Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-08-01
THE TAX FOR THE WORKER.
How Every Laborer May Learn VIVA
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To every man interested in the sub
| ject of taxation, and in these hard times
there are but few who are not so pressed
by the pinch of poverty as TO find any
taxes heavy burden. have word OF
two to say. You may be regular sub
scriber to and attentive reader of this
paper, or it may have fallen into your
hands casually. IL the first let me urge
you to read the 'Single Tax Depart
ment' attentiyely every week, and If
the system of imposing taxes advocated
therein meets with your approval, write
to the editor about it, calling his atten-
ton to the way unimproved land in your
neighborhood escapes its proper share Of
the public burdens, thus making heavier
the load that the improved land has to
bear. You will find plenty of striking
instances all around you, and maybe
your paper will stir up the tax assessor
to do his duty. If you are not fully sat
isfied about the single tax from what
you see in your paper, write to me and
l will send you some tracts explaining
the whole subject.
IL you have merely happened to pick
up this paper and become interested in
knowing more about the single tax,
and IL your own paper is not publishing
Single Tax Department, write to your
editor and request him to do it The
Memphis Single Tax Association has
made arrangements whereby all papers
published in the West and Northwest
can get their articles from the houses
that supply patent outsides," and at no
extra cost to the PAPER. The editor of
your home paper is not only willing, but
anxious to print what his subscribers
want, and If you write to him that you
and others want to know what the Sim
gle Tax means and how it will affect
you, you may depend on it that he will
supply tho 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 "Single Tax De-
partment' is now being pub
llshed in about seven hundred
of them. II the readers want informa,
tion on this topic, which is the burning
question of the day all over the civilized
lations between land, labor and capital,
II they are interested in the question
why it is, that i'll the midst of greatly
increasing wealth throughout the
United States, there is so much poverty
and suffering among the people, and
why it is that the lot of the toiler is so
much harder than it was in former
years, then the remedy is in their own
hands. We think we have solved tho
problem; we think we have discovered
the seat of the trouble to be the monop,
oily of the land by the few, thereby
compelling the 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 it or to
let it 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 lin
vestors holding for rise," let go their
holdings. In short it would kill sDecu-
ldttoH in land, give farm to every
farmers boy and homes to tho millions
of homeless men, who can not now lay
claim to place to lay their heads
The following letter, written to the
New York Standard, shows how ready
the papers are to give space to our
articles, and if the readers of the rural
press want to know about the Single Tax
and will take the trouble to write to
their local journals, the Single Tax De-
partment can in short time be found
in sevcn thousand papers.
Ill. G. Niles, Denver. After the article
by k. &. Brown, of Memphis, Tenn, APP
peared in the Standard, explaining their
method of supplying country newspa-
pers with single tax matter, our club |
here got the Memphis club to circular
ize the State of Colorado and adjacent
Territories.
l called few days ago at the office of
the Western Newspaper Union to learn
as to the success or failure of our efforts.
The replies they had received were
twenty-four, twenty-one asking for sin
gle tax matter and three declineing to
have any thing of the kind published in
their papers.
N. ID. Dresser, Independent, Rock |
Springs, Wyo., wrote: Am glad to |
learn you have taken up this matter,
and hope you will get numerous orders"
Miss Carrie Byrd, Journal, Lyons, Col,
says: Il shall be pleased to have single
tax matter published in our Journal"
The Dillon Enterprise (?) said: ~ don't
want any of this truck in my paper"
Tho State Herald, Holyoke; Don't
want it. Want your republicanism in
my paper"
The papers already taking the matter
are well distributed all over the State,
and we are much encouraged with the
result and expect to see an evidence of
a change of heart in our ''pagans" to-
ward the single tax. Write to your paper.