St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-08

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small escape pipe onto the spout of
the tea-kettfe and was at the mo-
ment caulking up the seam around
the kettle cover; and Becky con-
tinued by way of warning, MY
beanS'H be done in half an hour
an 1 want water from thet kettle
to pull the tea a-drawin'. :"
Weary of being nagged, the dea-
. con yielded to the folly of haste
very reluctantly and replied, ''Now,
Becky, [ kent prove nothin' salts
factory to nobody, with nothin' but
tibet old tea-kittIe to work with,
your beans on the best stove led,
my kittle showed way back on the
cold corner, and the only hot cover
on the hull stove wide open fer
Mary Ann to heat her curlin-irons,
an you a-doubtin' an a-lafiin' at
me, an hollerrin' fer the water fer
sumthln' else
But despite this protest, the dea-
/ con pulled hS OLD kettle as hear
the not spot as the bean kettle and
mary AIMS curling tongs would
permit, looked up at the clock on
the mantel to note the hour of his
coming triumph and waited for the
test. An hour or so later, some
"ags down at the postcffice asked
the deacon, How does the practi-
cal application of steam work as
motive power?" And they
chuckled over his answer, for it was
just what they expected.
won't work, boys" replied
the deacon, ''it's all right in theery.
Out [ won't work in practice"
Mrs. Wells came ito see what on
alrth mad happened at DeaconJones'.
Mrs. Jones led her into the kitchen.
pointed to the floor slushed with
water, bestrewn with the fragments
OF two kettles, and to the clock
with its face blown in and it's works
hlled with half-cooked beans. and
maze the usual and to-be-expected
remark: There, didn't L tell you
SO? The idee of ever tryin' to
make anything go by steam. Steam
power run machinesi make ships go!
saw wood! ha, ha, ha, ha! Guess
my old man1l shet up on his steam
power theory now, and turn tibet
parin' machine by hand, er else use
a knife to pare UNI es we alters use
ter, an pared apples a good deal
better'n with them new-fangled ma
chimes, tew.''
A single tax on land values. with
no better chance for a test than an
appl1cat1on to some one little spot
and community, which community
is also obliged to pay many other
taxes, an internal revenue tax, a
tax on commercial exchange and
that multitude of taxes paid by ev-
cry consumer of taxed goods (Which
tax, levied at the place of produc-
ton, follows them to their last
purchaser), would DE no single tax
at all, and could only in a very mod
crate measure benefit a small com
munity with such an immediately
contiguous adverse environment
The theory that that value which
is admittedly produced by all COM
munity, and never by any single in
dividual, justly belongs to COM
munity, and should defray the ex-
| penses of the government of COM
munlty and its just and natural
| complement,t that the products of per-
sonal effort and enterprise belong
| to the enterprising Individual who
| produces them, is the single tax the
| Dry; very simple and logical prop
osition. And to insist that Mr.. Place
! Owner shall practically prove his
| single tax theory by going down
| once year to the collector of taxes
| and handing over to him the amount
| of the annual increase in location
| values" of his little 20X100-foot lot
| on Cinder street, or that Deacon
| Jones shall prove the correctness
| of his theory that steam is an
available and great utility by ''prac-
| teal test" with the partial use of an
| old cook stove, tea kettle and his
own Grass ignorance of the laws
| of water expansion, are equally il
| logical theories, and are very vague
and irrational propositions for the
| demonstration of either of those
| two great truths-or theOries-aS to
! the utility of steam power or the
| single tax.