The daily Alaskan., 1908-04-13
EHGLlND ON THE EYE OF REVOLUTION


 an immeasVrable loss. In 30 saying an iuueasurable loss Is threatened to all Great Britain. For Campbsll.Ban mau had i. within him to save Great Britain from So ,ialism.
 The people of England are sad to be the freest Ou the globe-not excepting those of the United States. And yet It is also said that thousands are literally starving over there for lack of means oiliv!ihoOd. And therefore what mean ing bas the saying that they arc freeP They cannot 6ud the work they ask for and which is necessary to keep them from stsrving-and they are starving,
 At a meeting held in January the representatives of millions of British workiugmen voted for the forming of political party and hoisted the red flag. l, was said of that meeting that not be- fore iu all the political history of Great Britain has there been such sudden and radical swing and concentration of pub lie opinion; that iE amounts 10 revolu- tiou. The public was reported to have been dazed by 1t. Such a radical move msnt mus, have some equally radical cause.
 The other day Stewart Gray, leader Of workers" at Manchester, an iutelli- gent. well educated mau, took posi- tion at the gate of King Edwards Windsor castle and there declared be would starye to death it something were not done for the unemployed. It was grea, stroke, simple as 1t was, and made all England take notice. What he ask ed for was that a piscs of that idle land Of which there are millions of acres 10 Great Britain, be thrown open 10 the poor, that they might be there allowed to grow what they would 10 eat. Think oiit-tbat people may starve, on this bouatiial earth, which s 80 ready to yield them all they may need were 1t not fenced 10 by the rich, with placsrds warning the poor away. But what a piJiipl ezpedient Mir. Gray devises for the millions Of the idle.
 Sir Henry Campbell-Baunermau was sbou, to 'go to the people" as they say over there when they speak of holding au election, to have the question of tax Ing idle land into use, put to the test. fit were done at this time there can be little doubt of it's success. His propOsl- tiOa is to place ALL'the burden o' local taxation on land values, irrespective of improyeuen,s-tha, ia to say, to ex- empt improvements, It is by such a simple expediens that the situation complained Of would be corrected ard Englaud's labo.ing class, s would be free indeed, there would not again be heard the cry of hunger from those who are willing to work, It would then be too expensive to keep land idle, ,Ee fine upon improvements bsIug removed, im- provement would be the order and this improvement would take up iu large measure the slack in the labor market, giving employment to thousands, and for thosenot finding employment in this way there would be open to them the land to cultivate for revenues must be had or taxes would eat 1t up. See?
 This is In brief, the Single Tax the Ory of Henry George-the greatest dis cOvery looking 10 the welfare Of human kind since Christ preached the dOctrrn of universal brotherhood.
 Such bill as is proposed has been before the English parliament several times but has always been defeated by the house Of Ulndl lords. But such Is the mobility of Englaud's laws-ior 1t Is indeed land of the iree-that the power Of the lords may be plucked away from them by a vote Of the people and a resolution of the house of com mOns-and the house Of lords is inviting upon itself this very revolutionary step by withholding from the people their own.