Nome industrial worker., 1909-07-09

Recently the tax limit on personal property in the city of Chicago was placed of the low figure of S250 in or der that more names could be added to the tax roll. But this served to add only 5000 names to the list. The esti- mated population of Chicago is about 2,50O GOO and with the tax limit at S250 only a total of about Ill, ,000, a ratio of less than l to 20, have sufficient pro- perty on which to pay taxes. This means there are 620,750 families liv- ing in the city who have not enough furniture for the valuators of the board of assessors to value at S250.
 As the wealth of the country becomes more concentrated, the concentration must necessarily proceed yet more swiftly. Of the Ill, GOO who are taxed on personal property and the l2O,000 who pay real estate taxes, there is very small percentage, mostly made up of corporations, who succeed in lodging most of the taxes levied against them, who own by far the greater precentage of the personal and real property of the city.
 The system which has given capital ism the firmest kind of 8 clutch upon the workers, is rapidly getting death grip upon the middle class also. The vast majority of the workers have long since cessed to be home and pro- per,y owners, and in the cities the small traders are now mostly submitt- ing to exploitation by the landlord. h few years the number on the tax roll will be much smaller in spite of ln- crease in the population.
 We wonder if capitalism can be breaking up the home when it forces 95 per cent. of our families to live in rented roosts, with less than S25O worth of furniture?
 The following from the San Fran cisco Star will trow little light on the recent strike of Italian lumber workers at McCloud, Cal:
 WAITING FOR RIOT.
 Sheriff Howard of Siskiyou county is evidently a man who takes time by the forelock, as may be seen by this paragraph published in San Fran cisco paper last Saturday morning in the report from McCloud:
 ''No effort to serve the warrants se- cured yesterday by Sheriff Charles Howard for tue arrest of six leading strikers was made today, as the off cials awaited in vain for the Italians to commit some act that would warrant their arrest on the charges specified in the warrants-inciting riot and dis turbing the peace."
 f It seems, then, that the warrants were obtained under false pretenses. They were issued for the arrest of six men because the sheriff suspected that they would commit the acts named in the warrant. Wouldn't it save time for each sheriff in the state to obta in warrants for the arrest of every man in his county
 ''The Farley forces already have been made deputies" said dispatch last Friday night from McCloud. The Farley forces" are men hired in San Francisco, some of them detectives, some strike breakers. Why were non } residents of the county made deputy Sheritfs of the county? Is President QueSl of the McCloud Lumber con- pany the real sheriff of Siskiyou county?
 It was also shown that native Ameri cans were first employed by the lumber companies and in order to lower the wage scale Films and Swedes were imported. It was not long before the company found that Films and Swedes would not stand for everything, so Its- Hans and other southern Europeans were imported to replace them. It was these Italians, who, without being affiliated with any kind of a union, recently went on strike and were de- feated by hired murderers in the form of the state militia and Farleyites illegally sworn in as deputy sheriffs. The Star tells of one striker who re. ceived bayonet wound in the back four inches deep because he did not run fast enough when told to move on. II yXYo .uoadoa nc,,ae <,&A Aha a..,e