The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-07-25
SINGLE TA4 DEPARTMENT.
The WESTERN FARMER AND
THE SINGLE TAX.

'rohD, Mlpn., March 16.-I have
'or years az ardent believer in the
s'e TAX, out pave never before ad-
..Ss ietter TO The Standard, ex-
~ SEND IN my yearly subscription.
- iocated IN backwoods district,
ICING usually driven with work all
g.. car round u have had no opportun-
no any missionary work, except
Yep up desnltory correspondence
:. :. lew papers should not write now
- were not fof the fact that can see
mot .ne single tax is getting before the
people of my community in some mvs-
manner just as epidemics
M eSu "itnout any apparent cause
ia'e PoilticaH cyclone made me rep
eseh.aeive OF my county in the Mime
so,a legislature, and. being known as q
oeneser IN the single tax, my CORES
ponaence shows Enthusiastically that the
outlines OF the cat are becoming visible
W many. A resolution expressing the
sentiments OF lPcal farmers club was
Piaceo IN my hands recently, which dis
approved OF state bureau to encour-
age immigrationj AS all the benefits of
Immigration accrue to land specula-
.ofs do not know that any of these
farmers are single tax men, but there |
Is no doubt they soon will be. Numerous |
Petitions are being signed by farmers,
urging the enactlhent of a law that will |
compel railroad companies to pay taxes !
On thcir lands, acquired under land
grant acts that exempted them from
'aAation, Tor, spy these farmers, sthe
!, se''iers VINO havd improved the country
nave gwen these railroad lands all their
Naiae ana enabled the owners to exact
nlgner price from the purchasers who
want 10 SETTLE on them and improve
.nem These farmers are learning
'neir a. b. Us, ard will get on in time.
a WIDOW, who has taken up home
s'eao ciaim In Dtkota, passed through
ou, neigh borhooq last week, asking aid
70 keep her family from starvation until /;
'ne could get another crop from her /,
ano. Inc authPrities had done all
'ney could for hef and others in similar |
circumstances, butt all they could give !
-ncm was some corn meal, and her ,
youngest child wds suffering from lack !
y nourishment, the coarse food disa- :
freeing with its Fonng and delicate or r
She WAS only one of many +
wing on the ffeellands of Dakota who
ave iost three Grips from drought, but
'as'ng no wherei else to go they cling
eSperateiy to the only land they can
al .ner own. One more season of IL
rougnt and failure of crops will de-
opu,ate portionf OF Dakota There n
re thousands Of families living out "
mere on the bleak plains clothed in n
ags ana subslsting on the most meagre
le. praying Heafen to give them rain, c,
.hat Iney can make enough money o.
ouiio themselves homes, while mil t.
ons OF acres OF fine agricultural lands in
minnesota, Iowa and other states al
.ua1ed In the region of ample rain w
III are lying vacant, in the grip of the fo
nd speculator.
believe the present session of tla bs
nnesota Legislature will result in CO
theIcause Of single tax tn
- composed largely of farmers who gi
: earnestly seeking remedy for ex- pr
ing industrial wrongs, and are es- CT
cialy desirous IT formulating plat M
RIM upon which the farming class and co
e so-called wage workers can occupv oc
, q common ground. Single tax men pr
- know where ahey will finally land tn,
tney persist in an honest search for on
NEEDY that will emancipate ali in Of
stry. Within Il past year endeav- Ia,
I'd to get the single tax discussed in ms
county and IDEAL farmers alliance mi
sanizations In my county, but failed art
get nearing. Recently have re- lar
we'd notices frolh two different local of
Is requesting he to be present on tic,
les named, to participate in a discus-
n of the single tax. / think we can WI
Ike these meetl1gs SO interesting that
people will WANT more of the cove