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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-04-29
The Income Tax, Why Not?

An income tax? To be sure. Why not?
1t is tax wealth. That is good
argument in its favor.
Why not tax wealth? Is there anything
incendiary about the proposition to tax wealth?
Is there anything dangerous?
A man has inherited house and lot from
his father. The rent of the house and lot-the
house happening to be used as offices and the
lot CHANGING to be in settled portion OF large
city-is 100000. That is net. 1t Is the mans
income. 1t comes to him without effort. 1t
comes to him without the exercise of any par
ticular foresight self-denial; without any
unusual business acumen or executive ability.
1t comes to him merely because his father hap
pened to buy the lot and hold it; and because
his father used reasonable amount of industry
and thrift, and put building the lot. Now
1t is merely the permanent producer of an in
come. The son does nothing but Gown" the
property, and his agent hands him his monthly
checks for the income.
Why not take some OF that unearned money
for the governments expenses?
The government does not hesitate to take
part of the wages of the man who works for
what he gets. The man in the mill who sweats
for his 81 day; or the youth In the office
who writes figures in book for his SO week,
or the girl behind counter who stands on her
feet and sells lace all day for her IS week
the government does not hesitate to take tell
of them. The $340,000,000 year raised by
so-called customs dues tariff taxes, levied,
for the most part, on articles of daily consump-
ton, such as sugar, canned goods, preserved
meats, wooden and cotton clothing, soaps crock
cry, rent-the thousand and one small things
that enter into the cost of daily living. The
government raises half its revenues at the pres
ent time by the indirect taxes on these articles,
and while raising revenue. encourages monopoly
and subsidies certain manufacturing interests.
which return the favor by demanding increased
subsidies, and using their illgotten gains to buy
the agencies of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, represen-
tatives, and even presidents.
That system is not good.
tax on incomes-earned and unearned
incomes-would be better way to raise the
revenues.
And, IL revenues increased alarmingly. con-
gress could reduce the tariff taxes. This is the
answer to the plea-the sudden and quantity sur
prising plea-of Mr.. Aldrich, that tariff reve-
nues are looking up" and tax on incomes
would be unnecessary.
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THE WONDERFUL LETTER
By Stuart Ii. Stone.

Dy ~ osOAASs
Germans stenographer allowed
the unfinished letter to project
stiffIy from her Invincible No. s
while she dreamed steadily out OF
the big, open window.
German stuck his head into the
office. "Mornin',," blurted he,
blushing furiously. "Nice day"
Miss O'Rourke nodded, blush
ing too, and German backed out.
nearly slamming the frosted glass
from the door. Each morning he
entered the office with a beautiful
string of comment conceived dur
ing the ride downtown upon the
tip of his tongue for delivery to
the girl at the machine. But when
he popped his rather bald head
into the little suboffice he forgot
the prospects of early spring, the
chances of the Cubs for the pen
nant and the new kind of birds
upon the ladies' hats, and said,
"Mornin'-nice day!"
There were times when Miss
O'Rourke found pinkish, lace pa
per valentines bearing delicious
notices of sentiment upon her
desk, or maybe red roses peeped
from a vase filled with hydrant
water-and she was far too
shrewd not to guess where the
tokens came from. But the only
time she had endeavored to thank
German he had denied the deed
with vigor and, pleading an en-
|gagement, had remained away
from the office all day. So that
|afterward, in the interests Of the
business, Miss O'Rourke kept her
thanks to herself.
This morning, though, 1t was
quite evident that German was
perturbed. For instance, he
thrust his head into the inner of.
flee and said for the second time
"Mornin'-nice day!" grinnine
most idotically. Later he rang fol
Miss O'Rourke, only to inform hel
that he believed Boston would
win the pennant after all. Finally
he rang long and vigorously, and
when she responded motioned fol-
her to take his dictation:
''Mr. John Jones,
999 Jones ST.. Jonesville"-
What an odd name and ad.
dress!" murmured aggit
O'Rourke.
German grinned foolishly and
resumed:
Dear Jones: I am consid-
ering momentous step--one
that will affect my whole life.
am very lonely, Jones. No
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DaiWSborfStory
one in the world cares for me.
1 want to ask you something"

one In the world cares for me.
want to ask you something"
German stopped and eyed the
girl. He was red as a well-burn-
ed brick and actually perspiring.
The stenographer lifted her head
of caramel-copper hair and re-
garded him with her gray eyes.
"Well, why don't you ask her
that is, him?" she inquired.
"Oh-er-yes," stammered Cor
man. 1--WE will proceed:
"There is a certain person
who is essential to my happi-
ness, but is beyond my grasp.
She Is red rose, pearl and
worthy to marry q duke. Had
better forget this sentiment
of sweet seventeen in the
month of June, or test my
fate in one bold throw? Write
me, Jones. l must now say
good-by. Yours,
"GORMAN."
"There," said German, with
tremulous tones and with
strange look at Miss Maggie
'O'Rourke. "You may typewrite
that"
1t seemed to German that the
girl was over long at the tran
scribing, but eventually she re-
turned and handed him the COM
pleted letter. 81 had trouble with
my notes." she explained, blush
ing violently. "You hesitated and
looked at me so queerly."
German read:
Dear Jones: / am consid-
ering a matrimonial step
one that will provide me with
a wife. / am very homely,
Jones, but what girl minds a
little thing like that. I am
going to ask her some time in
the next million years. There
is certain girl who is dying
to have me, but who doesn't
get a chance. She is red-
headed Irish girl and her
name is Maggie O'Rourke.
Hadn't we better have the
wedding on the 18th of June
as soon as Maggie can make
her trousseau? Goodby,
Jones. I must now kiss my
fiance. Yours,
"GORMAN."
"My stenography is getting
something awful" apologized Mag
gle O'Rourke.
But your transcript is perfect"
dubbed German. at is just what
I've been dying to say for two
years."
Then he stopped and carried out
the last declaration in the wonder
full letter.
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Daily Comic and Hutnor Section
AA !! Go z 81 as:

I asked my boss for day off. He
asked me If I cared what day it
was. NO." I said, 81 wasn't"
Then he gave me an off day off.
Oh, he was a tightwad, that
man. When he'd get a roll of
bills, he'd sew 'em together.
advised him to have them bound.
He threw them on the floor sever
al times to have them bound, but
they wouldn't.
Another time 1 asked him to
give me higher salary. So he
made me walk up to the tenth
floor to get it.
He said he'd put it even higher
| IL I wasn't too weary.
Another thing he did-he made
me press his trousers in the let
ter press. One time l took them
out and mailed them by mistake
to a man we'd been dunning. The
man wrote back and said he
hadn't expected us to start suit
so soon.
He used to smoke cigars, he did,
and blow the smoke in my face.
I didn't mind that when they
were good cigars, only he made me
take deep breathing exercises to
keep the room clear of smoke.
| Whenever he'd want to say
something private over the tele-
phone he'd make me stick my
head in a bucket of water, so I
couldn't hear. Sometimes he'd
talk so long I'd get peevish in
there. So he let me have little
rockery in the bucket, like the
goldfish have. That kept me
amused, and him, too.
But he was very good to me.
When I quit he gave me letter
of recommendation. He recon-
mended me to try for a job curry
ling off sea horses in the aquarium.
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Any Of you ever a private sec
rotary?
Fine job that. Nothing to do
but help your boss watch you
work.
He dictates to you and you put
1t down. That's different from
being married. Your wife die
tates to you and you put up with
1t.
AS private secretary you have
to know everything, until the
first thing you know you know
too much, but you have to know
enough not to know anything
Then you know as much as the
boss does.
Don't be like the private secre-
tary for the armless wonder. He
was told to write letter, and he
started: 81 take my pen in
hand"
The next thing he knew he took
his hat in hand.
You have to humor your boss.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-04-29
SOCIET Y
Same old openwork--
Nothing Is new
Girls, as formerly,
Wear peek-a-boo.

The National Council of Women
of the United States, will be held
in Seattle, July 10 to 16, in the
Alaska-Pacific auditorium. The
announcement comes after several
weeks elaboration and communi-
cation between women of the var
ious states. Matters of interest to
all women will be discussed. Mrs.
May Wright Sewell is president OF
the council.
Members of the Lakeside club
will have an "Inglenook" shower
this evening at the club house on
American lake. The affair is one
inaugurated by the club, and has
always been a huge success in the
past. Each person attending
brings some article of ornamental
ton or use that can be put to good
usage in the club house.
The Philomathean society of the
University of Puget Sound will
give it's second annual concert to-
morrow night, in the university
chapel. The program will include
solos, choral numbers and dramat-
ic readings.
Mrs. r. l.. Hockabay will enter.
tain Fern Auxiliary, Order of the
Eastern Star, tomorrow afternoon
at her home. S15 South o St
Prominent among the musicales
of the season is the violoncello re-
cital to be given this evening at
the Temple of Music by Nine.
Kaethe Pieczonka, assisted by
Nine. Clara G.. Lazarus and Mrs.
T. v. Tyler. This will be the
second recital ever given by Nine.
Pieczonka In Tacoma, and her APP
pearance has been anxiously
awaited by those who know of her
fame. A number of rare and ex-
tremely difficult pieces will be
given.
The third annual ball given by
Cascade lodge, No. 279, Interna-
tional Association of Machinists,
for the benefit of district No. 26,
will be held tonight at Masonic
temple. The affair promises to
be an unqualified success. Ke11y'e
orchestra will furnish music. The
public is cordially invited.
The senior High school class
year of '09, will entertain with 9
dance this evening at Sloan's hall
in honor of the junior and sopho.
more classes. A large number oil
invitations have been issued tc
friends of the class, and a most en-
joyable evening is promised.
"Sixteen Maids Of Sweet Six
teen" is the title of pretty little
program to be given tomorrow
night at Mason Methodist church
on North Proctor street, by girls
Of the STANDARD Bearers" a mis-.
sionary society of the church.
y
In compliment to Mrs. Emms
De Voc, Of Seattle, president OF
the State Suffrage association
Mrs. ]. @. Mason will giYe q large
reception tomorrow afternoon 81
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her residence, on North Washing
ton street. The hours are from
2 to 8, and a general invitation is
issued to women of the city to
meet Mrs. De Voc.
An informal reception and OPEN
ing OF the church parlors was held
last night in the Emmanuel Pres
byterfan church, North Ninth and
] streets. The church has been
but recently completed.
Edelweiss club will meet tomor-
row afternoon at the home of Mrs.
C. Ebert, 2301 North Twenty
third street. The annual election
of officers will be held after the
regular study OF the afternoon.
Virginia Dare chapter, ID. A. r.,
will meet tomorrow afternoon
with Mrs. o. @. ElMs at her home
ON North X street.
The Clilldren's Musical Study
club will be entertained tomorrow
afternoon. at the studio OF Nine.
Fernando Hansen, 1113h Tacoma
avenue. An informal program
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-04-29
The Council and the
Tacoma Grocery Trust

The grocery trust has at last captured the
CITY council and succeeded in taking steps that
e Il expected will kill the public market on d
st This market started in the late summer
after most OF the berries and produce was gone.
trust and did much to break the backbone of the
combine which was sitting competition of food
stuffs.
The market has struggled along all win
ter, the stallkeepers doing the best they could
under adverse conditions to try to establish the
market firmly by the time the spring should
arrive with its flood of fresh vegetables and
fruits.
The time Is about here for the people to be-
GIN to reap the benefits from the market and
now. the city council has succumbed to the in
0uence Of the grocery combine and proposes to
wipe out the whole thing
To remove the shed at this time OF year
simply means that the stallkeepers will have to
stand In the rain and display their wares. II
means customers will have to go and stand In
the rain while they shop.
They simply will not do It, The councilmen
who pushed this thing through know it and
the market will have dwinded until there Is
nothing left Of it.
Then the grocery combine can go goug-
ing the people as before.
It Is fine scheme this bunch in the coun-
oil has put up to the people. Rankin. who was
a the grocery business and fought the market
when IL started led the fight to kill 1t now.
Lynn, who has family connections with the gro
cary business. gave impetus to the movement and
- the people are to be turned back into the
clutches Of the grocery combine.
Are the people going to stand for it?
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on Friday. and things began to happen right

on Friday. and things began to happen right
away.
Newspapers secretly owned and controlled
by trusts and railroads set up terrible CHATTER,
and on Sunday in nearly every church in Duluth
and similar ore-shippng cities the ministers
PRAYED THAT GOV. JOHNSON WOULD
VETO THAT BILL to tax the Steel trust.
And on Monday he did.
And the Steel trust saved 100000 year
or $4,000 a working day. or per cent interest
on 10 MILLION DOLLARS, or the annual wages
Of some 1900 average American families
Inference No. THE only reasonable in
ference as to why the parsons prayed the taxes
off the Steel trust is that the parsons, knowing
of the Sugar trust matter, felt that, insead of
equalizing taxes, the law would merely cause the
Steel trust to lie, cheat and steal So to deliver
us from temptation and prevent the Steel trust
from SHINING they prayed for veto.
Inference No. 2-That prayer is efficacious.
These two differences exclude any consider
alton to the influence the Steel trust news
papers and lobbyists may have had on Gov.
johnson; also the effect his action may have
his presidential aspirations in 1912
though few more such vetoes will certainly
mark him as real safe-and-sane Teller.
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Two Incidents and a
Couple of differences

Today we have two incidents from the cur
rent news.
Let's look them over and see If there is any
Inference to be drawn from them. aa
Incident No. There was a small tariff
ON sugar. The Sugar trust imported great
deal of its sugar through the port of New
York. The government found that the trust
had for years hired men to cog the scales so
that when trust sugar was weighed for the pur-
pose of estimating the duty to be paid to the
United States government, the scales always
gave the trust the better of it.
The government sued the trust (when
Roosevelt was president), and proved how q
wooden plug and bit of wire did the trick.
Also showed how inspectors well as
scales were fixed" by the trust.
The sugar trust denied 1t all, so when a
Jury returned verdict directing the payment of
some half a million dollars in evaded taxes it
branded the Sugar trust a perjuror well
~ . cheat and a thief.
Incident No. 2-The Steel trust has gobbled
IN all the iron fields of Minnesota.
- The Steel trust is reaping of the rich
est crops in history, when with great steam
shovels 1t scoops up the red iron ore of the
Minnesota fields and ships it to its furnaces on
the lower lakes.
The farmers of Minnesota have always paid
good plump taxes their farms, but somehow
the steel trust never seemed very strong at tax
paying time.
So the legislature of Minnesota enacted
law levying tax of to cents ton on all iron
ore shipped out of the state. This happened
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will be held and refreshments will
be served.
The H. @. s. fraternity and the
girls of the Kappa Sigma Theta
fraternity of the University of
Puget Sound are Jointly preparing
a college play to be presented at
the school May IA. The cast will
include 81 persons. and Prof. w.
Eugene Knox of the school of ora
tory Is coaching the amateur
actors.
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THE PEACENIAKER

Once a quiet, peace-loving little
rabbit built himself neat little
home. While he was out looking
for some cabbage one day, a wea-
sci slipped into his house, and
liking it very much, made up his
mind to stay.
When the rabbit came home he
saw the weasel at the window.
Don't you know that is my
house?" said the rabbit.
"Your house, indeed" answered
the weasel. "You only dug in the
ground and came in to live where
the earth was gone. Do you think
lyou own the earth?"
1.-THE law gives it to me-" said
the rabbit.
1.-THE law? What right has the
law to give away the land?" asked
the weasel.
WELL" replied the rabbit. eve
won't quarrel about 1t; we will go
and lay the matter before the cat
land let him decide"
"Very WELL" said the weasel,
land they set out to see the cat.
Come close, my dears, and
don't both talk at once" said the
cat. Come nearer yet, as I am
quite deaf
They came very near the cat,
both talking loudly, and in mo-
ment the old cat darted out his
claws on either side and held them
both fast.
First he ate the poor rabbit, and
then the weasel, and then he held
his sides and laughed, for now he
lcould go and live In the rabbits
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WORDS TO FREEZE THE SOUL
your son has Consumption. His
case Is hopeless" These appalling
words were spoken to Geo. p. Blew
ems, leading merchant of SPRING
|fieid. n. c., by two expert doctors
|--ons q lung specialist. Then was
Kings New Discovery. After three
was as well as ever. ! would not
take al 1.-The money In the world
for what Il did for my boy" Infal-
libis for Coughs and Colds, Its tho
safest. suresf cure Of desperate
Lung diseases on earth. 500 and
81 90. All druggists guarantee sat-
tsfact1on. Trial bottle free.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-04-29

strawberry 8 N
authorities
spots complexion
pref which delight beauty
Here's recipe for strawberry cosmetic
heaping Tablespoonful of mutton talow
it about tablespoon Of powdered
inc
add half cupfu of strawberry Juice. stirring
orous over all a
Finally, O O
in little jars away cool.
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WINS dWHY NOTS''
%EATIN6
Written Expressly for the Times by W. r. c. Laon, d. Editor
Health Culture Magazine Author "Food Values of Meat
Common Disorders"
WHEN DRINK AND WHEN

A question often asked is:
why should / not drink with my
-rf7Bals?"
Well, mainly because the gas
trio Juice and the saliva are both
fluids. and they act best when they
are most ncentrated-quite nat
urxlly.
II you dilute these fluids with
= pint or more of water you
weaken their action, perhaps to
such q degree that they may fail
e do their work, and the consN-
Standardization. Fluids other
than water. as wine, beer, tea, cof-
fes. and SO on, not only dilute the
digestive fluids, but eomplicate the
problem by adding poison to the
food.
There is another reason quite
y important, and that Is this:
Whom . fluid Is taken with food
e q generally used to help wash(
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-04-29

a spider, and, when 1t bubbles,
add two tablespoonful of flour;
after they cook for a minute, add
pint of hot milk and season with
salt and pepper and half tea
spoonful OF parsley.
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AUTHORS FOREWORD

In IucSC artASlcS sndh
try to give you plain and
practical directions as to
what to eat, how to eat,
when to eat and how to use
food SO as to get from 1t the
greatest possible amount of
health, strength and power
of both body and mind.
OF have no ''fads" or icOno-
elastic ideas to present-just
plain common sense. i shall
no doubt say some things
with which you will not agree.
Am L right or wrong? Here's
the test; Follow my sugges-
lions for a fortnight and see."
wv. r. @. LATlsON.
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ths food down the throata
he food Is not properly macaed and that therefore has
Why is Il advisable to drink freely water other
out Of
blood digestive
fluids without
hour
IS The body Of contains
half of water. This
~ the rate OF six OF three
addition to the all
about
Hbent daily.
Heavy drinkers almost always heaithyso
ccn6ne
d
1<nusnoh = his article.--E6orl
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Dreamed New Potatoes

After the new potatoes
been boiled as usual, drain
cover them with this sauce:
two tablespoonful Of butter
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For fishing tackle 80 to II. e.
Peterson, 924 Tacoma av. sss
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-04-29

IAN actor gifts as
tired of q play as tn
public does"

Same old openwork-
Nothing is new
Girls, as formerly,
Wear peek-a-boo.
The car of Russia draws an
income of $12,000,000 from his
holdings in gold and other mines
in Siberia.
The guest glanced up and down
the bill of fare without enthusi-
assn.
"Oh, WELL" he decided finally,
you may bring dozen fried
oysters.
"Ah's very sorry, sab. but we's
out OBJ all shell-fish 'ceptin' aigs."
-Everybody's Magazine.
The emoluments of the officers
of the French Academy of Sci
ences were fixed by Napoleon Bon
aparte, and have not been changed
since that time.
1t rained when Roosevelt reach
ed Membasa, but the big game has
not been called off on account of
wet grounds.
Carnegie predicts big war be-
tween Great Britain and Ger
many and wants some one to flag
1t before too late. At the same
time, no war ever hurt the steel
business.
President Taft attended the ball
game the other day and Washing
ton lost. This, however, was no
feat for Washington.
Old Lady: Conductor, is this
my car?
The Con: Nom, 1t belongs to
the railroad, same's the rest of
'em.
He: AS I gazed into your eyes
the blue of the sky faded.
She: When met you the grass
appeared less green.-Harvard
'Lampoon.
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Your SHOES
and OxFORDS
bought from US
means satisfaction
and money saved.
Footwear for men,
women and chil-
dren. CONN.
WILLIE q HAUsER
The Shoe Men
1B12 Jefferson ~.
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In compliment to Mrs. Emma
DE Voc, OF Seattle, president OF
the State Suffrage association.
Mrs. ]. @. Mason will giye q large
reception tomorrow afternoon at
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTE

"What is the best way to treat wrinkles?'
''Set 'em up to the skin food"
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"Sixteen Maids Of Sweet SIX
teen" is the title of a pretty little
program to be given tomorrow
night at Mason Methodist church,
on North Proctor street, by girls
Of the STANDARD Bearers" a mis-
sionary society of the church.