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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-04-22
The SINGLE TAX.

Upon Valuable Land In Cities it Would Be
an Indirect Tax Upon Consumption.
In the Standard of December 2, 1891,
there appears an article over Mr.. Henry
Georges own signature, under the cap
ton, Incidence of the Single Tax, ,"
from which clip as follows:
IAN objection to the single tax,
familiar to all who have followed the
discussion, is that the owners of land
would commensurately increase the
price Of land and of its products. This
objection, where it is honest, comes
from careless assumption. From the
fact that most of the taxes levied
under the present system add to the
cost of production and increase prices,
and are thus shifted by first payers to
the shoulders of ultimate consumers, it
is assumed without inquiry as to the
reason of this that it is true of all taxes
The earlier files of the Standard show
a constant recurrence of this objection.
But thanks to the thorough explana-
lions that have from time to time been
made, and to the diffusion of economic
knowledge which our agitation has pro-
duced, it is now seldom met with where
there has been any single tax discus
sion.
''But in another form the same old
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-04-22

clear to anyone who will remember that
taxes ON land values or economic rent
are not taxes ON land. They are taxes,
not on land or on the use of land, but on
the possession Of a special privilege, the
holding Of specially valuable land, the
possession Of which gives to the owner,
not to the user, the power Of appropri-
atlng surplus over and above the
ordinary earnings of capital and re-
wards of labor. While this may at
times be taken by person who is at
once both an owner and user of land,
it always goes to him as owner and
never as user, and can be separated BY
selling or renting the land What q
tax ON land values takes is, in short,
what the user of land must pay to the
owner of land in rent or purchase price
for the privilege of using valuable land.
1t can thus never fall on the user of
land, never increases the cost of pro-
duction, and never add to prices"
To me this seems nothing but a play
of words, a tumble, senseless jargon.
Perhaps, however, Mr.. George under
stands it. To my mind, nothing palmer
than that under the operation of the
single tax, there would be no land own
ers, although some or many may hold
the possession of valua BILE land by virtue
of the ownership of the buildings there
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-04-22

Although English literature and the
English drama owe more to William
Shakespeare than the mere tribute
of remembrance can ever repay, who
ever thinks of observing the anniver-
sary of his birth or his death, which
latter event occurred on April %,
1916. The world evidently consid-
ers that the Bard of Avon, being
dead and long returned to dust, is
not in a position to care very much
whether or not the world thinks of
him, even; but nevertheless, the
world owes him too much to slight
his memory. However, we are apt
to forget our great teachers; but no
one ever forgets that the Saint Paul
& Duluth Railroad-"The Duluth
Short Line''-is the best route for
all to take when travelling between
the Twin Cities and Duluth, West
Superior and Saltwater. Always
take the best. 1t pays, for it is the
cheapest in the end. Circulars, ETC.,
cheerfully furnished by Geo. w. Bull,
General Passenger Agent, or Geo. c.
Gilfillan, Asst. G. P. A., st. Paul
MINI.
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FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

Promises made to be broken; men
elected to congress to betray their con-
stituents, will hardly contribute to
party success under the blazing light of
alliance Neutrality-suspicious. Econom-
list.
Congress has lowered itself in the
estimation of the people of North Caro-
lima by it's failure to pass the silver bill.
The people will be trifed with no long
er. They will begin to act for them
selves Observation-Disclosures Farmer.
1t was spectacle FOR gods and men
to witness, to see the Wall street demo-
Gratis receiving instructions from ex-
Speaker Reed how to filibuster against
the free coinage bill. The people should
know that the republicans and demo-
Gratis of the east joined forces in defeat
ing free coinage.-National Economist.
The plutocratic element of the
democratic party of South Carolina is
preparing for contest in the approach
ing election. It is disregarding the
action of the state executive committee
and all the features of the regular Or
ganization, and seems to be intent upon
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COMMA, April 2,

CoRINNA, April 2, '92.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
At irregular meeting OF the Corinna
Alliance No. 1880, three persons were
duly elected as delegates to attend
the county convention to be held
May, "a, '92.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
Whereas, 1t appears that the
north and the south joined hands at
St. Louis, Mo-, Feb. %, '92, for the
purpose of furthering the work OF the
peoples party,
Resolved, That we endorse the &C
ton and platform of the st. Louis
conference;
Resolved, That we denounce in I'M
measured terms the actions of Mont
gomery, Ward & Co. of Chicago, in
removing from the control OF their
paper, the Farmers Voice of Chicago,
Mr.. Lester C. Hubbard it's editor.
Resolved, That copies OF these
resolutions be sent to the GREAT
WEST for publication.
DAVID T. ALLEN.
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on, paying more for such location than
any other man would care to bid. But,
beyond any possibility of doubt, the
rent (tax) not only of the building, but
OF the laTd also, would be included in
the profits pertaining to the business
carried on upon the land.
The tax (rent) paid by the farmer for
the land he occupied would of course be
included in the price of all his products,
but could not be added, because, unlike
the merchant and manufacturer, the
farmer has no voice in so pricing his
products as to pay profit above expense
of production.
Even if the farmers as class could so
adjust the price of their products as to
obtain margin above cost, including
taxes (rent), they would yet, as consum-
ers, pay twu-ffths of their own taxes
and two-ffths of the tax (rent) levied
upon the valuable lands in cities and
towns, which the single takers say will
bear the bulk Of taxation.
All those occupying rented residences,
as tenants, would most certainly pay
the tax (rent upon the land occupied
by the building occupied by them, the
owner of the building merely acting as
tax collector to collect and pay over
to the government such tax. Those
who occupied land with residence build
ings owned by themselves, would them
selves pay the land tax direct to the
government. It is claimed that these
two classes, and, indeed, all classes,
would be relieved of all other forms of
direct and indirect taxation. This,
however, is not true, from the fact that,
as consumers, they must pay their pro-
portionate part Of the tax (rent) levied
upon the valuable land in cities and
towns. The individuals who occupied
such valuable lands as vantage grounds
upon which to accumulate wealth,
through the medium Of the factors in
terest and profit, and the rendition of
professional services, would pay no
special tax for the privilege of occupy
ing such lands, but would simply collect
the tax for the government. They
would, as a matter of fact, pay no more
tax than any other person who lived
equally as well as themselves. e.,
whose consumption was as great and as
costly in the matter of expenditure.
And owners, as such, would cease to
exist, and no class would become
wealthy by virtue of the rise in the
price of land or from rents collected by
them as landlords or owners of land.
But the users of valuable land, paying
as a tax the same amount of money
they now pay as rent, and being re-
lieved of all other forms of taxation,
would enjoy much greater opportunities
to amass wealth than now, even if they
really paid the tax (rent) upon the val
liable land they occupied. But, as I
have already shown, they would pay
a small portion only of such tax, and
that portion they would pay as consum-
ers and not as users of valuable land.
The ''single tax" levied upon lands
occupied for income producing bust
nesses, the exploiters of which can affix
the prices upon their own goods and
services, would be merely an indirect
tax levied upon consumption. e.,
upon the whole people as consumers. If
not, why not?-George c. Ward, in To
peka Advocate.
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launching new party in that state.
The Tillman party seems to be very
thoroughly intrenched and not liable to
Alliance Herald.
The resolutions continue to pour in,
and they are all one way. Everywhere
the people are indorsing the st. Louis
conference, and propose to stand to-
gether in this movement. The old poll
ticians are absolutely astounded at the
solid front being presented against the
machine in politics. 1t has been a veri-
table ''Bull Run" among the politicians.
Atlanta (Ga.) Southern Alliance
Farmer.
The newspapers of the country may
ridicule it as they please, but the fact
remains indisputable that Senator PEI
fer's ''bill for creating fund for set
ting our army of idle 1aborers at work
on extensive public improvements, and
thereby removing the strongest incen-
tive to crime among the poor" is, next
to Secretary Blaine's reciprocity scheme,
the wisest and most statesmanlike
measure that has been proposed since
the war. Every consideration of the
best political economy, of humaneness
and self-protection ombined to urge the
passage of Senator PETERS bill or some
equivalent. "-Atchison (Kan.) Cham
pion.
The mighty forces at St. Louis
needed not the behest of any man or
men to unanimously unity. The time
had come. The positive element en-
bodied at st. Louis will rapidly aggre-
gate to itself in the south and west the
negatives who are repealed from the
warning factions in the old parties. AS
the weeks and months roll by the in
evitable result of these conditions will
be made manifest. The entering wedge
will of its own weight cleave the old
parties and open the path for the
united peoples party to walk into the
White house. 1t is only short run
from St. Louis to Westinghouse Charles
town Mass Times.
The partisan political campaign is
getting red hot in Texas, notwithstand-
ing election day is seven months off, It
is noticeable that in all the votes taken
on preferences, reported in the daily
press, the rural population are not con-
sidered. They are, however, carefully
watching events, and preparing to take
lively hand at the proper time. The
Mercury would suggest to the political
prophets to put their ears to the ground
and listen. There is an ominous silence
which usually precedes the storm. Free
men will not follow fools or towards if
they know it. Some of the last legisla-
ture would do well to pin this in their
hats.-Dallas Southern Mercury.
This is no time for hating and
pickering, but for action. The ques-
lions now pending before the bar of
public opinion are of great momen4
They must be settled; and upon the COR
rect solution depends their perpetuity
of this greatest of all republics.
Reader! you are an integral part of
this government! Which side will YOU
be found on, that of human rights or
for the interests of plutocracy? You
must answer by your action! If you
love home, family, country, and princi-
pies more than party name you will de-
fend the St. Louis conference platform
with your voice, and vote likewise. If
you are a slave to prejudice you will
stick to the machine. dallas (Tex.)
Southern Mercury.
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ANY one can get price list by sending address
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this paper.
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JACKSON, Apr

JACKSON, April y, '92.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
Please say to Brother Seth of
Martin County, that the Fish he is
after is trout, and it will bite be-
fore the bait touches the water. And
if he read the GREAT WEST two
years and half as many others
have, he would not have thrown in
that chunk OF goose liver tainted
with the county seat.
SEPTUAGENARIAN.
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A Polk Go. Hustler.
CROOKsTON, April IL. '92.

EDITOR GREAT WEST:
It is with great pleasure write
you these few lines and enclose you
draft for $57. The amount raised
for your Lecture fund by T. o. Berg
land as per enclosed list:
We the undersigned do hereby con-
tribute the amount opposite our
names to the Peoples Party Lecture
FIND Of Mimi.
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TIE 5000 h.a.

We have concluded to change our
method Of publishing the Lecture
Fund receipts SO as to keep q stand
ing list of receipts, and totalixe the
expense items each week:
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Beware of entangling pledges. Let
all true alliancemen stand aloof from
the old party primaries and conventions.
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Total. .............................$ 57 %
Too much credit cannot be given
to the efforts of Mr.. Bergland in this
matter.
Our Alliance is composed of good,
active men, and would have been to
the front long ago had it not been
that a good many of them lost their
crops by hail last year, and as a COLI
sequence are not in shape to contri-
butte very much. The will and energy
is in them, all the same.
ELIAS STEVENSON.
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-23
CABLE AND WIRE.
A GIFT TO GOD.

Mrs. Ballington Booth Devotes Her
Baby to the Cause of Salvation.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2S, 1892.-Tte great
Continental Congress of the Salvation
Army, which began Monday, will be
brought to close tonight, and tomorrow
the hallelujah hosts will scatter to the
four quarters Of the Union, and with re-
| newed ardor continue their hard labors
| for the cause which they earnestly, il
noisily, endsavor to advance.
Perhaps the most unique and
gress-at least to the unattached
was the dedication last night of
the three weeks old infant daughter of
Commander and Mrs. Ballington Booth.
A very large crowd had assembled in
the Carnegie Music Hall to witness the
ceremony and there was a tremendous
noise from throats and horns and tam,
bourines when Mrs. Booth, white-faced.
but smiling, came upon the platform.
She carried the baby in christening
robe made by the babes great-grand-
mother on the fathers side. and wrapped
which was the scarlet asp for Salvation.
Across the infants breast was white
sash, on which were the words, Goods
Own"
The Stars and Stripes and the Salvation
Army standard were held behind tue
father and mother while they offered
Myrtle theodore Booth to be Twin
sacrifice to God and humanity.
After the ceremony Commander Booth
said that it was the first time in the
history of the country that father had
publicly dedicated his own child to the
cause of religion.
The Army's officers were much gratified
by the reading of letter from Bishop
Phillips Brooks, in which he gave assur-
ance Of his cordial good wishes and entire
sympathy with the interest of the Sal
walton Army.
The programme for the last day of the
Congress was for a general council of the
officers of the Army in the Lenox Ly-
ceum, presided over by Commander
Booth.
There will be final conservation SER
vice tonight in the Y. NJ. G. A. Hall, on
TWenty-third street.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-23
TREE TOP WHISPERS.
Young Mr.. Toppin of Rose
vile Did His Wooing
From an Apple
Tree.
UNROMANTIC NElGHBORS.
A Case Which Puzzled Justice
Conlin-Where Pa Came In.
Specie, to The Jersey Ctr Ns,rs


NEWARK, Nov %, 1892. Justice Conlin
of this place had trying case on trial
the other evening. He went on record as
refusing to interfere with otherwise un-
Objectionable hirtations that may be con-
Quoted 'twixt the top boughs of an apple
tree and an adjoining house window.
1t was the love affair of Miss Hobbie
with Robert NJ. Toppin. Miss .Hobbie is
the eighteen-year-old daughter Of the
Rev. Reeve Hobbie of st. Phillips Epis.
copal Church on High street, in the Rose
vile section of Newark. Toppin is the
nineteen-year-ol son of a Roseville real
estate agent
Young Toppin had been paying his at
tentions to Miss Hobbe, but they were
not as acceptable to the rector as to the
daughter, and he directed that the
acquaintance be discontinued. The
young couple apparently COM
piled, but they could not be
prevented from having opportunities to
meet at social bles aud church fairsr As
long as the intimacy became no closer
than that the anxious father Of the young
lady congratulated himself that there
was no danger of its becoming serious.
He never once thought of the tree
whose spreading boughs swept the win
dow of his daughters Sleeping apart
ment. But Toppin had, and SO had the
smitten miss. and every night after the
elder folk had gone to bed the young
couple held sort of Romeo and Juliet
meeting-he on the tree branch and sne
at her window casing.
The good natured people of the parish
declared that they saw the romantic
youth concealed beneath the shelter of
the leaves and knew that he was there
because of the maiden in the window, but
they knew of no reason why they should
not make love if they chose, and Kept the
secret to themselves with the inward OBJ
servation that it was too bad the youth
full lover was forced TO stratagem in the
prosecution of his suit.
The Rev. Mr.. Hobbie was out unex-
pectedly late one night, and he heard the
whispers from the leafy shelter of the
tree. He guessed that it was Toppin,
and, determined to put peremptory end
to the love scenes, complained TO Justice
Conlin. The charge was of trespassing
and lettering. Toppin was asked to step
into Court and explain.
Justice Conlin could not see that there
was any special wick edness in the trans
action when it had all been explained to
him, and he dismissed the complaint.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-23
necgars. Thieves or What2

Policeman Mcguire last night noticed
four men on West Newark avenue acting
in suspicious manner. They walked q
block, and then separated and soon
soon came togeter again. They
did this a number of times and on:the
last occasion Mcguire saw one of them
enter house as il begging. When he
came out the Policeman arrested him
and succeeded in capturing an
other of the gang. The two others
escaped. At the station house.
steel ring like a brass knuekle was
found on one of the men. The said they
were Samuel Smith. of No. POL West
of No 700 Seventh avenue, New York.
Justice Dawes today sent them to the
County Jail for sixty days in default of
SO fine
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-23
BoRIE-sEWELL WEDDING.
Trenton Folk See General Sewelps
Daughter Married in Camden.
Special to The Jerseu Citu Nelrs.

Trenton Folk See General SeweIps
Daughter Married in Camden.
Special to The Jersey Citu Necs.
TRENTON, Nov. %, 1s92.-Many Trenton
people attended the wedding of General
Sewell's daughter yesterday afternoon in
Camden. Miss Helen SewelI. well known
in Trenton society, became Mrs. Charles
l.. Borie. The marriage took place at st.
FauFs ?. E. Church, which was hand
somely decorated for the occasion.
The bride, Miss Helen SeweIl, was
dressed in white satin and carried bou-
qnet of white chrysanthemums. She was
given away by her father, General William
j .Sewell, to the groom, Mr.. Charles Louis
Borie, son of the late Adolph Borie, Secre-
tary of the Navy under President Grant.
Ri. Rev. John Scarborough. Bishop OF New
Jersey. conducted the beautiful Episcopal
marriage service, assisted by the Rev.
Thomas A. Tldball. ID, d.. rector of St.
PauPs. Miss Sarah Sewell, the maid of
honor, was attired in white, and
punk and W hite, carried white
chrysanthemums fastened with pink
ribbons: Miss Emily Brice, Philadelphia;
Miss Bushnell, Morristown; Miss Ben la
mlu. New York; Miss Gray, Camden; Miss
Green, Trenton, Miss Warren, Troy. n Y.
Mr. .Beaureau Borie, Jr, acted as best man,
with thefolowing nshers: Mr. Clayton Nc
Michael, Mr.. A. McMichael, Mr.. Frederick
Meigs, Mr.. Robert Sewell, Mr.. Harry
SmiLh. Mr.. Frederick Nelson, Mr..
Adolf Rosengarten. MI. J. Hartley Mer-
rick, Mr.. S. w. Dougherty and Mr..
Adolph Borie.
From the church the party repaired to
General SeweIl's home, at the
southeast corner of Fifth and
Linden streets, where the we'd
ding breakfast was served. Immediate-
ly at its conclusion MIR. and Mrs. Borie
left on special for Chicago for tour of
the West. Upon their return they will
reside in Philadelphia.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-23
CLEyELAND'S HUNTING GROUNDS.
Broadwater Island the Theatre of Hil
Holiday.

Broadwater Island the Theatre of His
Holiday.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. %, 1S92.-While
President-elect Cleveland's postoffice ad-
dress at present is Exmore, VA, a small
station on the Cape Charles Penins ula
reached by the Philadelphia aud Norfolk
Railroad. his real destination is believed
to be Br0adwauer Island.
This Island, known upon the coast sur
vey and locally as Hog Island, lies twenty
miles north of Cape Charles, between
Great Machipingo Inlet on the south, and
Little Machipingo on the north.
Broadwater Island is maintained as
private hunting and fishing preserve by 8
club of fifty leading Philadelphians. 1t Is
reached by private steam yacht belong
ing to the Broauwater Club, running
down Pocomoke Creek from Exmore
Landing, which is TWO miles distant from
the little village of the same name.
The island is eight miles long, with
magnificent beach, on which the Govern
ment has established lighthouse and
life-saving station. In the recesses of q
pine forest. which covers part of the
island, club house and several cottages
have been erected. Game is abundant
and the Presidenr-elect will have ample
opportunity TO indulge his fondness for
snort