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The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-13
Taxing Vacant Lots in Burlington,
Iowa.

Frank s. Churchill, of Burlington.
Iowa, writes: Our morning paper in
reporting the proceedings OF the city
council at their regular meeting, con.
tains the following:
resolution was introduced which
will warm the hearts Of the single tax
advocates and shows the effect of the
published arguments of the local adher-
ents of the theory. twas introduced by
Alderman Mercer, and reads us follows:
Resolved, That the assessor Of tho
city of Burlington, Iowa, be and is here
by directed and instructed to mark his
books before presented to the city coun-
ell, so as to indicate which lots have inn
provements and which are vacant, SO
that the council, when acting as a
board of equalization, may act intelli-
gently and place upon vacant lots held
for speculative purpose their share OF
municipal taxation" The ordinance
was adopted without dissent.
Our single tax men feel that they
have not labored in vain, and we will
now do our best to drive home the
wedge and aid the city council in plac-
ing upon vacant lots ''their share OF mu-
nicipal taxation"
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-13
SINGLE TAX DEPARTMENT.
SINGLE TAX AND SOCIALISM.

Commenting on Mr.. Shearman's S article
on THE Coming Billionaire,' the Gal
weston Daily News thinks that the in
evitable corruption and ineficiency that
would attend an attempt to raise all
public revenues by single tax on in
comes would cause general disgust.
After that, if the people still adhered to
direct taxation, the News says they
would necessarily be confronted with
the alternative plan of single tax on
land values" We can not quite make
out whether or not the News thinks
that such consummation would be
alarming to Mr.. Shearman. 1t apparently
would alarm our Galveston eontem-
porary, for it thus continues.
"And here, if the tax problem is to
wax to this shape and complexion, the
final struggle must come between the
party of individualism and the party Of
socialism over the issue of taxation.
The individualists will insist that tax
alton on any kind of value shall be for
no other purpose than to supply the
fiscal needs of government, limited to
its primary and necessary functions of
police authority. The socialists will in
sist on using the single land tax, if that
is adopted, for the purpose of an all
round social readjustment. They will
propose to tax away for the benefit of
the community all value accruing from
social wants, social congregations and
industrial concentrations.
If the News will familiarize itself
with the theory and programme of the
single tax movement it will dismiss all
such fears. The single takers are in
dividualists, not socialists. They are
utterly opposed to the assumption by
government of the conduct of private
business. Most of them, however, pro-
test against the continuance of the
practice that transfers to private indi-
viduals and corporations the transac-
tion of public business and the perform
ance of public functions, and they de-
mand that the government shall resume
its proper functions and cease to farm
out the taxing and other powers to pri-
SutN w uC uOSS AO1 CAASAA
personal advantage and profit. On this
general principle they are all agreed,
though there may be differences as to
detail. For instance, they are all
agreed that the maintenance of public
highways is function of the state, but
many insist that highways thus main
tanned shall be operated by private en-
sterprise, while some, mistakenly, we
think regarding this as impracticable,
insist that the state shall not only own
the road bed, but that it shall operate
its own rolling stock on railways. All
are, however, agreed that the principle
involved is that private parties shall
not own and monopolize public high
ways. If the Galveston News calls this
socialism it ought to insist on the sale
of the Mississippi and other rivers to
private parties, who would doubtless
pay the federal government an enor-
nous sum for the privilege of exacting
tribute from all craft sailing on their
rivers. The Standard
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-13
SHE SPARED HIM.
The Sad Mistake of a soft-Hearted Spin
Sf.aH.

The Sad Mistake of soft-Hearted Spin
ster.
She was the most ancient maiden of
a New England village. He was the
young minister. He had been very at
tentive to her. He thought, poor fell
low, that it was his duty to be kind to
the unfortunate. She regarded it in an
entirely different light.
Hiram she said, sit is about time
that you spoke.''
about time that | spoke, Miss
Tabitha? Really, do not think that l
understand you.''
.sBut 1 understand you, Hiram, per-
fectly. You love me madly."
s'Oh! but
"Never mind. I know you are BASH
full, Hiram, and know it is my duty to
help you along. Nay, more, it is my
duty to myself. Heaven knows what
might be said of our actions.
'sYou certainly don't think"
'.That is precisely what I do think,
Hiram. You love me. may as well
confess that you are the only being in
the world that have an affection for.
Therefore we need say no more. 1t is
the privilege of my sex to name the day.
will say the first Monday in June"
s'Tabitha, it can not be"
sit must be, Hiram. 1t is your only
salvation. You need some one to darn
your stockings and sew buttons on your
shirts. You need the soft. hand of a
loved one to smooth out the wrinkles
from your fevered brow after your days
work. All this shall do"
"Spare me, Tabitha.
81 am saving you, Hiram"
swell, if you will not spare me, Tabi-
tha, spare, oh, spare my wife and chill
iren."
1t is unnecessary to say that she did.
-Munsey'S Weekly.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-13
VOL. XLVI.-NO. 20.
Why the Farmer Should Fa,,, the
Single Tax.

The farmer is apt to cry out against
what he calls the injustice of exempt
ing the magnificent buildings. some.
times erected in cities, from all taxa
ton, forgetting that such buildings al.
ways stand upon the most expensive
land, while his own farm house and
barns stand upon land of utterly insignifi.
cant value. In adjusting taxation, the
only question Of Importance is as to
the relative proportion which will be
borne by different classes; and it is OF
no Importance whatever that any single
piece of property should pay much or
little, provided all other properties OF
the same kind pay in exact proportion
with it. A farm house, costing 81, 500
to build, will stand upon q piece of land
which, including the surrounding gar
den, on an ample scale, would not be
worth more than SIS But an average
city house, costing SIa 600 to build, will
stand upon lot worth at least $1,000;
while warehouse, costing $4,000 to
build, will frequently stand upon a lot
worth $4,000. So far, therefore, as the
mere value of the land which is requir-
ed for the purpose of supporting
the house or building of any
kind is concerned, the farmer
would gain largely by concen-
trating taxes upon that and exempting
all buildings. But he holds, in addition
to the land upon which his house stands,
a number of acres, which he uses for
farming purposes; and he assumes that
these will be heavily taxed under
system of taxation upon land values
alone, and that thus larger proportion
of the burden will be thrown upon him.
This is an entire mistake. When build
ings are exempt from taxation, all other
improvements on the land must also be
exempted; and the result of this would
be to assess improved farm lands at no
higher value than perfectly wild, uncul-
tivated land, in the same immediate
vicinity. All fences, all growing crops,
all improvements of every kind would
be left out of account; and his land
would be assessed only at the value
which it would bring if it had been just
swept clean by a prairie fire. Very
little consideration isrequired to enable
any one to see that, under such rule
of assessment, the taxes levied upon
farms would be much less proportion
to those levied upon town lots, than
they are to-day, and that such change
in the methods of assessment and tax
alton would result in lessening the bur-
den of farms and increasing that Of the
large towns.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-13
PEASANT AND SHEEP.

A Fable Which Contains Useful Lesson
One day Peasant drove his Flock of
Sheep into an Enclosure, and was pre-
pairing to Denude them of their long and
Heavy Fleeces, when Eve, which was
the Oldest of the lot, suddenly objecs ted
and said: :
81 have long thought this an Outrage
on our Rights, and now Demand to be
taken before the Cadi, who will give a
Decision"
The Peasant, nothing 10th, led the
Eve to the Village, where the Cadi
(who invented the Cadi hat) was then
receiving the Complaints of his Sub
jects. After hearing both Sides OF
the Story he Stroled his long Beard,
scratched his right Shin with his left
Foot, and replied:
"My Decision is that the Peasant
shall not rob you of you Wool"
"Go cd! I Knew was Rightp
chuckled the Eve.
'But ! further Decide" continued
the Cadi as he relieved the Tickling in
his Throat with Cough-Drop, ''that
the Peasant neither Feed, Lodge nor
longer care for you. In Fact, that he
turn you out to Shift for yourself. If
you are not willing to make him any
Return he will be wise man to get rid
Of you"
MORAL:
Looks now as if the Backbone of
Winter was Broken.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-13
FOOD COMBINATIONS.
Why Fruits and Vegetables Should Not Be
Eaten at the Same Meal.

Eaten at the Same Meal.
The reason why fruits and vegetables
taken at the same meal do not agree is
that fruits are easily digested, while it
takes some time for vegetables to be-
come thoroughly disintegrated. The
fruits are soon ready to leave the
stomach, but must be retained till the
vegetables are also ready, and in the
time of waiting, the fruits set up
q fermentation which is communi-
Gated to the vegetables, and the
whole contents of the stomach are
thus spoiled. All kinds of food, fluids
or solids, are reta ined in the stomach
from two to four hours. At the end Of
that time the contents are SO strongly
acid through the action of the gastric
Juice, that violent contractions are set
up by which the pylorus is opened, and
the food is dumped into the small intes-
tines. However, a person with strong
digestion, need not pay much atte ltion
to food combinations, while on. with
feeble digestion will find it gres ry to
his advantage to eat at single meal,
only such foods as are digested alike
and which require lboat the same
length Of time. DIR. ] 3 Kellogg
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-13
HENRYL. BIOSSAT, Business Manager

disinherit the girl and leave his prop
erty to the blackest negro in the coun-
try. He declared his wife should not
even visit them-if she did he would
burn the buildings, sell the land and
leave the country forever.
The wife was badly scared-as he in
tended she should be. She had former.
ly believed she had the best natured
husband that ever lived. and never
dreamed that he was capable of getting
in such rage.
Thus things went on for a month,
the man seeming to get worse rather
than better. The wife was so thor
oughly frightened that she even forgot,
some days, to smoke. All of which the
man did not fail to see and secretly en-
joy.
One day when the wife was talking
half to herself and half to her husband
and complaining of her troubles, the
man remarked that if it hadn't been for
tobacco there would have been no
trouble. The wife replied that if she
could get rid of her troubles as easy as
she could quit the use of tobacco the
house would soon be too full of the
sunshine of happiness for comfort. 1t
seemed to her just then that it would be
very easy to quit. Contrary to the gen.
eral rule, the pipe had no charms for
her when she had anything serious on
her mind.
The man noted the reply, but said
nothing. He seemed to be thinking.
The wife looked at him. She was
frightened. The light fell upon his
face in way that greatly magnifed
every wrinkle and made him look many
years older than he really was. A dash
of gray hair on each temple and thin
spot on the top of his head completed
the picture. She saw all this, and then
stopped while her mind worked. She
had always thought of John as still
young-she had never thought of him
before as growing old-but growing old
he certainly was. Had this trouble
anything to do with it?-was he going
crazy-''if it hadn't been for tobacco
there would have been no trouble"-he
had always opposed her smoking-had
that anything to do with it?-perhaps
it had-she had always been conscien-
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-13

The man did not know at the time OF
their marriage that the wife smoked.
He learned that some time later. He
tried hard to get her to give up the
habit, and she made a number of at
tempts and as many failures. The
habit was too strong.
The fellow had learned to chew
when boy. The daughter had in
tended TO speak to him on the subject
and use her influence to get him to
quit, but it was q case of love almost at
first sight, and before "a favorable op-
portunity offered itself she found her.
self engaged to him. But she could
not bear the idea of marrying a man
with such filthy habit, and, not being
able TO hit upon better plan, decided
to lay the matter before her father,
who had already shown that he would
not be averse to the match.
The man was fat and funny, and de-
lighted greatly in good joke. He at
once approved the daughters plan,
thinking only at first he would have
some fun out of the fellow. Then an
other, serious, idea seemed to fit
across his brain. The daughter no.
teed this but as he at once went on
talking she asked no questions.
a short time after when the fellow
called and asked for the daughters
hand, the man replied: "Yes, sir, you
can have her, and I'll give you a quar-
ter section of land to boot, provided
two things: first, you are to quit the
use OF tobacco, and bind yourself never
70 use it again, in any way, shape
nor manner;;' and, second, you are to
induce my wife also to quit its USE"
The fellow replied that he had long
seen the evil of the habit, and had
often thought he would quit, but had
SIMPLY neglected to do so. Now was a
most excellent time, and he would
quit forthwith and forever But the
man was pledged to secresy to all ex-
sept the daughter, who in turn was to
tell no one.
When the daughter learned of the
second provision she was greatly in
.enSeu, and proposed to her lover that
uiey simply elope, but this the young
u'aa dsd not like to do. He counseled
patience, and said that they should at
least make an effort
rev days later the fellow proposed
'ne wife that he would quit using
'aOacco If she would. This was reject
W % promptly and with so much dig
my mat he did not have the courage