The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-02-07
tax should be levied on the products

tax should be levied on the products
Of labor"
Some people claim that these two
reforms are essentially one, and that
those who advocate the first are to
all intents and purposes, believers in
the second; but many Of the single
takers are looking to the democratic
party for it's final development. This
class belong to the evolutionists, and
argue thusly: Whereas, man has
been developed from the money:
Therefore, The democratic party,
having no regard to it's promises, may
in some cratic movement in the
unknown future become an advocate
for Justice by raising its revenues
from single tax on land values.
While the peoples party admit
that Land is the heritage of all the
people and should not be monopo-
lized for speculative purposes, they
have not, as | am aware, formulated
a process by which all the people shall
enjoy their heritage. Perhaps they
think, like some forward members of
the party, that the better policy is to
keep dark, and lay low until they gain
the power and then blossom out in
some kind of class legislation, and
force the aliens and landlords to re-
linquish all lands except what they
actually occupy and use for raising
crops and making a living. All other
classes of landowners perhaps are to
experience the pleasures of retribu-
tion,-to have their supposed possess
sions contiscated. and have it said,
with the authority of right backed
with might: You who have been sue
cessful in gathering in many acres,
be We satisfied with few, and share
with those who have none, that your
lives may be long in the land which
the Lord your God hath given you, as
we'll as the least of His children, to
share.
The single takers that prefer fusion
with the democrats, will not consist
emily advocate the income tax unless
as a step toward the land value tax,
for the reason that all wealth is the
direct product of labor applied to
land. wherefore no tax should be
levied on the products of labor"
Let us see if the single-tax mem
bers OF congress vote for the income
tax-which is thunder stolen from
the populist platform. and an after
thought since the Chicago conven-
ton, and bitterly opposed by the
wealthy democrats. And why not,
since they had an eye single to get
ting there, and were not fully
aware that the laboring class, like
lemons, had gone through the squeez-
ing process, and were too dry to yield
more taxation. They had not made
up their minds that the people were
in the belief that while the govern
ment continued to be run in the in
terst of land monopolies, money mo-
nopolies and railroads, these same
monopolists were expected to furnish
the lubricating oil. They were of the
opinion that the people would con-
tinue in the belief that they were
made to serve the government, and
not that the government was to be of
use to the people from whom it de-
rived it's very existence. But the
time is drawing nearer when the peo-
pie will consolidate and demand
settlement. NJ w. Sovereign voiced
not only the will of the X. of L., but
OF the majority of the alliance, when
ne demanded an injunction to stop
the issue of more bonds. All in
vain. But after the death of plu-
tocracy cometh the Judgment. And
please don't forget 1t.
JONAS III. HOWE.