New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1900-03-31
THE FOSTER MOTHER OF ALL TRUSTS.


| Antitrust Convention at Chicago.
One of the most important func
tions Of government is to establish
land tenure.
"Men can live without money
without railroads, without tele.
graph, without coal oil' and even
without political parties, but nc
man can live without land. If,
therefore, government fails to
establish a just land tenure and
permits privileged few to appro-
pirate to their own use "that on
which and from which all must
live," the most fearful conse-
quences must necessarily follow.
In June last year the press re-
ports announced that the officers of
the hard coal monopoly had met in
New York city and determined to
limit the output of coal for the en-
|ssine.year to- ~, ,Q00, 900 Qtonsythat
thep1ice' would besinereased July 4,
25 cents; August l, 25 cents; Sep
tember l, 25 cents, and October l,
so cents per ton, all of which in
creases in price were subsequently
made.
What enabled these legalized
bandits thus to rob so, 900, 900 of
people and prevent thousands Of
coal miners and large amounts of
capital from obtaining employ
mentf Nothing but the fact that
under our present laws it is profita-
BILE to buy and lease coal lands to
hold them out of use and prevent
others from using them.
This same condition exists in the
oil fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio and
West Virginia; in the iron fields of
Michigan and Minnesota, as we'll
as in the copper regions of Lake
Superior and the Rocky mountains.
In order to destroy the coal trust,
the copper trust, the oil trust, the
Duluth water power monopoly and
every other trust which exists by
legal privilege resulting in land 4
monopoly, it is only necessary to
heed and act upon the unanswera-
BILE logic Of Henry George. Let us
recognize the great truth that what
ever the individual earns belongs to
him, and that whatever values the
community produces belongs to it.
Unimproved ground values are not
the product Of individual effort, but
result wholly from the presence
and activity of population. These
values are produced by and belong
to the entire community, but to no
individual. The community has this
great fund from which it can pay
it's public burdens. It is therefore
wrong and immoral for the govern
nent to refuse to take that value to
pay the public burdens, and while
20 refusing to levy its taxes upon
he products of labor. If all taxa
ion were removed from buildings,
machinery and all other products
# industry, and levied upon unim-
proved ground values, it would no |
onger be profitable to own or lease
,oal, copper, oil, iron and gas lands
,r water power for the purpose Of
lolding them idle and preventing |
'thers from using them.
When such legislation is adopted
hese idle land spectators who have
'een limiting both the output of the
nires and the opportunities for
abor and capital will call in the
workers.. The output Of the mines
will thereafter osly be limited by
he demand for the product, and
abor and capital as well as the
consumer will be correspondingly
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