The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1901-03-09
An s.Issue'' That Casts ltO Sum
SHINE Before II.

| New Orleans Harlequin.
1t mus, be particularly gratifying
to single takers and impressive to
the world at large TO see tho
| amount OF consider alton the doc.
trines of Henry George are to day
receiving. In the most enlightened
and thoughtful publications Of the
country to day, the sinale-tax theory
IS receiving an overwhelming dis
cussior, and it is unquestionabiy
gaining staunch advocates. 1t 10
not being taken up by fadists,
either, but by the finest intellects.
and even the cynic of the print
business is looking to the possibill-
ties of the single tax doing much to
amellorate the condition which 10
to-day tending to vast and danger
ously growing concentration Of
capital.
Every few days 1 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 in
quiries received recently by the
Mirror concerning the single tax.
which, it is understood one of the
mayoralty candidates, Mr.. Mer-
wether, advocates, that a succinct
statement of the single tax PROPOSE
rs -
which, 1t is alleged, the new system
will confer upon mankind will be
printed in next weeks issue. Many
people who oppose the Henry
George theory without knowing
very clearly what that theory is.
will be glad to keep statement of
the argument in condensed form for
ready reference.
The Mirror is one of many papers
of opinion, having no fads and yet
giving serious thought to this sub,
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 sim
cerity back of it, single tax is des-
t,ned to become burning national
issue, for no class of thinkers 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 batned the world with its i'm
perish able glory.
am really of opinion that within
the next few years the great issue
before the country will be single tax.
Both in its enunciation of principle
and it's practical application the
theory has never been success
fully assaulted. Scoffers even, who
at first without any knowledge
of the preachmept involved. have
assumed to say that 1t was another
ills trotted out by habltual 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 f1ippancy cooled and in
numerous instances become the
most violent of advocates of the
perception which has at various
times in the past two centuries
fallen upon the brain of man with
strange force. In many cases,
strange to say, the new advocates
are extensive Acknowledgement who
! Of all men might be expected to be
found arrayed against the doctrine.
One thing is certain: The pres
ent decade is going to see a vast
| readjustment ia the economic rela-
! tions Of man to man. Exactly what
1t will be cannot be foreseen. If,
indeed, single tax be principle. as
its advocates claim, no doubt need
be entertained as to its outcome.
1t is therein resistless and will pre-.
vail as surely as the law of gravity
is operative.