The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-23
WOMAN AND THE SINGLE TAX.

Tie foundation q civilized community
.s ''ao:re" There Is no picture which ap-
pas 20 directly 70 the domestic instinct
as ,oat q ;be family aicA GYMS It's dxsll-
ing, WITH is garden, rs ingis nook and is
cosy corners and It's summer shades. The
man wAo has tae happiness 20 SIT beneath
his own fg t-ee IS selected as thu type
OF contentr1srt b. the w.sest CT script1ral
teachers. Home IS me IRENE q the poet
ard o. the hard. Il IS the embodiment %
ali the virtues II man and woman in their
mutual soTk Of developing the human race
The contrast Of tie scene IN which abso-
lutte ownership OF the o,i homestead
IL the central feature Is 10 be found
in the rented house. It IS indica-
live Of change, CT reck. eSsness. OF thrift
iessrcss. OF being az the mercy OF another.
% having 70 take up thy bed and walk
whenever another snail covet the domiclle.
Many good men and worthy women are
compelled TO spend their lives and rear
their children il the rented hor7e-too
many, and the greatest benetactor IS ne
VINO helps 10 make It easier for them % be
absolute owners. not only % the root which
covers their head. but the and upon which
rests the foundation OF home"
A correspondent az the telligencer
"a woman with wou1an's he4rt-writes
III pleading protest against any Law which
shall make unstable the tenure OF home.
II. she says, she correctly understands the
single tax idea, it would be direct blow
al one OF the things dearest to the human
heart-~the love Of home. She has observed
that 1t is al undying wish in every breast
that some day t may acquire few feet
OF ground which shall be home-abso!utely
and incontestably ones own.
This may SEEM she says, very NO
maniSh and silly. this argument of mine.
but the love Of home is implanted very
deeply in my heart" 1t Is indeed woman
ism. but God bless her. not silly. she is
& happy woman VINO has her own home,
her own garden. her own pets and flowers
upon which TO lovingly toll, beautifying
and making a haven OF love and rest Tor
her husband and children. Men may grow
up from boyhood and wander away to new
scenes OF activity and strange places and
among new faces, but there ever fingers in
the memory TIE foudest associations OF the
old home. The vicssitudes OF life compel
men III new settlements 10 defer putting
in the foundations Of u permanent: abiding
place. but the anticipation Of enc day sit
ting down Ia conten;meat under his own
shingles and locking out upon the world
from beneath the shelter Of his own porca,
never ceases TO inspire hin.
The single tax system would dispel all
these ideals Of happiness. 1t wou.d de-
s;roy all conceptions Of ownership and sub
stitute rent system which would compel
tbs recognition of a community ownership
IN which all should snare alike.
THIS is the soclalisi.c theory applied to
/ the home /. would take from each al
right Of and pride IN possession AID in
vest IA the community q universal owner
ship. What IS the ..;;le matter Of taxa
ton compared 10 the vastly greater evil
Of bs4us ropbzd Of Individuality. of the
Fight 10 he absolute master Of tA4t wh.Gh
one has acquired by selt-den!al, by thrift
and the noble prompting to be in tae hum
blest way monarch II his own little do
main?
There is an English adase which has
| passed into fundamental principle Of the
common law taat every mans house is
| his castle" Taere ha IS king. there he mas
immunity from ;ae trespass Of others. our
/ use and liberal laws 20 50 far on the
/ e4-,fs f,rf-.fulr As - eNarv{,r the h1,,ea-