Show RICH MIN ml N AND TAXES one of the most startling facts brought to light in ill mr book on oil chicago says the world is vie t ie way in which tit the e ric rich I 1 i men of that city escape their just share of fixation a tion twenty years ago the aint for taxation of the property of chicago 0 real and per personal conal was 93 in 1893 it was but here is a shrinkage a e in twenty years of about 70 in the assessed pio property perty while is as everybody knows tile the of the city lias has enormously the rich have found ways of concealing it from the assessors ses sors the assed assessors ors under oath make tho the following returns of the personal property of the richest citizens marshall arshall field marshall arshall Nf field jr 2000 P U D armour george 1 M I pullman J W doane 12 IL II 11 kohlsaat 1500 C T yerkes potter palmer 15 none of these men inen makes out or swears to his own account the swearing is all lone done by the a assessors who are allowed by the grossly to undervalue their possessions for taxation it is not without reason reas on that mr ir stead says there is a heavier buni bum in solid dollars pocketed ever every year by the official oTi cial perjurers per jurers of chicago 0 than is paid to any other official in the service of the city an income tax enforced by the national 1 government would fatch some million millionaire aire tax dodgers in ill chicago 0 and elsewhere to book now t they licy escape escape doing their proper share in maintaining ar tile institutions of govern government men t under which they fatten by the false swearing of others connived at if not suborned sub orned by bribes many of them would not swear falsely those who are willing to do it might not be able to buy oft the nations assessors is as easily as they corrupt their local officials such facts as these reve revealed a led of chicago 0 show why the rich are arc as a rule against an income tax without it they can call escape doing their duty they fear they inay may not not be able to do so any more their talk about the evil of false swearing that it will promote means nothing moie than that they doubt their their own ability to bo be more honest than they have been in this particular but they do not relish becoming liable to the pains and penalties of perjury in their own per persons ons but so far from this being a reason r against an in income orna tax it is a strong reason for it to lorg avd and too bea heavily vili have taxes been imposed inin imn upon n that part of the earnings of the alie people abiell is ia necessarily spent for shelter food and clothing instead of upon the surplus which is saved |