St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-16
George Whiteomb's Mother
Frustrated by the News Of
Her Sons Death.
DR.. Tuttle's Farewell Sermon
Previous to Leaving for
Europe.
PLEASING ADDRESS.
Prof Garland, of Boston, Speaks
on the Single Tax Idea.

on the Single Tax Idea.
About 2U0 people listened to the adj
dress delivered by Prof. Hamlin Garland
at Harmonic hall last evening, under
the auspices of the Anti-Poverty
society. Prof. Garland commenced
his address by saying that the
present system of taxation was
sapping the life blood of this republic
and that if change was not soon made
III our system of taxation. our govern
ment would go down, just as the great
Roman empire did several centuries
ago from the same cause. He said that
he wanted the women as we'll
as the men to understand this
tax question for it affected them
just as much as it did the men, and
probably more, for it was generally
women who suffered when hard times
came, and neither work nor money
could be had. There has always been a
struggle for existence, said he, and this
bitter one. Two hundred years
ago this struggle was so bitter
in the old world that a
great tide of emigration turned west
ward toward the new world, which was
SO sparSely settled by the Indians that
it was considered a vast wilderness, and
it was thought to be large
enough and fertile enough to
supply the entire population of
the Globe. Yet in two short centuries
we find this same struggle for food and
existence in this new world that there
was in the old world 200 years ago under
the feudal system. Although you will
hear speakers during the coming CAM
paign who will tell you how much
better off the working people of
people in the old world. Now suppose
they are little better off at the present
time, how long will it last? 1t has only
taken 200 years to reduce them from
free men, down almost to the level of
the European pauper labOrer and all
this in spite of our high protective
tariff. 1t is said that cause of the hard
times among the working people of this
country is that there are too many
people, and yet there are only nine
teen people to the square mile in this
country, while there are 400 people to
the square mile in England, and yet
the condition Of the working people of
this country is almost the same as that
of the English working people.
The root of all this trouble is that the
UuIh vi tllc ldllIl 10 wv lltu ny people WHO
make no use of it, but allow it to lie
idle, and consequently the mass of the
people are driven into the cities
to become consumers because there
is no land to be had. Now.
if the land were free they would nearly
all be producers. People are grossly
ignorant of the extent of this great land
monopoly. Why, if all the fertile land
in the six New England states, stony
and barren as parts of those states
are, were cultivated, there would be
enough food raised for the entire
population of the United States; the
same could be said of the state of Texas;
and yet we have toiling millions starry
ing because they are not allowed to i'm
prove the millions and millions
of acres of land which are ~
ing idle because they are owned
by SPECTATORS. Now, if the taxes were
all levied on the land without regard to
the improvements, we would soon get
rid of these large tracts of vacant land,
because it would not pay to hold them
without improving them, and by allow
ing the people to improve them by
cultivation, we would not only reduce
the number of consumers but we would
increase the number of pro-
ducerS' Unless something is soon
done to relieve the working
people from the slavery in which they
are at present held, all account. of this
land-holding monopoly, it will not be
long before our country will have de-
generated as low as Spain and Italy are
at the present time,