Joe Chamberlain On Taxation

Xkw Yoisk, March 21.- Hon. Joseph Chaniberlaln was reoently quoted u.s saying in a speech dolivered in London: "You muy try as hard as you lito to take the taxes off the poor and put theiu ob the rich; you niay try all these schemes o betterinent taxes and taxos on ground rents; you may try till you are black ii the face, but in the loni; run all theso taxes will be shittad by the rich on to the poor." ]n reply to a letter sent to Chamberlain by Bolton Hall, vice president ot the New York Tax Reform association, asking if the speech had boen correctly quoted, the followiug letter has been r;ceived, authorized by Chambarlain, and dated Loudon, March 9, 1S95: "8lB: - I am directed by Mr. Chamborlain to say that he thinks the report to which you refer is a little too broad anci Mr. Chambürlain should have said that taxation falls most heavily upon the poor. Tais is not so much a quesiion ol economie law as ot, general observation. Ir taxatiou were ever .sought to be placed entirely, or even unfairly.upon the rich, they will flnd, as they havo doue in the past, nieans of evading it. Capital can be easily trausferred from placo to place, and it will go where there is the greatest security. Meanwhile the poor are doprived of employment, and whilo the rich may suffer loss and diminution of income, the poor will loso their nieans ot' Bubsistenee. Thia is the general doctrine which .Mr. Chamberlain dosired to impresa on hia hearers, :u)d ho had no inteution of entering upon the question of flrst incidence of aiiy particular tax."