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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11
MORE ABOUT TAX MATTERS

Quite healthy agitation about
tax assessments has started in this
county, and if it can be spread to the
state it will be of the greatest benefit.
Even if it does not, it may improve
matters little in this county.
We cannot expect any great or
lasting improvement, however, unless
the people wake up and resolve to do
their duty. At the foundation, the
people are to blame for the fault en-
tirely. They have permitted, encoul-
aged and many of them practiced the
slackness and dishonesty that demo-
rallies our tax system. They have
also permitted and many of them
encouraged the extragance that has
heaped up taxes.
The proper and normal method of
taxation would be a full valuation and
low millage. Thirty or more years
ago, when the public expenses were
slight, it became the fashion to re-
turn property at much less than it was
worth This would have been all
right if as more taxes were needed
the valuation was increased. In
stead the millage was increased with
the inevitable result that property
holders kept their valuations down.
This has gone on until the discrep-
ancy is beyond calculation. In the
meantime, the public expenses have
piled up-some by virtue of necessity,
but many thru extravaganza and pa
ternalism, and the millage has gone
with it, until now a man with a con-
siderable amount of non-productive
personal property couldn't pay his
taxes on full valuation. He would
have to quit and go TO the poorhouse.
The burden of taxation falls most
heavily on farmers, professional men
and men IN business enterprises
whose property is plainly in sight.
They pay out of all proportion. At
the same time, most of what they own
is either working, or enables them to
work. Men who own a large amount
of personal property are generally
burdened with stack of stuff that is
entirely non-productive and which
they would be better off without. Of
course, they have no business to load
Up that way, but they have inherited
the practice from ancestors reaching
back to the flood.
There are many tax payers who
know they are returning their prop
erty at too low a valuation, but thew
also know their neighbors are doing
the same thing, and with considerable
reason feel like they would be unfair
tc themselves if they made returns
that would burden them more than
others.
The trouble is not hopeless by any
means. 1t will be remedied when the
conscience and common sense of the
people wake up and they elect offic-
ials with the ability and disposition to
frame and put in working order a
business-like and honest tax system.
Other states have done this and ours
can do so il it will.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11

We had supposed the legislature
had abolished the office of hotel COM
missioner, but it hasn't, and Cats has
re-established his friend, Jerry Car
ter, in it. Jerry is good fellow and
will fill the place as well as anyone,
but the job is an imposition on the
taxpayers, and if the governor had
the love for the people he pretends
to have he would let it remain unfill-
ed. He loves the people so well that
he adds several thousand dollars a
year to the expenses of the state in
order to keep one of his political
workers in a job. What do the thou
sands of farmers who can scarcely
ever raise money enough to stop at
a hotel think of an Office created
simply to see that places frequented
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11

One of the bills recently passed by
the Florida legislature was to regu-
late the catching of fish in the Pith-
lochaccootcie river. Honest to good
ness now, did you know there was a
river in Florida with such name p
Orlando Reporter-Star.
Several years ago. we thought we
didn't but a Tampa editor proved
that we did. However, you haven't
spelled it right and we are too lazy to
walk across the room and look at the
map in order to correct you.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11

by men with ten to a thousand times
their income change the sheets on
their beds at least once a week and
don't put too much lard in the frying
pan. The office is one of those
turnkey jobs, such as are created for
the convenience of the aristocracy in
Europe, and we should think he
man would be ashamed to hold it. So
far as we are concerned. we would as
soon thing of making up beds and
carrying out slops as filling such an
Office.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11

Cats has vetoed the dog-tax law,
one of the few entirely good meas
ures passed by the legislature. In
giving his reasons for his veto, he
says he does it for the protection of
the home and gets off some of that
played-out bunk about the dog being
mans best friend His real reason is
that he hopes to make some votes, but
the class of men who are most given
to keeping colonies of worthless dogs
do not vote in democratic primary.
The species of dog that the legisla-
ture wanted to tax out of existence is
not protector but parasite; it kills
sheep, sucks eggs, breeds feas, eats
food that could better be fed to pigs
and chickens, bites children and runs
from full grown men. The money
from the dogtax was intended to go
to the schools, and any good citizen
with good dog would be willing to
pay it. In all his political career. the
governor has given no greater exhibit
ton OF demagogy than in his veto of
this law
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11

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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11
BOARD OF TRADE

At the Board of Trade meeting to-
morrow night, one of the matters
most important to Ocala-the Okla
waha-will come up. 1t is a matter
that has been too long neglected, and
should be taken up at once and push
ed vigorously. The rivers and har-
bors committee will begin framing
next years appropriations in a little
over five months from now. and if
there is nothing done, there will be
nothing doing.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11
RLITCHTON

Blitchton, June 4.-Mr. G. v. Bitch
is on the sick list.
Mr.. Roland and Miss Sanchez of
Newberry called Thursday.
DR.. Bitch spent Saturday at Raj
ford.
Mr.. Ellis of Gainesville called last
week.
Mrs. Liza Bitch of Morriston is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Coulter.
Messrs. lands, LOOMS and Fentoll
Bitch and Earl Phillips spent the
weekend at Cedar Keys.
DIR. and Mrs. E. Van Hood of Ocala
were Tuesday visitors.
Leone FAINT, one of the twins of Mr..
and Mrs. F. E. FAINT, has been quite
Ill since Friday.
Mr.. ]. j. Harris of Morriston called
today en- route to Ocala.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11

The Florida Press Association
meets at Leesburg tomorrow. We had
hoped to be with the boys this year,
but guess we will have to pass it up.
Leesburg and vicinity is one of the
beauty spots of the world, and we
know the press people will have a
splendid visit with its progressive and
hospitable people.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11

That poem headed "The Govern
ment Lady," on another page. aptly
described most of the horde of DEM
onstrators who the people of the
United States are now being taxed
millions of dollars to support.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11

If the average wife told the aver
age. husband all she knows about him,
the average husband would credit the
average wife with being super
average, and you can tell the world
this is said Clearwater
News.
If a man makes his wife mad, she
will generally tell him all she knows
about him-and great deal that she
doesn't.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11

This is Boy Scout Week. but we
can't see that it is being noticed in
Ocala. The Ocala Scouts and their
friends should get together and give
some sort of demonstration to at
tract attention to the cause.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11

The hotel inspector of Florida is
the official Northumberland of the
state. A sensible legislature would
have abolished the office.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11

A year ago, the Prussian war min
lister said: "a great part of the
French army has been beaten and the
so-called Foch reserve army no longer
exists"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11

Saturday, June Il, is Flag Day. In
the last twelve months our soldiers
and sailors have raised the Flag
higher than it ever was before.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11

Wonder if Joe Earman's "univer-
sity extension" can mean putting the
president of one of our universities
over the entire state!-Tampa Tri-
bune.
Not if Joe can help it.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11

Politicians used to play to the gal
leries, but since the suffraget move
ment has gained weight they play to
the gals.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11

Two years ago, the first officers of
Pershing's staff arrived in Paris.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11

Looks like the Tampa Tribune Il
ging to support Fletcher.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-11
PRACTICAL CARPENTER
AND BUILDER

Careful Estimates made on all Con-
tract work. Gives More and Better
Work for the Money than any other
contractor In tho city.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-30

The British possession Of Egypt Is
something into which England lust
naturally drifted" The force of cir
cumstances was stronger than treaties
and diplomacy, and after the occupa-
ton of the country subsequent to the
Arab Bey incident in 1892 England
found herself in the position of the
man who held the bear by both paws
around tree-it was more dangerous
to let go than to hold on. Yet up to
the recent proclamation of a British
protectorate over the land of the Nile
and the setting up of sultan indie
pendent of Turkey following the sid
ing of the Khedive abbas with the
Germans, Egypt remained a part of
the Turkish empire, vasSal state
paying an annual tribute of So, 100000
and governed nOminally by a heredi-
tary vaSSal prince. It was governed
under the treaty of 1841, which the
powers forced upon the sublime porte
and its victorious rebel governor of
Egypt, Mehemet Ali. By this treaty
the western powers obtained their first
foothold in the land of the Pharaohs.
Mehemet Ali was a Turkish officer
who first went to Egypt in 1899 as
commander of the forces. He did so
we'll in restoring order there that in
1905 the sultan appointed him gov
ernor. But Ali found his government
constantly threatened by the famous
Mamelukes, a cavalry corps of the
Egyptian army consisting Of the de-
scendants of those Mingrelian, Turk
fsh and other slaves sold by GenhiZ
Khan to the Egyptian sultan in the
thirteenth century who, uniting in re-
volt in 1851, made themselves masters
of the country. The Turkish govern
ment overthrow the Mameluke govern
ment in 1917 and Egypt became a
Turkish province. But the military
as a portion of the Egyptian army
until Ais time.
Massacre of the Mamelukes.
In 1911, seeing that it was a ques-
ton of survival between the Name
lukes and himself, Ali settled the mat
ter by a massacre of the Name
lukes. The citadel Of Cairo was the
scene of the principal slaughter; the
Mamelukes were annihilated. Now
absolute master of Egypt, Mehemet
Ali threw off his Turkish allegiance
and conquered Syria in 1872. In
1889 he defeated the Turks in so many
engagements that 1t seemed as if his
banners were certain to wave in the
mosque of st. Sophia. The powers
took alarm. That old idea which for
SO many centuries has prevented the
Turk from being driven out of Eu-
%hn& h. k1A
Constantinople must not be disturbed,
lest the Turk being out of CONSTANT
nople, q general war should ensue for
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-30
When the Present Egypt Was Evolved.

its pOsseSsion-caused them to Join
together for an armed intervention,
and Ali was forced to give up Syria.
On January 30, 1871, treaty was
concluded at Constantinople by which,
in return for the REIMBURSEMENT Of
Syria and the renewal of his allegi-
unce to the sultan, Ali and his descend
ants We're created hereditary rulers of
Egypt. .r
Egypt for Egyptians,
In 1881 appeared an Egyptian col
ODel, Arab BeY, who started the cry
of Egypt for the Egyptians" He
overthrow the ministry of that year
and massacres of Europeans took
place in Cairo and Alexandria. He
was openly encouraged by. the Turk
ish government which, even when
Arab had f1outed the authority of the
Khedive and, becoming minister of
war, placed himself at the head of an
armed revolt which swept the coun-
try. refused TO declare him a rebel.
He withdrew the budgets from the
French and British financial advisers
and manning the old forts and con-
structing new ones at Alexandria,
threatened the fleets of England,
France, and the United States.
On July 10, 1882, the British ad-
miral demanded the cessation of hos
tile preparations and the delivery of
some of the forts into British hands
within "a hours, or he said he would
open fire. Cablegrams flew back and
forth between Alexandria and Europe,
pri& ich 10
join with them in an intervention,
The French refused and the French
fleet steamed out Of the harbor for
Port Said. The American fleet with
drey.
At z a. m. the British fleet opened
fire. The engagement lasted until
noon by which time most of the forts
had been silenced. Fort Pharos fired
until four o'clock. The next morning
Arab asked for a truce which was
granted, and under cover of which he
escaped with his army from the city.
Seymour landed a force to restore Or
der in the city. the American marines
landing also. A British expedition un-
to Egypt, and Arab was crushingly
defeated at the battle Of Tel-elKebir,
on September ID. Cairo surrendered
the next day; Arab was taken pris
oner and exiled to CeylOn. The au-
thority of the Khedive was restored.
Upon advice of the British, he abol-
ished the Dual Control and appointed
a British financial adviser. Abbas
succeeded Tewflk and an Englishman
was appointed head of the Egyptian
army. The treaty of 1871 was still
observed until Abbas declared for
Germany and fed to Austria, when
q British protectorate was declared.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-30

BOOKS AND STATIONERY
Whit1ock's Book Store Inc, 21o-221
Elm St.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-30

The western nations woke up to the
fact that a great power had appeared
in the East when in 1894 Japan de-
clared war on the vast empire of
China and speedily brought it to its
knees. The realization that a naval
and military power of the first class
had come into being on the western
shores of the Pacific was not pleas
ant one and caused a great f1uttering
among the "chancelleries" Of Europe
0nd was not viewed without concern
I'm the United States.
It was because of her war with
China and her subsequent war with
Russia that Japan occupies the posi-
ton she does today among the nations.
The treaty of Shimonoseki and the
treaty of Portsmouth placed - her
among the leading nations of the
world. The war between China and
Japan arose over the affairs of Korea.
In the olden days Korea had paid
tribute to Japan and after the aboli-
ton of the Shogunate in 1868 and the
coming of the MikadO into his own,
repeated demands were made upon
the Koreans for continuation of this
tribute. Chinese and Japanese in
trigued at the Korean court for the
predominatlng influence in the land of
the morning calm and transformed it
into q land which knew no calm.
Japan Alleged Infraction.
In June of 1894 Chinese army was
sent into Korea for the ostensible pur-
pose Of putting down a rebellion which
threatened the Korean king. Japan
declared this to be an infraction of
the treaty between herself and China
made in 1885, and dispatched Japan
csc army which occupied the Korean
capital and it's port of Chemulpo, and
fortified the route connecting the two
cities. Somehow the rebellion disap-
peared, but the king of Korea found
a Chinese army and a Japanese fac
ing each other In hostile guise upon
his territory and asked them to with
draw-which they refused to do. The
king appealed to the United States.
Mr.. Gresham, secretary of state, ask
ed China and Japan please to get out
of Korea. China said she was per-
fectly willing to get out If Japan
would. Japan said she would not get
out until Korea had reformed her In
ternal affairs.
It was evident that Japan meant
war, and on July 8, 1894, England
proposed that the United States join
with her In an Intervention to prevent
the war. The United States refused
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-30
LEFT FOOT LARGEST.

Your left foot is larger than your
right,-in 90 cases out of 100. Science
explains it in many ways; but we &C
cept the easiest one, which is that we
are a world of left-footed loungers.
We lean against posts and door jambs,
and we do most of our leaning on the
left foot; consequently, through the
years it has grown to support the
weight that the lazy right foot doesn't.
The next time you buy shoes, have
BOur left foot measured first.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-30
TREATY Of sHIMONOsEKI, 1895


to interfere except as friendly neu-
trial." and would join no other nation,
even in that interference.
On July 81 Japan declared war upon
the Celestial empire. The military
and naval supremacy of Japan at once
became startlingly apparent. A Jap
anese army swept through Korea, and
advancing down the Liaotung PENN
sula, took Port Arthur. The Chinese
were driven out of southern Man
churia. The Japanese feet destroyed
the Chinese feet and captured Wei
hai-wei. At the beginning of the war
the Chinese emperor had commanded
his generals: go drive me these Dig
mics into the sea-" but now a Jap
anese army was ready to advance OH
Picking. Everywhere China was utter
| ~ defeated.
Negotiated Four Weeks.
China thereupon authorized the
/ American minister at Pekin to trans
NIT direct to Japan a proposal for
peace. Japan agreed to receive Ii
Hung Chang as peace commissioner.
He landed at Shimonoseki on March
10, 1895, where he was met by the
Marquis Ito, and after four weeks of
negotiation the treaty was signed on
April II. The complete independence
of Korea was recognized; the Lao
tung peninsula, Formosa and the Pes
cadOres islands were coded to Japan.
and China agreed to pay a war in
demnfty Of two hundred million taels.
open four new ports and grant sDe-
cial trade privilege to the victors.
Korea had been occupied and organ
lied by Japan during the war and,
though its complete independence. had
been guaranteed by the treaty, jap
anese influence was now supreme
there.
England was disturbed, Germany
displeased and Russia angry and
alarmed at the treaty of Shimonoseki.
A great power had suddenly appeared
to threaten Russian possessions and
block her aspiration on the Pacific
coast. The car threateningly de-
handed the retrocessiOn to China of
the Liaotung peninsula. Germany
and France backed up the demand of
Russia. Had Russia been alone to be
considered, Japan might have thrown
down the gauntlet then as she did
later. But in the face of threats
from three powers, she dared not re-
fuse, and gave up the best fruits of
the war-which Russia stepped in and
grabbed for herself.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-30
NOSTALGIA.

A young Swedish girl was very
homesick. you ought to be content
ed. and not fret for your old home
Ina," said her mistress, as she looked
at the dim eyes of the girl. "You are
earning good wages, your work is light,
every one is kind to you, and you have
plenty of friends here" Eyes, ma'am,"
said the girl. "But it is not the place
where do be that makes me vera
homestck; it Is the place where I don't
be-"
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-30
BANKS

Connecticut Savings Bank, corner
Church and Crown SITS.
First National Bank 40-42 Church ST.
Mechanics Bank, The, Church and
Center SITS.
Merchants National Bank, State COR
ner Chapel.
National Tradesmens Bank, The, 90
Orange St.
New Haven Savings Bank, Orange
corner Court St
Peoples Bank & Trust Co., 8O4 Chapel
St.
Second National Bank, The, 135 Church
St. opposite The Green.
Union & New Haven Trust Co., The,
81 Church St.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-30

CLOTHING ON CREDIT
The Brennan Store, Gate1y & Brennan,
166 Meadow St.
The Peoples Store, 51z Church St, up
one flight.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-30

CARPETS AND RUGS
Billiards., o1-97 Orange St.
Collins Furniture Co., 400 State St.
w. B. Hall, 458 to 40 State, near Elm
St.
Window Shade Co., 1881 Orange St.
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-30
COFFEES

Hermitage" Coffee, Distributed by
Stoddard, Gilbert & Co., Incy New
Haven, Norwich, Waterbury, Bridge
Sunrise 1offee, Miner, Read and
Tullock, Distributors, New Haven
The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-30
MEATS

z. Schoenberger & Sons, 615 Howard
Ave, 33o Grand Ave, 800 State St,
II Shelton Ave, Isl Dixwell Ave,
and % Congress Ave.
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1919-04-11

There are hundreds OF similar
stories.
What's Behind ~
But how to meet tho situation u
what II puxzling the peace confer
eucers. OF course they regard with
disgust this elusive effort to please
the victorious. Behind II they see the
German campaign for sympathy and
adherence to the old plea Of Let By.
cones be bygones" with commercial In
forests In the saddle.
Tho French fear It's effect most.
knowing Gcrmany's ability to soon re.
establish herself industrially. while
France struggles to rebuild her raw.
ishcd plants. Hence the French on the
ono hand demand the utter destruc'
ton Of Germany and on the other hand
demand Germany pay gigantic indem.
pities.
Tho American view Is that ito milk
4 COW ono must feed hcr"-if Ger.
many is to pay. as she must my. for
the horror she has wrought. her indus.
tries must start.
It Is a dllcmma-nnd the end Is not
set in sight.
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1919-04-11
RMANS PAWN
BEFORE VICTORS

Another case Of tho effort OF the
German now to bc good fellow" II
shown by an incident happening to
doughboy In the occupied territory.
Americans In the army Of occupation
arc forbidden to fratcrnlze with the
Germans. One day. however. ono OF
tho men lost his way and inquired OF .
German tho direction Ia his objective.
The German told him. hut during the
conversation an American officer. SEQ
Ing tho discussion. came up aud placed
tho doughboy under arrest for nat.
ernixing. Before tho doughboy could
explain the German rushed up ana.
addressing tho officer. said:
lie was not fratcrni1ing with me.
slr-hc had lost his way and merely
asked me how to set back and ! told
him."
Tho effect Of the move on the dough.
boy IL obvious.