Evening star., 1915-11-16


of the population here should be con.
sfdered in levying taxes. He said thai
there were 100, 900 colored people. mos'
of them poor; 10000 government EN-.
raised since 1882: $4,000 clerks and
mechanics in private employ.
THAT leaves" said Mr.. Lancaster
''135, 200 persons here who are supposed
10000 pay ali the real estate taxes Dc
you want to claim that $4,000 men
here can raise seven or eight million
: dollars a year in taxes to put IN tne
Treasury, as some have claimed. ~
: would mean bankruptcy. 1t can't be
done.
Are you going to say to that little
bunch of men that they must raise all
this money!"
I The Financial Team.
Mr.. Lancaster then drew a picture
which he entitled the financial team.
z AN elephant and goat are the
financial team of the District" he said.
.:The elephant is Uncle Sam and Billy
D. c. is the goat The driver OF the
team is Herbert J. Browne. And he
drives the team up Pennsylvania ave-
nue. to the financial feed trough at the
Treasury Department. The elephant
gobbles up all the food and leaves the
goat the pickings. Then Mr Browne
comes to the rescue of the goat with a
bunch of chestnuts from the George re-
port, and Billy goat gets neutral indi-
gestion. When the goat recovers from
that ailment l hope to exhibit him over
the country.
This is the dark hour for the Dis
-trict of Columbia" said Mr.. Lancaster
in conclusion. But the darkest hour
always comes before dawn, and you
gentlemen are the dawn of a brighter
day for the people here.
w. ]. Kehoe Opposes Single Tax.
Following Mr.. Lancaster's argument, W.
J. Kehoe addressed the committee for an
hour, announcing himself squarely in op-
position to all single tax ideas. He de-
clared that H. J. Browne had no advan-
tage in ancestry over him; that although
the early Brownies had been driven from
England by Oliver Cromwell, according to
the descendant of the family now being
Gmeiighted daily before the joint select
committee, the earlier kehoes were driven
from Ireland because of single tax burdens
imposed in connection with the alien
landlord system. Mr.. Kehoe declared
that for practical purposes che commit
tee might as well have read Progress
and Poverty. inasmuch as nothing but
the elder George ideas, naked and un-
adorned, had been presented by the yar1-
Gus single takers before the committee.
As for MIR. Brownies socialistic IDEAS
MIR. Kehoe pronounced them all to be
the scheminS of a Frenchman who
spent his life either in Jail or on his
way there.
AS an axiom for the committee Mr..
kehoe laid down the principle that
nowhere is land properly taxed at
more than l per cent.
DiScucSoc Tpferac% p,%a.
His discourse led him into channels
OF capitalism, and when, speaking of
interest rates, he was. drawn into a
discussion of the effect of high interest
in Egypt before. the English finally
gained control Mr.. Kehoe said h had
studied that situation and also the re-
suit Of interest in the Philippines.
l made study of it on that great
matrimonial trip to the Philippines"
ne said, which Mr.. Cooper will re-
nleihper. and want every one to know
trip " e
further on. in speaking of capitalism,
MT kehoe used John D. Rockefeller as
lay figure to, illustrate a point.
"A capitalist hasn't any more mos,Au
in his pocket than any one else. .-ff,s
money Is out working all the time,
John d. Rockefel1er's money Is Ike
that II is out at work. building houses.
raiiroads. supporting people, paying the
salaries of Congress"
like the idea that Rookie feiler,efs
paying the salaries of Congress-" said
Representative Cooper
Get the difference between the man
ana ms money, said Mr.. Kehoe. 4
Later on he attacked the single txx
idea OF mathematiesr~and-, spoke. of
Cni:ef Justice .Coyington- In this way: :
He could not see that not less than
two-thfrds means the same; a. 'not
not more than five dollars -ands-I /. maid
MIN not less than five dollars, 7 would
nave paid him exactly what II owed
"A good singie-taxer gets religion on
the subject: and the worst Of ii il that
one has TO believe in it~before he gets
the benefit Of it,. :.