CONTENTS.

Chapter I. Changes Needed. Bolton Hall. Reprinted, by

permission, from Public Opinion ... IChapter II. Charity, Taxation, and Pauperism . Bolton Hall 15Chapter III. How To Do It ; comprising the conclusions pre-sented by David A. Wells in his Reports onTaxation in New York Slate in 1871 . 25

Chapter IV. The Collar-Button System. The Argument ofJudge W'. H. Arnoux before the New YorkState Senate Committee in 1884 ... 48

Chapter V. The Cause of Business Depression. Based upon

the twelve letters of Commissioner George H.Andrews written in 1877, on the future of New York City ....... 66

Chapter VI. An Immoral Way. Julien T. Davies . . 81

Chapter VII. Robbing One Another. Thomas G. Shearman . 103

Chapter VIII. Taxing Honesty and Thrift. Joseph Dana Miller 127Chapter IX. Taxing Women. Thomas G. Shearman . . 148

Chapter X. Birth and Progress. Bolton Hall . . . 153

Chapter XI. The Universities. By Bishop Keene, Arthur T.

Hadley, R. T. Ely, etc. ..... 164

Chapter XII. The Press Discussion. Bolton Hall . . 185

APPENDIX.

Tax Reform Dialogue. W'illiam McCabe ..... 197

Mr. Little-Thought. William McCabe.200

Rt. Hon. Henry Fawcett ’s Argument.201

Newspapers and Professors.203

License Taxes .......... 215

Note on Mr. Wells’s Report.217

Bibliography.219