Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-07-14
Mr.. Writ MILLS
new YORK letter
New York. Julv z. .1916

bad year for the money centre OF the
world, but this district looms big in
the record of income tax receipts,
having paid $7,000,594 in corporation
taxes and $s.206,597 in individual in.
come tax, while the whole state paid,
SIC, 248,998 corporation taxes out of
total of $38,S17,273 for the whole
country, and $17,379, 768 individual in.
come tax out of a total of $41,011 .402
for all the United States. It is a vivid
thumbnail sketch of New York City to
say that with one-sixteenth of the pop.
ulation of the United States it pays a
third Of the income tax.
This concentration of wealth in the
metropolis persists in spite of the de.
Capitalization of the banking power
of the country under the Federal Re.
serve system, for the reason that the
nations trade centres here and can
not be distributed by act of Congress.
For example in the fiscal year just
ended, the exports from this port
reached the huge value of $1,153,185,-
764 and the imports were $92O,5S2,15
"a total foreign trade of over two
billions.
OF course it was the enormous pur-
chases OF war supplies by the Allies
that ran up the figures, so that there
was net gain of $30S, 690,975 in ex.
ports, though there was loss in ev-
cry class of merchandise except mu-
n1tions Of war and food supplies. It
is this unbalanced condition of trade
that explains why the ordinary pur-
suits of peace are struggling while
the banks are budging with gold
$129, 100000 in this city, a gain of
Sis, 100000 in week. It is this one
sidedness of Industrial activity that
explains the inability of the great u.
S. Rubber Company to pay dividend.
Public opinion in this city is kaleid-
oscopic. There was an outburst of in
dignation at the sinking of the Ar
menian, but by night fall the news
that it was a British mule ship COM
pletely reversed the current criticism,
and when it was found that a vessel
regularly plying from an American
port was Engaged on Admiralty bus
iness," the condemnations aimed at
Germany in the morning were visited
on Great Britain.
Talking about ships, this great har-
Dor now is a sort of marine museum,
with every conceivable sort of vessel
hauled out Of the storage basins and
impressed into service to carry sup
plies to the Allies. Steamers of types
discarded generation ago have been
patched up and put to use, and there
are some queer freaks among them.
But where are the modern ships
we'll, the Holland liner Rotterdam, for
example, has been held up for a fort
night in British port.
Just to give an idea of the size of
this city, there are more than $4,000
babies born here in a month-more
than I'M all France.
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peace, not at any price, but at his own
price. So the Baron d'Estournelles,
with long record of peace advocacy,
writes rebuking Col. Bryan for want
ing peace without the determination
of Germany. And Bryan comes back
with the answer that it is not for neu-
trails to decide between belligerents,
not for them to bubble over the fruit
less question, "Who started the WARP"
but to tackle the most important is
sue, "How can it be stopped?"
This city's nonresident ownership
problem has been brought home with
a bang. William Waldorf Astor, an
expatriated New Yorker, threw away
his birthright to seek British peer
age, which he didn't get, but he lives
sumptuously in London on the rents
his agents collect in this city. The
extent to which New York supports
this Astor clan is illustrated by his
gift Of 100000 worth of city real
estate to his son, Capt. John Jacob
Aston, of the British Army. Only re-
Gently he gave a like batch of New
York realty to his eldest son, Waldorf
Astor, who is a member of the British
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