The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-03-03
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"our country! In her intercourse
with foreign nations may she always
be in the right; but our country, right
or wrong" -stephen Decatur.
CONSERVATIVE COURSE BETTER.
1t has grown to be popular thing
/. in many of the large cities Of the coun-
try to attack men OF wealth because it
is claimed they do not pay their pro-
portion of public taxes. We fear it is
generally the case that where a man
Of wealth does not pay in taxes, what
in the opinion OF large number of
people he should pay, that he be-
comes target for criticism. Some
selfish persons go so far as to even at
tempt to advance their political inter.
ests by assaulting men who do not
pay sufficient taxes from their stand
point.
We have no defense to make of a
man who will shirk the responsibility
OF paying his share OF taxes, but we
think some times communities suffer
because of the measures adopted by
indiscreet and vindictive conduct on
the part of,those who have the matter
of collecting the taxes.in hand. The
community is better off with men of
wealth in it. paying reasonable
amount of taxes than it is where it
adopts course which drives the
wealthy men out Of the community.
We find in a number of large cities
that many wealthy citizens are driven
into changing their legal residences
by reason of persistent pounding on
the part OF tax collectors. The latest
reports are that Charles r. Crane, a
multi-millionaire, has abandoned his
legal residence in Chicago because of
being harassed, as he CONSTITUTES it, by
those who claim the right to collect the
taxes. He is about to take up his res
idence at Woods Hole, Mass, where
his. summer residence has been main
tanned for some time. George e.
Adams, formerly a member of con-
gress, and at one time president of
the Union League club of Chicago, it
is said, has decided to move to New
Hampshire and make his permanent
residence there. Samuel w. Allerton,
a multi-milliOnaire, now deceased, left
Chicago some time ago and estab.
lished permanent residence at Ge-
neva Lake, Wis. His son, Robert Al
lert0n, has established his legal resi-
dence at Monticello, Ill. Two mem
bers of the Deering family have left
Chicago on account, as they claim, of
being harassed by tax collectors.
Franklin McVeigh, formerly secretary
of the treasury, maintains legal res
idence in the city of Washington, as
does Robert r. Lincoln, both of whom
were formerly of Chicago. John B..
Farwell, wholesale dry goods mer-
chant; George H. Holt, millionaire
broker; Alfred L. Baker, stocks and
bonds; Ward w. Willis, president of
Adams & West Lake company, and
Louis r. Swift, the packer, maintain
their residences at Lake Forest, Ill.
The loss of these millionaires to
Chicago must be noticed in the tax
receipts and thoughtful men are COM
ing to the conclusion that the matter
of collecting taxes is OF SO great i'm
portance that it should be in the
hands of conservative men rather than
those who seek to make political cap
ital out of the matter.
We know of instances in our own
state where men have been driven out
of communities in which their money
was made because OF an apparently
vindictive course against them in the
matter of collecting the taxes. Cali
fornia has shown disposition to in
vite capital to that state by adopting
plan of taxation less rigorous than
some other communities.
We have no defense to offer for the
one who will not pay his taxes, but
we believe that it is better for COM
munity to adopt conservative course,
to act reasonably toward those who
pay large taxes than Ito disclose
spirit Of hostility toward them.
It is said that Marshall Field, be-
for his death, Levi Letter and Otto
Young threatened to remove from Chi
cagO IL they could not have reduced
their taxes and afterwards the matter
Was taken up and adjusted in salts
factory manner. We believe that in
other cases where these difficulties
arise that by the application OF sound
business principles and a spirit OF toll
erance that an understanding could
be reached betEeenl the public and the
individual whereby the community
would get the benefit Of the taxes
rather than to have the parties liable
to pay them remove to another To-
cality.
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