Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-08-22
sINdLE TAX DEPARTMENT.
4 SIMPLE. NOT A COMPLEX
CURE.

CURE.
The Unionist, printed at Memphis
and edited by tho agent OF the Farm
ers' Alliance. says it does not believe
that the sub-treasury is panaces LOT
all our ills. It adds: Perhaps 1t WILL
not stand the test of experience rs
cure for any of them, but IN the az
sence of q better proposition ana IN
the face OF our overwhelming neeo we
say, take this as a means 20 an end, try
it fairly and squarely, and if it fails let
It 90 down before something better NO
one remedy can cure our disease. 1t is
of complex origin and demands COM
plex cure A tax on land valves may |
do good, but it is no cure-all NO iree |
trade, nor protection, nor nationah-ea
| railroads nor sub-treasury warehouses;,
| nor any other one proposal Will do the
work, though there he elements OF
truth in all The problem is too COM
p1ex."
Here is a singular illustration of the
! methods Of thought among many VINO
are disposed to call themselves reform
ers and who imagine that mere change,
without regard to its direction. is to be
| commended The evils of which men
complain are complex, but it does not
follow that the cure for those evils need
be equally complex, On the contrary,
if we are to reason by analogy, the
proba bility always is that the more
complex the disease the simpler is the
cure The tendency among modern
students of medicine is to trace almost
every disease to distinctive germ and
to assist natural processes in eNtirpat-
ing that germ, The problem that trou-
bles the farmers North. South, East
and West, and that presses equally up
, on the workingrnen in the cities, is that
: OF the persistence of poverty IN the
midst of increasing productive power.
The notion that wealth can be created
t by any pawnbrolling device will not
, bear thorough consideration. We must
: have for the purposes of civilized lite a
sufficient supply of currency; but all
4 the currency in the world Will not pre-
: vent an unjust distribution OF the pro-
: ceeds of labor, if the passive factor IN
t all production is monopolized by those
o who have the legal power to levy black
e mail on the producers The possession
e of this bower which. while constantly
c growing, is passing from year to year
c into the hands of an ever decreasing
5. proportion of the people, is the cause o
d the misery and despair of the city work
d man and the rural farmer and the,
s. will find no permanent relief until the,
Il cease giving themselves up to stupi'
'r ideas and following weak and purpose
y less leaders, and give their whole mind
rs to determined thought on the proble
S, with which they are thus far meres.
C. tritling.
IL We do not undertake. to insist tina
O. every man must necessarily be sing!
Of tax man; but we do say that any ma
or who presumes to propose remedies 10
existing evils and to lead discontente
nd men in efforts for the betterment {
It, their condition is absolutely inexcusabi
re if he has not in all sincerity, with n
b. OF the mental power that he possesse
cir stuc led the problem so admirably sta ::
,u- in Progress and Poverty" and foun
I'd, after such study sufficient answer
N the proposal of a remedy in that boo
CO. These people can not but know IN
ess one man claims to have put his fling
on the germ of the disease in our DO
for politic and to have shown the way !
of its extirpation. They know that tho
su- sands of men. at least their own cqu;
emit in intellectual capacity, have, aft
the candid consideration. accepted II
ac- remedy. They are, therefore, as nc
, in est men, who would avoid being bli
and leaders Turing their followers into
of ditch, bound to actually know what J
est George proposes and by what arr
nR- mentS he sustalns his proposal bet'
to they ask people to tritie with palliatr
ere and revamp discredited herb doc
.rn- kind of empirical political economy
the These active mouths and pens. 2
or PEELED by almost any other mot
not power than that of deep convict
CHIT honestly earned by persistent thong
lpa- are the real enemies to any true
pas form: and the disposition nantes
asst here and there to get all such people
one petiier is due to an absolute laci
'ith- fixity of purpose in behalf of any d
7 in mite and clearly apprehended princil
are For our part we regard Lord Scu
con- the typical landlord, as a far n.
powerful factor for true reform Il
ited all the bIatherskites between here
oeen the gulf or the Pacific ocean who
the urging ignorant men to adopt the
lem fancy that commends itself to their
ats trained minds and to seek thro
have some fantastic remedy cure for e
OF that result from our persistent della
N. of the natural law of human asso
ton which is as fixed, immutabie ant
Az. the long run. irresistible as the law