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Show The Chicago Times says of municipal muni-cipal taxation in that city: Tho vslualicD of property for taxation has bucn arbitrarily intl ited by uncru pulous rnvi-nue-d-vourore, until onp-half onp-half of thu real ei-tate lait d in this citv could not ba bold undsr thfl hammer for tho valuation upon which the taxoa Iihyo boon laid. And upon such valuation, the aggregates uf taxation ol all tho manifold mani-fold kinds am nun ia to a rate of exaction equal to tbe avenge proQ; which all the capital can bo made to yield. Upon this showing the Times contends con-tends that tbe taxes must be reduced, or "the people must remove their capital and labor to some other place, where the exactions of government are lesa." The Times argues that a large portion of the city ciphK was in- charter, and is therefore illegal. |