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ANOTHER SINGLE TAX STORY.

ANOTHER SINGLE TAX STORY.
Editor Providence News:
Albert Aldrioh and BENJAMIN Bates
were very friendly neighbors Both owned
their own dwellings. The land In the
suburbs was cheap and they only paid
$500 each for one-quarter OF an acre
which enabled Albert TO indulge In the
luxury OF a magnificent lawn ana ben
iamin to have Q fine garden after a rev
years, personal labor In tilling the soil
after earning his days wages.
Now Albert was wealthy and erected
$500. 900 palace while Benjamin. compare
lively poor, erected a cottage costing
$1,000. Wealthy Albert's taxes were
s25O5. while poor Benjamin's were only
sl255, being at the rate Of sl.25 per SloV
And the single tax advocate appeared
also in the neighborhood, saying, MI
! Aldrich. see YOU not that you should go
! In like a thousand OF brick for the single
| tax theory? Wherefore? why because
| you did not earn the land. therefore you
should pay on the lot precisely the same
as your neighbor Bates, who did not earn
| his land"
But I know better!" broke In Albert.
Benjamin purchased his lot out OF MS
| two dollar daily wage.
II see plainly that you fall to under
| stand the sublime beauty OF the single
land tax. Let me explain. Bates earned
his house and Improvements and ought
not to be taxed for improving his estate
You have earned the 100000 Improve
ments upon your lot and should, there-
fore, not be taxed for your magnihcent
| lawn and palace and
Hold right where you are, Mr.. Single
! Taxer and don't indulge In further
heights OF your vivid fancy l happened
TO earn the $500 to purchase my lot; but
| by very successful speculation, when
was kindly let in on the ground floor
/ OF scheme. 1 made nearly han NIL
lion and then built my 100000 palace
and beautihed my grounds. Earned my
house, Why, where have you been all
summer 10 imagine that I ever earned
one dollar Of that half Million"
II see plainly" commented the single
tax advocate. that you don't understand
the principles OF the single tax scheme
Now you can easily see -
Here the single taxer paused and Albert
added rather emphaticaly, YES, l not
only can see. but l do see into the IN
fernal swindle. The whole scheme I'm my
opinion IL gotten up to swindle just sucf
good men as my neighbor Bates. He's
a sterling. hard working, economical man
devoted to his family and by self sac
rihce. instead OF souandering his hare
earnings. has provided his wife and chill
dren with plain but coy little home
lie isn't rich, but he Is a man l deligh
TO honor, and l resent your nefariou'
scheme TO tax the poor fellow 10 deau
and tax outrageously every man wh'
buys a lot on which to erect a humble
homo. Sir. don't you know that we will
riches have no difficulty in paying heav,
taxes out Of our abundance. while th'
tax OF the poor man with humble hom
is one Of the hardest things To pay?
don't understand the principles Of tn
single tax scheme, say you? Grea
Scott show any principle whatever In tn
swindle 10 rob the wage Garner and there
by forbid him from ever owning HON
and letting the rich escape the paymen
OF taxes on their million dollar plants an
costly palaces Land is taxed alresd
twice what Il ought TO pay while bric
blocks. personal property and franchise
are let OF with = song"
4 And the farmers and mechanics an
even the wealthy are opposed 10 tn
2 single land tax. Verify. what stiff
: necked people!
ALEX. s. ARNOLD.
r woonsocket. II. l.. March 81. 1908.