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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-11

Eighth Avenue.
Near Columbia.
S,Wt-Good 5-s,ory tenement house: euoa
brick foundation: three terements Of f,ya
rooms each. modern: lot Soxio feet; mort-
gagee must have his money.
s5e0-Fine building lots. 4oxli& feet. wiN
alley: fine view of Sound: only 9 M
from p. o.
North Seattle
81 5o0-A good modern S-room house: cor
ner lot: within two blocks Of two CIR
lines: good school II. blocks away. TIA
owner paid S. 100 for this property Z yeoR
ago, but is now compelled to sacr!dco q
order to raise money. $500 can run.
North Seattle.
g. So-Good S-room modern house. one-hn1
block from two car lines: lot 0oxlO fooe:
easy ternia
81, S5O-A fine corner in North Seattle: nno
view or the bay: 100 by los feet: On or
line. the choice OF the addition.
Highland Drive.
81, o50-Lot 42xl0o. just west af terminus d
cable line. facing the city ana bay.
Suburban Home at Green Lake.
$S00-Gocd tive-room cottage and six LOTS
well improved; at Green Lake; close =
car line
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Saloons-We have three special bargains
for sale at $500. $500 and 81, 10: first-c.ass
locations.
Money to loan on diamonds, 1ewelry and
chattels.
DE MERS & SPENCER,
Rooms 81 and 81 Sullivan block.
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Grocery store for sale, down town. 5000
will take the best grocery and fancy
goods store: stock will invoice $500:
rent only s35 per month; lease one year.
81 100 will buy grocery store. been run
by owner for the past seven years.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-11

WE HAVE THE
RENToN HILL ADD.
RENTON HILL ADD
the mountains and lake. We can give you
the choice OF
Ice LOTS.
10o LOTS.
Al lots are "a by 12o feet streets graded and
si3ewaiked: gas and water every lot Laws
level: you cannot afford 70 wait: come
and see us and We viii show You me
ter the lst OF January. 1880. This properly
will be advanced. We will sell YOU the
choice in this addition from
800 TO $3.50
On easy terms; abstract with each lot. ttl.
perfect; interest per cent.
GILT EDGE ADDITION.
GILT EDGE ADDITION.
Just plated. on second hill. one block north
OF Yesier way. on Twenty fourth avenue:
one block frofn three car lines. high and
Level. fire View.
$50 FOR your choice OF fifty lots. $50
Monthly payments. Al per cent. interest
$40 for lots near state university
81 25g-B business property. viii pay 20 per
cent
si.3io-.'-room cottage. near Madison street:
two lots 30 by III feet each. small fruit
az all kinds: barn and chicken house.
ti-s--5-foom cottage on car line.
We have some good Investments IN tsls{-
ness and residence property: also acre
property: close IN.
NICHOLS 4 MUM.
- ard - Halser Building
II Tr.s-
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manufacturers. business houses ami pub
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COMMISSIONING are row prepared 20
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uref. in Nonpareil Mnion. Brewer ard
Long Premier. Satisfaction guaranteed
Cal CT address Post-IntelIgencer. Seat
tie
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" ANTEI-~A refined young lady with bus
sness qualities as iasiyx companion. APP
ply between 10 and /. AZ ro0us - Globe
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We have few pieces OF triple silver plated
pickle casters, 5-bottle casters and but
ter dishes. We offer genuine snap or
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Lodging house of IS rooms for 81, ooo: only
$1,000 cash, balance $50 per month: IA
rooms a nice little palace, for 81, 100
only SSQp cash. balance SIS per month,
rent So per month. lease; 8 rooms, nice
~ furnished, down town, rent so per
month. electric light and telephone. this
is bargain; 80 rooms. only sl.201, rent
SO per month; 43 rooms Tor 81 200: furni-
ture cost sl601.
Money TO loan on Diamonds. jewe.ry and
rhatfatS
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AUCTION SALES.

AUCTION SALE Of household furniture
az B.ckerton a. DeVitt's saiesrooms 1912
FIRST avenue, on Monday December 70 at
10 O'Clock sharp: bed sets. springs. mat
tresses. tables chairs, par,or SUITE
couches, extension tables. Hat top desk
show cases, fine organ. steel range, cook
stoves. heaters. carpets. crockery. glass.
tinware. etc.
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We have few solid copper Eve o'clock
teas, with alcoho. lamps and stands They
are elegantly finished, in variety Of en-
craving and lacquer; worth twice what
We ask. We start them At IT'S
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FOR SALE-CITY REAL EsrAru
Continued.
+. NJ. JORDAN.
HeA Estate and Insurance.
and s Colon!a, Block.

M SOhltAN.
AeA Estate ana insurance
and Colonial Block. ~
First Avenue
NssAs-A fire lot. eoxIla feet. on Fra, -,
hue. and three-Story building in g,.ns -
pair. and all rented. Here is rns 49,
piece or business property. winch q &
months cannot be bought FOR saA0a
PROPERTIES.
Sixth Avenue
S.5o-A good modern S-rN,ora home.
necsed with sewer: lot 6ixisp feet. I-Ss "a
foreciosed property, is in co,3 rsrs.s
and can De bought ON easy terms.
Renton Hill
3, 1Sa-A good seven-room modern No.
Well arranged, on Denny way herv~
Fifteenth and Sixteenth avenues. -
terms
SsHe-A very cosy. comfortable housa a
rooms and large bath room lot e0xIls. -
OF fruit and flowers: grand view. convss.
tent to Madison street cable line
seto-TThe best buy on Renton hill In q -,
Cence lot, a corner. tfxNo feet on Eivl
teenth avenue; fine view. Let the har,sE
hunter look this up.
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GLfSWooD HOUSE, 10 Fifth avenue
south. single rooms. 81. Sl.50 and 81 FER
week.
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WANrED-To RENT ROOMS.

WANTED--ro RENT ROOMS.
i4ApSS diamond ring positively given
away az tl-s Second avenue Monday.
e Como early. Xmas goods at auction. do
not miss tais safe.
WAN t.it~Tw0 or three modern uufur-
nishCd housekeeping rooms; first h!u pre-
ferred Address u -. care Post-Intelii-
EEnceF.
WANTED -Four or I'VE furnished rooms
fvT Housekeeping. Address II .. box 90
stating particulars
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j. p. REED.
Cash Grocer, sl1 Third Avenue.
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looking, clever: returned this week from
Attn solely for purpose meeting young
maiden or widow matrmonially inclined
with some capital 10 assist me in sp.en-
did money making interests positively
ment. Address G. 52. care Post-Intelli-
gencer
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WANTED-Good and marketable mer-
chandise, suitable for the Atlin country.
such as -four, sugar. tea, coffee, rice.
syrup. oatmeal canned fruits, bacon,
hams beans tobacco. cigars, shovels,
picks stoves tents blankets. quilts. etc,
in amount 81, COO: will give block 10. Lake
Union second addition; there are 20 lots
they cost s2.Jo0. Morgan Exchange, l0il
Third avenue.
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FOR SALE-CITY REAL ESTATE.


NO BETTER TIME TO INVEST THAN
THE PRESENT TIME IN SEATTLE
DIRT. PROPERTY Is BEING AID
vANCED EACH DAY. NOW Is YOUR
TINE TO GET A HOME
New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1898-05-28

tors. But his appointment is an
inexcusable and scandalous one
nevertheless.
Time was that upon an example
OF nepotism so fragrant and 50
scandalOus as this the attention Of
the American people would have
been riveted, and denunciation
would have been heard on every
side. Now it passes almost without
comment. Apparently there is a
considerable part of the people
ready to acquiesce in the theory that
to be the son of the Vice President
establishes a just claim to high pub
lie Office.
This practice of providing for the
Sons of Somebody is perilous in
the present and in the future. To-
day it dispirits the army, which
finds itself suddenly provided with
nlncompoops for officers. In time
it may so deaden the public sense
OF propriety that hereditary office
holding will be looked upon with
apathy and with federation.
TO-pay is the moment to make
effective protest against nepotism,
favOritism and the elevation Of the
Sons OF fSOmebOdies. s.-N. y. ..Jouyv0I
New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1898-05-28
ARMY FAyORiTIsM.

Among the recent civilian ap-
pOintments to staff positions in the
Volunteer Army was that of son
Of Garret A. Hobart, Vice -Presi-
dent of the United States. Young
Mr.. Hobart enjoys now the rank
and title Of Major, though he never
felt a wound nor knows how to sci
squadron in the field.
1t is possible that this fortunate
gentleman may prove entirely com
petent to fulfill the udties of hi.
Office. Indeed, more than probably
such will be the ease, for his tasks
will not be precisely martial, while
he should inherit more than ordin-
airy business capacity from father
who has been a bright particula,
star in State full Of talented cor.
pOratiOn and franchise manipula
New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1898-05-28
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.

Mr.. Lyman E. Cooley, of Chi
cago, an engineer who has been
engaged on the Chicago drainage
canal-a work which in difficulties
met and overcome and in superficial
proportions dwarfs De Lesseps's $
famous Suez waterway - makes
three pithy contributions to the dis
cussion of the Nicaragua Canal.
l. Suppose it costs at the least
$54 900, 900 or at the most $l33,
600, 900 to construct the canal, what
would that amount to in view of the
fact that at the present moment
every city of ours on the Pacific
coast could be destroyed by a hostile
feet before any battle ships of ours
could even round Cape Horn -
2. "The necessary charges upon
a vessel passing through the canal
would be less than the wages OF
sailors employed and coal consumed
in a trip around the Horn
3. "The canal means that our
flag, with our shipping, will enter
every port in the world, and we
will be the maritime power of the
twentieth century"
Mr.. Cooley possesses two quail
fications to speak with authority.
He is the best equipped expert in
canal construction in the United
States, if not in the whole world,
to-day, and he has only recently
completed an examination of the
route of the proposed Nicaragua
Canal extending over two months.
Dig the canal and let the Ameri-
can merchantmen be seen as Of old
in every port of the worldly. Y.
Journal.
New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1898-05-28
A CUBAN REPRESENTATIVE.

Domingo Mendez Capote the Vice
President of the Cuban republic,
now on his way to Washington to
consult with Plenipotentiary Palma
and the American authorities about
the new government Of Cuba. is one
OF the youngest and most ardent Of
the patriots. Gen. Capote is type
OF the high grade Cuban. For time
he had charge of the government of
the insurgents, and has been highly
satisfactory to the people as Vice
President under President Masso.
lie is graudate Of the University
OF Havana, and before he took up
arms in the insurgent cause he was
one OF the best lawyers in Cuba.
AlthOug but little more than thirty
years old Gen. Capote is quite learn
ed in international law and cOnsti-
tntlonal history, especially Of Amer
lean history, which will stand him
in stead now that he is himself
called upon to participate in the
formation OF new government.
tie is accompanied on his mission
by Manuel Despaigne, his private
secretary; Controller General No
larse and Alberto Herrea, the Gen
erals aide-de-camp. 1t is under
stood that he comes to America with
the full sanction of the republican
government in Cuba.
New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1898-05-28

make large fortunes by land specu-
latiOn and the increase in ground
values-fOrtunes which do not re-
present any addition by them to the
general wealth of the community,
but merely the appropriation by
some of what the labor of others
create.
This unjust distribution of wealth
develops, on the one hand a class
idle and wasteful, because they are
too rich, and on the other hand
class idle and wasteful, because
they are too poor-it deprives them
of capital and opportunities which
would make them more efficient pro-
ducers. 1t thus greatly diminishes
production.
d. The unjust distribution which
is giving us the hundred fold mil
liOnaire on the one side and the
tramp and pauper on the other gen
crates thieves, gamblers, social par
asites of all kinds, and requires
large expenditures of money and
energy in watchmen, policemen,
courts, prisons and other means of
defense and repression. 1t kindles
a greed of grain and a worship of
wealth, and produces a bitter strug-
gle for existence with fosters drunk
enness, increases insanity and causes
men whose energies ought to be
devoted to honest production to
spend their time and strength in
cheating and grabbing from each
other. Besides the moral loss, all
this involves an enormous economic
loss which the single tax would
save.
E. The taxes we would abolish
fall most heavily on the poorer agri-
cultural districts, and thus tend to
drive population and wealth from
them to the great cities. The tax
we would increase would destroy
that monopoly of land which is the
great cause of that distribution of
population which is crOwding peo-
pie too closely in some places and
scattering them too far apart in
other places. Families live on top
of one another in cities because of
the enormous speculative prices at
which vacant lots are held. In the
country they are scattered too far
apart for social intercourse and con-
venience, because instead of each
taking what land he can use, every
one who can grabs all he can get in
the hope of profiting by the increase
of value, and the next man must
pass farther on. Thus we have
scores of families living under a
single roof, and other families iv-
New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1898-05-28

ing in dugOuts on the prairies afal
from neighbOrs-sOme living too
close to each other for moral, men
tai or physical health, and others
far separated from the stimulating
and refining influences of society.
The wastes in health, in mental
vigOr and in unnecessary transpor-
tatiOn result in great economic los
ses which the single tax would save.
II.
Let us turn to the moral side and
consider the question of justice.
The right of property does not
rest on human laws they have often
ignored and violated it.. 1t rests on
natural laws-that is to say, the law
of God. 1t is clear and absolute,
and every violation Of it, whether
committed by man or a nation, is
a violation of the command, "ThOu
shalt not steal" The man who
catches fish, grows an apple, raises
a calf, builds house, makes coat.
paints picture, constructs ma
chine, has as to any such thing, an
exclusive right to ownership, which
carries with it the right to give, to
sell, or bequeath that thing; but
who made the earth that any man
can claim such ownership of it, or
any part of it, or the right to give,
sell or bequeath it Since the earth
was not made by us, but is only the
temporary dwelling place on which
one generation of men follows an
other; since we who find ourselves
here are manifestly here with the
equal permission of the Creator, it
is manifest that no one can have any
exclusive right of ownership in
land, and that the rights of all men
to land must be equal and inalien-
able. There must be an exclusive
right to possession of land, for the
man who uses it must have secure
possession of land in order to reap
the products of his labor. But this
right of possession must be limited
by the equal right of all and should
therefore be conditioned on the pay
ment to the community by the pos
SCISSOR of an equivalent for any spe-
cial valuable privilege thus accorded
him.
When we tax houses, crops.
money, furniture, capital, or wealth
in any of its forms. we take from
individuals what rightfully belongs
to them. We violate the right of
property, and in the name of the
state commit robbery. But when
We tax ground values we take from
individuals what does not belong
to them, but belongs to the COM
New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1898-05-28

Long white organdie ties, accor-
deon plated, ends trimmed with
lace, 3Oc.
A very large and complete as
sOrtment at soc, 75c, 81 up to 81 80.
Fine silk crepon ties, fringed ends
at ST. %.
Long silk ties with fringed ends
all widths and all prices from 25c
to 75c each.
A large assortment of fine white
embroidered cOllaretteS. These
pretty things transform very
plain dress into very stylish COS
tune. Can be worn with any col
or. Prices, $l.25 to $l.75 each.
New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1898-05-28

tanned of all values, the tax to
which we would resort can be col
lected with the minimum of cost and
the least strain on public morals.
2. 1t would enormously increase
the prOdutiOn of wealth.
A. By the removal of the burdens
that now weigh upon industry and
thrift. If we tax houses, there will
be fewer and poorer houses; if we
tax machinery, there will be less
machinery; if we tax trade, there
will be less trade; if we tax capital
there will be less capital; if we tax
savings, there will be less savings.
All the taxes, therefore, that we
would abolish are taxes that re-
press industry and lessen wealth.
But if we tax land values, there
will be no less land.
b. On the contrary, the taxation
of land values has the effect of max
ing land more easily available by
industry, since it makes it more
difficult for the owners of valuable
lands, which they themselves do not
care to use, to hold it idle for a
larger future price. While the abOli-
ton of taxes on labor and the pro-
duets of labor would free the active
element of production, the taking
of land values in taxation would
free the passive element by destroy
ing speculative land values, and
preventing the holding out of use
of land needed for use. If any one
will but look around to-day and see
the unused or but half used land,
the idle labor, the unemployed or
poorly employed capital, he will
get some idea of how enormous
would be the production of wealth
were all the forces of production
free to engage.
c. The taxation of the process
and products of labor on the one
hand, and the insufficient taxation
of land values on the other produces
an unjust distribution of wealth,
which is building up in the hands
Of few, fortunes more mOnstrous
than the world has ever before seen.
while the masses of our people are
steadily becoming poorer. These
taxes necessarily fall ON the poor
more heavily than on the rich; by
increasing prices they necessitate
larger capital in all businesses and
consequently give an advantage to
large capitals; and they give and
in some eases are designed to give,
special advantages and monopolies
to combinations and trusts. On
the other hand, the insufficient tax
alton of land values enables men t.
New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1898-05-28

munity, and which cannot be left tt
individuals without the robbery OF
other individuals.
Think what the value of land is
1t has no reference to the cost OF
production, as has the value OF
houses, horses, ships, clothes, OF
other things produced by labor
for land is not produced by man, il
has been created by God. The value
Of land does not come from the ex.
ertiOn of labor on land, for the value
thus produced is value of improve
ment That value that attaches tC
any piece of land means that piece
of land is more desirable than the
land which other citizens may OBJ
tain, and that there are more will
ing to pay premium for permis-
sion to use it. Justice, therefore,
requires that this premium or value
shall be taken for the benefit of all
in order to secure to all their equal
rights.
Consider the difference between
the value of a building and the value
of land. The value of building
like the value of goods, or of any
thing properly styled wealth, is
produced by individual exertiOn,
and, therefore, properly belongs to
the individual; but the value of
land only arises with the growth
and Improvements of the com
munity, and, therefore, properly
belongs to the community. 1t is not
because of what it's owners have
done, but because of the presence of
the whole great population, that
land in New York is worth millions
an acre. This value, therefore, is
the proper fund for defraying the
common expense of the whole pop
ulatiOn and it must be taken fOr
public use, under penalty of gener-
ating land speculation and monopoly
which will bring about artificial scar
city where the Creator has provided
in abundance for all whom his pro-
vidence has brought into existence.
1t is thus a violation of justice to
tax labor, or the things produced by
labor. and it is also a violation OF
Justice not to tax land values.
New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1898-05-28
THE SINGLE TAX.
What II Is and Why We Urge it,
Fundamental Principles as Stated
by Henry George.

| shall briefly state the funda-
mental principles of what we, who
advocate it, call the single tax.
We propose to abolish all taxes
save one single tax levied on the
value of land irrespective of the
value Of improvements in or on it.
What we propose is not tax on
real estate, for real estate includes
improvements. Nor is it a tax on
land, for we would not tax all land
but only land having a value irres-
pective of it's improvements, aud
would tax that in proportion to that
value.
Our plan involves the imposition
of no new tax, since We already tax
land values in taxing real estate.
To carry it out we have only to
abolish all taxes save that on real
estate, and to abolish all that which
now falls on buildings or improve
ments, leaving only that part of it
which now falls on the value of the
bare land. This would increase so
as to take as nearly as may be the
whole of the economic rent, or what
is sometimes styled the ''unearned
increment of land values"
That the value of the land alone
would suffice to provide all needed
public revenues, municipal, county
and national, there is no doubt.
> To show briefly why we urge this
change, let me treat (D of its ex-
pediency, and (2) of its justice.
From the single tax we may ex-
pect these advantages:
l. Ii would dispense with the
whole army of tax-gatherers and
other officials which present taxes
require, and place in the treasury IA
much larger proportion of what is
taken from the people, while, by
making government simpler and
cheaper, it would tend to make it
purer. 1t would get rid of taxes
which necessarily promote fraud,
perjury, bribery and corruption,
which lead men into temptation,
and which tax what the nation can
least afford to spare-honesty and
conscience. Since land lies out of
doors and cannot be removed, and
its value is the most readily aseer-
New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1898-05-28

A handsome bronze bracket has
just been finished at the house of
Tiffany 4 Co., New York, which
will be sent as a souvenir to Rear
Admiral George Dewey by DR.. J.
Ackerman Coles of New York City.
1t is personal tribute of DR.. Coles
to the Hero of Manila" and will
be shipped within few days direct
to the Philippine Islands.
The bracket is about three feet in
height and represents an eagle with
wings outstretched, perched ON the
wing of a heron, which it has Just
slain. The figures are supported
by a brace Of ornamental design,
the whole presenting a well-pro-
portioned and pleasing appearance.
The weight of the bracket is very
nearly 100 pounds. 1t is designed
to be placed in a corner of the Ad-
mirafs staterOOm.