Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-06-06
SINGLE TAX DEPARTMENT,
ARE WE WEAlTHY2
inc Land Tax Problem In Great Brutal
Wealthy In the wrony place


inc Land Tax Problem In Great Britain
m A,ny IN the Wrong Place.
ho amiiy Herald published in Lon
WI, ashs the question, Are we
oa'ny ana concludes that the true
s ans"er Is les; In the wrong place. -"
no eoi'or notes that within sound of
.n1 carriages rolilng To the fashionable
u"ii 'na' costs fl,ooo work twenty seam
~, VINO never had enough to eat
100 Is not good horse that Mother
Ing ianu uoes not care Tor, and there are
"i.iioh chiluren VINO can rarely
s"'isiy 'heir munger and are styed in
"ohs "nere the horses would die in a
s'aho the genesis OF poverty until the
o''oiopnehts Oh society In America
snV"eu WIN ,errihc rapidlty the histor-
,'"i oeVeiopment OF poverty In Britain.
,o'er1y III England was before that a
"o,rio hysoory' out IN America Its de-
I ,c'opnehS was brought out in lurld
uis'ihc'hcss' In the old countries
."o mon VINO hrSt seizcd the
ANU were aolo 10 sublet 1t Tor money or
n'iiiVary service GRADUALLY manufact-
"rers camc' ana then great centers of
POPULATION Win workingmen ready to
SUI .helr LABOR Tor bare living. Thus
o"mo ABOUT inc appalling spectacle OF
olo wofiu Sums. All this has been
oo"o IN Ainerica win the rapidlty OF
scehe shiltng. with this swift object
'essoh hofore them Englishmen have
eiicu' pack 10 the lana; the land FOR
inc halon' lhcy now SEQ that the
uope hcld out by reform bills was vain.
ror timo the church exercised con-
serVatlve influences; but bold doubters
VINO had como TO belleve that wo die
Ike oump prutes SAID; why not give
.he poor lhclr share OF this worlds good
thihgs slhco there Is nothing for them
IN another world?'
Inc coltor sees hope II only the
masses Will exercise their powers under
ENSUING laws. Inc people must resolve
that they snail no longer live In Sums.
iroi. huxley has done much good, and
NO onco spoke OF Jacobs ladder from
.ho gutter 10 inc university The lad
aer' however, reaches only from trades
man shop and the artisans dwelling to
- - 49, 800 iii"S' WV b"NNSi
chlld can not climb. Meanwhile Hux-
10Y mas become so savagely conservative
mat he may next denounce Magma
marta as mistake. Suppose an awk-
ward leader OF the people should say:
GU tell us, professor, that we are
wealthy, and that II Is right that some
mon should be gorgod whilo we arc bit
ten with famine. IL Britain is so
wealthy how Is 1t that eleven million
acres OF good agricultural land are now
OUT OF cultivation, whllo the people
whom the land used to feed are crushed
IN tho Sums OF tho towns in the case of
iaDorers' or gone beyond the sea in the
case OF tho iarmors?' Wo want to be
impartial, but wo trocly own that we
Shoulo not like to answer that question,
ana wo 40 not believe the professor
could inc men who used to supply our
hghtlng force are now becoming ex-
tlnct' III they so into the town and
PICK up some KIND OF work, then the
second generation arc weaklings and
burden to us; while, If they
go ABROAD they arc still re-
moved from tho mother OF Nations,
VINO needs her sons OF the soil, even
UnOugn Sne NAV 1CcI proud of the nal-