pleasure spaces, which are worth more
than $50 an acre. and they will all be
taxed. 1t Is argued that rather than pay
the tax people who can afford to have
beautiful gardens will move farther out
into the country, where land is cheaper,
and will cut up their city gardens into
building plots for small houses. On the
other hand. great tracts of pleasure
ground like the northern grouse moors
and Scottish deer forests. where the land
is worth less than $3.50 an acre. but
where whole populations have been
cleared off TO make room for game. will
not be taxed at all.
These are the features OF the budget
which many EnSlishmen say amount to
a revolution. They look innocent enough.
no doubt, but they do emDody new prin-
ciples. and Englishmen are afraid of new
things. whether they he principles or
American labor-saVing inventions. The
fate of the budget and with IL the fate OF
England for another generation or two
probably rests in the hands of the wild
men" whp never give politics thought
except when their own pockets are
touched The more Lloyd George and
his liberal friends denounce them the
more frightened the wild men will be-
come and the less amenable TO control
b. the sensible men OF their own party
The great question in England now IL
will Mr.. Balfour and Lord Lansdowne
the tory leaders. be able Ia keep them I'm
hand. and IL so what WY will LEY drive
them"
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OClALISM" and
revolution" are
words that are be-
coming familiar in
r n g is h politics
since the introduce
ton OF the present
budget. and they are
almost entirely d.
reCted a gainst the
Increment" a n Il
land tax fea-
tures OF that
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gained its value as building land il it
were not for the efforts of the builder
who risked his capital to develop it, One
of the features OF this proposal most OBJ
jected to is that the determination of
these factors is to be left to taxing COM
missionerS from whom there will be no
appeal.
Like the rest of the budget, this fea-
ture will not be retroactive. The value
of the land at the passing of the bill will
be estimated and when il is sold the
state will step i'll and take its share of
the increased price obtained at the first
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NR. COOK Makes a For
Il tune In Couple OF
Months - Wright Brothers
Also Getting Rich-$I2,5oo
for One Flight - Roosevelt
Making Big Money Re
Enumeration of Great Explor-
ers. Inventors. Writers and
Musicians of Today Com
pared With Those of Former
Time ESQ m e Surprising
Contrasts.
Copyright. 1909 10y John Elfreth Watkins
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number of peers who have come to he
known in political parlance recently as
1.-THE backwOodsmen' and the wild men
of the woods" IL may not be generally
known in America that only about fifth
of the members of the house OF lords ever
attend to their duties in parliament in
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probably Melted him more than he realized
in a half year previous to his departure
for the arctic and he has already realized.
on public appreciation of his success.
more than President Taft will receive for
two years of hard work at, his trade. DR..
Cook is said to have been in debt when
he returned from the north. and his