Iron County register., 1890-07-24

shift IL Above that is placed the tax
on houses and personal property. The
houses can not escape, and generally
the tax can be shifted to the tenant
Personal property can largely escape.
especially If held BY rich people But
| the poor man. like the farmer, who can
not hide his cow. or horse, or plow. pays
the full tax The widow and orphan
are fully taxed Then we are down 20
personal property and houseA Ths
manifest difficulty and injustice of tax
/ ing the first would soon exempt IL and
we should reach the goal of Mr.. Wells
and Mr.. Atkinson-she taxation Of real
estate alone, houses and land
With the field cleared 70 this point we
could make apparent the wrongfulness
| Of taxing houses Why should men
who confer upon the community the
boon of stores and dwellings be fined for
il? That viii not encourage them TO
| build more and make rents cheaper. IL
| viii have cor trary effect The wage
Garner viii pay more of his scant earn
| ings. tenement houses increase. and sep
| arafe homes be harder to obtain The
only excuse that csn be given for taxing
| buildings Is that fAey can not run away
| from the assessors, but the tax
can make wealth run away. AT
last we reach our ideal tax on the
land Gradually tie buraeR has been
adjusted Year by year il has been
withdrawn from one thing after another
/ and concentrated upon the rest, until al
! last II settles upon the earth. where IL
belongs, and vanishes into the ground
/ Wealth, no longer discouraged and
| punished. increases marvelously. Ex-
change free and nnhampered the
equitable distribution OF the product
Of mans labor cheers and en-,
| courages the worker The open field
! for self-employmen1 raises wages from
the bottom and makes life easier and
better No cunning law permits one to
take away the fruits of other industry and
selfdenial The sacred right Of property is
respected because it grows ont Of tha
right OF man TO himself. No mete or
bound is set TO its accumulation for the
reason that there can not be two much
wealth. and with no partial laws to dis
vert its natural flow. ii would settle
where 1t should Excepting the physi-
cally incompetent those who remain
poor will deserve their condition, bat IL
would be self-imposed by idleness or vice
and susceptible of self-cure. But en-
forced idleness would be impossible
The land has broad back and feels ne
tax However much is pnt upon it-and
10 more would be so placed than tha
community needed and would cheerfally
paT-it could not be transferred to Ia
Dor. The tax which dininishes property
can not diminish land by an inch In
stead Of making ii hard TO get, land
would come tempting men 10 use il. with
the assured guarantee that they may
gather their full product unmolested
and unplundered.
Only one condition must be exacted,
Choose what spot yon viii, as much NJ
your use requires. be it more or less, and
pay for the privilege what il is worth 1
you and no more, gauged BY what Others
will readily pay for it. Hesitate not &c
improve it. Heap up all possible pro-
duce from il. whether in grain or goods,
in warehouse or IN buildings for others
use. No finger but your own will ever
subtract a penny from IT. You made it.
and ii is yours against the world. MOI
one extra cent viii be levied upon you
because OF your Improvements. If il
should happen that, through increase OF
population and consequent rise in site
value Of the land you occupy, it shall be
worth more for some different purpose,
no one can take II from you unless he
remunerates you for your improvements;
and plenty OF land suitable TO your oc-
cEpation awaits you Above all things,
your tenure, as long as you pay rental,
shall be as secure as any title of owner
ship now gives you
The basis Of the scheme is justice No
one gets an unfair advantage II Jor-
dan, Marsh & Co. desire 10 hold their
favored corner, they are al liberty to do
so by paying the single land tax for the
privilege. Not one in the community is
wronged. for the reason that they pay
the people for the advantage and no
landlord gets It In short the single tax
is the assurance oE freedom. The more
one studies il, the more he viii be able
TO appreciate this eloquent and hopeful
utterance of Henry George:
But ii, while there is yet time. We
turn TO justice and obey her, If we trust
liberty and follow her, the dangers thai
now threaten must disappear, the forces
that now menace will turn To agencies
"a tsEAaA3cA 1D4Uh o. LDS IsoW6Te now
wasted: OF the infinite fields Of knowl-
edge yet 10 be explored; OF the. possibil-
tiles of which the wonderous inventions
of this century give rs but hint With
want destroyed; with greed changed ta
noble passions: with the fraternity that
is born Of equality taking the place OF
the jealousy and fear that array meI
against each other: with mental power
loosed by conditions that give TO ths
humblest comfort and leisure, and whc
shall measure the heights TO which oxs
civilization may soar? Words fail the
thonght 1t is the golden age of which
poets have sung. and high-raised secrs
have told in metaphor. 1t is the glor
ious vision which has always haunted
man with CLEANS Of ftful splendor. ii
is what he saw whose eyes at Patn-os
were closed in trance. 1t is the culn1in
alton Of Christianity-the city OF God
on earth. with its walls OF jasper ana its
gates Of pearl. II is the reign of the
Prince OF Peacel"
EVANSVILLE COURIER