Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-11-03

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ta1a.v. -~-,~ r----, and BY making
those taxes 30 heavy, over and above
what tho state might neod, that men
would find It easier and cheaper to give
up their properties than to hold them.
This Il the idea to which Mr.. George
has devoted his life.
This il set forth over and over again
IN Ill his books and speeches.
This has become good Democratic
doctrine by the party's acceptance Of
Mr.. George as It's representative and
champion.
This has become the belief Of the Poo
pies party. because it is in close alliance
with the Democrats, and must take its
share of responsibility for Mr.. Georges
help.
Farmers of Minnesota, how do you
Ike the appeal made to You to give up
what you have worked for all your
Nves2
The personal property of the pluto
crat, the stocks and bonds and mort
cages that represent immense wealth,
the income Of the millionaire, the earn
ings Of mighty railroad corporations, all
are to go free and untaxed, in order that
tho pitiless power of taxation may be
exercised upon your holdings till you
surrender the right to them because
you can bear no more.
To you, who have suffered cheerfully
the privations Of the frontier, Mr..
George and the Democratic. Fusion
party say that you are partners in the
greatest crime with which humanity is
stained, and that the most you have
right to claim is to ask that you may
become tenants of the State, pay to it
% rent the full annual value of the
land you live on.
You shall judge for yourselves.
Take no faith III this on tho word Of
any man.
Do not accept the denunciations Of
Mr.. Georges enemies or the protesta-
tions of his allies, but read his own
works. These extracts, which follow,
are taken literally from his own
writings, at time when he hoped to
win power in great cities, when he
sought the votes of the landless jewellers
Of the metropolis by telling them that
they had as good a right as any one to
what you have acquired at so much
cost and pain.
lie pats You, farmers Of the North
west, on pr with the shareholders of
the South:
81. We have not really abolished slavery, we
have retained it In its most instdious and
M1af fss fprnn FIRM ts which app,es 70
shed slavery, it is extending an lintensif yin 2,
and we n lake no sscrup!e Of selling into it our
to 10 For what All else we bin IN SLIM
the land on NH ich future citizens must live, if
they are to live at all.
Where III, ow sershipof land has be.n'much
dfffused, there will remain, for some time
after the mere laborer has been reduced to the
wages of slavery, q greater DO ~ Of smaller
landowners occupying an intermediate posi-
hold. and the relations which it bears t, their
labor, my to make q comp 1rison with chaltel
slavery, 10 conlpared, in heir gradations, to
the owners of a few slaves: 10 those Who own
no slaves but are themselves fire. /; or 10 par
tial Slaves cOllpsllad to render service for
one. two. three. four or five dlys In the NeAk
but for ths rest of the time their own masters.
He does not mean that-we should keep
public land as public property for the
future, and leave men who now own
land alone. He means to dispossess
them:
i There is no use in talsin |, of rescrving what
there may be left CT our public domain 70
sta i 1a the horse Lad been
/ and even II it:Were not, would aya:l
/! - We can no more abolish
strlal slavery BY limiting the size q
i kss than we could abolish chattel slavery
putting limit on the number OF slaves
4 sfnRle slRY9OWnera might Own. = - ~ = " here
We w9nd .he
This Mr. 3sorge would do, as has
been said, BY quitting on land, , on the
farm and the city LOT, such burden d
unbearable taxation as would make il
ruinous for the holder to attempt to
hold il.
4 An 81 Ii necessary to do is so abolish al!
other forms OF tax ton until the {. weight i q
i taxation rests upon the value OF land, IRE
Il spective OF improvements ana axes tne
eround rent for tho public benefit.
Practically. then The grsatest, tho most 8,
Ct n Mt
ont which no other form VIII avail, ~ to De
j REACHED Nv concentrAttn all taxation lntoN
the ss ~ e ssn ana
II whole ground rent for common
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