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property held by citizens of this city has not only increased,but has swelled to enormous proportions during the past tenyears .—New York Financier , New York City .

TAXING THEMSELVES.

When such real estate owners demand the abolition of alltaxes on personal properties, we may readily suppose that theyhave good arguments to present, which will be listened torespectfully.— Herald , New York City .

THE BLUNDER OF TAXING PERSONAL PROPERTY.

The Troy Herald is laboring under the manifest misconcep-tion that when the trunk of a tree is bored for sap the limbsescape. In order to tax the tree equitably, it would with vastlyincreased labor, expense, and annoyance get up among thebranches and put a hole into each one, according to its size, soas not to overtax the trunk. The advocates of a tax on per-sonal property and incomes usually make the same blunder intheir process of reasoning.— Troy Press , Troy, RensselaerCounty, N. Y.

AN OPAQUE VIEW OF IT.

A more thorough scheme of wholesale robbery (that of theNew York Tax Reform Association) has never been devised.The party that ingrafts such a scheme into its platform thisfall will be buried out of sight. There are fifty millionairefamilies in New York City whose holdings in personal propertyare such that they could better afford to pay half the taxes ofthis State than that real estate should bear it all.— Advertiser,Geneva , Ontario County, N. Y.

“D-D SCOUNDRELS.”

The whole principle of the New York Tax Reform Associa-tion is a finely constructed and cunningly devised method for13