Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 321, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1920 — TENANTS OUTNUMBER OWNERS. [ARTICLE]

TENANTS OUTNUMBER OWNERS.

The United States has fought all her wars to "preserve thehome,” and yet probably 60 per cent of her people-are tenants. Thiswas the text selectedtheother daybyUnit;ed States Senator William M. Calder of Nevy itok in an address before the New Yorkßeal Estateassoclatlon’s convention urging the-- necessity of-a national campaign for the creatioh bf hbifieSsTfe sail: "The object of each of our wars has been, in the last analysis, to preserve the home. Yet we find that to the ma^ori^of people lit thiscountry: ‘home’ means little more than a dwelling for which they are paying rent. What is worse, intho situation is that the percentage, of thrift rent pay-, era tegrovnng. ' J..., _ - “fn 189dwewere advised that 62 per cent of the : people in America lived uhderthe reirtal systein. In 1910 that the percentage had increased to Sfi, and probably the censusofl92o will show that fully 6t) per cent of the people will be clasSfegaA tenants.” Taxation oh the Home. The necessity for giving proper attention to real estate taxation was to tidflce in a paper by Harrison B, Riley, president of the Chicago Title and £rust company, which was read at the recent convention of the Meal Association of the State of lUinpis ln .aMunpalgn. in W paper add: "It is undeniable that real estate and. therefore, the home keeper, pays an increasingly unfair amount for support of the government and thfe Convenience of the people. A lasy indifference collection of taxes must be corrected, So that real „ estate bears only an' eqttarproportion of the expenses of government and of clvilizatlon with other classes ofproperty. jjfimwjiaT •« "Heretofore real estate his turn over 80 per cent of the revenue needed by the state, the several counties and .the unnumbered municipal und kc >- “Personal property, which equals or very likely exceeds the value of real estate, has escaped pay- 1 any fair prdiwrtlbn oF governmental expenses, & ’T Wotret that state constjtuttonjft>aß have only twtr general assembly That Bil taxes snairoe ox—*, ~ axrtrxgTiiiim ti for tn xfi 11 on aiid special assess* pent in the J? cifib taxes upon classes of - Kitai” 1 * 1