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THE  A  B  C  OF  TAXATION

impediments  which  prevent  poor  and  rich  alike  from
housing  themselves,  both  in  private  and  business
homes?
The  nature  of  the  problem  is  the  same  in  the  case
of  a  store  on  Winter  Street  as  in  the  case  of  a  house
on  Salem  Street.  Every  argument  in  favour  of
municipal  initiative  in  the  renovated  housing  of  the
people  has  no  less  force  in  connection  with  the  renovated ­
  housing  of  the  people’s  business.
If  all  men  are  to  have  equal  rights,  then  the
right  of  the  landlord,  the  storekeeper,  and  the  customer ­
  should  not  be  in  conflict  but  in  harmony.