The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-10-28
THE COMING ISSUE.

put a thrift and enterprise and
a premium the absence of it? ~. )
That is the question that is pressing for solution and it
the really great question to be settled .:+,
That present laws do that thing
fact beyond dispute That all this results in congestion in the
large cities, limitation of opportunities for the real enjoyment
of life and the forging of letters for the limbs of labor is also
beyond dispute That all this results i'll congestion in the
high rent high reduction i'll real wages the
reardng development of cities without compensang
advantages the of developing agriculture and the estab
ishmen land monopoly that sefdom in time unless
abolished Tariff robbery, trust domnaontlese are
Incidental evils when compared with land monopoly The
exercises monopoly land exercises the author
y life DEATH from the land is derived all real wealth.
The of land the basis OF it's real value Tor use
occupancy only rational method Of taxation 1t will
lower the present rate the improved farm by making the
unmproved land that is equally fertile and available pay
And by making the unmproved land taxes
proportion it's value for and occupancy land secu
ators will have to the land will have to put 1T upon the
market reasonable terms instead of holding it out of use
enrcng themselves by taking of the sacrifices
and of those who settled about this vacant land add
to it's selling price.
With reasonably possible power
of the trusts would be broken for the people could live upon
the land The nsoent gold and diamond owners Of South
Africa tried starve the striving Kafr miners into submits
The Kafrs disappeared into brush and veld and lived
the land until the nsolent nsnen to terms rather
than their invested capital remain idle and unproductve
The farm who ts his farm is shortsighted in
deed to the singe tax yet vast majority of farmers
do it, The farm land values of the United States repre-
sent less than 20 the total land values of the nation,
yet the farm lands approximately 20 cent of the total
real estate tax The largest estates in England and America
founded land monopolythe holding of land from
occupancy until the toll sacrifices city nation
builders that unused land immensely vaa
be The community which added the value to the land got
nothing for it. The people who did nothing add value
get all the increase That people should long
with that thing ndictmento their
Yet the citizen looks the single
Il visionary, fanatic dreamer
The organized aborng who fails to advocate the single
tax merely helping capital to forge stronger abor
limbs If it made for the mechanic to locate
little farm does i not stand to reason that the in the
cities would be Rssened with
stronger demand labor a consequent wage
Increase and better working conditions?
If taxes on improvements abolished in Lincoln
morrow, and the vacant lot taxed according it's value
and occupancy there would be sudden
prices sudden boom in the building trades lowering
rents and an equalization of opportunities
1t isn't complicated question; it is simple
of childhood to the adult And organized ought
be leading the fight in this Important
it accomplished reforms that hard Of achievement
will be easy.
PHOEBE IS NOW AT LARGE.
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