New-York tribune., 1922-07-30
High Taxes
Will Follow
Progressives
Stand for Paternalism,
Which Is Costly as Well
as Retrogressive; AM
eienis First Advocates

Of Real Estate Board OF Neao York
Ne are told daily in the newspapers
nat wave of progressivism is sweep
re over the country.
There are great headlines: "The Old
euard Beaten "Reactionaries Go
Tswn in Defeat" Progressive Tri-
rmph.v and others of like character.
this is true, and Che government is
a be managed by men elected Oh So
tsIled progressive platforms, it is well
Nat the taxpayer, the property owner,
saeuld know what progressive, So
eslled, government means. A careful
t,smination of the platforms of those
sso head the Progressive fight shows
hat they are practically unanimous in
yrging paternalism in government as
,rainst the Jeffersonian theory of the
ast possible government.
What Progressives Want
10 put it plainly, and in rough, blunt
lsnguage, the Progressive idea is that
/ he government should support the
/ psople rather than that the people
.sould support the government. Read
/ lhe platforms:
Municipal operation and ownership
1 Il public utilities.
Naturalization of transportation
Ines and of mines.
hunicipalization of ice, milk and
sai supply.
The farmer to be paid more for milk,
he consumer to pay less.
National supervision of health, with
ysiting nurses and doctors.
National supervision Of education,
VIII compulsory education, including
i igh school grades.
Sixteen years the age limit below
Hhich children may not legally work.
The hours and conditions of labor
TO be regulated to the minutest par
ieulars
National and state bureaus to regu-
ate all industries and supervise all
ssrporate or individual activities.
The initiative and referendum, the
recall, through which agency public
sacials, especially judges, may be re-
called if their views run counter to
the mob stirred up by malicious propa-
gsnda.
Direct government by the people
without constitutional guarantees.
The will OF the majority to be su-
pTeme and the minority to have no
nights per Sc, except as they are per
nitted to enjoy certain privileges by
the will of the majority.
Cost in Money
It is true that all Progressives do
naurge all of the planks given above
/ Bat they are all from Progressive plat
/ FERNS.
Let US see what all this would NEAR
o the property owner if the Progress
,lves win:
To-day the average tax on famil,
Of five IS $3.50 year. If there should
be municipal ownership and operation
of all public utility companies $1,000,
O00,OOO OF securities would be addec
to the $1,000, ,000,0 GOO of tax exempt
securities now outstanding, and thu
local property taxable loss on thi.
change OF ownership alone would near
9250,Oo0,0O0 yearly in addition to the
income tax loss through tax exemp
tion, which would add at least anothe,
500, 100000. If municipal operation in
the future is no more successful than
n the past another S250,00O 900 would
e added to the taxpayers burden.
The Naturalization. of mines and
transportation lines, with billions OF
tax exempt securities and extrava.
fance and waste in operation such as
se saw during the late war, would ado
least S3oo,000,000 to the tax bur.
dts
40 one can correctly estimate the
sRount the additional personal serv-
" proposed to be furnished the in
ssIs'ooal Will cost the property owner
out an estimate of $4,000, 900, 900 yearly
souid not be excesive-S30 per wear
pss individual, or S3.o00,o ,ooo, 900 a year
sualtional, would be very reasonable
estimate of what the property owners
would contribute if we had a Progress
sSs victory. The effect upon the mo-
.aie Oh the country would, however, be
iaT more serious than the money los.
NeiIeved of responsibility for his
WIN care and maintenance, old age
pshslons making thrift no longer
asss.eSSafy' and widows pensions pro
neihg Tor his family should he die
le ordinary citizen will no longer
sse any incentive to work. 1t is true
As. .aI there will always be energetic,
sss1"e' ambitious men who will work
,of the sake Of work and who love
,aeir work, but they will be a hope
ss minority, whole accumulations will
at once confiscated for the uses of
ne majority.
Ancients Were Progressive
~ ne great majority will become like
e Tree citizens of Athens or Rome,
s'eS ~ living on the community. In
M progressive city of Athens there
tsse 10000 free citizens who spent
as sssr time in discussing the questions
:, 'he DAY and attending various forms
I'd the work. 'O'o ''"'e'
pin the highly progressive citv Of
aoine, whose government was in the
siliost amost degree progressive, 300 900 free
Tb.ens Tba,. spent their days delightfully."-.
fes arose in the morning. visited the
tors Daths' were waited on by free doc
ss. ana dentists and then went to the
Ma a"atehouses, where they were sup
r. WIN free corn, wine and oil for
themselves and their families - tbs,.
~. an y. Then they visited the poli-
ssian to whom at the time thew were
,iaehea 80 and discussed with him poll
ses and government and receivad
TheVer instructions he had TO give.
5neh to the Circus Maximus. where tba
;a ce OF delightful day was spent
e watching gladiators xiii eacb otbsr
d., WIG beasts devour Christians. An
zeal Progressive Iife-the citizen re-
nos. OF all care and worry and sup
ported at the expense of the taynayer
by G' oek' the penalty placed on mankind
isssd oo IN the Garden of Eden, abol-
naa But in Rome there were 9oo.-
svo human slaves. Three slaves for
.aca Tree man. Somebody mnst do the
arVfk. In fact tho <r~e,, 49, x.. ~ :