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Show TAX FOBEION LABOB. The Commissioners of Somerset coun-' ty, Ohio, of which Somerset is county seat, have brought forward a proposition proposi-tion to have the employers of foreign labor in that county collect from this portion of their employees a special tax of 1 per eentum of their wages for the purpose of general taxation. The foreign-born element of the population pop-ulation of this eounty, for instance, by which is meant those who have only recently re-cently come to this country from the southern part of Europe, contains few property owners and a large proportion of unnaturalized persons. Their children chil-dren must be given the privileges of free schools, etc., the burden of taxation taxa-tion for which falls on American labor. It has been shown that the naturalized foreigners are the most successful tax dodgers. Briefly, the proposition of the Somerset Somer-set County Commissioners is to have all employers of foreign-born labor in that county agree to employ only foreigners who will consent to a deduction of 1 per cent of their wages, to be turned ow to the eounty and applied to the school and eounty funds. |