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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
THE SINGLE-TAX
THEORY EXPLAINED.
LOUIS F. POST SHOWS THE Re-
LATION OF WEALTH TO
LABOR AND LAND.
ILLUSTRATED BY CHARTS
The SOURCE OF THINGS THAT
SATISFY HUMAN WANT
CLEARLY DEFINED.

There was large attendance at Hamil-
ton Hall, Oakland, last night to listen to
the lecture Of Louis F. Post of New York
on the subject of Single Tax; Land Value
the True Basis of Public Revenue"
Mr.. Post arrived from Visalia on an
afternoon train, and was met at the Six
teenth-street depot by number of disci-
pies of the cause. He spoke at Visalia last
night. On Monday evening he will lecture
at Metropolitan Hall, San Francisco, and
on Tuesday he will go to Santa Rosa.
Congressman James G. Mcguire presided
at the meeting last night and delivered the
Introductory address. His remarks were
well received. Mr.. Post was accorded an
ovation. His lecture was an illustration
of the fact that labor and land were the
sole factors of all wealth. He presented a
series of charts Analysing a loaf of bread,
by which, through materials and tools used,
the food was finally reduced down to labor
and land.
"In illustration of the source of wealth, !"
said Mr.. Post, 'the first demand upon us
is to make sure that we know the source of
the things that satisfy want. But il is
quite unnecessary to specify these and trace
them to their origin in detail. In search
ing for the source of one we shall discover
the source of all.
"As common object Of this kind, the
production of which is familiar process,
bread is probably the best example for our
process. Let us then carefully trace bread
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
STUDENTS WORK THEIR WAY
STRUGGLING THROUGH COLLEGE ON
WHAT A DUDE PAYS FOR
CIGARETTES.
How THEY EARN THEIR MONEY.
A COOPERATIVE EMPLOY
MENT SOCIETY.

1t was Pythagoras who said that a mans
wealth was determined rather by the num-
Der OF his wants than the amount of his
property, and he who could reduce his
wants most had most. There is a school
OF practical Pythagorans across the BAY in
Berkeley; they are not conscious disciples
of the great Greek, but they have reduced
their wants to near the absolute minimum
and spend no more in year to satisfy all
their needs than many dudish clerk puts
into ties and cigarettes.
These are the young men who are not
sent to college, but go; who depend only
on their will and wit to support them.
Each OF these young men has constant
problem before him-how to make little
money and to make that little do the work
of good deal. AT Berkeley there are
some fifty or sixty men working at the
solution of this problem. One of them
was hoeing weeds the other day in the
botanical gardens. Every morning and
afternoon for a couple of weeks he had
been hoeing weeds. He earned 20 cents in
an hour.
Are you not spending great deal of
time at work p was asked.
''Well, the weeds are plentiful and after
while they will be gone and there won t
be as much chance for work.
Mr.. Rubottom, the student addressed. is
sophomore, and he was asked if he found
it hard struggle to keep at the university.
when | came here" he replied 81 had
| paid for my room the first year by caring
for Professor Rising's cow. Then | got
one meal a day for milking another COW.
My $50 did the rest for the year. But / am
glad that time is past. Now l can earn
enough this way in a few days to pay my
expenses for couple of months. You see,
lot of us got together-eight of us-and
rented fat for SIS. 1t did not cost much
to furnish our rooms, for we weren't buy
ing for artistic effect. Then we divided
into shifts for cooking, dish-washing and
bed making and sweeping, two working
together for week on each shift.
at takes us about an hour day apiece
to do the work. Oh, the cost. Well last
year we averaged 81 month apiece; this
covered rent and all living expenses 1t
does not cost us any more this year. Some
of the fellows in the Poverty Club, as we
call it, were paving $40 and S25 month for
living, but prefer to live this way and save
their money. Then some of as" said
Rubottom with grim smile, aren't given
our choice. No, we don't stint ourselves.
We get what we want This morning we
had rolled-oats mush, milk and some dried
fruit That is our usual breakfast. At
noon. we don't bother much about the
meal-some bread and butter and fruit.
But at night-well, last night our cooks
gave us roast beef, baked potatoes, tea and
boiled rice" So the Poverty Club has
learned the economy of cooperation, that
is plain.
There are some half-dozen of these CO.
operative clubs now in existence One
of them is much like the Greek letter
societies, hiring couple of Japanese and
OF course paying proportionately but the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
COUNTRY CLUB SHOOTERS.
They Made Pigeons Sick at the Oaklan
Trottine Park.

The second monthly pigeon shoot of the
season under the auspices of the Country
Club took place yesterday at the Oakland
Trotting Park. r. 81. Sprague and O. W.
futile were the two gentlemen who made
the best records of the day, having eleven
kills to their credit out of the clubs race of
twelve birds.
In the shoot-off for first place Sprague
defeated futile by having scored five
straight kills, and Bob Woodward, who is
adiudged as being the crack pigeon-shooter
OF the club, felt rather aggrieved at not
having killed as many birds as his COM
panions, and, as way of getting satisfac-
ton he wagered on every proposition sub
mitted during the sweepstake shoots, and,
strange to say, he won on almost every
wager he made, although betting at hap
hazard on each event.
OF course, Mr.. Woodward was not feeling
well, but according to Mr.. Sperry when
Woodward is not IN shooting trim he is
generally successful in guessing winners.
The score OF the days shoot resulted as
fol
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follows
THE GAELIC GAMES.
Athletic Sports That Will Take Place
at Central Park.

The postponed Gaelic games which were
to have taken place last Sunday at Central
Park will be carried out to-day rain or
shine. The managers state that the grounds
are in excellent condition and a great
days athletic sport is promised to all those
who will attend. The football teams will
line up at clock sharp and most stub
born contest may be expected, as the
players have been practicing daily for this
event in Gaelic football, which will be the
last of the series of games for this season.
1t can be taken for granted that the
Gaelic tournament will be well worth see
ing, as the most promising athletes from
all parts of the State will be on hand to
contest for the valuable prizes at stake.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
THEY WILL ROW
ON SATURDAY.
CAMBRIDGE AND OXFORD TO MEET
ON THE USUAL THAMES
COURSE.
LOOKING FOR CORNELL.
AMERICAN HORSES ARE ATTRACT.
ING THE ATTENTION OF THE
ENGLISH RACING MEN.

LONDON, March 23.-Barring accident
or change in the programme the fifty
second boatrace between crews represent
ing the pupils of Oxford and Cambridge
will be decided on the Thames, over the
usual course from Putney Bridge to Ship
Inn at Mortlake, distance of four and a
quarter miles, OH Saturday next.
The greatest interest is taken in boating
circles in the coming of the Cornell crew
to compete at the Henley regatta with
England's crack oarsmen, and the points
of the Americans are being eagerly dis
cussed. They may be certain of warm
welcome among the oarsmen here.
There is another feature of international
sports which is attracting considerable at
tention here, and that is the prospects
of the American horses now train
ing at Newmarket. Naturally very
few, if any, inside points are to
be obtained by outsiders, but.it is under
stood the Americans are pretty confident
of getting share of the good things dur
ing the coming season, although the
weather has interfered considerably with
the work of the trainers.
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may see, what was promised when we be-
gan its construction, that in searching for
the source of one of the objects that satisfy
human wants we have discovered the
source OF all. For it is self-evident that
the material wants of men are satisfied in
no other way than by the consumption of
finished artificial objects, technically
termed wealth; and the chart shows that
such objects have their source in a combi-
nation of the three "factors," namely: a.
The activities of man, technically termed
labor; ~ natural objects external to man,
technically termed land and 81 unfinished
artificial objects, technically termed CAPT
tai.
'But while these three factors combined
produce all the material objects that tend
to satisfy human wants, they do not con-
stltute the ultimate source of those objects.
Our analysis is not yet ended; our chart is
still incomplete. Reflection assures US
that all artificial objects, finished and I'M
finished, resolve upon final analysis into
the two factors, the activities of man and
natural external objects; or, in technical
language, all wealth, finished and unfin-
lshed, resolves upon final analysis into
labor and land.
Therefore, capital is in final analysis
eliminated as factor of production. 1t
expresses nothing which the two remain
ing factors do not imply, for it is by the
conjunction of these two factors that CAPT
tai itself is produced. Unfinished arti-
fetal objects and their mechanical term,
capital, should therefore be erased from
the chart.
"Thus all artificial objects external to
man-wealth-ar found to have their ulti-
mate source in the conjunction of man s
activities-labor-with natural.objects ex-
ternal to mainland.
Finally, by dropping the cumbrous Ian
guage altogether and using only the tech
nical terms we complete our chart" Thus:
Product Factors.
WEALTH. LABOR.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
REALLY MUST, YOU KNOW.
ave of Society Cannot Keep in With
Those Who Have Lost Money


am now engaged in my annual spring
cleaning" A little tardy, perhaps but
with March before me I have some time to
get matters ready.
By cleaning mean revising my visiting
list for the season. New York is really so
large and names accumulate. One must
weed every year.
1t is sometimes very hard to know how
to do this wedding, and there are times
when little sentiment has TO be consid-
cred. But yet we of society cannot con-
slider sentiment.
Society is a profession-almost, I NAV
say, business. To be a society man" is
a gift. 1t is a career TO which many are
or think themselves-called, and but very
few remain to be chosen. 1t requires tact
and 1t requires talent.
But we must push aside all sentiment
tally. We cannot afford TO loiter by the
roadside to daily with the ones who have
fallen. We must leave them severely alone
TO their fate. Society is simply give and
take, and We must live up to these princi-
pies.
1t is very hard for me to draw my pencil
over the names of the De Joneses because
OF their failure last year. l am very fond
of them. l have had some very nice little
dinners in their house, and De Jones kept
an excellent cook. 1 will remember them,
and if l should meet Mrs. De Jones at any
OF the big functions, where she may still
go, | shall be very polite to her.
But l cannot go to Flushing where they
have taken a house for the winter. 1t
would be very sentimental for me to do So
but most impractical, you know
think however, when people have lost
everything, they should disappear. Il
they have something Lefty well, let them
make the most of it and keep up appear.
ances by all means. Otherwise they should
vanish beyond the horizon, and only bob
up sereneil y when times are better and they
have repaired their misfortunes.
You see, they will thus spare much mis-.
cry to themselves and to their friends. ]
should prefer even to resign from my club
rather than to be seen there in shabby
coat, with the condition ''impecunious'
written plainly over my whole attire.
/ should, if reduced to that state, try to
look very prosperous, and if l could not
afford the expenses of the club l should
make a desperate effort to pay my dues
and retire from sight until the ADVENT Of
better days.-Vogue
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
YOUR MAIL BY WIRE.
A Chicago Man Proposes to Send Mail
Bags Over the Tops of Buildings.


Think of the mails being shot at almost
lightning speed over the roofs of Chicago!
That's what Richard E. Sherman says
can be done, and Postmaster Hesing is his
convert. If the weather ever moderates,
Mr.. Hesing and Mr.. Sherman expect to
convince skeptics within two weeks. If the
experiment TO be tried proves a success the
possibilities of the scheme will be large in
the direction of improvement in city and
SUBURBAN mail collection and delivery and
the transportation of mails to and from the
postoffice TO the railway stations. 1t is with
in the scope OF possibilities, Postmaster
Hesing says, that all the mail wagon service
may be abandoned and overhead electric
carriers substituted. The scheme is the in
vention of Richard Z. Sherman Chicago
electrician. His plan is to carry mails
through the air over the tops of buildings
by means of electric cars travelling on
wire cable. The inventor says he has dis
covered a new principle of Harvesting the
electric current without the use of a return
wire. He declines to explain the pecu-
harity of his motor, which, he says, does
away with the necessity of a return wire or
storage batteries. He has succeeded in
convincing the postal authorities that his
plan is practical, and all is ready to put
the experimental line in operation as soon
as the weather moderates enough to permit
its construction.
Mr.. Sherman's description of his COM
bined motor and carrier is as follows:
1.-THE whole arrangement weighs thirty
two pounds. The motor alone weighs
eighteen pounds and its strength is one
fourth horsepower as proved by actual
tests. 1t is the strongest motor of its
weight ever constructed. This part of the
machine is the valuable part. 1t will be
operated by a single wire without a return
circuit. l have applied for patents in all
foreign countries, and will keep the secret
of its construction until the patents are all
secured. All parts of the carrier, except
the motors, are made of aluminium. The
cars are detachable from the frame,
and can be taken out and changed in ten
seconds. The motors will climb an incline
of 20 per cent. The speed is regulated be-
fore the carrier is started on its trip by a
simple attachment. 1t will run no faster
down grade than up. 1t cannot jump off
the wire even if at a speed OF 100 miles an
hour 1t runs on four-inch sheave wheel
with deep fanges. The wheel is furnished
with ball bearings The power required to
operate the carriers at speed of sixty
miles an hour is exactly the same as is re-
quired TO run an ordinary arc light. a
current of ITO volts is used. A heavier ca
BILE is used than is necessary to sustain the
weight as matter of safety"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
KNOWS HIS BUSINESS.
This Doctor Is Ready to Tackle Ar
Disease on Sight.

According to letter recently received
by Dr.. Van Waters from his brother in Sc
attic there is quaint and original doctor
located on one Of the islands in the sound.
He adyertises in posters and placards
printed in a home outfit. In one of his
announcements he says:
Legs and arms sawed off while YOU
waite without pane.
"No odds asked in measles, hoopingcoff
mumps or diarrear.
"Baldheads, bunions, corns, warts. can
Ger and ingrowing townails treated scien-
tifically.
"Coleck, cramps, costiyeness and worms
nailed on sight.
"Wringworms, pole evil, shingles, moles
and crosseye treated in one treatment or
no pay.
P. S.-Terms: Cash invariably in adj
vance. No cure no pay.
IN. B. (Take Motifs. mo Coroner never
yet sot on the remains of my customers.
and emmy one hiring me doan't hef TO be
good layin' up money to buy gravestone.
Come won, come awl.
The writer adds that this man does a
good business, although you would not
expect it, and his patients say he cures dis
ease and does it thoroughly and quickly
Saltwater Me Gazette.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
ROOM FOR ALL.
These Big United States Would Sustain
Vast Population.

a Vast Population.
Have you any idea of the number of per-
sons that the United States would sustain
without overcrowding the population, or
even going beyond the limit of density now
shown by the State of Rhode Island? The
last census of the pigmy State Just gives it
population of 100000. The area of the
State in square miles is only 1850; thus we
ind that there is an average of 318 persons
on every square mile of her territory We
can best illustrate the sustaining capacity
of the whole of the United States
and of the other States by making
some comparisons: The State of Texas
has an area of 265, $50 square
miles, and were it equally as densely popu-
lated as Little Rhody," would comfort
ably sustain a population of 1888, 62S in
habltants, a greater number of persons
than the whole country is expected to have
in the year 1900. Scatter people all over
the whole land from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and from the gulf to the British
possessions as thickly as they are now in
Rhode Island, and we would have 945, 1866
300 inhabitants, instead of an insignificant
so, 100000. In other words. if the United
States could be peopled to their utmost
sustaining capacity, we could take care of
nearly two-thirds OF the present population
OF the globe.-St. Louis Republican.
A colored woman in New Orleans is
about to take her degree in medicine, and
will be the first woman to practice in that
city with degree won in Louisiana.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

is an artificial object. The lot exists indie
pendently of mans art; the oven can have
no existence whatever as an oven but for
mans art. And when the remaining exter-
nal objects are considered the same differ
ence appears. All of them, bread in
cluded, differ from the lot of land precisely
as the oven does; they are artificial.
AT this point we find all essential diff
ferences distinguished. Every factor of
industry and every material object of de-
sire that can be imagined falls into one or
another of the four classes of the chart
And from mere inspection of the chart we
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
WEALTH.
LAND.

''The chart may be read as follows:
Wealth is produced solely by the appli-
cation of labor to land.
This is the final analysis. In the union
OF labor, which includes all human effort,
with land, which includes the whole mate
rial universe outside of man, we discover
the ultimate source of wealth, which in
cludes all the material things that satisfy
want. And that is the first great truth
upon which the single tax philosophy is
hnilt ;,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
THE OFFER
Mexican authorities Cause the Carroll.
McAuLiffe Fi0ht to Drnn

CITY OF MEXICO. March %. - The
Mexican National Athletic Club recently
agreed to hang up purse of $4,000 for the
Carroll-McAuliffe contest for the light
weight championship which they both &C
cepted.
The club has now been notified by the
Federal authorities that they cannot bring
off prize fight or glove contest to a finish
in the Federal district. The president of
the club, Mr.. Campbell, is negotiating with
the National Athletic Club of London, ar
ranging to bring off the contest there.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
Pirate of Pensamce KILLED.

LEXINGTON. KY, March 23-While
exercising at the association track, Leon
Ferguson's valuable two-yearlold Pirate of
Penzance FLY ran off to-day into fence,
injuring her so badly she had to be shot
The boy Ellis, riding her, was seriously in
jured.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
The Fear of Death .

The fear of death in the abstract is a
natural instinct, and, being natural. Is
doubtless wholesome one. And this be-
ing so, a constant realization OF IT Is
scarcely to be desired. 1t is much to be
questioned whether, to use the imagery of
the hymn, the man to whose conscious
ness it was continually present that his
tent was nightly pitched days march
nearer to his grave would be useful cam
paigner But in point of fact there is no
danger that it will be so. The story is told
of priest who, under sentence of death In
days when the penalty was more common
than now, obtained the privilege of preach
ing TO his fellow-conyicts in like case. 1t
IS scene which is repeated in thousand
different places every Sunday morning,
but 1T is 100 to l that the situation does not
strike either preacher or people unpleas-
antly, and you will find each going home
to dinner as checrfully as if he carried a
special exemption in his pocket. 1t is
best so.
Not to climb hill till you come to it is
a homely maxim, but il is astonishing
how much, carried out, it simplifies life
GU imagine II to be an alp that is barring
your way, and when you reach the spot it
turns out to be gently rising ground from
Whlch you may view the surrounding
country before making fresh start And
so with death. Formidable as it appears
from distance, the more one looks into
! the SUBJECT the more certain it becomes
that mankind, when brought TO practical
acquaintance with it, have agreed in some
blind way to recognize in the enemy whose
approaches they have been SO unremitting
IN their efforts to ward off something alto.
gether different from the terrible and hos
tile force which they have been accustomed
TO consider 1t. I'VE fall on guard, and.
after all, IL is a friend who comes to meet
us. The Nineteenth Century
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
Critic Meets Onialeu.

PHILADELPHIA, March %. james
Quigley of this city and Young Critic
fought four rounds tonight before the
Southwark Athletic Club, and, while no
decision was given, Critic had all the best
OF the 60. Quigley was clearly outclassed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
Netc Orleans Races.
NEW ORLEANS, March 2s.-The

NEW ORLEANS, March 23.-The track
was fast to-day Summaries:
Five furlongs, Mark s won. Flush second,
Norman third. Time, L 02lz.
Six furlongs, ST. Croix won, Masonic Home
second, Erstwhile third. Time, 1:l5L
One. and an eighth miles, Florence won,
Theodore d second, Rapidan third. Time
l :5315.
Six furlongs, Francis Pope won, Bill White
second, Ben Wilson third. Time, 1:l5.
Seven furlongs, Revenue won, Manoa second,
Guilty third. Time, :2S3l.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

Statistics are quoted to show that in
New York City last year BAT fires were
caused by coal oil, 23o by gas, 273 by
matches and only 4S by the use of electric
light and power.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

particular, that they are external to man.
some of them may differ from others in
respects which, for clear thinking, must be
designated. Compare first two external
objects-the lot of land and the overland
radical difference at once appears. The
lot of land is a natural object. The oven
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

'In respect to man the constituents of
bread all fall into two general classes
Man, the objects that are external to him,
or, briefly, external objects. While all
these external objects are alike in the one
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

Good start. Won easily Time, 1884 Win
ner, b. e.. by i'm. DeInacardoch- Retribution.
Betting: Contribution evens, Royal Flush 5 to
!, Realization 10 to L O'Bee 80 TO !, Sir Richard
10 to l, Jim Flood 16 to 5, Modesto 300 TO !.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

A lively old farmer is Nathan White OF
Rutherford County, North Carolina. Last
June he was 100 years of age, and he still
does the heaviest farm work, blowing, etc.