El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-24
ELIMINATION Of Taxes ON Improve
MENT5 URGED BY HENRY GEORGE
Son Of Noted Single Tazer Is Guest Of Ell PasO and Dis
cusses the System Which His Father Advocated.
Believes in Placing the Tax Upon the Land
Whether Improved or Not

it and give each one a part; do not
advocate that, but let the public benefit
from the rents.
"AstOr went to England to become
a lord but he is not one yet and 1 am
not SO sure that there viii be house
OF lords for a long time. He left his
land behind and allows US C pay rent.
The original AstOr was good type or
immigrant He was a butcher and
came TO this country with two suits Of
clothes and five flutes. He went into
the fur trade and his business increased
until he bought little farm. As the
city of New York grew that land in
creased in value and he kept on buying
further up so that when he died he left
an estate valued at S2O,000,000 He did
not make that increase, the population
did it the whole community was re-
spOnsible
Nothing man can produce, lasts. You
build house and it begins to wear
out but land lasts forever and in
creases In value. The AstOrs have been
reaping the profit where they did not
sow.
Plan Not Revolutionary.
I'VE have tax on land values now.
This is not a revolution. 7 do not eX-
pect to see it realized at once. 1t must
come gradually and will result in the
taxing of land values only.
THE towns of the Canadian north
west are doing that and nobody wants
TO go back to the old order Of things;
everyone is satisfied.
The mayor Of Berkeley Cal, is try
ing to get power for the municipality
70 place q tax on what it pleases and
he favors tax on land values only. He
says that then lands viii be cheapeued
and the Spectators holding lands for
high prices VIII be obliged to relin-
quish them. This is just, and the just
city thrlVes as the just Individual does.
Think About 1t.
VI ask you TO think about this If you
should ask my advice as to what course
10 pursue would tell YOU to have
your mayor and city council send to
NJ ana III aha, and Vancouver and other
cities In the northwest and find out
what they are doing IF Il were in
my power to give YOU millions I would
rather give you this single tax. You
don't need anything here but justice TO
the business man and the man that
owns his home
Il have come down from Canada with
the notion that the tariff is humbuz
1 am an absolute free trader. I don't
DelleYe in any customs house at all
The single tax means the revenue
needed Tor local, state and federal gov
eminent, taken from land values ANY
oItlger VIII tell YOU that if you were
70 nave only tax on land values YOU
Mould make your tax system the acme
OF simplicity. Germany has passed an
act Of this kind through the reichstae-
Nnen you tax clothes or furniture
the price thereof must 20 I'd The
- "a tureT must have protection and Z
proLlL' Dul When you tax land values If /
does not have that effect. You don't
a1LecI the amount of land by TAKING fl
In Texas YOU could take care of the /
If YOU shut men of from nature Won
are going to have poverty.
mere Is no OTercrOWding in the 1
I nItec states anywhere, though we 1
nave AUy4Ou0 people living in one
square mile OF tenements in New York /
and two blocks house 1000 children /
VINO iii one public school That does i
not mean there is not enough land On I
AIonhattan island. II YOU were fo ~
ylde the vacant land on Manhattan is ]
-and1 q don't want tO) YOU could give
nearly every person a quarter Of an /
Taxing Land Into Use.
Lax land values and you tax land
INTO use; open nature unto man and |
80, - s, azure INTO use. am for what
= 5ILy simpson said in congress Not ]
gnree men after one job, but three ions I
looking for one man
Tax every piece Of land and moth ]
-HS else-tnen you tax out poverty /
laN the great instead Of the small tax
out the srunted and mean and tax In
1lanhood and make q different republic 1
open nature to man. If our reDub1fc fs
to fall it viii be because of this caDI-a7
Of unequal taxation
Why not have a little more Chris
IAN y: Not the kind that keeDs the
people away from churches brt fbe
kind that brings them In More iustfca /
and less charity We don't want anv-
one TO protect US, as a nation we are
-Do . al 10 ne INVADED. Then WHY
lrample down the individual rfgbts9 4
give US freedom. don't shacIlle nature
ana lnen we will raise a race Of men"
Income Tax Opposed
Charles E Herbert ssI-aT q co. A.
George had finished his speech: aW5st
are your views in regard to the income
tax Do you believe in ft2'
Mr. George replied: fT DO not favor
IT, recognize the i'll effects Of i'm