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The advocate., 1894-09-26

acres of land the single tax would
reach, but the value of land. Many an
acre in New York city or Chicago, has
a greater value than Lyon county with
its half million acres. 1t is not acres
makes monopoly, but land values; the
rent labor must pay for the use of bare
land, before it can feed itself. Is
there any injustice in making men,
who enjoy the best places for produc-
ing wealth, pay more tax for common
purposes, than men using the poorest
places?
81 favor opening up all public land
to actual settlement" If what the
late Senator Plumb said be true, the
public land has about all been given
away. And there seems to be some
truth in the statement when we count
the thousands of covered wagons moV-
ing over the country, driven by men
looking for cheap land where they can
make living. In this county we have
ample room for 1900 more farmers, but
land monopoly will not let them go to
work; single tax would.
Paste, where you can read often: cit
is a vicious system that taxes a man
more for improving his land than
though he held it in idleness."
"When l get time to write a book
presenting my remedy to the world. :"
You will have to do as we did when
we were little boys: After we had
drawn on our states, ga house," or
"a horse" we wrote on them, "this is
a house" or "this is q horse" so others
would not take them for barn or a
COW.
Hartford, Kas.
The advocate., 1894-09-26
The Lesson OF History.
Hartford, Kas.
BY W. H. T. WAKEFIELD.


1t is little more than century since
Adam Smith and William Goodwin
wrote the first books on political econ
omy, but from the dawn of history we
can clearly trace the working of the
inexorable natural laws of economics
in the rise, growth, decay and death Of
nations and of civilizations. Always the
same story is told, for like causes pro-
duce like effects, and history repeats
itself.
Before Moses had instituted the year
of jubilee, when every man returned to
his house and his field, the observsnt
and philosophic Hindoo had written:
"White parasols and elephants mad
with pride are the fruits of a grant of
land" white parasols being an nemblem
of rank and wealth, and mad ele-
plants, of pampered pride and reckless
power.
Ninevah, Babylon, Egypt, Greece,
Carthage, Rome, all tell the same sad
story now being enacted in this coun-
try-a new, freshly colonized country,
sparsely peOpled, equality of condi-
tions, resources of nature open on equal
terms to all, frugal lives, industry en-
gagged in subduing nature and unbur-
dened by monopolies; light taxation,
the masses prosperous because not
robbed of the fruits of their labor; Vir-
tuous, because independence and
thrifty industry had bred high, sturdy
character, and wealth had not bred
effe inmate luxury, licentious vice and
arrogant pride, nor poverty fawning
sycophancy, slaVish submission and
hypocritical tlsttery, to pander to the
vices Of the rich. Men were patriotic,
because all had homes, however hum
BILE, and the country conferred bless
ings; all were fed from the land, how.
ever frugally, the word "eviction" un.
coined, laws few, simple, just. There
was no special privilege, no upper and
lower class, no arrogant wealth nor
slavish proletariat.
There were great men, because con.
ditions bred them, and ability, integ-
The advocate., 1894-09-26
sINGLE-TAx AS A REMEDY.
All Admit That Land Monopoly Is One Great
Evil.
BY R. t. sNEDIKER.

VINO oppose Gno slngle-CdAJ arc uO'
content with arguments in logica
way, but are put to the point of having
to put words in single-taxers' mouths
For when they say "Single- takers are
ready to swear that single-tax contains
a panscea for all known political
evils" they state a proposition they
never see over a single takers sigma
ture. But they do hold, and that be-
yOnd the possibility Of a doubt, that
land monopoly is the parent of all
other monopolies; that the application
of the single-tax would crush out land
monopoly, give labor the use of free
raw material, and other reforms would
more easily follow.
1t requires much thought to cor
rectly diagnose a disease. In the
science Of medicine this is the main
point. For true diagnosis we seem
to have credit. The remedy we pro-
pose is what Mr.. Bell objects to. He
admits that land monopoly is the
greatest evil that threatens society. He
admits that "s tax on land values, IT.
respective Of improvements, will break
this giant monopoly" "There is NO
doubt of it. 1t will kill" If it did
not kill, it would not be effective,
We would not advocate it. Nor would
any sane man propose a remedy unless
he thought it would kill the disease.
When this country was cursed with
chattel slavery, or private property in
men, many remedies were proposed
but none were effective until it was
proposed to free the slave. The remedy
killed slavery. So will the single.ta7
destroy industrial slavery by freeing
land.
Now, Mr.. Bell objects to a tax OF
land values, irrespective of all i'm
proVements, and proposes a better sys'
tenn. Let us examine it by placing the
two side by side. In quoting Mr.. Bel
will place it in quotation marks. "In
theory l would not tax land at all, fol-
it needs no protection" The single
tax would raise all gOVernmentreV
by tax on land values. 1t would ex.
empt all wealth produced by labor
from taxation Of any kind. Wealth
belongs to him that produces it, there
fore the state cannot take any frac
tional part of the earnings of laborel
without violating this natural law
Land values are produced by all men
conformity, therefore should be used
for the benefit of all men equally.
In Mexico land values are not taxed
at all; there we find a lower state Of
civilization than we have here, where
land values furnish about one-fourtl
Of the state revenue.
eff he (owner) did not care to rent il
or live on it he would have a perfect
right to let it lie fallow." The single
tax would allow him to do the same
hold as many dollars worth of land a
he wished to, but it would compel hin
to pay 100 cents on the dollar of it
rental value into a common fund TO
the benefit Of all, and this, too, whethe
itwas in use or not in use. 1t is nj
business of the community whethe
the speculator uses his land or not, but
they should concern themselves in see
The advocate., 1894-09-26

Dc CaXeu On WnaC IaOOr pFOuuCou' IL
would make homes easier to get, and
millionaires would cease to exist.
eff the country settles up more and
land in that locality more in de-
mand; it would raise in value, maybe
but it's owner is entitled to the ben
eft for his foresight and wisdom.
Yet all talk against his right
to whatever increase in value because
of influx of population or from any
other cause is the merest nonsense"
Was it due to your foresight and mine
that IL million people came to Kan
sas? Had they not come would the
best farm land be $50 per acre, or city
lots $4,000 each? If the people pro-
duced this land value, you and / did
not. If they produced it you and /
have no ethical right to it as whole,
only to share equally with all others.
Was it due to Lord Scully'S foresight
that makes land values in Illinois so
he is enabled to take yearly 100000
as rent for the use of a few acres of
bare land? Scully makes not one dol
lars worth of improvements; the ten
ant does that. He pays not one cent
of national expenses; the tenant does
that. Yet the supreme court Of the
United States has said: "ThereserVed
right of the people to the rental value of
land must be construed as a condition
to every deed" The single-tax would
C ompel Lord Scully to pay $500, ,000into
the public treasury for the benefit of
those who produced it. Tell me what
Lord Scully gives for this $500, 600 an
nusl rentalP If such a system as this
prevails in heaven; if it is due to fore
sight that makes millionaires; if those
who got there first have the most de-
sirab bic places picked out, we, who
must come after, will be forced to go
to the devil to borrow money to pay
the rent.
81 would abolish land monopoly and
divide the land among the people on
equal terms" WhenP To.dayP
"To this question" says Spencer, sit
may in the first place be replied, that
such a division is vetoed by the diff
Guilty of fixing the values of respective
tracts of land. Variations in prOduc-
tiVeness, different degrees of accessi-
bility, advantages of climate, proximity
to the centres of ciVilizations-the
and other such considerations, remove
the problem out of the sphere of mere
mems uration into the region of i'm
p ossibility."
But if such a division could be equit'
bly, made to-day, what would be the
tate of the unfortunate ones, coming
into the world tomorrow, or next Year,
The single tax would divide nothing
but the land value, and that among
those who produce it. We do not be-
lieve in dividing up what belongs to a
man as his rightful property.
''I would limit the amount anyone
can own, but not the number of acres
he can use. would make the maxi
mum not over 60acres." 1t would be
proper here to ask Mr.. Bell where he is
going to get 100 acres of land for each
man that is now here, and what he will
give those that are to Gomez One hun
dred and sixty acres in the center of
The advocate., 1894-09-26

Oucn mas ever been the process OF
growth from Sparta and Rome to
Plymouth and California.
With increase of population and
wealth came corruption in high places,
insolent nabObs and crOuching syco-
plants, special privileges, the few very
rich and the many dependent, lords,
courtiers, slaves, usurers, serfs, ten
ants, spies, sneakS, ignorance born of
poverty, degradation Of character,
death of patriotism, waste Of national
resources and wealth, monopoly of soil,
mine and forest, financial jugglery,
internecine wars, factions, riots, mobs,
invasion OF insurrection, defeat, hope
lessness, waste of life and death of the
nation and of its civilization.
There were no landlords, usurers,
high priests, nor beggars in the host
which Moses led to the border of the
promised land, but there were many of
each when Titus took Jerusalem.
There were no marble palaces in Rome
Whe it's legions conquered the world
and it was a proud boast to be citi-
zen of the republic, but there were
many such palaces and a degraded
rabble of beggars when the once de-
spised Goth and Vandal came to stay.
Inequality Of material condition, the
result of ignorant and Venal legisla,
tion, is the Pandora's box whence
comes all the woes and tortures of
man; the one supreme evil whence all
others flow, the canker that eats to the
heart of the greatest nations, the dry
rot that saps the life of the grandest
civilization and turns the tide of prog
ress back to barbarism, the harbinger
of terrible retribution.
The savage Albanian robber of to-
day is the descendant of Pericles,
Plato, or Phedeas; the Egyptian fellah
is the child of the Pharaohs; the Chat
ham street "sheeny" of Abraham,
Joshua and David; the Dago with his
hurdygurdy, monkey and stiletto is
heir to Virgil and the Caesars. The
Norman conquered England because
serfs were not good citizen soldiers,
but the thirteen American colonies
threw off the English yoke because
three centuries of liberty and equal
access to the bounties of nature had
bred noble race of men. From Ply
m outh to Lexington the soil, the mine,
the forest, were free to those who
W orked them, and this gave us Paul
Revere, Putnam, Warren, Jefferson,
Franklin, Adams and Washington,
with the men of Valley Forge, Mon
m outh and Ticonderoga.
Since then we have harnessed steam
and lightning, conquered and sub
dued the richest of continents and
made machinery do the work of many
millions, increasing wealth and the
power of production beyond magma
tion's dreams.
Has this unexampled increase of
power to produce wealth increased the
comfort and the happiness of our
peoplel
Sixty years ago Dickens wrote that
beggar in Boston or New York would
create as great surprise as flaming
sword in the air, but now the beggar
and the tramp is everywhere and the
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-05-16
NOVA SCOTIA COAL

being brought In to Fight tho Strike.
When tho Democratic Tariff Bin Passes
With tho Reduced Duty It will be Easicr
to Fight tho American Miners
NEw York. May l5.-Thcro huvo been
$1,000 tons Of English and Nova scotia
coal sold to arrive In New York, q por.
ton Of which has already been shipped
from Cardiff, Liverpool and Glasgow
and from Sydney, Nova. Scotia. Tho
cost Is within As to 50 cents per ton Of
tho ordinary price Of soft steamer coal
delivered alongside Now York. The
bulk Of this has beon taken by tho com-
pauios supplying steamers to Gil their
contracts. There arc negotiations on
foot for tho purchase Of 100000 tons
moro to bc delivered here between tho
first and tenth OF Juno by the same par
ties for tho same purpose. From this
fact it is inferred that tho coal compa-
MOS intend fighting tho strike to the
finish. The present low rates Of ocean
freight make the operation possible to
bring coal from England In unlimited
quantities and at competing prices,
even by steam, as very little freight is
now coming this way.
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WASHINGTON, D. O., May l5.-spcaker
Crisp was not in tho chair when tho
house met to-day as he had been called
away BY the death OF Mrs. Crisp's
mother.
In letter he designated Mr.. Dockery,
OF Missouri, as speaker protein.
Among tho billa presented was one
from the committee on labor, reported
by Mr.. Gam, making Labor Day q holi-
day. It was placed on the calendar.
The naval appropriation bill was then
taken up.
When the paragraph relative to arlnor
plate and amendment was reached Mr..
Moikcliohn offered nn amendment pro.
vining for the appointment by tho
speaker OF n select committee OF nine
members. with iull power to investigate
the alleged armor plato frauds by tho
Carnegie Steel Company. OF Carnegie,
Phipps & Company, and the assess.
ments made against the company by
the President.
Mr.. Cummings mnde point Of order
again7t tho amendment which tho
chair sustained. Tho bill was passed
and the house then won. into commit
toe OF the whole and tho agricultural
appropriation bill was taken up.
No amendments hnd been mndo in
the bill, when nj 5:OJ the committee
rose and tho liouso adjourned.
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abldo by tho dccision Of tho conieronco
II fair ratio for mining was established
In Central and Southern Illinoits.
Tho report OF tho committee on Gro.
deutials was adopted after q hot dis
cussion. Two mcmbors OF tho Pitts.
burgh committee, however - Mcssra.
Chapman and uartlUy-hnd ostensibly
withdrawn from tho committee, and
thoy re.entored tho conference au indi.
vldual operators. ...
The conference waa composed, aftor
tho adoption OF tho report Of the com.
mittee on credentials. Of l05 minors and
l44 operators. Eighty.two Of tho op.
orators arc from Ohio. tltty.threo from
Pennsylvania, sevon from Indiana as a
committee for all tho operators In .ha.
state, mud two from Wost Virginia.
After tho adoption Of the report, tho
conference adjourned until tomorrow
morning. 1t being announced that tho
operators would hold q caucus In the
evening.
Tho Pennsylvania operators about
midnight decided upon a diiforential
rate to Ohio mud Pennsylvania, but re-
fused to divulgo what II waa. At 0
o'clock tomorrow they will mcc! the
Ohio mon again.
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A BIG ATTENDANCE
At tho hmai.nmntod Association Couvcu
tlon In Cleveland.

AT the hnai.nmntod Association Convcu.
tlon In Cleveland.
CLEVELAND. O., May l5.-Tho attend.
ancc at tho nineteenth annual convcu.
tion OF tho Amalgamatod Association OF
Iron and Steel Workers, which began
hero this morning, waa go much larger
than had bcon expected that it was
found necessary to secure larger hall
than had been selected for tho meeting.
1t was ll:l5 o'clock when President
Garland called tho con ven,ion to order.
At his right hand was Assistant Prcsi-
don't 7. II. McEvoy. Of Youngstown.
Atthc sccretary's table wore Secretary ].
c. k,lgallon aud his assistant, Steve
Madden, both OF Pittsburgh. Vice
Presidents Harry Hooking. OF Wheel.
ing, J. D. Hickey, OF Milwaukee, Thorn
as llanley, Of Muncic, aud a. L. Quinn,
OF birmingham. Ala, Daniel Mu.lane,
OF Youngstown, and James Hogan, OF
st. Louis, wcro also there.
1t was said that ut least It's delegates
were expected to bo in attendance. No
business wns undertaken at to.dav's
session aside from appointing Of com.
mittccs and tho completion OF tho or.
ganlzation.
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THE PRESHYTERfASS
OF the North Begin Ehrir aununl Assem-
blythe Briggs nnl inti-Erlses Line,

OF the North Begin rhrir annual Assem-.
blythe Briggs nnl inti-Erlses Lines
Drawn.
SARATOGA, n. Y, May l5.-Thc gon.
eral assembly OF the Presbyterian
Church Of the North opened hero to.
day and will continue for iour days. It
will be tho eighteenth annual meeting
and unlike the Albany Synod two years
ago at which the Briggs element WAS in
the asccndaucy, this convention will bo
anti-Briggs in tho ratio OF about four
10 one.
The lines in the convention will be
nearly all drawn on this issue and
test OF the strength Of tho factions will
be made when moderator is elected
on Thursday The candidates will be
Arthur ]. Brown, D. D., o. Portland,
Oregon. for tho Briggs side; Henry G.
Mintou, d. D., OF San Francisco; Samuel
a. Mutchmoore. D. D.. o: Philadelphia;
Col. John J. McCook, OF New York
city. and James Gardner, D. D.. Of
Gloversvillc, N. y, for the an.i-Brig.s
men.
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Ti;I:I.IIstii: DEATH

Ui Three Negroes la aInrt.nsburg-Ovrr
come by fom, Gas
!Jsc'dt Ditp1tch 10 Me inttiigtHcsr.
MARTiSsuUEo, W. Va, May l5.-Thrco
negroes, named Seach Fuller, Znph Sill.
vers and William Barber, met death by
suIocatiou from gas from n cess pool in
tho Continental llotci at 6 O'Clock this
evening. Their deaths werc irightlul,
and occurred while hundreds OF men
we're making II futile eitor: to roscuo
them. Darbor had contract for dig.
giug a ni. to connect with tho ono al
ready uacA by tho hotel. lilo had about
comploted tho work, and David Shnilor,
unc OF tho owner. OF tho hotel, hnG just
given him orders to make mn opening
in the wall bctwccn the two pools, and
10 put Pipe in tho opening. Tho new
lit wus fifteen ioct deep. and llarbcr,
with the other two named, and William
Walter, also colorod, descended to carry
Yut Mr.. shailer's ordcrs. Thoy dug too
lar through, and wcro overcome by the
'pul gus from tho adjoining pool. Wall
'"r wnq lcss atiilnd than tho others. and
nunuvod to scramble up and givc tho
I.lrm.
Tho police boil was sounded, md In a
'"w Inomonts huudrcds Of mon had
rtfiycd on tho scenc OF tho accident
and wcro making brave but in,ilo
r.turt To snvo tho unfortunate negroes.
Irr men wcro not yot doad. Groand
,aI loud breathing could bo dlslinctly
e Al Ia. -,
ramb up tho ladder, but fell back from
,hanation. and II is said knocked tho
aurs back with him. Blank cur
i,dgoa wore trod in ordur that tho gas
A'ight come to tho top. and grab.hooks
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THE TARIFF BILL.
Tho Work OF Amending Goes On--A Lively
Passage Occurs.

Tho Work OF Amending Goes On-A Lively
Passage Occurs.
WASHINGTON, D. G.. May l5.-At the
opening OF the session OF tho senate to-
day Mr.. Allon Pop, Nob.) introduced
and asked for immediate consideration
OF q resolution calling upon tho score.
tary OF tho treasury for information as
to tho total number OF pcraons engaged
IN protected industries, and tho number
OF such persons whose wages are not
Affected; also the proportion OF tho pop.
ulation OF tho United Statcs dependent
upon tho foreign market for tho salo OF
their products; also tho number of per
aons engaged in protected industries
who arc native citizenH; the number
naturalized and tho number who arc
aliens; also tho proportion Of native or
nnturalized citizens who are boing dis.
placed by aliens. Tho resolution went
over.
MIR. Aldrich's amendment to tho taria
Dill placing duty Of Is per cent on
coal tar preparations not provided for
IN the bill was defeated.
Discussion arose over report pre-.
sented by Mr.. Voorhees,, showing the
revenue which would bo raised under
the bill as it passed tho house and also
as modified by tho pending senate
amendments. based upon last years i'm
portations. Mr.. Allison complained
that tho report presented by Mr.. Voor-
hees was not an estimate at ail. Itwus.
ho said, an exact computation Of tho
revenue to be raised under proposed
bill based upon former law.
Mr.. Aldrich declared that senators on
tho other side responsible for legisla-
tion must have some idea OF the revenue
to be raised by this bill. II they hai it
was clearly their duty to present their
ideas OH the subjcc, to tho senate.
"Oh," said Mr.. Vest, I'VE do not pro.
pose to go into the domain Of conjecture
to allow senators on tho other sido TO
tilibuster."
ave are not filibustering." shouted
half dozen Republican senators in
chorus.
"You are not tilibustering," said Mr..
Vest with temper. "thcn what do you
call it? You spend hours here in al
legged dobate on the most insoc.iferous
and insignificant matters. We want to
dispose OF this bill. Your tactics will
not prevail" said 3lr. Vest, raising his
hand imprcssivcly. "Weintcnd to pass
this bill il it takes until the snow flies
next winter" ..
Mr.. Aldrich protested that the Re-
publicans had no disposition to inter-
pose. factioua opposition. They would
debate it fairly and properly but they
would not fiibustcr.
Mr.. Quay aekod that 25c specific bo
substituted 10. twenty per cent on oxide
OF cobalt. Mr.. Jones accepted the sub.
stitute.
Attor several other committee amend.
ments had been adopted. the Rcpubl-
can amendments boing voted down, tho
senate adjourned.
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INDIANA OPERATORS
VIII Not DO Governed by the Conferences.
An Unfair Deul.

An Unfair Deul.
Brazil, IND, May l5.-The operators
in the block coal fields do not propose
10 be governed by the action OF the
Cleveland convention. Said Isaac Nc.
lntosh, Il prominent operator. to-day:
"Tho block operators are preparing to
lock up their mines for two years. il
necessary. if VIC really believe such a
step will be necessary. Tho Ohio and
Pennsylvania operators inveiglcd the
Indiana operators into their association
few years ago and almost ruined us.
Thcsc two states fix the scale for all tho
states. put it to vote and carry it by
reason Of superior numbers. They
mako our mining scale about ton ccnts
hiShe' than they pay, which, consider.
ing their coal brings ten cents moro in
the market that they reach as cheaply
as We do, has tho elect OF freezing US
out.
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BRIEFS FROM THE WIRE.

Tho Ohio G. a. X. is in session at
Canton, Ohio.
GoncrA! Coxoy was nominated for
Concrcsa by the Eighteenth Ohio dis.
trict Populists.
Cincinnati Odd Fellows dedicated
their temple yesterday. Fifteen thou.
sand visiting brethren were present.
Tho Knights Of Honor national con.
vGntion is in session at Cincinnati. Ro.
ccipts last year s6lj.700, o. which :2O,-
GOO remain in the treasury.
Tho motion OF Coxey, Browne aal
Jones for new trial has beon over.
ruled by tho Washington court, aud
,hcy will bn sentenced tomorrow.
Tho Missouri Democratic convention
could not agree on tho silver plank.
Governor Stone. in his speech, doomed
Congressman Bland for President.
Obedicnt to tho Brazilian order tho
Portuguese minister at Kio han left
thorc tor Lisbon. a council Of war ut
Lisbon will investigate tho actions OF
tho nnva commanders.
Tho Southern Methodist confer.
cncc in Memphis adopted tho temper.
ancc report prohibiting nll prcachors
and members from drinking intoxica,.
ing liquors or signing petitions for
liccnso.
Mn Young wns takcn from tho
Ocala, Fla, inil by body o! loading
citizona and hanged to trco opposite
the graveyard. lie criminnlIy assaulted
lizzio Wooms. aeixtocn.ycar.old girl Of
excellent family.
Al diifcrcnccq existing hotworn tho
Great Northern Railway Company and
ito employees growing out oi tho recent
a,riko, wcro udjuqtod Inst night In n
munuor thoroughly satisfactory to all
parties concerned.