Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-30

agree with my opponent that air,
light and land should not be taxed, IL
they are equally possessed and enjoyed
by all men. 1t Is because they are
monopolized that single takers urge the
Justice OF this system. Let those who
hold the lands compensate their dis
possessed fellows by paying into the
public treasury each year the rental
value OF their holdings, In order that
the dispossessed may receive their nor
zion OF that value which their own la
bora have helped to create. No other
tax would be messed.
IL men, part of them could bottle
up all the air and the light, and charge
the balance OF mankind so much per
gallon for their use. would it not be
right TO tax this private property?"
Would 1t not be right TO tax so heavily
TINS monopoly of Gods gifts that the
owners of these "bottling works" would
turn II loose and quit the business?
Now, man Is as incapable of making
foot OF land as he is of creating air
and light and water. and if he can by
any custom, law or constitution make
land private property, such law or GUS
tom Ii wrong, as they have often been
since history began. This vested
right is a vested wrong" and men
are beginning to see through II as sixty
sNNAo Nep Aht9 htSAH 10 see through
the pretended vested right" OF Tie
white to enslave the negro. Men of
brains, OF piety. OF character, ran.
sacked heaven and earth, history and
literature, law, custom and constitu-
ton, for arguments to support the
fallacious doctrine that human flesh
could be made property" That out
rageous assumption went down amid
the horcrs of fratricidal war. And
now, after the flight OF thirty years
who In all our land would dare 10
say we ever had the right, divine or
human, to hold one negro in bondage
Tor one hourY We called the Abolition
lists fanatics" 'disturbers of Tho
peace, dangerous craniSs." etc, and
we sent them over our borders with
hints, or mayhap with applications,
OF TAR and feathers, And yet the slav-
cry caused by land monopoly Is more
cruel, more Obstructive OF human han
piness and welfare than was the chat
, tel slavery OF one South. Under thIs
system 80 completely is land monopo-
lized that should an aerolite fall from
another planet upon my land, and he
found to contain gold enough to on
rich the state, II would be all mine.
ana miserable tramp who should
cross my line and pick up a fragment
OF 1t worth any sum OF money would
be trespasser and could be punished
according TO law. Now, this noonnno
ly OF air and light mud Of everything
under the surface OF the earth Is ths
''appurtenant right" attaching 10 the
land. The power 70 make land private
property carries With e the power n
monopollze everything appurtenant 10 h
provided 1t be something that "oan DO
reduced to that manual, and absolute
possession Of which personal pronertv
IA susceptible" To me II Is NOT IN.
voting" TO tax the air and the ltrht
II they are monopollzed and made mi
Vate property. l would tax the monon-
oily until the monopollst We're willinr
to turn loose these equal gifts OF patnre
TO the equal use Of all. NY opponent
speaks as II single takers desired mo
state TO retake the lands. This Is a mis-
take. We claim the state had no rjsht
70 convey them into private hands a..
tho beginning, no right to retake tha.,,
now, The right OF possession OF Lana
is necessary 10 the individual user, In
order TO secure 10 him the fruita ~
his labor. Hence the single taxcr a.
sires 10 see every man IN possessf"s,
OF as much land as he can put 10 ne
II he desires 10 use land For The rtsts
10 thus use any portion OF land ana ~
exclude. all other men from Il the slnris
tlScr believes this user should mn,
into the public treasury such vnins
as the progress and condition OF the