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Show MODEL FOR ALL TIME LAWS OF THE INCAS REMARKABLE REMARK-ABLE FOR THEIR WISDOM. Juet Imposition of Taxes, and Beneficent Benefi-cent Mandates Concerning the Unfortunate Un-fortunate Principal Features of Anclont Civilization. In tho rcmoto fastnesses r( a huga mountain range, on a continent un known to the civilized world of Eu rope and Asln 100 years ago tho An den of South America there existed a civilization so rcmarknblo that tho most famous of tho historians of thq conquest said of It: "Laws so bctiell-cent bctiell-cent have never been enjoyed by any country under a ly Christian monarch, or under nny kings, whether ot Asia, Africa or Europe." Thnt. writes C. It. Enock, In "Tho Secret of tho Pacific,' is not an exaggeration. Among the most remarkable laws of tho lucas wero tlioso concerning taxation. taxa-tion. Tho principal feature of thoso laws was thnt tho tnxes w ero not paid In money, but In work nnd In produce whether manufactured or grown. Tho Inca emperors thought It unjust to demand that taxes should bo paid In nny kind of commodity that the peoplo peo-plo could not produce by their own personal labor. Tho people also paid another sort of tribute. They mado clothes, shoes nnd arms for tho coldlcrs, and for tho poor, who could not work themselves, owing ow-ing to ngo or infirmity. Tho cloth wns made of wool from tho flocks ot llamas that abounded In tho mourn tains. On the plains of tho scacoast. whero tho clltnato Is warm and thoy do not dress In woolcnB, tho peoplo mndo cotton clothes, the cotton being supplied from tho crops of tho emperor. em-peror. Tho shoes were mndo In tho provinces whero aloes wero most nbundnnt, for they wero mado of tho leaves of a trco called maguey. Each provinco furnished its own produce, nnd no provinco had to supply anything any-thing that did not belong to It. Thero wab a beneficent mandnto that forbado beggary and destitution; that, of course, followed upon duo provision pro-vision in their laws. Every citizen was provided for, theoretically and practically. No man need bo Idlo; no man need lack land or seed, or Implements Imple-ments for cultivation; therefore, no ono was permitted to beg. If nny wero found doing so, it was clear proof of Idleness, for tho Incapablo wero provided for; and contempt and punishment wero meted out on all tramps, vagabonds and Idlers. |