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poses they shall be taxed.
Three Classes OF Capitals.
In the final analysis of this table
the capitals of the world separate on
broad lines of division into the fol-
lowing groups:
% Those which are treated by the
nation financially and politically on
the same lines as the other cities of
the nation. except that the municipal
taxable resources are indirectly made
strong by the nation and except that
the nation, because the national In
terests are greater at the capital than
elsewhere, makes larger national
expenditures for national purposes
than in any other city.
Some of the cities classified under
this head are London. Berlin, Vienna,
Budapest, Brussels. Copenhagen Ath-
ems, Toxic. Christiania, Bern, Ottawa,
Cape Town and Pretoria
(2) Those which are financially spe-
cially favored by lavish expenditures
for national purposes and by specific
Contributions toward municipal main
tenance. In respect to them, on the
other hand, the national government
exercises special control politically.
participating in but not exclusively
exercising municipal government and
allowing the capital full representa-
tion in the national government.
These capitals are Buenos Aires,
Rio de Janeiro, Mexico and Paris.
(3) That capital which has received
since 1878 the reasonable liberal ma
tiOnal expenditures OF the first class
and tsince the same date) an adc-
quate specific municipal contribution
OF the second class, but which Inns
been crippled by the nation I'm fits
municipal taxable resources and has
been denied ali participation In fits
municipal government and all repre-
sentation in the national government.
This capital is Washington.
While many nations surpaSS the
United States in lavish expenditure
Of national money in the 1udicious
development of their capitals, and
while some nations contribute sub
stantfally toward the municipal main
tenance of their capitals. approximat-
ing in this respect the wise liberality
of the United States under the act of
1873, there is no other nation OF the
world which denies it's capital com
munity all voice in respect to its
taxes and its municipal affairs in gen
eral, and also bars it from representa-
tion in the national as well as the
local government.
United States I'm Class Apart.
These reports and this table also
show that no nation in the world, ex
cept the United States, discourages
the material development and pros
perity of the capital along CONNER
cial, manufacturing and industrial
lines, and bars the local community
from employment in many Of the ma
tiopoI locol ri fhJ, re6upipp
to q minimum the city's taxable re-
sources and the means of self-support
offered to the city's growing youth.
In most other capitals the nation
has legislated and acted discrimi
natingly in favor OF the capital. fos
tering its commerce and its manu-
factures. increasing local means Of
self-support and enlarging eQuitablE
it attractive in every way to Its resi-
dents as we'll as to visitors. Even
when the nation does not thus favor
the capital over other cities, but
treats all the cities alike, IL does MOI
discourage in the capital it's material
development and prosperity and the
resulting accumulation Of taxable re-
sources.
These comparisons show that, while
no nation IN the world Is under such
BILE obligations to develop its capital,
no other nation in the world so dis
courages the deVelopm ent and mate
rial prosperity of its capital. II
Washington's case there is O. maxi
mum of obligation and in the paTt'2-
ular indicated a minimum Of natiolkI
response.
But however it may have fallen
short in other respects, as an annual
contributor to municipal maintenance
in a definite and liberal amount the
nation has, since 1878, under the wise
and fair legislation OF that year. sur
passed other nations in this form OF
patriotic expenditure. The result has
| been to restore the nations self-re-
| spect as fulflIer OF capital Obliga-
tions, and to build up the capital of
today, In which every American has
a proprietary interest and in respect
to which every American now feels n
proprietary pride.
Will the nation repudiate and de-
| stroy its legislation which has pro-
| duced such results?