Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-05-24
VOTES 90 To . AGAINST THE PRO-
POSITION.
OTHER RESOLUTIONS PASSED
Favor Enactment OF Legislation That
Will Make Water Power
Available.

The state grange that completed
the work of its annual session in
-Roseburg last Saturday adopted reso-
lutions condemning single tax, the
vote in the grange being SO to in
favor Of the resolution. The findings
of the committee were as follows.
First, that all legislative acts
should be labeled what they really
are, to the end that the voters may
know the exact nature of the mea-
sure by the title it bears.
Second, that we condemn and de-
nounce this bold attempt of the Stan
dard Oil company or any other cor
poration, its friends or promoters, to
capture private property without
compensation and declare the same
revolutionary and unconstitutional.
Third, We condemn and denounce
the system of single tax as an at
tempt to impair the obligation of
contracts.
Fourth, that We condemn the
measure proposed by single takers be-
cause in their duplicity they contain
delusions and snares prepared ex-
pressly to appeal to as many classes
of voters as possible, with a bait held
out to such as delusive as it is un-
true.
Fifth, We especially condemn the
bait held out to labor as absolutely
without excuse or foundation and as
sert that the single tax can in no way
increase the wages of the laborer;
that wages can only be increased
in the efficiency OF labor or a decrease
in the number of laborers
Sixth, that the great cry of the
single taxer, who sheds such copious
tears over the "unearned increment"
in land, is insincere in this; that
there is an "unearned increment in
everything-the diamond, the mug
get. the profit and the merchant and
in nothing is there so great an "un-
earned Increment as in the watered
stock of the great corporations whom
he would exempt.
Seventh, We hold that private
property in land is fundamentally
sound and necessary to the best in
terests of society and that there is
positively no monopoly in land as
proven by Mr. Fels himself in his pur-
chase of so vast a tract near London
at from $S5 to $50 per acre.
Finally, We hold that the principle
of the single tax is fundamentally un-
Just unreasonable, inconsistent and
in the face of the purpose and plans
of its promoters, it is unconscience-
able and it's adoption would mean
ruin to the farmers Of Oregon with
out whose success and prosperity the
cities could not and would not pros
per
Adopted SO to 3.
Signed by the Committee.
A resolution was also adopted ask
ing that a mounted patrol be estab-
lished in the government forest re-
serves, the patrol to be constituted
Nfrom army camps, for the better pro-
tection Of our forests from fire. The
grange also went on record in favor
OF state control OF forests. Regard
ing water power, the following recon-
mendations were adopted:
In view of the fact that Oregon
has an abundance Of raw material
awaiting the coming Of capital to
manufacture and ship, by way of tae
Panama Canal. soon to be completed.
It is the opinion of your committee
that what is wanted in Oregon is
cheap power; that IL electrical power
can be developed and supplied at less
cost than can be produced by Goa.
4 In the east we viii have a big adj
vantage in securing new capital and
7ettlement not enjoyed by any other
section Of the United States, that
TIE taxes which viii be paid by this