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Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14
10 Tax On Ground-Rent Paid By the
Tenant7

/ have sometimes irreverently made
fun OF those opponents of the single tax
who insist that it will be distributed
just like a tariff tax, and therefore that
it has no advantage over any indirect
| taxes. If it were in the least likely
| that the chief opponents of the tax re-
form would believe this theory. we
would keep silence on the subject. be-
cause nine-tenths Of all the opposition
would be removed, and the single tax
would at least be adopted in several
States.
But landlords are not SO simple
minded rs to be deceived by any such
plan as this. They know very well
that they now charge all the rent for
land which they could possibly get. tax
or no tax. Not one of them can be per-
suadcd that u tax on ground-rcnts can
ever be shifted upon tenants So we
must meet this idea with facts and
figures in order to convince the tenant
majority of the Ricardian doctrine that
tax on ground-rents will always be
paid by landlords alone.
suppose the ground-rent of the United
States to be $500. 900. 900. Suppose the
single tax, unlimited, to be adopted;
and this is the particular form of tax
other advocates of this distribution the
ory are considering. Something over
$500, 600, 900 would then be collected
On Mr.. Atkinson's theory, the landlords
would add this to their rents, and the
tenants would add it to the prices Of
goods. Very well: then rents would be
raised to S1,7O0, coo, 900. Instantly the
taxes would be raised to about 81 ,GOO.-
100000 Rents are then put up to So
300. 900, 900. But the taxes are Just as
quickly put up to SIS. 200, 900. 600. Rents
are again raised to Sc. 500. OOO, 900. Taxes
instantly swallow up SO, 400, 600, 600.
Rents are now raised to S13, 900, 900. 900.
But taxes as swiftly follow. absorbing
$4,000, 900, 000 The all-powerful land
lords once more raise rent to SIG, oOO,-
600. 600 But, as this is more than twice
as much as the whole productive power
of the whole United States, how are
the landlords going to get it? And if
they could get, how can they keep it?
There is no use in going any further,
although the figures might be carried
into infinite numbers. The idea that
landlords can add to their ground-rents
taxes on ground-rents, SO long as the
people are determined to take even
half the ground-rents in taxes, is trans
parently absurd. But the idea that
they can add any taxes at all to ground
rents, when they are already charging
all the rent which they can possibly OBJ
tain, is equally absurd, though not per-
haps so transparent. The American
landlord very properly charges now all
the rent for land which he can possibly
get. He can get no more, if compelled
to pay a quarter or half of the whole
of his rent in taxation, for the plain
reason that he gets now all which he
possibly can, and no man can get more
than he can get.-Thomas G.. Shearman,
in the Standard
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14
An Amusing Economist.

The Peoria Ql.) Journal prints, with
editorial COMMUNICATION, a communion
ton from Eli C. Lislx Mr. Lisk DC
clares that the farmer now pays ninety
two per cent. of the taxes of this coun-
try. One reason for this is, that "all
his property lies open to the assessor
and it all goes on the assessors books"
whereas 1.-The rest of the community,
manufacturers and merchants excepted,
have their wealth laid aside in their
drawers and safes and can not be seen
by the assessor, but he has to depend
on their word alone for the correctness
of their listed property" Mr. LislS is &.
little foggy in his English. but his
meaning is quite clear, and he sensibly
declares that this mode of assessment
is all wrong" What do our readers
suppose is the remedy Mr.. Lisk pro-
poses? 1t is to exempt land entirely.
from taxation and assesS improvements
and personafprSpeS srf6ne. ct course
he suggests new and drastic methods
for ascertaining the amount of bonds
and mortgages, etc, held by each indi-
vidual, and equally, of course, fails to
remembe that those concerned have a
perfect right to remove themselves and
their possessions out of any State adopt
ing such a law. Having started out by
showing that personal property can not
be equitably taxed, he insists that it
alone shall be taxed. The Peoria Jour
nal sapiently remarks that "it will be
observed that the writer does not
espouse the theories espoused by Henry
George, but, on the contrary. takes Just
the opposite view" Yes, this will DO
observed
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14
Australia.

The Legislative Assembly of Queens
land has passed bill for the imposing
of a tax of three pence on the pound on
capital land values, irrespective of i'm
provements- The upper House, how
ever, threw out the bill on the second
reading. This is tire first start of the
single tax in Queensland, and good
one it is. The landlords of the upper
cham Der may resist for little while,
but will soon have to give way.
Sir Henry Parks for the Government
of New Sonth Wales has introduced a
most sweeping elective reform bill,
which provides for all that the most
thorough Democrats have asked. 1t
give, female suffrage, provides for
single ELECTORAL district, abolishes
property qualifications and cumulative
voting, does away with hustling nomi-
nations, provides stringent provisions
against fraud, and compels the closing
of liquor saloons on election day.
The bill also admits the military and
polite to the franchise. This is the
most sweepingly radical measure that
has ever yet been proposed, but it is like
~ that it win go through. The Govern
ment have not yet announced specially
their financial proposals, but they have
limited at sweeping reductions to the
.ariH and the imposing of taxes on land
values and on property to supply the
loss on customs revenue. Tho single
lax men welcome the proposition but
gill fght the property tax.
Thc single tax men throughout Aus
Va hceu 70 be in the highest spirits,
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14
GOOD LISTENERS,
They Arc Much Rarer Than Good Talk.
ers Writers.

| They Arc Much Rarer Than Good Talk.
Writers.
1t has often been remarked that for
a hundred brilliant takers you shall
find but ten good writer's, and, we may
| add, but one good listener. The truth
is that many, and, perhaps, most per.
sons need the stimulus of contact with
another mind to arouse their own pow.
ers and put them on their mcttle.
When they lack this stimulus, and sit
down to the writing-desk, they are like
race-horse in his stable. Their flu.
ency and brilliancy in conversation re-
suit from exterior impulses, like the
Jockeys whip, from accidental associa-
tons of ideas and suggestions from
without, which they can not command
when alone. The persons thus scnsi-
tive to external expressions often re-
main lethargic and irresponsible to the
unaidcd summons of the will. The cx-
element of collision with anothcr's
intellect once over, their power of i'm
provisation is gone. That is why good
takers frequently disappoint us when
they take up the pen. There are per.
sons, on the other hand, whose minds,
perhaps by reason of their rare caliber
and fulness, move too slowly to do
They need isolation, silence, abstrac-
ktion and concentration to give form and
expression to their IDEAS.
1t is said that James Russell Lowell
is not only an exception to this rule, but
that-what is more surprising when we
consider how much he has to say--that
he is a delightful listener. To be a
good listener is an art which prcsup-
poses n wise and kindly nature. The
artist in listening has learned that
something may be learned from the
humblest speaker, and that every body
is wiser than anybody. How seldom,
when we think of it. do we meet with
an attentive and interested auditor
one who seems to drink in what we say
and to sympathize with every turn of
thought or feeling! Some persons will
not allow you to finish a sentence; they
interrupt, or arc restless until they can
seize a chance to speak. They snatch
words out of your mouth and state them
differently from what you intended.
Macaulay is said to have had a trick of
doing this, as also of indulging in mon
ologuc, which paralyses general CONVEX
sation. But the worst sinners are those
who look about while you are talking
and give only a half-mind to what you
are saying; they chill the life out of
talker.
Curiously enough, il is not just now
the thing to talk well in English So
ciety. The diner-out of the Sheridan or
Theodore Hook type is no longer the
fashion. Strange that to be interesting
and amusing should dc bad form! 1t is
otherwise in France. There a good
tall1er is still priced. and the result is
that nobody is no more agreeable than
a clever and educated Frenchman. He
never crates. and he is SO slight and
quick of hand that the ball of converse
ton never falls. They who have once
listened to the talk of n cultivated and
intelligent man who has learned the art
of expressing bis ideas in a swift and
pleasing way, have no longer any relish
for the chit-chat of ordinary society,"
N. Y, Ledger
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14
SINGLE TAX DEPARTMENT.
FARMERS AND the SINGLE TAX.

walter Mulr. President OF the North Dar
k0ta state Farmers' Alliance. Writing "a
the Now York journal.
A goodly number of single tax men
we're among the delegates to the recent
Farmers Convention at Ocala, Fla,
where represented North Dakota.
resolution would have been presented
at the convention favoring the single
tax had we been sure that the member
were not in want of thorough informar
ton on the subject
am a single tax man, and recon-
mended it to our people in this State.
l would not do this if l held to the be-
lief that the single tax would increase
the burden of the farmer. That is a
myth that will be exploded among the
farmers in few more months Of edli-
cational work.
Then they will see, as the knights OF
Labor have long seen, that a single tax
levied solely on the value of land, ire
spective of improvements, can not bur
den a worker, be he farmer, mechanic,
or professional man.
The adoption of the single tax by the
Colored Farmers Alliance is but an in
dication of what is coming. When the
farmers of the country take up the
I'm Uuere Will De SuCn an AWAKEN
ing as this country has never seen. It
will be greater than the anti-slavery
movement because it will not be SEQ.
tional.
The man who is riding the storm OF
rural discomfort is Henry George.
Once the single tax is ''Platformed.' Vi
there will be fighting issue that will
wipe out all past issues of race, section
and religion. The farmers of to-day
are not the farmers of twenty years
ago. This time they are going to the
root of our social troubles. They are
coming to sec that all other reforms are
fruitless if monopoly and speculation
are permitted in land-the source of all
wealth. The eastern farmer needs the
single tax just as much as the western.
If it were not SO the single tax would
be but local and temporary expedient
of relief. The farmers are a liberty
loving class, and the single tax, in levy
ing no tax on the products of labor. and
in giving to individualism the freest
scope, feeds their aspirations for free
dom
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14
They Want the Earth.

Mrs. Juliet Raum, wife of Pension
Commissioner Green Il. Raum, and ohm
Fields, her brother. have begun suit
against the town of Golconda, Ill. for
the recovery of property valued at over
$500. 900. They assert titles as heirs of
Green Il. Fields, founder of the town,
and the land they claim constitutes
Water street, Ohio levee, and the pub
lie landing. The streets were laid out
by the founder of the town, who,
doubtless was compensated for the sur
render of the ground necessary by the
increase in the value of his other land.
He appears to have neglected to decd
these streets TO the public, and now
these people propose to make their fell
low-citizens pay dearly for his neglect.
OF course the whole value of this
property has been created by the people
of Golconda, without whose presence
the land in question would not be
worth quarreling about This. is
another beautiful illustration of the
justice and equity of the existing sys-
tenn of land tenure about which we
hear SO much from its interested de-
tenders.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14
Let's reason together.

Let's reason together.
Here's a firm, one Of the
largest the country over, the
world over; it has grown, step
by step, through the years to
greatness-and it sells patent
medicines ugh!
"That's enough -
Wait a little
This firm pays the news
papers good money (expen-
sive work, this advertising }
to tell the people that they
have faith in what they sell,
SO much faith that if they can't
benefit or cure they don't want
your money. Their guarantee
is not indefinite and relative,
but AeIiulic and adsoluke-if
the medicine doesn't help,
your money is "ou eaM"
Suppose every sick man
and every feeble woman tried
these medicines and found
them worthless, who would be
the loser,,ycu or they?
The medicines are Doctor
Pierce's "Golden Medical Dis
covery," for blood diseases,
and his Favorite Prescrip-
tion," for woman's peculiar ills.
If they help toward health,
they cost SI.oo a bottle
each! If they don't, they
cost nothing I!
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

A ooNslsxnENf Of - 20 TIE DATED
Kingdom Tea Co. Of London cost o9l.7O
. pound 20 the importer. The tee was
grown on The Gallebodde estate In Coy
Ion. Tho leaves are % small that they
do not look like leaves. They arc
golden In color. though stresleed with
dark brown They look moro like .
very hns quality of Virginia tobacco.
ready for the pipe, than like tee.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14
The Faults and rollass Of the Aes

Arc numerous, but OF the latter mono 10
more ridiculous than the promiscuous and
random use Of laxative pills and other
drastic cathartics. These wrench, con-
vulse ond weaken both the stomach and tho
bowels. II Hostetters Stomach Bittcrs DO
Used instead OF these no-remedies, the re-
suit il accomplished without pain and with
great benefit to the bowels, the stomach and
the liver. Use this remedy when constipa-
ton manifests itself, and thereby prevent
it from becoming chronic.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

THOUGHTLEss mothers arc they who viii
not give sickly children DIR. Bulls Worn
Destroyers. They remove tho worms, an,
the child grows strong
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

You hardly realize that it is medicine, whcl
taking Carriers Little Liver Pills; they ar
very small; no bad effects NIL troubles iron
torpid liver are relieved by their use.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

MANY people think that the word "Bit-
tcrs'' can be used only in connection with
take. us tho best remedy for oil diseases OF
the blood, liver, kidneys, etc, is Prickly Ash
Bitters. 1t is purely u medicine and every
article used in Its manufacture is of vegetr
able origin Of known curative qualities.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

Do NOT purge nor weaken tho bowels, but
act specially on the liver and bile A perfect
liver corrector. Carters Little Liver Pills.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

THE crockcry dealer knows better than
to sell his wares by cracking them up
Binghamton Republican
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

Iryou want to he cured Of n cough use
Hale's Honey Of Horehonnd and Tar
Pike s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

BENEATH all political problems lies
the social problem of the distribution of
wealth. This our people donot gener-
ally recognize, and they listen to quacks
who propose TO cure the symptoms.with-
out touching the disease. ''Let us elect
good men to Office say the quacks.
Yes; let us catch little birds by sprinlx.
ling salt on theiy tails;--Social Prob
lems.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

How SAD it makes a man feel to observe q
five dollar straw hat on q seven cent head.
-Kcarney Enterprise.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

na Wrss som feel d. al Sr ca and life
hardly feel able to attend to your daily
work. When you feel You would give half
you own for q little more strength, just give
DR.. John Bulls Sarsaparilla trial and see
what . lift it will give YOU You will bless
the day you tried DIR. John Bulls Sarsapa-
,illu
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14
Hoods
Sarsaparilla
Bold BY all dfussists. 81; sig for e. Prepared only
~ @. !. HOOD D CO.. Lowell. Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
.Alugust
Flower

How does he feel HE feels
cranky, and is constantly expert
menting, dieting himself, adopting
strange notions, and changing the
cooking, the dishes, the hours, and
manner of his eating
Flower the Remedy.
How does he feel ?-He feels at
times gnawing, voracious, insati-
able appetite, wholly unaccountable,
unnatural and unhealthy.-August
Flower the Remedy.
How does he feel Pile feels no
desire to go to the table and a
grumbling, fault-finding, over-nice-
ty about what is set before him when
he is there-August Flower the
Remedy.
How does he feel Pie feels
after spell of this abnormal appe-
lite an utter adherence, loathing,
and detestation of food; as if
mouthful would kill him-August
Flower the Remedy.
How does he-feel?-He has ir-
regular bowels and peculiar stools
August Flower the Remedy. @
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

Fon Coughs and throat troubles use
"BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs."-"They
stop an attack Of my asthma cough very
promptly."-C. Falch, MEANWHILE, Ohio
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

A CHEMIST says wood can be made palat
able and uourishinG 'Tisn't tho kind Of
board We ore hankering after, however,
Texas Siftings.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

AN empty larder ought to be enough I,
keep tho wolf from the door.-Texas Sift
inRs.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

A GOOD text for y baseball sermon
"whcre are the Observation-Disclosures Free
Press,
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

BEST, easiest to use and cheapest Piso'
Remedy for Catarrh. BY druggists. Csc.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14
a Pleading Seose

or health and strength renewed and of ease
and CONSIST follows the use OF Syrup OF
Figs, as it acts in harmony with nature to
elfectually cleanse the system when costive
or bilious. For sale in Soc and 81 90 bottles
by all leading druggists.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

TIE girl At the boat-race Is always look
ing around for . beau trace.-Wash ingtoI
Stor.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

The reason most poets think to NO pur
pose is that their thoughts arc idyl thoughts
-Philadelphio Press.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

To Tim uninitntcd It Is hard to under.
stand how q game Of whist can DO honest
aud still DO won by . trick.-Dinghamton
Republican.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

A PROSPEROUS butcher IL always able to
meat his indebtedness Chron-
icle- Telegraph.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-03-14

/. gurnpt1on. -
b = can 1., Ss s & r. ~ :ssssst
e Mn Xithous deneer ana exhnoe % MtAE
2. EhynicfAno rOcommend Il
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-10-10

HE quarterly statement of the Treas
ury Department, published to-day, shows
the receipts from ordinary sources to
have been $685., 1929. The receipts
from the loan fund account during the
same period were $211, 800, making the
total income for the quarter from all
sources 5000, 122.39. This amount. with
the cash balances brought forward July
L from the previous quarter 1925, 21S. 40,
make the total cash in the treasury
available for general expenses during
the last quarter 1928, 34O.79.
The expenditures during the quarter
are shown in detail to have been $780,
1920, which amount deducted from the
gross receipts leaves cash balance on
hand, October 1, of SAILS, $500.
This is better showing than the Gov.
eminent finances have presented for
some time past. The amount borrowed
during the quarter has been considerable
($21l 5000 owing to the fact that the Ap-
preparation bill restricts certain expen-
ditures to certain sources OF income.
1t is a satisfaction, however, to know
that the Government bonds are in such
demand that the offers in the recent call
Tor bond, were double the sum wanted,
1t will be noticed that the revenue de-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-10-10
The Peninsula of
Pearl City!

This truly enchanting location for sub
urban homes must be seen to be appre-
ciated; a lovely grove of algeroba trees
covers the entire grounds, streets 80 feet
in width are laid out, and 6-inch pipes
are being laid to conduct water from a
1O-inch artesian we'll which is pro-
nounced by McCandless Bros. to flow
the sweetest water of all the wells they
have bored on this island. The Railway
Co. have constructed two reservoirs with
storage capacity of over two million
gallons, and built hume extending 80
miles into Waiawa Valley, which in
years OF ordinary rainfall Will supply an
abundance of pure water for large
population; to guard against such
droughts as we have experienced during
the present year, the Company have or
dered Blake Pump with capacity of
100000 gallons per day, which will be
replaced by one or more of larger capa-
city when needed. This pump now due
from the manufacturers will be placed at
once at the artesian we'll from which
water will be forced into the reservoirs,
when not supplied from the mountains.
A block containing an area OF five
acres has been reserved for a Hotel, and
another beautiful lot of the same area is
also reserved for Public Park, which
the Company propose to make one of the
most delightful and attractive resorts to
be found anywhere.
This place has all the charms of Wal
kiki, with the addition of an inland sea
seven miles long and four miles wide.
a1ordlng boating and yachting facilities
second to none in the world
Pearl City is situated about halfway
between the extreme eastern and west
ern points of Pearl Harbor. The makai
end OF Pearl City Peninsula points to
the entrance OF the harbor, and is destined
some day (not so remote as some people
may think to be the great commercial
emporium of the Pacific. The Pearl
City Branch of the Company's line ex-
tends down the centre of the Peninsula
within say 1000 feet of the shore on
either side.
.E Intending purchasers are in
Vlted by the .. r. & L. Co. to call at nv
once Once Tor free tickets and maps of Pearl
City. - ~
The Company will bind themselves
IN the deed to carry purchasers, their |
FAMILIES and servants for term of nine |
years from date of purchase at IL cents |
per mile hrst-class, and l cent per mile |
Second-class. Those who build on their
lots within II months from date of pur.
chase Will thereby secure a reduction
from the above rate, for the whole time
OF say ~ per cent, making the fare each |
way Is cents first-class and IN Cents
second-class.
This rare spot of earth is quite limited
IN area, and those who would secure q
lot valuable now but destined in the near
future to be worth many times its pres
ent value, will be wise to improve their
present opportunity.