Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-23
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orly with mans inhumanity to
man."
j. W.--If any man owns-or owned
"a piece of land. except by the laws
of man, will Mr.. Livesey please
mention his pame9
Titus is sample of one of the
many questions | have answered for
Single Takers. They like to assume
an impregnable front they like to
throw down a glove which no man
dare pick up, and after answer them.
they either sink away like dogs, or
change the subject. When they are
unhnown prophets. like yourself, of course
they chuckle to themselves we're all
right; nobody knows us nobody's got
the laugh on u.s." There was a time
among the Jews when they were with
out ruler and ''every man did that
which seemed right in his own eyes"
If the people were so good they got
along without land laws also, and. in
that case, each man owned his land in
direct responsibility to God alone
However. Abr0hnm Orned Mnd outside of
''the laos Of man." The christian, own.
ing land at present, is case in which
man can serve two masters he can
"render unto Caesar the things that
are Caesars. and unto God the things
that are Gods" Outwardly, he owns
land in accordance with the laws under
which he lives, while, inwardly, he
owns nothing before he has sought first
the kingdom Of heaoen and hat all nee,ltul
things ae1ded-lands included-upon the
realization of the proper condition to
receive them. Spiritual influences
have to work for long periods on mems
hearts, minds, or souls before any such
blissful contamination is reached.
This is the way ''thy will be done"
will be realized-rather than the vot-
ing. political way Single Tax saints Q)
proclaim it will be-
j. W.-If God made private owner
ship in land, mention one individual
to whom He gave part of the earth.
IL will refer you to Genesis xiii,
IA
And the Lord said unto Abram after that
Lot was separated from him. lift up now
thine eyes, and look from the place where
thou art northward, and southwark. and
eastward and westward: for all the land
which thou seest to thee will | give it, and
to thy seed forever
Here we have God Himself opening
His mouth and giving man direct own
ership of as much land as he could see
from one point of the compass to the
other, probably twenty miles square.
He not Only gives it to this man. but also
70 h1c 70 l., H.
the English ancestral estates. l trust
that no Single Tarer acW esermore take
mp his pen to challenge me to shon any Bible
authority for the propositions I hare laM
dozen. You are not the only one who
who has done it. 1t is popularity of
the confidence YOU feel in yourselves
and your theories and it has been
long lane in which | have at last
brought you to a turn in the eyes of
some On-lookers.
j. W.-What is the difference be-
tween land and land values?
L.-Land is matter created by God
or formed by nature land values are
values set upon land by men bad,
wicked men besides, very often. to
whom good men have to pay taxes and
from whom they have to buy land.
No matter how good a man may be
nowadays, God no longer calls down
from heaven and tells him what he
can have. He simply puts it into
his heart to be honest, industrious
and frugal, and to mind his own
business, and to realize honest money
to try and pay for all the land he
wants, and not to coyet possession Of
what he has not earned by joining
anal chy or Single Tax to get it.
j. W.-Mention in what page in the
Bible it says anything about land
valuesg
L.-Genesis xiii, verse 13--
And he spake unto Ephron in the audience
of the people of the land, saying, But if thou
wih giue it, pray thee, hear me: | will give
will bury my dead there. And Ephron an
swered Abraham, saying unto him, my lord,
hearken unto me: the land is ,p0rh -four
hundred shekels Of silver; what is that
hetwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy
dead. And Abraham hearkened unto
Ephron; and Abraham weighed to EphrOn
the silver, which he had named in the
audience of the sons Of Heth, four hundred
shekels of silver, current money with the
merchant.
Here we have genuine negotiation
in land, with plenty of witnesses at the
time, and, as the following paragraphs
show, perpetual possession establish
ed for the heirs. Space forbids other
mention.
d. W.-What is the Single Tax?
Lit is hope deferred that gives
pain; 1t is spirit that fails to
materialize; it is a faith without
works it is promise that never full
fills; it is stumbling-block in the
path of true reform; it is a patent
medicine cure all that cures nothing; it
is a grand conglOmeratiOn of con
tradictioms of itself, and it is Il ''still
water that runs deep, with devil at the
bottom" Give me a "poser' on either
of these assertions and | will write you
a chapter. The gentle reader may see
that | have answered all of your ques-
tons, and he may perhaps further see
that | have made of you false
plophet," as your prophecy read will
not answer" | am not much of a
hand in asking questions myself, but
it does occur to me to ask just at
present-how do you think man feels
when he is combination of fool" in
the way he asks questions and of
false prophet in the way he gets mis-
taken and left" regarding their an
swers
By the by, Mr.. Editor, enclosed is a