The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-24
Mr.. Lewis Writes The News
Again About II.
Divine Right Of The People and Tax
Rates.
Speculative Land Values tho Restless
Basis Of Wealth.
10 tlle Editor Of The News I:

TO tile Editor Of The News;
Procuring income i'm this manner is the
sole method TO pursue without hampering
production, enterprise and thrift, Tor IT
Increases production and reduces the
cost, while our present method increases
the cost and reduces the production.
tax upon anything with which we are
acquainted, increases the cost OF the
article taxed and hinders its production
in proportion to the largeness OF the tax,
except land value compensation, which
has an opposite tendency, granting no
increase in land, but greatly reducing its
cost, thereby multiplying compensations
TO government, which will overlap the
present income for public expenditure on
account of all helping in the multiplied
tion OF production and equitability OF
interchange. The poorest people would,
and could afo,d 10 obtain private posses
sion of land, and II they all did compen-
safe the government, with their mites
even. added TO the large compensations
of those who can afford To occupy more
of this natural wealth would result
IN furnishing the treasures OF the
billions of dollars, which have cost not
human effort TO produce bat which have
commercial value as exchangeable as
wool or cotton.
The principal which God created. earns
its increase in he same manner MS a thou
sand dollars alone would earn 60 dollars
per annum, the only difference being in
the fact that the former belongs to the
people for having created all the value In
this land (man's nheritance), while the
latter the principal, was a product OF
individuals, 10 whom IL belongs as well as
its earning. From the center 10 circum-
ference of civilization number land
values will be. Central locations will
pay large proportion of the compensa-
tion, whick Will continually lessen in
t. ttnfi hA air mi
will have been reached, where the com
pensation will be minimum, beyond
which limit, no one will pay for occu-
pancy, as no mutual relations civilizedly,
exist, therefore, no mutual compensa-
ton. place where man can go and
have the human inclination of his mind
gratified, in declaring, II am monarch
Of all survey; yet few days, civiliza-
tion overtakes him, when the certainty OF
exclusiveness and solitude looms upon
received, or migrate to or beyond the new
circumference CT civilization.
The citizen will be able to find prices
for location and occupancy lifting any
emergency governed By the amount OF
money he may have, varying from any
unit OF compensation he may have to pay
per acre, from six cents to 100000. One
will be able to find fertile land as low as
six cents per annum per acre, and as
poor land as can be found. as high as
t60, 900 per annum per acre rental values,
which the Government will absorb az dues
paid from the occupier for use OF the un-
earned increase.
Some land within the limits OF civiliza-
tion IL wortha dollar and 60 cents per
acre, while in other locations, all worths
between sl.6o and $40, 600, 600 per acre.
Cannot the reader see what an outcome
of public wealth can emanate from
mans own inheritance by making II un-
bequeathable and privately unownable?
Strengthen your affrighted consciences
and comomn sense II In morbid state,
and only ownership in all His children
must abide IL we expect to perpetuate the
races Of men without social ostracism
and human vassalege. What glorious
sunrise before the perfect day awaits in
the natural distribution OF wealth, when
abrogation of the penalty for assistance
to production in building houses and i'm
proving land, for conducting business
to obtain an honest livelihood, for doing
business helpful 10 all, as well as for the
privilege OF suffrage, is complete in the
elimination of the fossils entangling an
advertisedly free people, of whom scores
OF thouands are taxed into penitentiaries,
almshouses and out OF existence
More enlightene men and nations will
become and less crusading will be their
natures and the more they will live at
peace with God and man, by reason that
these sinful ambitions will be relegated
to the past, as relicts of half civilization,
when land Is naturally free.
Is Ii surprising that many inquire IL
God Is just? Who has the fullness of His
bounty can we'll afford Him TO praise;
but beings OF His creation wading in pow
erty and viewed by those who share plen-
tifully in His bounty, as tramps, vaga-
bonds and menaces to society, is II won
der that they are not on good terms with
the powers that beY Causes are for
t,x hr off of m
high civilization to its origin and rem
edy? May II not be that the evils inflict-
ing civilization may arise in the monop-
oily OF land; and the more enlightened
we may become, is not the necessity in
free land intensified? Not free land alone
in the Great American Desert or Dismal
swamp; but free In the centers OF civil
ization. Not by enacting a law that land
is free; but made SO by the justice of no
taxation.
Ninety-flve per cent. OF natural wealth
(land) within the limits of an active
civilization. is in a speculative transition
OF values from a few dollars TO a million
dollars per acre. An active sDeculator in
land 10 he who has any land for which he
has no use and will not allow others to
use without rent. The passive specula-
tor in land is he who has land In use, and
who absorbs the benefits arising there
from; but all compensations for land
values inside OF the limits OF our ciyili-
zation arising from active or passive
speculation should ind It's settlement in
the Government treasury
We are educated In our customs 10 ad-
mire those whose opportunities enable
them TO be in every way unjust, unex-
posed When honesty has It's natural re-
ward, honest men will multiply; for,
other things being equal, every sane hu-
man being prefers 10 be just rather than
unjust. A cause is for all things, and
are we not led TO inquire when, In the
midst Of SUPERB bunoant production and
plethoric wealth, the cause of present
existence ano trend Of history OF the civ
ilized world, when poverty and wealth
keep pace, when few go round the
world IN gilded palaces and in the tour
millions are In the bondage OF many
degradations IN presence OF highest refine
ment and culture.
We need not have the least interest I'm
accumulation Of property I'm the hands OF
the few, when the land problem is
solved, for the more manufactured
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