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this basis he paid taxes for several years.
Finally there came new man upon the
board OF assessors, and when they came
TO the five-hundred- pound country gen
tleman the old members of the board
We're going to write him down for the
same amount But the new member had
better information about him. Write
him down for fifty thousand pounds a
year and Won will not hear a murmui
from him" quoth he. and they did SO
The erstwhile five-hundred-p pound country
gentleman was glad to get off even al
that
That there will be tax lodging under
an income tax law in the United States
Is inevitable. hundred ways within
the letter. but without the spirit. of the
law will be foand 10 evade the tax. In
whole or in part. But the same is true
of taxes on consumption. such as the
tariff. and taxes on production. such as
the internal revenue taxes
1t is also true of land taxes. of corpora
ton taxes and of personal property taxes
Also hundred and one illegal methods
of lodging income taxes will be devised
and carried out. but the moonshrer the
smuggler and the tax dodger do the same
on other forms of taxation. = absence
by which a tax should be judged as TO
its rightness of principle then the world
would have to live without taxes.
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THE INCOME TAX.
Xxx Tax Dodging and
Dodgers
By Frederic J.. Haskin.
BY Frederic J.. Haskin.

The man who can frame a tax law that
will not be evaded by many people has
not been born. This applies not only to
income taxes. but to property taxes as
we'll. One of the principal objections urs-
ed against the income tax is that it
would make us a nation of liars and
put premium upon perjury. One does
not have to go very far to find that
if we regard undervaluat;on as lying
and failure to list property as perjury.
we are already such nation and such
a premium already has been placed upon
perjury.
To what an unima sinable extent tax
lodging has been carried on is shown
by the records of the census office In
1904 the unexempted property in the
United States was valued al little more
than sl0OO0O.Ot0Ge eco, this valuation being
given in by the people to the census
enumerators. But when the assessors of
taxes went around listing tithab:es a
little later these same people placed a
valuation of less than S;9,HWSn,OaN upon
that same property.
The worst evasion. of course, comes
with personal property because such a
large percentage of that is Intangible ana
can escape assessment. 1t is so bad, in
deed. in many states that if an in
come tax law could make It worse it
would be surprising: so bad that one
authority declares that few but the is-
norant do not dodge personal property
taxes. so bad that an Illinois commission
has branded il a school for perjury pro-
NOTED by law; so bad that in West Nir-
ginia they say people regard the pay
ment of personality taxes to be just
a bout as voluntary as a Sunday school
contribution.
\
| How extensive the lodging of personal
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DIES SHIELDING SLAYER.
Wounded Policeman Refused t
Make Charge Against Actor.

JERSEY CITY. y. j.. May 2s.-Patrick
Considine. the policeman OF Cliffside. y.
j.. who was shot Saturday night with
his own revolver by James Devlin a
vaudeville actor. died Yesterday of his
wound. With his last breath he refused
to make any charge against his assail-
ant. whose deed was prompted by
jealousy
A charge of homicide was lodged
against Devlin after the policeman died.
and he is held without bail for grand
jury investigation.
Devlin, who had spent the hours since
the shooting on his knees, in a cell of the
Hackensack jail. praying for the recover,
of the man whom he had wounded
shrieked in despair when his iailer told
him that he would be arraigned for mu,
der.
Mrs. Devlin heard the news of Consi-
dimes death without emotion
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Police Seek Joy Riders.

An automobile belonging to August Lee
drick. resident of Congress Heights. dis
appeared from In front OF TOT Sth street
southeast early last evening. Later il
was found abandoned at 9th and l. streets
southeast. II had been used by joy rid
ers and was damaged to the amount OF
about so. The police are looking for the
JOY riders.
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property taxes is may be shown by the
figures FIR m
Extent of Dodging many states
Taxes on Property. me ne census In, IN.

valued the personal property of Pennsyl-
wanna at Si,SS2.Go.OD. and the tax re-
turns valued it at 1.104, 0p0.GOo New
York. according to the census. had per
sonai property valued al 5000. oGO.UO and
according to the tax lists it was worth
only SHo,oon.OG0. In the United States as
a whole the people informed the census
enumerators that their personal property
was worth S4o.OGO0o0. OOO, and declared
TO the tax assessor that its fair value
was $1,000. 0oo.O0O
The lodging of taxes is by no means
limited to personal property. for in nearly
every city and hamlet and farming dis
trlct there is systematic undervalua-
ton of real estate. OF course, there is
no chance of lodging entirely, since land
ownership always and everywhere is re-
corded. But there are innumerable in
stances where real estate has sold for
two. three four and even five times the
value at which it was assessed SO
widespread has become the practice of
undertaking real estate in the United
States that the tax books show an ag-
gregate value of only half much as
the census records. In other words. the
land owners of the country told the CEN
sus enumerators that their real estate
was worth twice as mucn as they sWofe
to the assessor il was worta.
Property owners not the only tax
dodgers in the United States by any man
ner of means. Even whole counties very
frequently join tacitly in movement to
beat the state in which they are located
out of the revenue that belongs to il.
For instance, not long ago the auditor OF
Virginia announced that of the hundred
counties in the state seventy took more
their purposes than they put in it by tax
collections. Some of them have dellber-
ately. and with forethought. fixed a rate
of assessing property at a fourth or even
fifth of its real value. This permits
them to pay into the state treasury a
very small share of what they ought to.
and they pronounce ii good business
policy, since they take out of the state
treasury funds apportioned on population.
From this it will he seen that the
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clean HOUSE BEST
TO REDUCE. CRIME
Judges MulIoWny and Pugh
Praise Movement to
Abolish Alleys.
SENTENCESLACK EFFECT
ON "SHACK" JEWELLERS
Police Court Jurists Agree That Bet
ter Living Quarters Make for
Better Citizens.

Judges Mul.owny and Pugh of the Po-
lice Court both agree that a clean house
Will 60 farther toward putting an end
To a large proportion of ALLEY crime
than any number of workhouse SEN
fences. Both judges. expressing the high
est praise for the present movement to
enact a law which will settle the alley
problem once and for all time say that
the alley problem is not settled when
one row of houses is pulled down-and
that new and clean homes must be pro-
vided for the alley population thus scat
tered
Many crime is committed because
too many people live in the same house."
said Judge Pugh today. There never
was house big enough for two families.
and when YOU come to finding several
families in one alley house. and even two
families in room. then is when the
attack a member of the opposition family
with teakettle or frying pan, and
after that the police are busy for the
rest of the evening.
Ihere ought not TO he trouble in ar
ranging for housing of these folks who
Will have to move out when their present
dwellings, are torn down. 1t is a public
duty to provide clean homes, such as this
SANITARY housing Company is doing. l
guess If the Commissioners under their
general police power can undertake to
furnish homes at Occouuan for the fami-
lies OF prisoners sent there, the public at
large can readily take care of these slum
dwellers. There is a proposition now
afoot to build fine little colony for pris-
oners families down the river and
guess. if the authorities make it as at
tractive as they talk about the alley
population will move down there bag and
baggage. Therefore, l believe if these
people had decent homes and surround
ings there would be lessening of vice
and crime here
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from that business from being taxed,
establish permanent branches abroad
md never bring the income home. The
English liken this to the policy of Amer
IN manufacturers who, in order to get
4:,d the tariffs which other countries
against American goods. build
II factories In the countries where
desire to avoid duties, and do their
nt:tacturfng there rather than to make
their products in the United States and
ship them into the countries in question
Still another way to dodge their in
come taxes resorted to by English gem
tlemen, Is to turn over shares in cor
porations to their sons. the income there
from to serve in lieu of allowances. If
the father paid the allowance itself he
would first have to pay his tax upon the
income 1t represents. But when the son
gets the dividends from the stock direct
he escapes such a tax. But with all the
forms of tax lodging that are resorted
to in England in connection with the
income tax, it is estimated that only
about $3.50, Oo9@O of income arises from
sources where careful and persistent
checking up is not possible.
Penalties fixed by law for lodging in
come taxes as well as those for lodging
other taxes vary in the several countries
that have such taxes. In some cases a
falsica ton of returns by omissions is
penalized more severely than failure to
make any returns whatever. In some
countries the penalty is made an amount
double the tax evaded. in others treble,
and in al least one country the person
eyading any tax is liable for half of tie
income upon which he lodged the tax.
Some countries aim to encourage men
who have given false returns to act if
any pangs of conscience attack them as
a result. This is accomplished by a pro-
vision that If any man dodge his tax and
voluntarily comes forward at any time
thereafter and cOnfesses his fault and
pays the taxes lodged no penalty shall
be imposed and he shall be absolved from
censure.
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Mrs. Gebhardt. under the pen name OF
Helen Hale for several years had con-
tributed many articles to newspapers
and magazines. Ii Was said that her
husband objected To her entering liter
AIRY career. This caused "A separation
about four years ago. and later IL
vorce was granted. Mrs. Gebhardt came
here from Chicago two DAYS ago and
was registered at a loca hotel under the
name of Mrs. ID. 5. Dearhart"
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ROWS OUT INTO LAKE,
THEN SHE PLUNGES IN
Mrs. George F. Gebhardt. Known TO
Readers as Helen Hale. Is Sui
eide at st. Paul.

ST. PAUL. Mimi. MAY "a woman
who jumped from a rowboat into Lake
Coma near here yesterday and was
drowned. il became known TO-DAY. was
the former wife of Prof George r. Geb-
hardt, head of the mechanical depart
ment of Armour Institute of Chicago
In sight of many pleasure seekers, the
woman. who was alone. rowed TO the
middle of the lake. stood upright i'm the
boat and then plunged into the. water.
Tho body was not recovered
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evils of tax lodging are by no means
limited to in
One in Twenty-Five come taxes
to Pay Income Tax. well b.

greater tax upon the national
science with an income tax than "
personal property tan: With an e
ton es income below - coo II Is
PROBABLE that more than enc man in
twenty-five will have to pay an I'm 7ome
tan. SO that If every man who Is l;ab
to It strains his conscience It will be IN
no wise comparable, in the humber of
people Affected to false returns that
are made in every state In the Union
upon personal property
But with system of steppage at Its
source such as England has. only a
comparatively small percentage of the
income taxpayers can dodge it by false
returns. After the civil war there were
less than 100000 taxpayers under the
income tax law, when the exemption
was as low as a thousand dollars. AS
Stunning that there would be as many
In proportion today who would have In
comes of $1,000. the total number direct
" affected would not he more than 49,
Ma. and of these the bulk Of the In
ence. four-flfths), would have little OPP
portunity for tax lodging. 1t Is prob
able that system of stoppage at the
source would reach a larger proportion
of taxpayers in the United States than
In any other country, including England,
since larger proportion of the wealth
Of the United States Is corporate wealth.
For instance. the corpora ton tax re-
turns show a total corporation capital
In the United States Of seantn.otsp, 900
which is probably more than half OF the
total wealth of the country. as II will
be revealed wneu the census bureau
finishes Its calculations Of wealth. In
1fIA the total national wealth was
placed at Slo7 900 G0o0Co.
In England many methods of evasion
are resorted to. some legitimate and
OF hers clearly
Many Methods unlawful. Many
Used in Evasion. 49, - : o. -
reality English corporations with
branches in other countries assume to
be foreign corporations in England.
Some corporations which do business
abroad. in order to save their incomes
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Sentences Have Little Effect.

Judge Mullowny said today that all
the sentences man or woman could
get scarcely ever dampened the alley
lighters ardor for gin and excitement.
Take them out of these awful
shacks and put them in sanitary
homes and watch the difference" he
said. Il don't believe they care about
sentences to the workhouse / believe
they have better time there than
they do at home. If this problem were
solved by cleaning up alleys and plac-
ing the alley population in clean little
houses. properly built. in minor streets.
there would be an end to saualor and
british crime. perhaps
"A large percentage of the Police
Court cases have their start in alleys
and in the other criminal courts cases
of assault. burglary, larceny and even
murder We're bred in alleys. No doubt
many serious crimes are directly trace
able to the influence of the alley il
self.
II these people are forced out of their
shacks in the alleys and allowed to live
in the sanitary houses proposed for them
this city would he like another community
in ten wears. 80 far. as the. humble class
that we have to deal with here is con-
cerned. Citizenship would be greatly i'm
proved
Taking these people out of the alleys
is about the only way self-respect can be
engendered and foStered In this class
and | am wholly and heartily in favor of
the movement. And if we cannot move
them out of the alleys. there is only one
way TO treat the question in the court
and that is by giving judges the power to
pass indeterminate sentences BY this
means bad man from the alley can be
kept at the workhouse until he shows
signs of reforming
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General Committee to Meet

\ meeting of the general housing and
alley committee. composed of the repre-
sentatiVes of various civic organizations,
has been called for 30 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon at the residence of A. J. Par
sons, 18th and streets northwest The
meeting was originally planned for Fri
day, but since that is Memorial day il
was deemed advisable to hold it tomor-
roW instead.
At this meeting plans for the campaign
for better housing and alley conditions
in Washington will he discussed 1t is
desired to get the campaign we'll under
way before the summer vacation period
starts. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson has been
asked TO attend the meeting.
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Subscriptions to Stock Increase.

The subscriptions to the stock of the
Sanitary Housing Company reached ST.
Hn this morning. Mrs. Archibald Hop
kins, chairman of the Washington sec
ton. womans welfare department., Ma
tional Civic Federation. received from
Mrs Hennen Jennings $1,000 and from
Mrs. w. S. Boardmap $1,000. This money
will be used additional capital for
the company which intends to build san
ltary houses to take care of the alley
dwcllerS who VIII be ousted under the
condemnation of Goat alley and other
back ways. As explained by Mrs. Hop
kins and others. il is not merely a char
liable subscription. as the stock offers
. per cent dividends
No personally conducted tours of con-
Sressmen through the alleys were at
tempted today. The executive committee
OF the woman's welfare department held
meeting today, which prevented any
visits through the slums. The meeting
was not confined to alley subjects.
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MEXICAN CITY CUT OFF
FROM OUTSIDE WORLD
State Department Hears That
Geographic Communication
With Monterey Is Ended.

The Department OF State has received
word from Monterey. Mexico. Via. Saltilo.
that there has been no Geographic com
munication between Monterey and the
outside world since MAY 80. and that all
the wires are still cut except 10 Saltillo.
No trains are running from Monterey ex-
cept In Saltilo. Reata and Nillaldama
Stranded American passengers are report
ed Ia he proceeding 10 Texas hy coach
and on foot. The city Of Monterey IS
reported quiet.
Reports from Sa.tilo arc to the effect
that south-hound passenger train from
that town was attacked on the morning
Of Mas -. and taat work train without
guard. which was sent south on the fol
lowing morning. returned IN the afternoon
of the same day. reporting that the
rebels We're burning bridges and destroy
ing the track.
Arrangements for Mail to Mexico.
Repeating its instructions concerning
mail for Campeche and Yucatan. Mexico.
the Post Office Depar tment has again di-
rected that such mail shall be sent TO
New York for dispatch by steamship OF
the New York and Cuba Mall Steamship
line. which sails every Thursday Mail
tnat cannot reach New YORK IN TIME 10
connect with the steamships at that port.
is to Ice dispatched by way of the Jack
sonNille and Fort Pierce railway post of
| flee. which has been ordered to make up
| such matter in sealed sacks labeled Ia
| Progreso. Mexico. such sacks To be dis
! patched by way Of Havana, Cuba, Ia con
meet with the steamships at that port
every Monday.
| Senders of mail for campeche and
1uctan. Mexico. are not expected to in
| Guide the route of its dispatch in the ad-
| dress placed upon it. the postmasters
| who receive IL will handle il in accord
ance with the department directions.
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allow the assessor to make his own as
sessments and abide by the result. In
one instance. in England. for illustration,
a certain country gentleman never made
a return. The assessors fixed his income
al five hundred pounds a year, and on
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Some men prefer to suffer the penalties
imposed for failure to make returns
rather than to
Some Men Prefer aid the tax as
SCISSOR at all
" AoJ 'Ae They simply
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From this it will be seen that the
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Many Methods
Used in Evasion

reality English corporations with
branches in other countries assume to
be foreign corporations in England.
Some corporations which do business
abroad. in order to save their incomes
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-06-27
BaptiStS In Fighting Trim

The Chicago Baptist Association adopted the
following resolutions at it's annual meeting held in the
First Baptist church, Waukegan Illinois, on June 8:
We rejoice in the spread of and splendid achievements
the temperance throughout land during the
year. We commend the heroic stand taken by the
dent president and secretary of in banishng liquor
from all functions We recognize with much satsac
ton the action of Congress in passing the Webb bill Also
the splendid rendered by the AnSaoon League and
other organizations in securing legislation favorable to the
temperance throughout and country.
Resolved, That all forces working for the
throw of the liquor traffic through pending and future egsla
ton loyal sympathy and earnest support
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-06-27
THE AMERICAN ISSUE
June ~, 1913.

saloon They seeking to carry the day by mob
rule.
Last spring Thebes elected dry town board.
This new board raised the saloon license from 500 to
$1,000 At the expiration of the licenses May 80
the saloonkeepers failed to their license but
continued selling liquor. By the aid of detectives
these joints were all ferreted out and evidence was
secured against all of the ex-saloonkeepers.
The pastor of the Methodist church was par
ticularly active in carrying this fight against the
illegal joints and for that incurred the enmity
of the saloon crowd. Last Monday night the parson-
age was stormed by shower of rocks and missiles of
various sorts. The good town people soon came to
the aid of the pastor and his wife and four little chill
dren, and serious damage was done. However, the
incident has aroused of the good people to the
proper fighting spirit and the prediction freely made
that Thebes will become dry territory at the next
election.
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Wanted - A Man of Good Habits

We have before us personal letter addressed to
friend from the Sun River Distilling Company, of
Great Falls, Montana, signed by the manager It is
as follows:
am seeking for capable of good
habits to purchase interest in this dstlery
and to take position with it good salary
If you know of any such person. please
refer to him, and oblige
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-06-27
This is the Way They Do it in Kansas

The following press dispatch from the Kansas
City Times bears testimony to the effective law
forcement work that is being done in the state Of
Kansas with reference to the Prohibition law
TOPEKA, June 1o.-The heaviest SEN
tence ever imposed upon Topeka jointist
startled Clarence Floyd in police court today
Judge Huron imposed fine of $1,000 and
sentence Of 72o days in Jail upon the convic-
ton of the defendant of the charge of six
liquor sales.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-06-27

This is no time for to be hating or unde-
cded If he is not for the liquor business against
it he is likely be trampled upon by the opposing
armies and there is no dangerous place in a
conflict than in the territory between the fields occu-
pied by the contestants.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-06-27
Would Make SdloonkeeperS Ineligible
f0~ Offiro
Office

Legislation making it impossible for saloon
keeper or manufacturer of intoxicants to hold to
be candidate for any public office suggested in
resolutions adopted by the Baptist ministers OF Chi
cago at their weekly meeting recently. That part
of the resolution which pertained to this matter is as
follows
Be it further resolved, That suggest
to our temperance leaders the ACCESSIBILITY OF
drafting law that will dsqualify as candi-
date for or holder of public office every
owner of saloon license and every manufac-
turer of intoxicating drinks.
If the dispatch is to be relied upon which states
that Mr.. Bryan opposed to certain candidate seek
ing diplomatic post, it would seem that Mr. Bryan
has already reached the position aimed at by this
resolution.
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The Last Argument of the Rummies

The saloon crowd of Thebes, thoroughly beaten
by fair means in their effort to ride the will of
the people have resorted the final argument of the