The Detroit times., 1913-03-07

1t would finance their agriculture through rural pea
SAINTS banks II would hire agricultural instructors
college, -
1t would do all these things. not by taking susht
from the landlords which belongs to them. but by
stopping the robbery Of the fellaheen by the land
iords-ior every penny Of the hundred millions be.
longs In the nigh court OF ethics to the people. and
not one penny Of 1t to the landlords -
Better than all these benefits that would como to
the people by forbdding the landlords to take what
the landlords the profits which are the incentive to
their monopoly OF lands The profits of landordism
being abolished that ancient institution would itself
fall and the irrigated lands under the Assouan Dam
would be free to the felahs-whose poverty would
the day they became free come to an end.
The Assouan Dam is the type OF every great pub
lie work which invites the collective energy Of the
people on the good ship Earth. We passengers have
80 arranged things that the better manage the
more It costs for on the decks from which all
mankind evolved and to which they must return.
Our reclamation works have created huge values
which lapsing into private hands by payment Of
the mere cost Of constructon-though that cost or
dinary-as In the of Acknowledgements but
fraction OF the values created. Let Washington and
Oregon. for instance. clear and reclaim their stump
lands by the only agencies which seem adequate-ths
power OF the government-and the peoples money
becomes at the creator Of values which oppress
rather than liberate the workers
So It is all over the world. We may bring the sea
to the farms by canals and make OF the interior city
port and the landlords reap the pronts. We might
build and operate free railways for the Development
and those passengers who own the SOIL under the
laws In force most of the world would be able 10
capitalize every cent OF the benefits In the values OF
their lands Tom L. johnson. of Cleveland. paved the
for Scent fares the Cleveland street railways
In the place Of scent faresbut the people who lease
houses along the street railway lines are not cent
the better of for the reducon--the landlords have
taken all the reduction in rents.
Let the foods he prevented by headwaters' controi
OF streams and the BENEFITS to the swamp and over
How lands would more than equal the cost--but they
would not pay for 1t. Let any Improvement men
toned In these articles be instituted. and the money
of the people spent In public benefits will automat
cally find it's way the values OF landsto be paid
over and over again landlords who do nothing to
help production but much to halt It by their powers
OF appropriation. 1t is not plain that before tne
world can 90 on with all the tremendous and needed
works demanded by the welfare Of all some method
must be adopted by which the values created by the
expenditure of the peoples moneys and energies may
be secured public and benehcent ends rather tnan
diverted to private and In most cases noxious ones'
Progress waits the systems birth.
There is Hindu proverb quoted by Henry George
which runs: White parasols and elephants mad
with pride are the flowers OF q grant OF land. The
parasols become whittier and the elephants still
madder with the pride Of the wealth when such
grant becomes the recipient Of government favors