Judge — February 9, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Avenue del" Oper tariack's News Eechs Brentans Infringement of this cooyright will be pro Digorousiy prosecuted. cannot be guarantees. id every searate s The accompanying joke or ane and adress Wr 108 to the fall amount of postage 1s also reguireds 10 a seoarate sii9 of pan 1 JUDGE cannot be found at any news-stend, the publishers will be under obliga tons if that fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. THE WAY TO CHECK THE UPWARD-WAGE TREND. E HAVE no doubt that for the next dozen years the proposition to tax incomes will have active legislative support. It has been suggested that the tax be laid upon all incomes of $500 and over. Just now we are concerned with but a single aspect of this project. Our statesmen and poli- ticians are at great pains to convince us that the tendency of wages and incomes is upward. We would point out that, if this income-tax is levied, the upward tendency will cease, and the assessors will have dif- ficulty in finding anybody who gets more than $499.99 a year. This would be noth- ing short of a calamity. Our rich men would be so reduced in circumstances that a great compassion would surge in the popular breast where now there is consid- erable anger and resentment. Mr. Carne- gie thinks that an income-tax would trans form our people into ‘‘ monumental liars.’” But we are not considering the moral char- acter, but only the economic side of the problem. For instance, see how many lawyers, doctors, merchants, and even preachers, are willing to let it be known, and take no little pride in the fact, that they are earning three, five, ten, or more thousand dollars a year. What a double misfortune it would be, at once a national impoverishment and a crushing blow at personal pride, if all these incomes were suddenly reduced to a pitiful $499.99! wat we need now is an earthquake etiquette for the guidance of gov ernors and others. IF INDIANA will lay a tax on authors, as well as bachelors, it will no doubt be able to remit all the other taxes on its citizens. THoOMas FORTUNE RYAN, of here, is doing well. with Thomas when he doesn’t get a tunnel or tw: little things like that. It’s a slow day and a few other FOUNDER OF A NEW RELIGION MEETS OBSTACLES, Me. JOHN AUGUSTUS WALL aspires to be the founder of a new na- tional church and, in a measure, of a new religion. His first step was to hire a hall. This quite conforms to all secular precedent. Wonders can be achieved by hiring a hall. But the hall of this new epiphany is in the very centre of Gotham, and that, to our mind, is a handicap. It would be easier for us to think of a new national religion coming out of some rural quietude, the child of open skies and limitless land- scapes. But born in a hired hall, across the street from one of New York’s most famous dineries, the new religion gets an equivocal introduction. At one of the services of the new propaganda, as report: ed in the daily press, a woman auditor in- terrupted the Founder from time to time by exclaiming ** Rats!’ We confess that such a response would discourage us if we were founding a new religion, and nothing could better illustrate the obstacles to such enterprises at this date. So far Founder Wall has gone about the business with a rare modesty and a delicate consideration for the feelings of the public. But his call to the churchless to come in to the new fold seems to have met with a rather reluctant response. WE ARE still waiting to hear how that stove got smuggled into Sing Sing prison. SO. MANY creat men are getting funny. Tillman and Swettenham show how hard it is for humorists to get along nowadays. HAT Russian Duma election is slow work. As fast as one man is elected he is hanged, and that discourages new candidates. WHEN this paragraph comes under the eye of the reader, we expect that Governor Swettenham will have already joined the staff of Lon- don Punch. NTER the denominational sandwich, Rev. Mr. Geer, who has under- taken a great work in behalf of the New York typewriter girl, finds that he can’t get the different sects to unite on a single type of sandwich. A RICH MAN, ONE WIDOW, AND A HEADLINE. That the effort to create a fresh body cf sentiment against the divorce evil and the bigamous tendencies of mankind is justified may be gath- ered from the following headline in a New York paper: ‘ Only One Wife ata Banker's Funeral.” Here is evident a note of surprise. That a man of abundant means, which is generally the case with bankers, should leave but one widow to mourn his departure apparently strikes this head-writer as something anomalous and extraordinary. There is no censure implied, but only amazement. It is not suggested that a man of first-rate financial standing ought to have done bet- ter than this—ought to have accumulated a richer heritage of conjugal woe. We take it that the head-writer, who comes as near knowing the varied domestic history of our times as any man, merely felt a momentary astonishment. This may have been a purely business emotion, for in these days a newspaper gets small comfort out of such an entirely conventional and correct dénouement. Ordinarily there would hardly be a display in it. But this disquieting reflection arises, Is the leaving of one sole widow behind by a man of wealth so rare that a newspaper man finds it sufficiently sensational to make out of it a thirty- six point astonisher? [TIS painful to see how our modest Congressmen side-step that salary- increase and yet linger in its vicinity. OWING to recent losses by fire, Mr. Rockefeller has decided not to in- vest ina new wig this summer. NINE years in Kabul, says a London book advertisement. We don’t believe it. No white man ever stayed there that long. VEN though Mr. Carnegie denies that he is to found a university, we confidently expect him to do it just the same. Competition will force him to it. WE FORGET the name of the gentleman who gave a recital in New York the other week, but it wasn't Sigismund Stojowski, for his re- cital came a week later. THE life-insurance companies having geographicalized the ballots cast for officers, assembled ** goo-goo " tables, where the young men and women could alphabeticalize the votes. Some day they will count them comicbooks.com