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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1913.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
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Kisses may come home to roost.
A Noteworthy Movement
, For Drainage Enterprises.
The drainage congress which is to be held at
Commerce on May the twenty-third betokens the keen
Interest which Georgia farmers are coming to feel
in the matter of reclaiming swamp and overflow
lands. In Gwinnett county, the recent progress of
such enterprises . has been especially marked. The
drainage work now being done in the vicinity of
Haynes creek has attracted popular notice through
out the surrounding districts because of its economic
methods and because of the great benefits it prom
ises to yield. .
It is said that as a result of this one undertaking
organizations have been formed in several neighbor
ing communities and that in the counties round
about plans are being made to drain a number of
farms which are now subject to overflow from rivers
or creeks.
Indeed, the interest in this cause is so widespread
and pronounced that the farmers have decided to
assemble at Commerce and to discuss plans for a
permanent and inclusive organization through which
they may better serve their common welfare, in
reclamation endeavors. The convention will be not
ably educational in its effect, for among those who
will be present and make addresses are State Geolo
gist McCallie, Mr. J. V. Phillips, representing the
federal government; Mr. L. P. Aiken, president of
the Georgia Drainage Congress, and Dr. 'A. M, Some,
president of the State College of Agriculture.
When it is reflected that one-fourteenth of the
entire &rea df Georgia is in swamp or overflow land
and that thus a vast amount of soil which might be
turned to productive account is lying useless, the
importance of the drainage movement becomes evi
dent. It is to be hoped that the progressive example
of the farmers of Gwinnett will stimulate other
counties to join in this vitally-needed constructive
work.
Reducing Typhoid
The census bureau reports that the typhoid death
rate has been reduced from twenty-three and five-
tenths to twenty-one per hundred thousand of the
population. This improvement, though appreciable,
‘is far less than that which has been effected in other
fields of disease, and leaves America still a long way
behind France, Germany and Austria.
Such progress as has been made against typhoid
Is due largely to perfected and extended methods of
; sanitation and to the educational campaigns of med
ical societies and boards of health. To he sure, the
disease is treated more effectively than it was years
■ ago, but in this, as in all health interests of today,
emphasis is laid on preventive rather than curative
measures.
Municipal and county governments should see to
it that every possible source of.typhoid is removed.
Neglect of sewerage facilities or of the water supply
or of garbage disposal is nothing short of criminal.
Many of the duties and responsibilities of public
i health, however, must be borne by the individual
j citizeh and household. At the approach of summer
it becomes especially important that every home
I protect itself and its neighborhood against the peril
i of disease in general and that of typhoid in par
ticular. Clean premises and well screened windows
| and doors will go far toward putting an end to the
fly, which is the bearer of all manner of disease.
Atlanta’s climate is naturally healthful at all sea
sons of the year, and with due vigilance on the part
; of public authorities, supplemented by watchfulness
on the part of individuals, this community’s mor
tality from typhoid should be reduced to a minimum.
That Long Dry Spell.
This is a season when that Methuselah ot
conversion, "the Long Dry Spell,” grows spright
ly and yarmissible. Men talk of the need ot
showers not because their wits are dull or their
stock of gossip is out but because that is a matter
of really vital interest. Gardens snow signs or
languishing and the larger crops are backward for
lack of a drink.
It is a noteworthy fact, however, that weath
er problems nearly always settle themselves. Re
ports from the farm demonstration agents of tna
State College of Agriculture are, on the whole,
optimistic, despite the rather untoward conditions
in certain groups of counties. The long-delayed
rains are at length tailing in many parts of the
state and, what is a particularly cheering circum
stance, food crops are for the most part thriv
ing. Agricultural conditions of the country are
good and in Georgia, where scientific methods of
farming are more widely applied this year than
ever before, we may hope for plenteous harvests.
Atlanta now has a population of about 200,000
people, largely Presbyterians.
Calling a Bluff.
The Democratic administration is not to De
bulldozed by the threats of special interests to
close their factories or cut their employes' pay
when the Underwood tariff bill becomes a law.
It is an old trick of the trusts to cry ’’panic'’
whenever an honest tariff revision is proposed.
Interests that have fattened on special privi
lege dolefully exclaim that they cannot continue
to exist without the government's patronage in
the form of exorbitant tariff duties. And now,
they have grown so bold as to Intimate that if
they are deprived of these favors they will take
revenge against the party and against the pub
lic by suspending their industries or by cutting
their scale of wages.
A more impudent or malicious attitude could
scarcely be conceived. Here are pampered mo
nopolies that have been taxing the consumer as
they pleased, monopolies that have grown so ar
rogant in their privileges that they defy a Dem
ocratic administration, representing the people ot
the United States, to carry out the people’s man
date. They do not propose to await a fair and
practical test of the new tariff schedules but to
retaliate forthwith, simply because their old fa
vors from the government have been cut off. But
the present administration will not be bluned
by such threats. Mr. Underwood, voicing the pur
pose of the President and the sentiment of Dem
ocracy, declared just before the final passage ot
the new bill through the house:
“I give you notice now that if any manufac
turer attempts in the interest of the Republican
party to threaten labor, there is a bureau in this
government, the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce, created by the Democratic party, that
will go into the factory, make a thorough inves
tigation and report the reason why."
That is to say, if a plant shuts down or cuts
wages on the pretext that it cannot continue »to
operate profitably because of the Democratic law,
its claim will be scrupulously sifted, will be sub
jected to the test of facts and figures gathered
by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce
and, if its action is shown to be one of Ill tem
per or spite and not of good reason or necessi
ty, it will be placed before the public in its true
light. In short, the people in whose behalf the
new tariff bill is designed, will be told the full
truth in all such cases in order that they them
selves may pass judgment on men and interests
that seek to intimidate the government. Mr. un
derwood further explained the administration’s
purpose when he said:
“When a manufacturer says he is cutting
wages because of tariff reductions, we want to
know if he is telling the truth. If he is not and
he is simply punishing labor, then the fact shall
be. made public. If he is telling the truth, we
’. want to know it. Tf we have made a mistake in
any particular instance, we i e not afraid to
acknowledge it and correct it."
The bureau of foreign and domestic commerce
is empowered to ascertain the cost of producing
dutiable articles in the United States and in for
eign countries and the diffeernt elements of cost
in the production of such articles, •TncludlnTg the
wages paid in such industries, the hours employed
a day, the profits of manufacturers and produc
ers, the comparative cost of living and the kind
of living, what articles are controlled by trusts
or other combinations of capital and what effect
the trusts or other combinations of capital nave
upon production and prices.” It will thus be pos
sible to determine the sincerity or the trickery of
those interests that seek to play politics with
the welfare of their employes and with the rights
of the American people.
This would in no .wise mean government inter
ference with business rights. But it would mean
that big business should not interfere with the
government’s rights and the public's rights. It
would simply mean that a group of men who
conspired to alarm the country or to bring on a
panic from selfish or political motives would be
exhibited in their true character. And we may
be sure that if would-be mischief-makers know
that they must either justify their claims or stand
condemned by the nation, they will be very slow
to make uncalled for trouble.
The truth is high protective duties do not
benefit the wage earner. Statistics snow that em
ployes in highly protected Industries receive low
er wages than those in unprotected industries. It
has been conservatively reckoned that only about
one-seventh of the total number of persons en
gaged in manufacturing of all kinds in tne United
States are helped to the slightest degree by pro
tective duties. But the remaining six-sevenths are
compelled to pay an enormous tax in the form of
a high and steadily rising cost of living. The to
tal tariff tax for the average American family is
approximately one hundred and sixteen dollars a
year, of which amount only sixteen dollars goes
to the government as revenue and ninety-nine dol
lars to the protected trust. Thus it is evident that
the high tariff is simply a device for maintaining
exorbitant prices and for protecting particular in
terests against natural competition.
When we find American trusts successfully
competing iii foreign markets and selling tneir
products more cheaply abroad than at home, we
can see no reason why they- cannot continue to op
erate prosper&usly when tariff duties nave neen re
duced. The cry that they are being ruined is a
shallow political bluff that will deceive no one fa
miliar with the facts.
The country has demanded tariff reductfon;
it expects tariff reduction and competent tnisin.es3
is already making such readjustments as the
change in duties may require. The Underwood
bill, far from discouraging wholesome industry or
chilling prosperity, will in reality release fresh
forces of enterprise and send new currents or
warmth and cheer s through the great body ot
American business.
The Task Before the Powers.
Peace having been virtually concluded between
Turkey and the Balkan States, it remains for the
concert of European Powers to settle the question of
war indemnities, define territorial boundaries and ad
just such differences as now exist or may develop
among the Allies themselves.
The Bulgarian minister of finance is reported as
saying that the Balkans will demand eighty million
dollars from Turkey as compensation for the losses
they have sustained. How the weakened and impov
erished. Ottoman government could shoulder such a
burden, it is rather difficult to conceive. The Powers
are doubtless disposed to deai with Turkey in this
connection as leniently as they may.
In respect to territory, however, the Allies will
probably get the greater part of what they demand.
The fall of Adrianople settled decisively in their
favor what promised at one time to be the most diffi
cult and delicate issue the diplomats would have to
consider. Indeed, the Allies have fairly won the ma
jor portion of Turkey’s European realm. It is gen
erally conceded that the Sultan’s domain will be nar
rowed to Constantinople, and a small sphere of influ
ence about the Bosporus. Such differences as may
arise in regard to Turkish and Balkan boundaries
will be comparatively minor—except perhaps in the
case of certain Aegean islands—and dan be easily re
conciled.
But issues among the Allies themselves will call
for more painstaking treatment. Bulgaria, Servia
and Greece are eacn ambitious to build up their in
dividual power.’ They have stood stanchly together
during the war, subordinating their particular to
their common interests. But now that the imme
diate pressure of circumstances is removed, they are
disposed to assert their individual claims. So long,
however, as the larger Powers act in unison, they
can enforce their judgment; and there is every indi
cation that they will continue so to act, at least until
present Balkan problems are satisfactorily worked out.
An international force is now occupying Scutari.
The fact that the Po- trs are acting together on this
mission, instead of leaving it to any one of their
number, means that Austria has assented to the gen
eral plan and that Russia, too, has given it her sanc
tion. The situation is thus greatly simplified and is
relieved of many dangers that once threatened. So
long as the powerful nations—England, France and
Russia, Germany, Austria and Italy—move together
in these matters, their suspicions and jealousies one
of the other will be kept in the background and their
will will be supreme. But should one of them, or a
particular group of them, attempt to proceed inde
pendently, trouble would undobtedly arise.
Besides settling issues between the Allies and
Turkey and among the Allies themselves, the Powers
must also agree upon a government for Albania.
They have already determined that this territory
shall be an autonomous State and at least nominally
independent. It was in this connection that the
Montenegrin problem came about and here the de
signs of Austria are manifest. Just how Albania
will he disposed of remains to be seen. Much inter
esting history has been made in the Balkans during
the past seven months and much more, It would
seem, remains to be written. .
How a Business Leader
Views Business Conditions.
“There is no threatening cloud in the busi
ness atmosphere of the United States."
These are the words of James J. Hill, known
throughout America for his discernment and leader
ship in large affairs. In an interview recently pub
lished in the Washington Post, Mr. Hill presents a
remarkable array of facts, showing the sweep and
soundness of the nation’s prosperity. He dwells
upon the progress of agriculture and the expansion
of industries; the one, he declares, is being quick
ened by scientific methods of farming and the other
encouraged and rendered more profitable by efficient
methods of production. The demand for farm labor
continues to grow and our systems of transportation
are taxed to the utmost to meet increasing traffic
needs. It is not so much the specific facts he men
tions, however, as the conclusions which he, a
trained and cool observer of business prospects, has
reached that is significant. The Post aptly remarks:
“To our financiers, our manufacturers, our
merchants, to business men of every class and
to the general public, the words of Mr. Hill
sltould be of infinite value and afford them much
satisfaction.”
The truth is there is no echo of business appre
hension today save that which comes from inspired
sources. The rank and file of the people, whatever
their field of occupation may be, are moving steadily
forward in a spirit of confidence and cheer. The
forthcoming reduction of the tariff and other laws
designed to make our economic life more free and
stable are interpreted in their true purpose and meas
ured by their logical consequence. What few calam
ity howlers there are find as little response as rea
son for their sour temper..
Quarterly Reports of County Fees.
It is doubtless through oversight rather than de
sign that a hundred or more county officials in Geor
gia have failed to observe the’ State law which re
quires them to submit to the comptroller general at
the end of each quarter of the year detailed reports
showing the fees collected by them and the expenses
incurred in the conduct of their offices. It is impor
tant, however, for their own as well as the State’s
interests that they delay this duty no longer; for,
all delinquents in this matter are subject to a fine
of a thousand dollars or to a year’s sentence on the
public wopks. »
The law in question was enacted at the last ses
sion of General Assembly. It is a good law both-in
its immediate and its ulterior purpose. Sound busi
ness requires that the State should have a definite
accounting of the funds received and spent in the
transaction of its affairs. Public officials are not
acting as individuals but as agents of the community.
The people are entitled to know how every dollar of
their money, whether derived through taxation or
fees, is expended. The Legislature, in order to pro
ceed wisely and efficiently in dealing with fiscal mat
ters, should have at its disposal detailed and compre
hensive information of this character. It was for
this among other reasons that there was enacted a
law requiring all officials receiving fees to submit
quarterly statements to the comptroller and requiring
the comptroller to compile all these reports.
The law was also Intended to furnish data upon
which the succeeding Legislature, if it thought wise,
could frame a general act establishing the salary sys
tem instead of the fee for county officials. Regardless
of the merits or the demerits of such a law, these re
ports should be carefully kept; for, only through such
a device can the Legislature secure the definite in
formation which it ought to have in considering a
bill to this effect.
The first quarter of the current year expired
March the thirty-first. Though a majority of State
and county officials promptly submitted their reports
to (lie comptroller general, something like a hun
dred of them, it seems, have not yet done so. The
simple announcement of the facts in the case should
serve to bring ail delinquents to an accounting.
WHAT TO DO
* BY UK. FRANK CRANE.
(Copyright, 1913, by Frank Crane.)
A very great and wise man came to America. His
fame was such that all the nation believed that to
follow his advice in anything would bring success.
So all the legislatures of all the states elected rep
resentatives to meet at Washington and ask him
what to do.
When they had gathered together he asked them,
“What do you want most?”
They answered, “To get rid of crime and crim
inals, to stop the social evil, to abolish our slums, to
clean our states and cities of poverty.”
“Very, well,” he replied. “It will take thirty-three
years, or one generation, but if you will faithfully do
as I say you will certainy succeed.”
Whereupon there was loud applause and exulting;
and they said: “Tell us what to do, and upon our
lives and honor we will most surely do K.”
"I will tell you a week from today,” he responded.
This he said in order that the enthusiasts who had
ideas of reforming the people might make their sug
gestions.
And they came to him post haste, all sorts. Preach
ers and priests came, saying they hoped he would
say to give more money t churches and have grand
revivals and get everybody converted. All kinds of
pblitical and economical apostles besieged him; single
taxers, Socialists, anarchists, progressives ajid prohi
bitionists, and all had their say.
13ut upon the set day he arose before the delegates
and said:
“All the plans you have proposed to me have their
good points, but all have a fatal weak spot, which is
that they deal with ADULTS.
“I do not propose to bother with them. They
will all be dead anyhow in a few years. Besides, what
you do with one adult crop of people must be done
anew with the next. It is a fool way of trying to
improve the race. Hence, go on» as you are now doing.
It is the best you know and will last your time. Sixty
years from now, when your children and grandchildren
are at the helm of things, all your reform programs
will fade away useless.
“This is what to do: First, enlarge your public
school system until it provides for the free education
and ECONOMIC SUPPORT of ail the population under
twenty.
“Second, to raise money for this cause the state to
be an equal partner in every concern or with every
individual who has a hundred thousand dollars; one-
half the profits or inome to go to the state to support
its children.
“Third, so reform your public schools that the chil
dren therein shall be taught HOW TO LIVE; that is,
first of all, moral charactei. Including honesty, clean
liness, the value of truth, and of courage to tell and
live the truth.
“Train them in politics. Let the schools be as
democratic as the nation. Do not govern the children.
Teaoh them how to goverif themselves. Let it be
ground into every girl and boy that it is disgraceful
not to take an active part in the organization of the
ward, city, state and nation.
' Just pay due attention to one generation of chil
dren and it will save you a hundred years’ labor with
adults.”
This plan being so simple the delegates felt their
intelligence insulted and said: “What! And did we
come here to be told about children?” Also the re
formers and instltution-job-holaers cried out upon
him. The upshot of it all was that they seized the
man and threw him into a madhouse.
bditorials In Brief
The British government has wisely decided not
to suppress the official newspaper of the suffragettes.
To have stifled the voice of militancy would have had
a worse effect than a whole campaign of bomb
throwing.—New York World.
With battleships costing twenty million dollars
apiece a navy has become a tremendous expense to
this country. But did you ever happen to notice that
nobody picks on the big, broad shouldered, two-fisted
six-footer? It’s the little fellow who gets into trou
ble.—Kansas City Times.
<
There is a movement In Buffalo for an ordinance
forbidding the heating of rugs or carpets within the
city limits. Good idea! There should be an ordi
nance also making it a penal offense for a man who
has been eating garlic and drinking alcohol to take a
ride in a street car ob other public conveyance within
a period of twenty-four hours thereafter.—Chicago
Tribune.
Decisive Battles
The present celebration of the sixteenth centenary
of the conversion of Constantine leads to some literary
reflections:
"Creasy’s “Fifteen Decisive Battles" seems to re
semble the various best lists of authors w© read of
from time to time—they always arouse criticism by
some- serious omission. It will he recalled that the
“Five Foot Shelf” of what, in a great educator’s mind,
were the best imaginable books in English was found
deficient in that it omitted both the Bible and Shakes
peare. A few inches added to the shelf would have
been a good thing in the minds of many.
The “Fifteen Battles” would have been quite as
euphoniius had it been called the “Sixteen” and had it
included the battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 A. D.,
where tradition declares that Constantine saw in the
heavens the luminous cross which badj him conquer
"In This Sign." Surely the giving of Europe and
eventually America to Christianity was, to say the
least, quite as important as the battles whlcl} saved
Europe from Persian despotism or the later one which
gave western Europe to Latin rather -than Greek su
premacy, or any other named 'in the book. However
great the consequences of others, none exceeded this
in its results. Sins of omission are as bad as those
of commission.—From a Letter in the New York Times.
Pointed Paragraphs
People never pay any attention- to a cheerful liar.
* * *
Some girls are born foolish and some use peroxide.
THE INCOME TAX
IV.—GRADUATING THE TAX.
Ba FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
Until recent legislation In some of the more pro
gressive states there has been little effort in the
United States to graduate income taxes, increasing the
rat© with expanding incomes
On the other hand, in Europe
and Australasia the general ten-
dency has been in that direction
for years. There it has been
assumed that the right principle
of uniformity in taxation is uni
formity of burden rather than
uniformity of rate. As the wid
ow’s mite was more than the
richest gifts that were placed in
the contribution box, because it
was 100 per cent of what she
had, while the other gifts rep
resented perhaps only the frac
tion of 1 per cent of what their
donors had, so a tax of $20 may
hit the small taxpayer Infinite
ly harder than a tax of $500 hits
♦ he large taxpayer. The Euro
pean idea is that each person
shall bear a tax burden deli
cately adjusted to his ability to bear it, and that the
larger the income the higher the tax rate it can bear
without putting an undue burden upon the taxpayer.*
• • m v
There are really two forms of graduation, and in
the parlance of the tax official they are known as
“graduation” and “differentiation.” Graduation, under
this division, has to do directly with a sliding scale
of tax rates, applied to various sized fortunes. Dif
ferentiation has to do with a levying of different rates
upon incomes secured from different sources. They
both aim to produce results that will produce equal
burdens upon all classes of taxpayers. With refer
ence to differentiation, Gladstone once used a re
markable expression to differentiate between the
sources of incomes. One class of incomes he called
“industrious” incomes, because they spring "from the
sweat of the brow.” The other class he designated
as “lazy” incomes, because the only labor involved in
4 getting them is the clipping of coupons or the cash
ing of dividend check-. Differentiation, then, aimt
to assess a lower tax against the money a man has tc
work for than against that which comes to him frorr
investments. Still another form of graduation is tha*
of exempting incomes which fall below a certain fixed
amount, the theory being that a man or woman whe
has no larger income has need for every dollar of il
in maintaining the proper standard of living.
* • *
England adopted the plan of differentiation, as wil;
be explained later, In' 1907, after the most extensive in
vestigation of the workings of tho principle In othei
countries. There were those who asserted that it
would result in great loss of revenue. Others be
lieved that it jfcould upset the whole tax system. But
after it was tried out there was no loss of revenue
and the chancellor declared that it had worked a
moral as well as a fiscal reform. After three year*
trial It had proved Itself such a satisfactory innova
tion that the government decided ,to go a step furthei
and fix a system of graduated taxes. Differentiation
made incomes that were th© result of “th© sweat of thf
brow” bear a tax of 9 pence on the pound and invest
ment incomes a tax of 12 pence, when the income did
not go over 2,000 pounds. When the government de
cided to graduate the tax the differentiation was in
creased, so that . hile earned incomes were still taxed
18 cents, or 9 pence, investment incomes were taxed 2S
cents instead of 24 cents. When graduation was
taken up, the same gloomy prophecies that were made
that differentiati n would not succeed, cam© to b«
mad© that graduation would fail. But they were
mistaken, and England now regards its income tax sys
tem th© best that civilization has produced.
• • • n ft •’ - T •
Different countries approach the question of grad
uation in different ways. Some of them first make
an exemption of a living income, and assess the tax
against nothing but the excess of income above that
point, levying a different rato of taxation upon each
$1,000 of income. If, for instance, the exemption were
$1,000 and th© total income were $6,COO, and the rate
1 per cent on the first $1,000 above that, 2 per qent
on th e second $1,000, etc., the tax would be calculated
as follows: $1,000 at 1 per cent, $10; $1,000 at 2 pel
cent, $200; $1,000 at 3 per cent, $30; $1,000 at 4 pe:
cent, $4, and $1,000 at 5 per cent, $50; total tax, $150
• • •
On the other hand, some laws provide that an in
come in excess of the exemption, shall be taxed ac
cording to its size, the ascending rate applying to alJ
of th© income, instead of to each $1,000 of it on a sep
arate basis. For instance, suppose the exemption i?
$1,000, and that the rate is made 1 per cent if it does
not exceed $1,000 above the exemption, 2 per cent il
it does not exceed $2,000, etc. Under this plan th«
man with a $5,000 income over and above the exemp
tion would pay 5 per cent on the entire $5,000 or $25C
on the Income.
• • •
It has been found upon a careful investigation o 1
the income tax laws of the various countries that 8f
per cent of the aggregate population of all the ^coun
tries having such laws are residents of countries
where graduation is a recognized principle. Of the
fifty-odd courvtries which tax incomes, forty-six use
some form of graduation. In a large group of coun
tries the average tax rates on incomes of varying sizes
were calculated, and it is shown that taxable incomes
of $500 paid 1.50 per cent, incomes of $1,000 paid 1.94
per centh, incomes of $2,000 paid 2.37 per cent, in
comes of $5,000 paid 2.92 per cent. The average of all
these countries on incomes of $100,000 was 3.89 per
cent. These figures are on incomes arising from per
sonal exertion; those derived from invested capital
are somewhat higher.
• * •
A tabulation of the tax rates in twenty different:
countries where the principle of differentiation is rec
ognized has also been Ynade by the same authority, K.
K. Kennan, of Milwaukee, and the composite distinc
tion between earned and unearned incomes ascertained
therefrom. The tabulation shows that where earned
income pays a tax of $3, unearned income would pay
$5 on the same amount.
• • * *
Even with a graduated income tax, and with ex
emptions amounting to $1,100 as the average for Eng
lish-speaking countries,' not , great many people ar»
vitally concerned in the tax when compared to the
whole population. Taking as a group England ana
fourteen of its colonies, and Hawaii, it is found that
the average exemption is $1,100, and that less than
one person in twenty has to pay an income tax. In
England itself, where only those who have an income
of more than $800 have to pay a tax, only one person
in thirty has an income that puts him in the Income
tax paying class. It, therefore, follows that under a
system of graduation such as England has, perhaps
less than one person in several hundred has to pay
any more than a nominal sum.
When misfortune overtakes a hustler it has to go
some.
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There are no game laws*to interfere with the kill
ing of time.
When a contrary man agrees with you it’s a safe
bet that you are in the wrong.
• • »
The man who throws himself at a young widow’s
head will soon find himself under her thumb—or foot.
No other country in the world so thoroughly rec
ognizes the principle of graduation as England and its
colonies. While in the United States, where gradua
tion might be taken as an effort fostered by delta-
gogues to shift an undue burden to men of large
incomes, it can be said that in England the leading
tax-authorities, men in no wise influenced by such po
litical considerations, claim that the graduated income
tax is the only just one, ;«nd that the whole tendency
of the times is in that direction.
Some people run into debt and others jump.
The barbers’ strike in New York will save many
a tip.
It is easier to love in spite of faults than because
of virtues.
Professor Taft is now watching the other fellow
make history.
Congress, so far, hasn’t come to the Washington
baseball team. V
It remains to be seen which is better for diplo
macy—grape juice or mint juleps.
“Pickpockets get busy at polite picnic.” Weil,
this is like burglarizing the police station.