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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 reno 
vated housing of the people’s business. 
If all men are to have equal rights, then the 
right of the landlord, the storekeeper, and the cus 
tomer should not be in conflict but in harmony.