Connecticut western news., 1883-02-14
A REVIEW.

A REVIEW.
 Henry George's Political Economy.
 To He Editor of he Neacs II have been reading Henry Georges great work on political economy and I read it with the intention of giving it all the credit it deserved. Not that am gifted with better judgment than many others in reviewing such work, nor do I feel able to take the stand of publicly con- demning his book.
 This is an age of reading and inquiry among all classes of people and his views in regard to taxation I consider peculiar. In fact, do not see how we can apply his system to any case in the United States. He is for having the state own the land and have the rent of the same answer for the present system of taxation and raise all taxes from the land. I kept looking as read, for some definite plan or way to show how l it could be done, without making it @ one-sided matter. He has laid down no rule for us, only to have the land pay r all public expenses.
 came to this conclusion. He had Europe more in his mind than America. As taxation should be, and be just, every individual should pay his or her share of the public expenses. As we | stand to-day, in the United States, we need different way of taxing the peo- pie. MT Georges plan will not work with us. give my reasons as farmer and laboring man. and also as tax pay j. ing citizen. Agriculture is the base of everything that makes us an enlighten- led people. This is question that we are all interested in and in order to un- derstand it we must commence at the beginning, and as we SOW, we will reap. Land belongs to the state, we occupy it under regulations. If our farmers are good ones, the state is blessed by their being such. A high state of cultivation denotes 8 good state of civilation. All the laws of our country ought to be made so as to bear as equally on each individual as possible.
 The land of our country should be in the hands of the owners and not rented. Small farms are to be preferred as they are better cultivated. know from ex- perience that reclaim a swamp and set out the friendly shade, the useful fruit tree and the ornamental shrub on the feeling that it is mine. If rented my land, that idea of improvement would be wanting. The feeling that my child ren may own it, gives me ambition to improve. We have an example in North Canaan of the college lands and also of the lease lands in the state ot New York. Such lands are not used as they would be if they were owned by the occupants. Give the young man that wants to buy farm chance. Let the state give him few years exemp. tion from taxes, and get into the system of keeping our young men in the state, Our young men that leave us each yeal are worth more to us than all our banks Shape our laws so that the industry ot the country will be respectable and profitable. Let our non-tax paying aristocracy leave us, but keep our boys
 The latter would be blessing to us the former are in our way, for these
 principles tend to make the palace anc hovel.
 The land that is used for raising crops, and when I talk of crops I mea1 all that grows from the land all tha
 grows out of it, let all other property bt Z taxed. I would exempt laborer's
 home to five hundred dollars or per $ haps more, as might be found judicious and make no difference as to sex abou
 the rights of citizenship. I would ia
 vor the land for it belongs to the state
 all favors to the land resultes in favor
 ing all. How often we hear the remark ssI would work on farm, but the Ia
 bor is too heavy" This is the fact, it ii
 easier to do light work, than heavy
 Farmers and all that use a brute tean for the heavy draughts, feed heavy they get out at the foot of a steep hil and walk, and so on in all kinds of Ia bors, favor the team in all ways tha
 does the labor. Favor the land for the
 good of all. We have tracts of land il this town, that if it was put into farps the town could afford to let thens sri exempt from taxation for the next "a years, and it is so all over the state. w; want more farmers. No such thing g. over-production for many generation to come. Stop taxing the land and keel our young men at home. We can do that way and make our grand list ol
 our tax book larger than it is Civ, the farmers chance to educate thei children and have better houses, and better system of homes everywhere
 Who are the ones that deserve the higl