The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-06-04
edge OF THE Wedge"
THE ENGLISH BUDGET TO REVOLUTIONIZE Land
TENURE in that COUNTRY

budget the OF wedge whT
when driven home will split British land monopoly wide open
The Public
Whereas Conservatives along eerngly
ing the Liberal ministry resign and bring general cleo
Immediately they looking conentedy years
ward for the earliest probable general date This indicates that
they disposed the LoydGeo budget rather than
before people, years basic pnc
pies will British policy Their prudence
desert hem bitter though their and deep and loud t
curses.
While the Conservatives distributed
udicious mpartty budget their anger rea
land value items and with much less intensity
hng of half penny in the pound the capital value OF
urban and suburban land the strngng
of per future ncremens of value upon the moderate
the value of unmined minerals than upon the plans which
these necessate for lmepra valuation of all andu
ban suburban. agricultural and the For is only by such
valuation that the budgetay determinations be made AS
valuation would not only expose the enormous existing values OF
British land both that which and that which held of
use either arbitrarily through exorbant prices but would also
the for increases and extensions OF land ve
taxation until industry emancipaed and land capital
ism alone bore the financial burdens of the social that fosters
land values the landed interests OF Great Britain alert TOR the oe
ton of the paasca privileges angered to their hearts
core
Never land capitalization has become pronounced phe
industry has there been fiscal valuation of British land
values Not the time of William and Mary has there been
any attempt at such valuation With the groWtl OF BRITISH IN
dsy landlords and land capitalists have hourished parastca
upon earned increment the expense of the and
pered unusty upon the earnings OF large classes forced BY ned
land market bid for wages guted labor market The nda
ton slight though be OF tendency to uProot this mdeensbe
system by the automatic OF land value taxation to
the land value parasites and industrial expoters like premonon
And that indeed what it is valuation the land
purposes of present and future taxation and for
express that land capitalization constitutes social and
and private fund.- have but out And
that is land value socializatlon
The strength which this has in Great Britain is
ncoherent and hystera protests evokes
privileged They its progress much
keeny do the interests whose working rights and incomes
would restore and conserve.
Some Of them claim that, land monopoly Isn't this
arca in community where the land to be taxed runs to enormous
sums in capital value?
Others argue that land the other values
This like arguing that land the products produced by
labor from and upon land which the equivalent of
that the field and the crop or the site and the structure
Others whine that they must quit charity giving the
social income they appropriate taxed away from them Of
they must what of that if the take of chartes
Shall we let private keep income because
be distribute some of it in carity This arbs back to the gen
erosy Dick Turpn And though that
respect isn't it quite conceivable that new charity dispensers might
be had on better terms proraa if the function offered the
lowest bddehe least unearned increment tor the highest annual
charity dole?
ant will bear the bnt This is sordid wish but not
rational thought
down of simple moral principle By what conceivable
right do the land Of Great Britain retain the social
values of British land
Surely not by right ownership the They show
only conential conventional titles yield to moral
rights The land of England belongs of moral right to the living
people of England So land of Ireland and Scotland and
Wales islands round about belongs usufruct the
neg6borng islands
Do the landlords capitalists Of Great Britain then
y moral right values of British land because they the
values They do not them Those values are caused BY Brit
sh industry by British growth by those subtle influences which
spring social cooperation distinguished from individual
activity We may assign value of product individual
producers but the values of the planet can be assigned only to social
wholes.
claim exemption any degree from taxation its social value
The whole OF this vaue belongs by every sane moral test to the
whole community and every the community leaves in the land
owners hands is penny morally misplaced
By ter msy protests the land lords and land capitalists of
Great Britain and their hangers on Parliament the press
make very great fools OF themselves in stimulating discussion of their
in the forum of morals They would be wiser to appeal as
the doctrine of might rather than to the doctrine OF