New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1901-03-16
THE ENTERPRISE
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF IBERIA PARISH
AND TOWN OF NEW IBERIA
AN tissue THAT CASTS ITS SUN
SHINE BEFORE 1T.

1t must be particularly gratifying
to single-taxers and impressive to
the world at large to see the amount
of consideration the doctrines of
Henry George are receiving. In
the most enlightened and thought
fnl publications of the country to-
day, the single-tax theory is receiv-
ing an ever widening discussion,
and it is unqnestiopably gaining
staunch advocates. It is not being
taken up by fadists either, bnt by
the finest intellects, and even the
cynic Of the print business is look
ing to the possibilities of the single
tax doing much to ameliorate the
condition which is to-day tending
to vast and dangerously growing
concentration of capital.
Every few days note indications
of the growth of interest in single
tax such as is evidenced by this
paragraph appearing in the brilliant
Reedy's st. Louis Mirror:
"There have been so many inqui-
ries received recently by the Mirror
concerning the single tax, which, it
is understood one of the mayoralty
candidates, Mr.. Meriwether, advO-
Gates, that succinct statement of
the single tax proposition and
resume of the benefits which, it is
alleged, the new system will confer
upon makind will be printed in the
next issue. Many people who
oppose the Henry Georges theory
without knowing very clearly what
that theory is, will be glad to keep
a statement of the argument in
condensed form for ready refer
ence."
The Mirror is one of many papers
of opinion, having no fads and yet
giving serious thought to this SUBJ
ject Harlequin has met with much
the same experience to which the
Mirror alludes. If the victory Of a
cause is to be measured by the
sincerity back of it, single tax is
destined to become burning
national issue, for no class of think
ers are more convinced than single
takers. Their faith in the economic
justice and principle of their theory
amounts to a very religion with
them, and they look upon its |
triumph with a certainty such as !
characterized the early Christians
when Christ's great religion Of love
first bathed the world with it's i'm
perishable glory.
| am really Of opinion that within |
the next few years the great issue
before the country will be single
tax. Both in it's enunciation of
principle and its practical applica-
ton the theory has never been sue
cessfully assailed. Scoffers even,
who at first without any knowledge |
of the preachment involved, have
assumed to say that it was another
fad, another panacea for all human
ills trotted ont by habitual day
dreamers and rushers of the mile
Mum, on looking into what single !
tax is and how it might be reason
ably expected to work out, have
had their fiippancy cooled and in
numerous instances become the
most violent Of advocates OF the
perception which has at various |
times in the past two centuries fall
len upon the brain of man with
strange force. In many cases,
strange to say, the new advocates
are extensive landowners-men who
of all men might be expected to be
found arrayed against the doctrine.
One thing is certain: The pre-
sent decade is going to see a vast
in the economic rela. |
tions Of man to man. Exactly what |
it will be cannot be foreseen. II,
indeed, single tax be principle,
as it's advocates claim, no doubt need
be entertained as to its outcome. |
It il therein resistless aud will
prevail as the law Of gravity is |
operative. HarlsQwin.