The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-09-06
re TAX FOR THE WoRKER.


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How Every Laborer MAY Learn "n~s
1e 1s'
To evcry man Interested IN ING 49,
Iect Of taxation, ana IN 'neso nav .. ss..
there are but few VINO are nos g ca snv
by thepinch OF poverty As - Inv e~d :.
taxes heavy burden. ! nave VIZ
two to say. You may DC res uisl ss.ss
scriber to and attentive reaoer u sn.s
paper. or it may have fallen iheo ~.
hands casually. II the nrss, le' m ns s
You to read the Single Tax Dops1
ments attentiyely every Week. anu
the system Of imposing taxes advoc1.e1
therein meets with your approval w.
20 the editor about it, calling MS aesen
ton to the way unimproved land In your
escapes its proper share OF
the public burdens, thus making nesvie.
the load that the improved land mas ~
hear. You will find plenty OF strikin8
instances all around you, and mayoe
vour paper will stir up the tax assessor
- do his duty. II you are not fully sat-
isf,ed about the single tax from whae
Won see in your paper, write to me ana
will send YOU some tracts explaining
the, whole subject
II you have merely happened to pics
mn this paper and become Interested IN
knowing more about the single tax
and II your own paper is not publishing
= Single Tax Department, write to your
editor and request him to do It Inc
Memphis Single Tax Association mas
made arrangements whereby all papers
published in the West and Northwes
can cet their articles from the houses
that supply s'patent outsides, and at NO
EXTRA cost TO the raper. The editor OF
vour home paper is not only willing, but
ANXIOUS to print what his Subscribers
want and II you write to him that you
and others want to know what the SIM
Gle Tax means and how it will Affect
Won. YOU may depend on it that he will
suuplv the demand. If he don't then
subscribe for paper that will We
have sent out circulars to nearly all the
country papers published in the West
and Northwest Offering our articles TO
them. and the s.Single Tax De-
partment" is now being pub
lished in about seven hundred
Of them. II the readers want informa-
ton on this topic, which is the burning
| question of the day all over the civilized
world. II they want to know the true re-
| lations between land, labor and capital.
lif they are interested in the question
whv Il il that in the midst of greatly
| increasing wealth throughout the
United States, there is SO much poverty
and suffering among the people. and
vbv II is that the lot of the toiler is 50
! much harder than 1t was In former
| wears. then the remedy IL in their own
hands. We think we have solved the
problem: we think we have discovered
the seat of the trouble to be the monop-
DIV OF the land by the few, thereby
compelling tho many to labor
for bare sustenance; and we
are satisfied that we have found the
remedy in the single tax. which will
force all holders Of land, mineral, forest,
ore and agricultural land, to use 1t or to
| let 1t be used by other men. The single
tax will not be burden upon any man
who uses land; but it would make all
the land grabbers, syndicates and sin-
yestors holding for RISE" let 60 their
holdings. In short it would kill spccs-
/ lation in land. give farm to every
farmers boy, and homes to the millions
Of homeless mon, who can not now lay
claim to place to lay their heads.
i The following letter, written to the
New York Standard, shows how ready
the papers are to give space to our
. articles, and II the readers of the rural
press want to know about the Single Tax
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