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Show New York City And State TVJEW York State and New York City live to-- gether like a husband and wife who really love each other more than the man loves any other woman, or the woman loves any other man, but the woman flares up and threatens to go back to mother every time the old man comes home drunk, and the old man gets mad and swears the old lady is trying to ruin him every time the wife orders a new gown and hat. In the old days when the Genesee valley was "away out west," the people in that valley wanted to have their country set off as a state by itself; when Sumter was fired upon Fernando Wood, then mayor of New York City, in a message mess-age to the city council, wanted the city to secede and declare itself a free city, offering as a bribe tho proposition that a small tax on imports would pay all the running expenses of the city. He had in his mind the money that would come in, in his heart he wanted to serve in a skulking way the cause of the Confederacy. After the great war the New York legislators from the country, have learned the trick which Utah legislators from the country long ago adopted, to work the chief city of the state for revenue. This causes friction every year when it comes tax paying time. The truth is that New York City has been the receptacle of the surplus money of the whole country for thirty years past. If men have grown very rich anywhere in the country they have gravitated there; those not so rich have sent their money there to be invested. One would think the way to bridge things over would be to more thoroughly collect the income tax and to tax the idle millions always al-ways on deposit there, and thus have more money with which to pay taxes. |