The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-27
SINGLE TAX LEAGUE.
NOTABLE ADDRESSES AT AFTER NOON AND EVENING MEETINGS.
Rev. aIF. Irvine Spoke in tine Afternoon
 and John Sherman Crosby i'm the
 Evening-Brisf Outline of spesehes-
Fo-dRy's Programme.

Evening-BFief Outline of Speeehss- To-day's Programme,
 Yesterday at D. m. the Women's Ma
 tional Single Tax league begon it's sec-
 Ond days meeting. The principle ad-
 dress was that Of the Rev. MT. Irvine,
 who spoke with characteristic intensity,
 and directness. An outline of his speech
 is as follows:
 ''If should take the text for this ser-
 mon on taxes should use the words of
 David-I said in my haste all men are
 liars!' I should proceed to illustrate ! that he might have said it in a Morris | chair at his leisure! Here is book con-
 taining an official list of taxpayers-tax- dodgers would be more correct. It is
 safe to say that 90 per cent. of the state | ments here tabulated are false. I take | the statements of those know and look over them. find that most of them are church leaders-men and women who operate the church of God and I
 unhesitatingly say that nine-tenths of | them periured themselves and robbed the city of part of their just share of it's 1 taxa tfon. Here is a man worth half a | million and he has the brazenness to 1 swear that his personal property l amount to less than $200! His minister
 knew he lied; so did his neighbors, but | nevertheless he operated the church | and decided the status of it's minister. Here are women with diamonds on their fingers worth hundreds of dollars, swearing that their personal property is less than $100 Here is the New Haven
 Water company paying taxes on $941, ,O00 | when either it or it's stockholders should
 be payinx taxes on $600O,OOO. The legis- lature of Connecticut has decreed that a cor2oration paying taxes pays them for the stockholders. This is robbery. Some one mus pay the municipal bills, and if one escapes another must pay his share. Hereis tax list: We are asked to pay taxes on watches, jewelry, books, cows, horses, asses, mules, pianos, stock, bonds, furniture, buildings and so On ad infinitum. So all of us do our best to beat the city and the state. But what | a fool system this is anyway. Hardly l one in fifty pays taxes on bicycle. The 5dLllC IS lIu OL WdltlleS 1tII dSSSS tllu so on. So we lie and steal to and from
 one another without compunctfon and
 the whole thing goes without rebuke or remedy.
 1.-Two women went into the office of 1 the tax commissioners of Chicago some time ago and told the truth-just what they were worth, and asked to be taxed | on it. It took the mans breath away l for a time that two should turn states evidence against themselves, but they were followed by others and the pro- fessional tax sxer' was out of a job. Chicago saw real revival of honesty and truth and the end is not yet hardly hope for such a revival in New
 Haven. The taxpayers are case-hard- ened. An oath on a tax list is of a diff | ferent category than an oath in court | or a church. We have come to believe that our tax lying is truth and our pub | lie stealing just mere tax lodging. The system of taxation in vogue here makes 1 thieves and liars of us and the only way out that see any hope for at present 1 is a single tax on land values. We are | in a slough os despondl Any system | that will give us truth and honesty is | to my mind a handmaid to the gospel" A piano solo followed given by Miss Gertrude Trueman. which was we'll re- 1 ceived.
 i Mrs. Jennie L. Monroe of Washing | ton, D. C., gave short talk on the ad | vantages of the single tax, after which | the meeting adjourned.
 At s D. m. the conference was again I opened by piano solo by Lucius Herz. William Trueman gave an address on | the purposes of the single tax move | ment
 | The address by Miss Grace Isabel Col bron of ?New York was given over to a consideration of the. European situation ! and the flatteringly good progress of 1 single tax ideas abroad.
 James Bellangee, the special represen- tative of the Single Tax colony in Fair hope. Ala. spoke of the enterprise and I its success. Referring to the colony he | spoke as follows:
 | The Fairhope Industrial associatiin is l located in Baldwin county, Alabama on I the eastern shore of Mobile bay. Forests l had to be cleared and the soil rendered | fertile From a score of settlers in 1895 the community has increased to pros- porous flaming community of 300 souls. The ownership of the land is vested in 1 the association, which holds and admin isters it in trust for all the people who | live upon it.
 Anyone may acquire possession by | paying rental The association gives ninety-nine years lease and pays taxes
 on all real and personal property. The association uses the initiative and refer endum and imperative mandate. The will of the public is absolute in the af- fairs of the colony. Public ownership of public utilities is another feature. Mrs. de Rivera and John Sherwin
 Crosby of New York city spoke on sin gle tax in general.
 The meeting closed with a piano solo by. Miss Trueman.
 To-day's programme, begins at 10 o'clock and is as follows:
 Election of officers.
 Discussion Of plans for next confer ence.
 Miscellaneous business.
 The conference will adjourn at noon, and the delegates will proceed in body to the residence of Mrs. w. Trueman, 409 Edgewood avenue, where lunch will be served at Ills. Immediately after lunch the party will proceed by trolley +o Short Reach where they will he en-