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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-04-20
Free Silver Convention.

a special from st. Paul says:
"There will be free silver conven-
ton in Minnesota during this coming
summer or fall. 1t is planned on
broad lines, and will take in every
democrat and every republican who
desires to participate, provided he is
an avowed advocate of free coinage" "
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-04-20
Another County Heard From.

Chinook Opinion: E. E. Bitter in
company with Geo. Duncan, left for
the Little Rockies on Saturday last,
where, if everything appears favor
able, Mr.. Bitter will follow the ton
sorial profession, and Mr.. Duncan
will develop his numerous mines.
Good fortune to them both.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-04-20
WOMEN RULE THE TOWN.
Have all the Offices at Florence
Oregon

Reports have bee received of the
city. election held in Florence, Ore
gon, that women have been elected
to administer the affairs of the place
for the ensuing year. The entire
council and the recorder and mar
shal are women.
The advocate., 1895-02-20

Now, it is not, in my opinion, neces-
ssry for a large tract of land in order
to put this idea into practical opera
alton. A section of land (640 acres) is
enough for a starter. This can be had
near here, part timber and prairie, for
81 per acre. Now, let us say 100 able
bodied men put in 800 apiece, that
would leave US S., ,52O after paying for
our land. This would go far towards
building cheap houses for the use of
the colOnists. Now, as to the mode of
getting at this. Let each individual
that is willing to invest 800 in this
business, and abide by the bylaws
governing the Ruskin Cooperative as
sOciatiOn, send me his name and ad-
dress. 1 will keep a correct list of
these, and will from time to time an.
nOunce, through the ADVOCATE, how
matters are progressing. When the
100 names have been obtained, a COM
mittee to receive the money and pur-
chase the land can be chosen. There
is no necessity of getting excited in
this matter, but go slow and be sure of
what we are doing. Let no man, un-
less he is somewhat read up on the
teachings of socialism, go into it. A
copy of the Ruskin bylaws can be OBJ
tanned by sending 8 cents to The Com
ing Nation, Tennessee City, Tenn. 1
wish to state to those writing me for
information concerning this country
that 1 cannot answer unless they en-
close stamp. Thus far 1 have answered
all, and but few think to send stamps.
F. T. BAKER.
Lebeck, Cedar county, Mo.
The advocate., 1895-02-20
A Correction.

EDITOR ADVOCATE Il notice a
statement in your paper by "Kansas
University" which l feel sure he will
desire to correct. 1t was to the effect
that the only fault with the greenback
was the exception clause, Why, how
about the promise-to-psy? Are we to
understand that the government re-
ceiVed anything to which it was not
entitled, in virtue of its taxing power?
When you put up to support school
in your district, does the district give
you a promise-to-pay it backP No.
1t gives you a receipt. So, when the
government, during the war, received
services and commodities, it should
have given receipts for them-did so,
in fact. Every greenback, every 7-3O,
every demand note, etc., in all, to the
amount of nearly billions, was prac-
tically a receipt, until the blunderS
written on them began to be carried
into effect. The greenbaCk, after John
Sherman nullified the exception clause,
was practically perfect, so long as the
prom ise't 'to-pay was kept in allegiance.
But how is it now? 1t is in virtue of
that silly blunder that the sharks of
Wall street are enabled to demand gold
for them. "Kansas University will
hardly hold that the greenbacks should
have been made so as to require pay
ment in gold, silver, or anything else,
except taxes. Then, surely, they should
contain no promise so to do. Reform
ers, we can not get right on this point
too soon. Right here is the center
around which the great battle with the
money power must rage.
w. G. NELSON.
Hillsboro, o., February Z, 1895.
The advocate., 1895-02-20
Cooperative Col Ony.

EDITOR ADvOCATE:-SinCe suggest
ing, through the columns of the ADvo-
CATE, the idea of organizing cooper
ative colony somewhere in southwest
Missouri, 1 have been receiving good
many letters of INJURY from parties
living in Kansas. This shows that
this subject of cooperation is taking
hold upon the minds of the people.
Another thing that is forcing itself
upon US is, Can we successfully fight
our way single-handed in the battle
for breadP
The advocate., 1895-02-20
"AmOng the OzarkS."

"The Land Of Big Red Apples" is an at
tractive and interesting book, handsomely
illustrated with views Of South Missouri
scenery, including the famous Olden fruit
farm Of 5000 acres in Howell county. II
pertains 10 fruit raising in that great fruib
belt Of America, the southern slope Of the
OEaHks, and win prove Of great value, not
only 10 fruit growers, but 70 every farmer
and home seeker looking for Q farm and Q
home. Mailed free. Address,
J.E, LOOKWoOD, KAnsaS City, No.
The advocate., 1895-02-20

ever tried.
You seem to think that if one has no
tenant he can receive no rent, yet you
admit the owners of the Great North
ern hotel in Chicago would receive the
$150,OO0 yearly rental value of the
three lots it stands upon, and think
that because the occupying owners Of
the hotel receive it instead of the pres
ent non-occupying owners, the evil is
cured. To occupy and use valuable
land in person, or by hired help, like
the cooks, pOrters, walters, chamber
maids, ETC., of the Chicago hotel, is to
receive rent from the community ex-
actly as much as if leased Of another
party, The hired help of the hotel re-
ceive none of this $15O,OO0 unearned
value to relieve them from all other
direct and indirect taxation, as they
would do under the single-tsx, and
which relief would be equivalent to
about so cents per day advance in
wages.
The fact that the state or nation re-
tsins the title and prohibits mortgage
or sale, but not descent to heirs, cuts
no figure whatever in the profits of
using land of which the user has ex-
elusive possession. We see this illus
trsted in the recent sale at a profit of
$97, 900 of long lease Of valuable lot
in Chicago belonging to the public
school fund. Nor does your plan pre-
vent holding land idle or partly used,
but makes it far easier by relieving the
holder Of even the nominal taxes now
levied on such land.
You admit that your plan can do
for the person left in the dis
OF who are born or reach
maturity, or cross the ocean, after the
distribution by area, but you err
greatly when you charge the single
tax with the same defect. There are
three reasons for desiring access to
land: First, for a home; second, for
Self-employment; and third, to secure
the unearned increment and rental
value. The two first are legitimate,
natural rights; the third not a right,
but an economic wrong. To secure
the two first, we suppress the third,
which latter renders the others difficult
of attainment by enabling the dog in
the msnger to hold land out of use or
partly used at profit, or at least with
out loss. The difference between the
lsnd-holder and the landless is the
value of the use of land, and this value
the single-tsx distributes equally to all,
and yours does not. This difference is
the rock you split upon. You consider
land monopoly and taxation as separ-
ate questions, when, as l have repeat
edly shown, they are so interlsced as to
preclude separation. Public revenues
make public improvements; public i'm
proVements make or mar land values,
hence lands benefited by public i'm
proVements should pay for them.
In spite of my repeated denials you
persist in asserting 1 have admitted
shifting of single-tax to consumers, an
error of your misconstructlon of my
language. Let US examine this point,
not by vague theory, but concrete
instance. Suppose two men, A and B,
ou,n odioinin0 atoraa of annal voluo
The advocate., 1895-02-20
THE sINGLE-TAx.
An Able Champion Presents His Side Of the
Case -(COntinued.)
BY W. Il. T. WAKEFIELD.

Inc educated and trained economist
would doubtless say that we have
taken many words to cover the ground
we have gone over, but 1 think the sv-
erage reader will be the better for hsv.
ing followed even our repetitions and
reiterations, if it gives him clearer
views of the fundamental basis OF
political justice.
/ think, however, the time has ar.
rived for summing up and giving the
case to the jury. We seem to differ
now only as to the respective merits Of
our plans of eliminating the admitted
evils Of landlordism and unequal Oh
unjust taxation. You claim that your
plan of state ownership of all lands,
distributed to first applicants, with
title to permanent and untaxed posses.
sions through occupation or use, solves
the land question, and that charging a
tax or profit for use Of public utilities
is a just method of raising revenues.
You claim that your plan abolishes
rent to private parties, and l deny such
claim. claim that rent is a law of
nature and cannot be abolished, hence
that rental value should not go to en-
rich private parties, but should be paid
into the public treasures OF the nation,
state or community, whose presence
and labor creates such rental value, and
that all public revenues being thus
provided, no tax should be levied upon
labor, either directly or indirectly,
through its products or by charge
above cost for use Of public utilities,
hence that all forms of taxation, ex-
cept that on the rental value of land,
regardless of improvements, should be
abolished, and all public utilities be
owned and operated by and for the
people to give service at cost.
The proper solution of the issue thus
joined, depends, first, on whether rent
to individuals will persist under your
plan; second, will it give equal psrtici-
patton to all in the values of such rent;
and, third, does your plan of raising
revenues exempt labor and its pro-
ducts from tax, by raising such rev.
enues by tax on what would be a spe-
cisl privilege if not taxed, as my plan
doesP
What is rent, and why will it persist
under your plan? Rent is the margin
of profit in extensive possession or use
iof land which yields larger returns to
labor than the poorest lands. in use.
This margin of profit varies from few
cents or few dollars per acre in cheap
lands to $50 or 100000 per acre in the
most valuable lands in the great cities.
Land has been lately sold in Chicago
at 10 million dollars an acre, in New
York city at Is millions, and over 8
millions refused in Washington City,
and in twenty cities an aggregate of
1000 square miles is worth an average
of / million dollars per acre, an aggre-
gate of GAO billions, while the entire
acreage of the nation at $40 per acre is
but about 30 billions.
The mineral and forest lands of the
nation are worth far more than all the
agricultural lands, the latter being es-
timated at 6 per cent. of the whole by
Henry G. Waite, who was in charge of
a. U,.,,o Wao1fb h,,raau of tha laat
The advocate., 1895-02-20

instead of the landlords? If E usel
land producing forty bushels per acre
and pays 81 per acre tax; F using lsnC
producing twenty bushels, paying hall
a dollar tax, and G land producing five
bushels, paying no tax, can E or F sell
wheat higher because their rent il
higherP You know they cannot do it
hence such tax falls not on labor, bu
on special privilege of monopolizinG
the more valuable land. This is tht
design of the single-tax-tO equslizt
earnings by higher tax on use of thu
more valuable land which returns
larger income for same effort. ONLY
this can abolish rent and unjust taxa
tion, or free labor from monOpOlies.
You ask what would do when lands
and lots were all occupied and some
still out of land. I would sub divide
the larger holdings when it was neces
sary or desired, and this would require
no arbitrary action, for small holding
can better afford a rental tax thar
large ones, and men wanting land foI
homes, gardens, orchards, factories
shops, etc., can pay rental which the
grazer of goats or Texas steers cannot
pay. But the greatest difference in ouI
system is that under the single-tsI
there could be no high profits and low
wages, while under yours there coulC
be. / did not think it worth while tt
waste space in replying to your objec
tion that the rental value tax might
raise too much or too little tax, but you
repeat it as if you thought it import
ant, hence l reply that under no Other
system can the amount of tax be cal
culated in advance so accuratelyas car
a tax on rental values, and the Objec
tion applies to your system ten times
stronger than to mine. You would
exempt land from all taxes. In the
case of the Great Northern hotel this
would add about $4,000 to the income
of the owners of the three lots under
it, whether owned by the present land
lords or the hotel company.
The school fund of Chicago now has
an income of a half million a year
from the rentals of valuable lots left
by will to the fund when Chicago was
a small village. On these lots are the
best buildings upon the earth, owned
by rich men or companies who have
leased the lots. Your plan WOulC
transfer this half million annual funC
from the schools to the rich owners OF
the buildings, and compel the parents
of school children to raise this sum by
paying higher postage, fares snd
freights, water and gas rates, street
car fares, etc. Is this your best effor
at reconstructing society and abolish
ing rentsP
In this summing up, l have tried tC
be strictly fair, and think have been
1 have given you the benefit of ever!
doubt, and let you state your owl
position on every question, even wher
you were totally inconsistent in you
positions, as in making land both pub
lie and private property; in objecting tt
confScation of land, yet proposing tt
take from the three lot-owners to giV'
to the Great Northern hotel owners be
cause the latter are OCCUPANTS.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1895-09-06

HryFrrn, Utah, Sept. s, 1906.

HENErER, Utah, Sept. 8, 1895.
Enron TINES;
There were no services here on Labor
Day.
Harvesting Is in full blast and second
crop Of lucern being cut.
Preparations are being made for dip
ping sheep ut the stephens corral.
George Turpiu aud family OF West
Jordan are visiting relatives here.
IN. II. stevens attended the Demo
cratic convention a. Ogden as delegate
from this place.
Miss Amelia Jones and Miss Annie
shill went to Ogden Monday y work
The frost has been quite severe here
for several nights and young lucern Is
nipped.
NJ. +. Harris and part Of his family
have been visiting in Salt Lake during
the week
r.. A. Jones and George Il. Harr.
have gone to the fruit country to gei
loaded up.
Our baseball boys wen. TO Hoytsyll le
on Labor Day and played game Of base
ball, which resulted in a victory for tho
lleneier boys.
Miss Bohman, who taught the primary
departtnent al ottr distrfrt snbool Las,
winter, is here teaching again this sea
son. The school commenced last Mon
day.
The total eclipse Of the moon on Tues
day night was noticed by several here
~ H.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1895-09-06

Peruvian couer.s was opened.
The Cuban iu.mrcrtion b. gaining
ground inCnha.
Another cargo o'supplics has been
landed by he Cubans.
Prince BI.mark drank TO the health OF
the Germans IT Utah.
Defender" q. chosen by the cop com.
mitiee todeicnd the America cup.
Mr. Bi.ell say. there H. no truth
whaievcr To- the icport that ho has beer
offered ihe place Of the United siaici
supreme court bench made vacant by
the death oiJnsiicc jackson.
Philadelphia received Judicial consen
90 send the old Liberty bell TO the AZ
lan,a exposition. Judge Thayer Of th
Common Pleas court delivered q deci
zion dismissinr the bin Ia equity recent
Glcd hy anumbcr Of prominent citizens
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1895-09-06

KAMA. Utah, sept. 1873
Enron TiNrs.
Almo., cold enough sunday night 'ar
frost.
Carpenters mill is now running full
time.
John Pack made aquick trip 20 the
cartal last week ON business.
Miss Lueiia Cromwell and Mis-. loa
KnoWltou both returned to their home.
in salt Lake on Friday last.
Mis- Flora Mi,che. has returned to
Park CITY. after enjoying pleasant
time for some weeks in Kanas.
Mrs. Ward 4. Pack, Jr. il preparing
tonoyc to Vcrnal very soon, where Mr..
Pack has secured school for the CONE
ing school year.
Bishop :. I. Atwood and samuel b..
Turnbow were the delegates sent by the
Democrats OF Hamas to the county con.
ven,ion At Coalville Monday.
The music furnished hy the klans
sisters at the Opera House Wednesday
evening was ruioyed. Mr.. Carpenter
ha. secured them iorthe Thanksgiving
ball.
Shortly after Mr.. John Carpenters
family and guests had retired the night
Of the bail, bullet was sent crashing
through oLc Of the large plrlor
windows. Tie room being empty no
one was hurt but il is a dangerous prac
iice, and IL isapity stop cannot be put
10 such vandalism. C.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1895-09-06
AMONG THE KANAKAs.
A visa 10 Their Coony COLONIZATION Of
ThnIr rInnaar Day.

A Visit 10 Their Colony COLONIZATION Of
Their Pioneer nay.
on the 26th ult. party composed Of
Joseph +. Smith and wife, Albert Davis.
Miss Duniord and Joseph Dean Of salt
Lake, Jacob Gates and wife Of Provo, W.
II. Branch and daughter, Edmond Ed
redge and Mise Williams Of Coalville,
left salt Lake by wagon Tor Josepa, the
site Of the Kanaka colony, IN Skull val
ley. Tooele county, 10 witness and par.
ticipatc In the celebration Of the Colony's
Pioneer Day, August Is. The distance
from Coalyille Is about 100 miles,
The party arrived ut their destination
ON the 9th, and the celebration started
at 10 O'Clock on the morning Of the 18th,
and consisted Of exercises In the morn
ing, feast at l2 o'clock aud exercises Of
music, singing, speeches in the Kanaka
language by elders present who had
been ON missions 10 the Sandwich H.
lands. The speakers were W. n. Branch,
Joseph +. Smith, Jacob Gates and
Joseph Dean. This Kanaka colony are
all members Of the l.. y. s. Church, and
they entered into the celebration With
much enthusiasm. In addition to the
colony, about thirty-Gve Indians
gathered there at the feast and joined In
the exercises, apparently enjoying IL
hugely. A band composed Of three
guitars, three mandolins and q banjo,
played by tn Kanakas, furnished the
music, and the visitors were surprised ut
the unusual skill exhibited by the play
ers on these instruments,
There are about sixty kanakas In the
colony, which IL Ia charge Of II. II.
Clud, brother of our W. W. CluG. The
Ranakas Of the colony carry on gem
eral farming and stockraising business,
and are fairly prosperous. They own
about 4 600 to 5000 acres Of land, mostly
an enclosed and NATURALIZATION. They
expect TO harvest this year about 1000
bushels OF grain, 300 tons Of hay, besides
corn, melons, fruit, potatoes, ana other
vegetables. They have about 100 tons
of hay LETT over from last year. They
possess about 400 head Of hogs a goodlY
number1i cattle, aud pcn,y OF hor-es
to do theIr work. They have % fair
system of irrigation, and u fact are
pretty weil fixed.
several large ponds have been com
.trurted. which are fed and oiled from
/ me- numerous springs in that locality.
These furnish them with O place 20
swim and battle, which seems 20 be
Necessity in the liieoi these people, and
they are pronounced the most expert
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1895-09-06
NO. 40

swimmers in ,hr world These ponds
have also been stocked with carp. which
grow ina short time, owing to the fact
'ilat ihe spring waicris always warm, to
great siEe.
Wcundersiand these people are gen.
erailv indo'cni, hnt the visitors inform
nsihat this is being rapidly overcome
hy Mr.. Cluir, who o.. teaching them the
benefits OF industry, economy aud pro.
gressiyeness. The colony hold Mr. CluG
Ia the greatest respect and esteem. and
thew are rapidly making improvements
iu their surroundings.
The trip aud visit wa. iull If enjoy
meni and Interest 10 the visitors. and
they saw the valley IL beanliiul They
arrived back home last sa,ur lay, and
consider the time occupi,n With those
strange people we'll spent.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1895-09-06

Rocgronr, Utah, Sept. o, lsu5.
Enron TINES:
j. VI. Malin made u trip to Salt Lake
last week.
John Horiin started Wednesday
morning Tor Ogden to attend the Demo.
cratic convention.
j. NJ. Malin and II. Scamons went 10
Coalyillc 10 attend the Democratic con.
yention on MONDAY.
The ast Of excursionlsts, who have
been camping Ia Saker's grove this
summer, returned home Thursday.
On August 9th Mrs. W. II. steven,
and Mrs. W. W. IIortin Of Oakley when
returning home from visit 20 Ress.
port, met with what might have beena
serious accident. When In front oI
John lIortin'- residence n COW CANT
tearing down the road with dog at ia
heels and rushed into the buggy, break
ing one Of the shafts. The horse be
came frightened and commenced to run
the broken shaft sticking into Il 10 ever
jump. Charles Gibbons who was nea
caught the horse aud relieved the ladie
from their perlious position. The ladie
stayed until the next morning, ha'
! their buggy repaired. got another hors
aud went home. Nothing was hurt hu
the horse. X. $.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1895-09-06
Monday. ssptsmbsra.

sedan day was celebrated by the Ger
mans At Milwaukee and Cincinnati
The sons Of Veterans held their an.
nual encampment at Knoxville, Tenn,
September 10Th 20 18th.
Charges have been preferred against
Mayor G. NJ. +. McClintock of Ashland,
Wis charging him with extorting
money from city employees. The city
coundl has ordered an invisugat'on,
Andrew Carnegie has a column letter
in the london Times based upon the re-
ccntlf..h convention 90 pittsburr, and
urging ihe Times to use iis powerful iu-
aueuee toward finding a solution Of the
question.
Butte, Mont, SEPT. I,-rHbune spec.
ial.-fren Enrich, miner in ihs
Neyerweat, was crushed 20 death thi.
morning by cage dropping on him
lie leaves a wife and four children,
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1895-09-06

The Los Angelo. Terminal company is
surveying line from Los Angeles TO
rIoche.
Tiius, Cabanne and Murphy, tie class
b wheel cracks, we're suspended Tor
agreeinsio divide the ~. Louis races.
seyensompanies Of Michigan militia
started hr Ishpeming % protect miners
@s"i''s' ''--r'%~~s--------------------
TheAcalemNoi music az Buffalo, otc
ofthe historic iheaiers VI America, was
destroyed by ere. The estimate loss -
$4,000.
The general land office a, Washington
mas concluded TO throw open 10 settle
ment the alleged Una de Cato land
graniin Coliax county, n. NJ, tract Of
10000 acres.
Chief Harris Issued proclamation
procaiming the Cherokee Legislature In
exim session on September nth, for the
purpose OF conhscaiing the improve.
menis Of l75 iniruding non-citizens.
Adispatch from Buenos Ayers says
The Brazilian ministers Of foreign affair,
and navy, IL is reported. will resign be-
cause OF the extension Of amnesty &,
thoss Of the navy who engaged In ~,
revelation OF 1893.
san Francisco. Aug. 3l.-The steam
ship "Coptic" arrived to-day from Yo
kohama and Hangkong, bringing the
news, under date Of August 18th, that
the Asiatlc plague has broken out IN
Kobe Japan, and the crew oithe italian
crui'er "umbua" have suffered.
po0tello, Ida, Aug. 3l.--John Bran
don. United States mnil.carier on tho
DsboIs aud Nicholia mail route, 100 miles
north Of this city, met witha fatal ac
cldeni Thursday morning, llowas en-
route with the mail, carrying shotgun
IN The buggy for chickens, when the gun
slippei aud discharged, shooting him
through the right leg and upward
through the body, passing under the
baseoi the right lung to the shoulder,
lie cell from the buggy and the horse
wenton. After lying there for several
houu' he managed to get toa ranch
about a mile distant, where be lived mn
, III Yesterday morning and died suffer
, ing terribly.