Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although most deeply interested in the cause of popular government, Mr. U'Ren does not by any means limit himself to furthering that cause alone. As an ardent disciple of Henry George, he has been very successful in establishing the single tax in parts of Oregon. He is also to a large extent responsible for the excellent corrupt practices act in that state and for the direct primary and proportional representation recently established there. At present Mr. U'Ren is a candidate for the governorship of Oregon...
...extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens or Subjects of any foreign State." Difficulty is encountered in Railroad cases. If a railroad is an Inter-state carrier, each state through which it runs claims the right to tax its property in that state. The road should be taxed as a unit, and the entire amount of taxation is therefore apportioned among the various states. The railroads always appeal for protection under the Fourteenth Amendment. An instance of this is shown in the case of a railroad against...
Besides being twenty-one, a student must have resided in this state and city at least one year. Furthermore, he must have been assessed for a poll-tax in the city of Cambridge. This assessment is made soon after the first of April. The City Clerk advises men to leave the required personal information with their landladies or porters in case the assessor calls when they are out. This will save a great deal of inconvenience. Such are the requirements provided by the Massachusetts...
...field of government. Speaking of the recent attacks on the efficiency of Boston government as compared with that of most German cities, the speaker pointed out that for American government only a very small proportion of the accumulated wealth of the country is available, while in Europe the income tax brings to the municipal treasuries enormous sums. Boston has the power and the opportunity to become the close rival of New York City in the commercial world, but things will remain at a standstill until the financial leaders of the city realize the civic obligations before them...
What gave the leaders of this cause the courage to keep on the struggle was not so much their own sense of personal injustice, but that of the great mass of womankind. Women have to pay every kind of tax that is laid, yet they have no hand in electing the officials who make them pay. Even in making laws in regard to infantile paralysis, child labor, free competition of women in business, and social questions of this kind, their opinion is not asked...