The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-11-30

make it produce to the maximum. 1t
would profit him nothing to impose
heavy rentals upon small tenants,
when every dime of such imposition
must be handed over to the state.
What then? The landlord can
pocket not one dollar OF I'M
earned Increment; but he will get,
and is entitled to have for faithful stew
srdship of his holding. legitimate re.
turns as q captain OF industry. He will
get what he earns, aud earn what he
gets. And the same will be true Of every
laborer he employs. Only men OF OK
traordinary energy, capacity and dill
igence could, under operation of the
single tax, manage very large estates in
such effective manner as to justify them
in the attempt. Hence, such estates
would be broken into small holdings.
The small farmer would abound. That
pooling arrangements among capitalists
would prevent this is absurd. Land is
limited; its boundaries are non elastic.
AS population multiplies the demand
for it will grow to the bursting OF any
combination conceivable.
II Mr.. w. @. B. Randolph does not
perceive that the exaction OF the entire
rental value OF lands for state purposes
would completely break up land mos
nopoly, his logical processes are trife
slower than those OF his nsmesake.
the Virginia ststesman, who was wont
to write 'of Roanoke" after his name.
Once more: 1.-The single taxer lays all
the blame of our present evil plight on
the absence of FREQ competition aud as
serta with lack Of wisdom which, to
the initiated (aic) Ia a source OF amuse-
mont. that our paternal government Is
the cause Of all monopoly"
While it is true that the eingle taxer
thoroughly disapproves of parernalism
in governments, the INITIATED" gentle
man is not warranted in saying that he
attributes to it "the cause OF monop-
oily" What the single taxer claims is
that land monopoly is the prolific
mother OF all other monopolies and that
the paternal government 10 a wet nurss
for them after they are born. Now
while Mr.. r. 10 rather unpromising
subject for higher degrees, although he
says he is initiated" we will endeavor
to fit him for entrance to the blue lodge
Of the eingle tax mystery by showing
how the whole brood OF monopolies
has emerged from the fatal box of PAM
dora-land monopoly.
In the las. analysis the earth is the
source of all wealth. Labor applied to
land and ito derivatives has created all
the present wealth of the world not the
money only, but all those things that
give to money any value. Every human
being has in him or her the potentiality
OF labor, much or little. OF brain or
Drawn. Labor is a constantly increasing
quantity. 1t is magician that can con-
jure up limitless wealth; but it is ter
restrial magician. and can do nothing
without access to the land. 1t cannot
work in the sky, nor create an acre OF
ground. II the limited earth is monopo-
access to the sole source OF wealth by
acceding to the terms imposed by the
monopolists. Such being the case
there can nowhere be found today
an illustration OF free competition. We
can only find a competition among
monopolists for monopoly of the earth.
Break up land monopoly and throw open
to labor the source of all wealth and free
competition will overthrow all other
monopolies by the limitless production
OF everything that ministers to mans
sustenance, comfort and qualification
which will be 'bstter than much fine
gold," or the unlimited coinage of silvor,
or the initiative, referendum and i'm.
perative mandate or any other Populis-
tic panacea whatever.
Mr.. Randolph concludes his "pioce
writ for the paper" by shooting a Par
THAN arrow at the single-taxers from
the altitude of Popuiism, where it sits
in the clouds marshalling its imprac-
ticable schemes and variegated vagaries.
He calls them rainbow chssers." In
the language of that distinguished Pop
ulist, the Hon. Miltiades Peterkin Paul,
quoting from the original Roman, "In.
itium referendum! Imperituv memoir
andum! Non compus mentusp
w. 8. @.