Tho Nebraska Indopcndcnt
OCTOBER 4, 1906
PROPEREY TAX
Advocated By Colorado Millionaire,
Income Tax and Exemption of
Small Home From Taxes
Colorado Springs, Colo. Thomas F.
iWalsh, the multi-millionaire mine own
er, in an address at the banquet of
the Pike's Peak centennial celebration
discussing present conditions that per
mit a few to accumulate large wealth
and impose burdens on the mass of
the people, declared in favor of a grad
uated tax upon fortunes, an income
tax, the exemption of the owners of
small cottages from taxation, govern
ment insurance for workers and gov
ernment savings banks.
' In commenting upon the unequal
distribution of wealth in America, Mr.
Walsh said:
Accumulated and concentrated
wealth, both corporate and individual,
Is crushing from the masses the life
of individual ownership, individual in
dependence, and almost individual ex
istence.
"A continuance of monopolistic con
ditions means all the commercial
wealth of our country centered in a
few hands, and the masses of the peo
ple left without an atom of ownership
in our country. If we are to survive
as a nation, the welfare of the masses
must ever and always be our first aim.
We must remember that no wealth
can be accumulated without the as
sistance of the people. I only plead
that the masses may get their pro
portionate share of the created wealth.
: Qne of the things I would suggest
to,keep the ownership of our country
from, the, hands of the few is a grad
uated tax upon accumulating fortunes
Make the beginning, if you r will, at a
very comfortable sum; then the great
er,the. accumulation the greater to be
the share to be civen to the Dublic
fund.;
"To my mind, the income tax is the
fairest, that can be imposed. It reach
es only the rich, and they surely can
afford to pay it. It is humiliating in
justice to have the owner of a humble
little cottage, raising five or six or
eight children, taxed for the little cot
tage that shelters him and his family.
Why -.not exempt him from all taxes
of every kind and description?
"Another thing; the masses of the
people have never received any direct
benefit from the great credit of the
country. The moneyed interests and
banking institutions have always re
ceived that benefit. Can you imagine
any more beneficial work than for the
government to open a department of
insurance that will give insurance to
the toiling masses at actual cost.
"I see no reason why the govern
ment cannot also have a department
of savings banks, to assist the poorer
people, whose - interest it is our great
est duty to promote, for the wealthy
can take care of themselves."
A GREAT FORTUNE'S BEGINNING
Senator Clark Got First Big Start
Through a Foreclosed Motqaqe
Clark had been a clerk for Robert
,W. Donnell, one of the early pioneers
of Montana, who accumulated a for
tune as a merchant during the first
gold excitements in the Rocky moun
tains. Donnell opened a small banking
house in Deer Lodge, Mont., and after
wards established the firm of Donnell,
Lawson & Simpson, at 102 Broadway,
New York, hwich failed - in the Wall
street panic of 1884. When Robert W.
Donnell was about to go to New York
to establish his house there, he opened
a branch house at Butte, taking into
partnership W. A. Clark and another
of his clerks, S. E. Larabee. Clark
took charge of the Butte bank and ac
quired Donnell's interest after the
failure of the New York house.
Donnell, Clark & Larabee had loan
ed in the course of their banking busi
ness at Butte, some thirty thousand
dollars to William L. Farlin, an inti
mate friend of Clark. Farlin had lo
cated several claims on the Butte
hill, and one down below the town
called the Trevonia. The Trevonia
was promising.. Farlin started to de
velope it, and in order to do so, bor
rowed the money from Donnell, Clark
& Larabee at Butte.
When the loan came due, Farlin was
unable to meet it, and in order to se
cure his friend Clark, placed all his
mining property in Clark's hands with
the understanding that Clark should
work the properties to the best advan
tage, pay off the indebtedness, and re
store the claims to Farlin. Instead
of working the Trevonia, the most
promising, Clark leisurely prospected
the other claims realizing nothing, of
course and at the expiration of his
trusteeship claimed forfeit of every
thing Farlin owned. Larabee looked
upon Clark's mineral holdings with dis
trust, and in a settlement between the
two, took a band of valuable horses
belonging to the firm in exchange for
his half interest in the mines which
had once belonged to Farlin. Clark
thus became the sole owner of the In
terests which laid the foundation of
his great fortune. C. P. Connolly in
McClure's.
A Missouri 4-Story Farm
From Howard county comes the tale
of a four-story farm. Charles Ridge
way is its owner and the farm Is lo
cated near Fayette. Mr. Ridgeway has
a fine clover field. Beneath the clover
is one of the righest beds of coal
and underneath the coal is a fine bed
of shale from which excellent build
ing brick is made. In and above the
clover is an abundant crop of apples.
This makes a four-story farm shale,
coal, clover, apples and shows how
the wealth is piled up in Missouri.
Columbia Herald.
Unusual Coaster Sport
The annual sports of the Costermon
gers' Federation included donkey
races, hand barrow races and other
event which appealed particularly to
the coster world, but the quaintest
item on the program was the half mile
basket race, in which each competitor
had to carry ten baskets on his head.
There were eight entries for this race,
but only two contestants succeeded in
covering the whole distance without
disaster. The Graphic.
Chancellor James R. Day of Syra
cuse university, in a discussion of the
craze for athletics that sometimes be
comes too rampant in the universities
of America, said with a smile:
"Why, I know a young clergyman
he had been an excellent first base
man at college in his time who, after
reading a portion of the Scriptures,
said solemnly as he closed the Bible
one Sunday morning in the baseball
season :
" 'Here endeth the second innings.' "
"Are you not going for a holiday
this year?"
"I don't think so. I can not think
of a place that fulfills all my require
ments." "What are those?".
"Well, I want a quiet Paris, 1,000
feet above the sea, on the coast, with
Bayreuth plays and Karlsbad springs."
Lustige Blatter.
"Was her summer boarding house
profitable?"
"You bet it was! Her guests bought
so many crackers that every grocery
store in the village paid dividends."
Judge.
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io SlUi. Hiuull
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miJt&mMM Neat de-
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gram Car
pet 22c;
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Samples.
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flow. Other lengths at pro
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nch roll rim. white enameled
on the inside, seamless, cast
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SSahranlzed Steel
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$2.00.
Brand new
galvanized
strong and
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extra well
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as practical as wooden tanks;
best manufactured.
32-gallon tank $2.00
73-gallon tank 2.
W-gallon tank . 2.50
6-barrcl tank - - 5.50
Lancer sizes In proportion.
Feed Cookers $9.20
Galvanized Tronghs - .60
Steel Wagon Tanks 1.00
Tank Heater ... 2.50
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Steel Roofinff Per 100
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siding each sheet 24 Ins. wide and 24 ins.
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illuitration: rheet 22 ins. wide and 24
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additional we will f umish sheets 8 and
8 feet long. .
Steal rrmtd Irlck Silting, pet square. $200
FlM Sfstt Beads Ceifine, pert-iuare. 2.00
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ln uDnliea. salvanised conductor Dine
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Air Tight Heaters
Each 75c
Larger sizes at $1.00
and $2.00. 60 Hot Blast
stoves, like illustra
tion; will burn hard
or soft coal or wood,
Were used at the I
World's Fair, over
hauled and first-clansl
Prices from $7 to $100
Cannon Heaters
Kitchen flanges
r.teel Ranoea
All kinds of stoves and heaters
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10.00
Iron Beds, $1.40
Fnll alio,
strongly
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S1.40. 100
s ingle
iron beds,
complete
with wov.
en wire
S2-2S. sWrftwrr-
Handsome brass trimmed beds,
like picture, twice as heavy as
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Head (fi-ln. high; brasu tubing
hD. diam. handsomely finish
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200 Wooden beds, nlcelr carved
good aa new. each $1.60
Full size cotton top mattresses
from $1.00 up.
Felt mattresses $2.25
Ileds and bedding of all kinds
Chairs, 50 cts.
This is onr price
tor strong substan
tial, bow-back, hoi -low
seat chairs.
1000 box seat, like
cut, per set $9.00.
7 00 handsome li
brary chairs saddle
seats and cane seat
Prices from c to
$2.50. Hardwood
folding chnira ' '
Perdoz.$f.00. A Complete stock
ol everytning tn the chair line.
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Felt Roofing, 60 cts
persq. TSRSZZZ
9 l. hranrf I.
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I f. 411kn
3-ply i:gle brand
IIIH sn. ft., 90r.
Vulcanite Boot
lite with nails.
capa,ceuient.eaa
I mi, r. m Miniitr.
es no coating: Yf '
square feettl.75
O a I v a n s i V
Rubber Hoof
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No coating required. Price
per 107 sq. ft. Including nails,
caps and cement for laps, 1-ply
1 .no. 2-ply 1 .90, 3-pN 2 .15
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Nursery Chairs BOc.
500 liko cut,
made of sel-1 I
ected willow
strong and . '
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hn hnrb nt 2Sc. Handsome
Child's Rockers, goluen Oak.
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Our prico W5c. Full sized,
roomy reed rockers worth
S-i.fiO. Our price 1.75. Eeed
furniture of nil kinds.
Fancy Sewing Stock-
ers,
600 like illustra
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finish, full polish
continuous post,
strongly braced
arm. M inc h high
screwed together.
Built for wear.
Worth $2.50. Our
nrice it. 25
lllOO other rockers, 75c to IO
Handsome genuine leather
rockers at $12.00. 50 beautiful
davennorts from the Pennsyl
vania building and other Bute
Huildings at the World's Fair,
overhauled and as good as new
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