The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27
SINGLE-TAXERS
FORM 4 PAR RTY
It Was Born and Baptized
in Delaware State
September II.
AN IMPORTANT STEP.
Its Short Platform That Purports
to Embody All Essential
Needs.
GROWTH OF THE MOVEMENT.
Throughout California and the Eastern
States 1t Is Steadily Gaining
Strength.
GROWTH OF THE MOVEMENT.

Important news of the single tax move
ment has been received in this City, hav-
ing escaped the eagle of the Eastern cor
respondent. 1t is no l1ss than the birth
and baptism this month of the Single Tax
party in Delaware.
YES" said J. s. Reynolds, the we'll
known Single-taxer of this City, yester-
day, "the news is true. The Single Tax
party, pure and undeiled, was born and
rchristened in the capital of Delaware on
the 18th inst.
"You already know of the campaign of
education, unequaled for ability, skill and
devotion to human rights in the largest
sense, tnat has been carried on in that
State for the last sixteen months. As the
time for holding the conventions drew
near the single-taxers sought to obtain
from both the dominant parties declara-
ton in favor of their doctrine to be made
binding on the candidates for the Legis-
lature. They were rewarded with plen-
tiful supply of promises before the con-
ventions met, but with insult, taffy and
the icy hand after. Then a conference was
called to consider the situation, resulting
IN the issuance of a call for q delegate
State Convention on September 5, which
was postponed to the 17th.
"1he convention was full, composed of
laboring men, tenant farmers and those
who owned their farms, men of business
and many of the professions, truly
representative body. This is their plat
form:
We, the single-taxers of Delaware, in State
convention assembled, proclaim as our funda-
mental doctrine the equal right of all men to
the use of the earth, and as the single tax is the
simplest plan proposed to establish this right
We demand that all taxes in the State OF Dela-
ware, except tax upon the rental value OF
land, be a. once and forever abolished.
We would thus do away with the corruption
and gross inequality inseparable from our
present tax system, anc relieve the farmer, the
workman and the manufacturer from those
taxes by which they are now unjustly bur-
dened. Such system OF taxation would make
1t impossible tor SPECTATORS to hold land idle,
and would thus open unlimited opportunities
for the employment of labor and capital.
Then, after expressing sympathy with
the silver party, they add:
We, however. do not believe that any mere
change in the monetary system can have any
permanently beneficial effect upon the eondi-
tion OF the masses of the people while land
monopoly exists.
''The remainder of the platform has ref
etence TO local matters. They appointed
State and county committees and nomi-
mated DR.. Lewis M. Slaughter for Cover
nor, and every county will nominate a
StTalgnI IlckeI IOr Inc Legislature
DO 1 think they will win2 Why don't
you ask me if think the planets will hold
in their courses, or if to-morrow's sun
Will shine? The Single-Tax party OF Della
ware has come 10 stay. and inside OF four
years will arise in every State of the Union
or pend some other party to it's uses. You
want to read that platform over till you
understand its meaning. You don't see
much there about transportation and
money and Government ownership
economical administration and 'electing
good men to Office Yet they are all
there: equal right to the use of the earth
comprehends them all. Study it, young
man.
"Outside of Delaware the single tax
cause is growing everywhere. More single
takers have been nominated by other
parties than ever before many times over.
There is certain 10 be large number in
the next Congress, The Republicans of
Michigan had the good sense to nominate
Mayor Pingree OF Detroit for Governor
and the Democratic and Populist machines
have fused to beat him, for he has demon
strated to them in a small way that access
to hold land is the right solution of the
industrial problem.
''In California the single-tax movement