The herald., 1894-04-24
THE SINGLE TAKERS MEETING.
A Large and Lively Meeting
Last Night.
Interesting Address by S. Byron
Welcome.
Music, a Poem aud u Discussion Fol-
low The Latest Feature
OF the new Political
ECONOMY.

The single tax meeting last evening
at Unity church was attended by the
largest audience seen there since the
organisation of the club, except on one
occasion. The audience was made up
of thoughtful, intelligent people, repre-
senting nearly all the various professions
and classes of business in respectable
circles. The proceedings were more
varied than usual aud every exercise
was keenly enjoyed and warmly ap-
plauded. What with the address of s.
Byron Welcome, author of the single tax
novel From EArth's Center, the satir-
icsl poem by Ralph E. Hoyt, the splen-
did music of Mrs. Clara NJ. Mott and
one of her pupils, and the discussion
led by III. W. Conkling and j. F.
Mccarthy, the evening was spent most
enjoyably and profitably. After the
chairman had announced the forth
given here May 9TH and 8th, Nj. We'll
come was introduced and he proceeded
to address the audience on Give Capital
a Chance. Following is q synopsia OF
what he said:
Millions of pages have been written
and generations of time have been spent
in efforts to prove that labor has been
agitated with good and with bad motives.
Labor has been told billions of times that
it is robbed, robbed on all hands,
robbed by the schemers, robbed by the
gambler, robbed by the laws of it's own
~nhka1 in al
fashion. Not one OF these accusations /
am here to deny. But when we hear
that labor is robbed by capital, l say
hold and demand the proofs. For
years l have made it point to zee how
capital robs labor. but to this day have
seen no proofs. On the contrary, while
searching for the Wholesale robbery of
which capital is accused | have really
OF robbery. We hear of labor being un
derpaid, that all labor receives less than
it earns; so does capital, on the whole,
receive less returns than it earns.
We hear of labor which is unem-
ployed, SO do we hear of capital which is
idle. We hear of labor which is waeted
ductive. Then there are laborers who
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likewise capital completely sunk or lost
in some enterprises. So, you see, labor
and capital fare about alike. They are
both in the same boat. : Both are plum
dered, not by each other, but by COM
tai and labor flourish. In hard times
both capital and labor suffer. | say the
two are in the same boat. Let us see if
loH al khav
are both useful. Only the other day We
saw by the daily papers that AT San
Frapeiseo come $15 900, 900 were lying
idle in the DEnKs anxious Tor invest
ment, even at as low q rate of interest
as or per cent. In New York nearly
800 900, 900 in gold is begging for job.
Do not understand me as saying that
money is the only capital. On the con-
trary 1t ia only email part. In fact.
most money is not capital, but only
representative. Besides the geld and
silver that is seeking employment, there
is mercantile stock, machinery, railroad
rolling stock and billions worth of capi-
tHl only half employed. 1t is not free
it is barred out from employment just
as labor is. Capital and labor are both
out looking for jobs.
1t is the business of the single taxer
to chow how both labor and capital can
be made free and we can do it. a
Way back in the state of Illinois, near
the city OF Chicago, is town by the
name of Pullman. l have heard people
say that Mr.. Pullman owns that town,
and that Mr.. Pullman is a capitalist.
Others say Mr.. Pullman ia laborer.
Which is right? Don't you think he is
a little of both? Does he not labor a
little with his brains? Has be not some
products of labor which he uses in the
production OF more wealth? If 80 he ia
both laborer and capitalist. Which
is 1t then that enables him to
gobble up everything about there, in
cludinR the town itself? Is it his
capital? No you don't believe it. 1 don't
believe it. He may be q very great
laborsr and he may be large capitalist.
but admitting both, none of you believe
that he could make his millions in so
short a time unless he had something
besides capital and labor. If am cor
rectlv informed Mr.. Pullman obtained q
special privilege from Uncle Sam to
build a certain kind OF bedroom for
railroad purposes. All other men were
warned that the great foot of Uncle San
would come down upon them if they
undertook that same business.
Mr.. Pullman then had snap. He
knew he would need lots of men to do
his work. All those men would need
land to live on. He secured large
tract OF land, built his factory, and built
houses to rent to his workmen and 9TH
srs, and ever since he has collected not
only the rents from his houses but also
from the lSnd on which those houses
rent from that land which
the industry of all those people made
and today Mr.. Pullman is rich
became rich not from his labor and
capital. but from his patents and mis- land
peculation.
Ii the laws had not given Mr.. Pullman
what would be the result
Instead OF one man being so extremely
rich there would be a number of capital.
sts interested in building sleeping cars
their capital would yield legitimate re-.
turns, the workmen would get their
wages, they would be free from taxation.
ground rents would go into the public
treasury, and the whole town of Pull
man would share in the benefits of that
great industry. Not only thai, but
sleeping berths all over the country
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