The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1909-10-29
Are We To Be Japanized? Gonlpers Welcomed Home

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its value. The presence of the city adds.
say Sl5O more. Hence Mr.. Campbell
should pay to the city Cif } per cent is
Il reasonable rate of INTEREST,", $50 a
year a, rent. He pays no fine for hay-
ing built a house. fence. etc But he
wishes sidewalk and gravel on the
street. \ fourfoot walk will cost 80
cents per foot front, or $40 for the
fifty feet; and ) per cent rent will
make it amount to $2 year Suppose
that grading and graveling will cost
as much more and the rent viii be
- year for the walk and the gravel
OF course. if the $50 invested BY the
city adds more to the value of the
lot than is spent by the city Mr. Camp
bell will have a little more rent to pay.
The plan simply provides that what
ever man makes by his own labor
tor hires someone else to do) is his and
that to fine CtaX) him for his industry
is to work him an injustice and also to
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but that whatever value is created bv
the city belongs to the city and for this
value the user should pay fair rent.
Under this plan Mr. Campbell would
never nave cruShlhg Improvement
"'H'''''l'.' =" pay ""' ""uiu i'ieleiS
pay '''' '''' '0i ~ ,''"''' eo''''"'''''!
l'''"e '"'"e d. "e i using inns Is i'lI'
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"'"'' pay pei cent vi N'''" 'o"''
'''""'' '''''''' '''''e ''f" 20 o'o per loo'
''""' ''"' 80 " '"N' ""' mercy 90
''"' on '"'''''''''''! ''''"' N"'"e use" oH
u" i''''i' '''''''' ''--'"r '''e i''i''''Se value
vi '"e io''
TN both the suburban lot owned by
Mr. Campbell and also ON the lot front
ing on main street, the franchise value
(that Is the communItY-made vaIue) Is
found by dednrtlng the value ol an I'M
provemento paid for by the owner, from
the total selling value ot the lot. The
difference must have been added by the
clty' and :" belongs to the city and the
occnpier should, IN fair ness, pay fair
rental.
This is the plan which has been so
largely adopted in Germany during the
last ten years-ovcr 800 communities
having adopted it during that period
Where the rents exceed the expenses Of
the city. the surplus is divided among
the citizens on Il par capita basis: and
in some GOO German cities every citizen
gets a check on the first day of each
January-hiS dividend on his share of
community made values in his city.
In the German colony of kiaow- Chow
this plan is followed; and the com
munity y-madc value is all retained by
the community. Much of it is used in
docks. roads railways and other pub
lie improvements and the balance is
the common property of every citizen.
Kiaow-Chow is the most successful Ger
nan colony in the world.
All recently established colonies OF
Great Britain are run on this plan. New
South Wales. Australia, has recently
come into line The most important po-
litical campaign of the past hundred
years is now being carried on in Great
Britain with this issue as the storm
center of the camgaign Many Canadian
cities are adopting this plan.
In Everett the spectators graft
, (mainly from the wageworkers. though
+ the business men suffer largely too
.annot be less than Sl0,0O0000 Here
in Belineham practically every business
, man. every farmer in Whatcom county
p and all the wageworkers, including the
E school teachers. are united in demand
ing A reform of our method of taxation
and oetira .ollooting rants
This nan will make wild and vacant