Newark post., 1910-10-19
Around Town

tie makes 1t little don I you know,
For little things are sweetest.
Little birds and little flowers,
Little diamonds, little pearls,
But the dearest things on earth
Are the little boys and girls"
Do not ask if a man has been through |
college. Ask il college has been
through him.
"One difference between a politician
and a reformer is that a politician
may get rich out ui politics and a
reformer may get poor"
Sometimes the campaign runs the
candidate and sometimes the candi
date runs the campaign"
Wise politicians don't try to fool
the people all the time, but only when
votes are needed
Satan finds some mischief still for
idle funds to do"
What is more beautiful than the
hills OF New Castle on bright Oc-
tober day.
People in the West End would en-
joy stroll around Chapel street
Bridge. The general appearance OF
the section has been greatly changed.
School children are rejoicing i'll
new supply OF books.
TAXES.
From the time that Eve partook OF
the fruit upon which levy had been
laid, tax has been a subject of the
human race. 1t has caused almost as
much trouble as women though not
quite. The cause. source and manner
of taxation has ever been subject
of dispute Socrates, Moses or
Squire | just forget which, said that
Death and Taxes come sooner or later
| to every man-the taxes always first.
| The assessment or payment OF taxes
runs close second with dog fight
| or moving fence as a sure excuse for
a fight The tax disputes have kept
| more bad t6wyers from Nhe poor
house than anything else on the
| docket.
The subject OF Tax-UNJUSI
| TAX, is all the issue campaign ora
tor needs. Ask Bryan. Tax has fig
ured in every move of history. Lool
at the French Revolution and ther
there was little discussion on tax
on tea and various other articles ul
around Boston in I776. | believe i
was. Some one said unjust tax-tha
was enough. The colonists had es
capped taxes and tax oratory i'll the OLE
country and here it was bobbing III
again. 1t had to come. The human
race just can't live without it. Well
some one yelled unjust tax and sedat
Boston forgot all her Christian Scienc
and suritanic learnings and had a re
gular Halloween party-went aboar
the English ships, stole what tea the
needed for awhile and threw the res
overboard-all to the tune of unjus
Tax And old sedate Sam Adams wa
in that party SO Ben Franklins so
I told me one day while he was Cover
nor of New Jersey. He had a ia
! racket and became reminiscent.
SO tax gave us our country as
was and Tax is making it what it il
z Tax is like a woman, it is the sourc
OF all good and all evil.
What am ! driving at? Well, la:
spring Newark had symptoms of til
Just tax fever liable to break out an
minute.
! Folks who rode on the Blue Bloc
express have thought they would hay
20 pay tax to cater to the whltn OF tn
Gravel Train crew. Like many otht
:, hhngs, it didn't happen. Lots O
things don't and many that do yc
1t can tell.
: | wish | could say my say on take
but | haven't got my nerve yet.
The hate OF tax and not love
Y money is the root of all evil, | dor
care what Solomon said. He was lii
!, the assessor that lives out of tow
" so it didn't make any difference.
But the trouble with this town is Il
same old thing-tax Though peop
have not walked up to it yet-not yt
Here's the college | love that inst
tuition just as much as you. 1t is mil
r Just as we'll as yours. She is Sta
l. institution and exempt from take
New Castle county has to pay
l. taxes on that institution for Kent al
:, Sussex. Then Newark. a small toy
1. it is even il il is the best i'll the Sta
has to pay the taxes for the who
+ county. it is an unjust tax, | tell yC
r And she will not let It's widen t
4 street when she does not pay ce
of tax
What did you say-it is benefit
the community Well, so are you
n not much benefit but some. SO are
stores-so are the newspapers n
e. bv dern sight. SO are the tactori
" The richest institutions in this to-
w. pay the least taxes.
OF They don't pay any, answered
Man Around Town; they change tn
name every ten years.
never thought OF that IL - z
UNJUST TAX.
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