Arizona republican., 1914-09-29
WHITE SPEAKS
 ID MANY AT Y"
Explains Many Matters
 About Single Tax Not
 Generally Understood in Address on ''What Wo- men Can Do With Ballot :"

John Z White, the single taxer, spoke before an earnest and interested if not very large audience at the Y. M. c. A. last evening. His subject having been announced as What Women Can Do With The Ballot. Women made up the majority Of those present, but what he said could have been heard with profit and pleasure by anyone. He dwelt with emphasis upon the ideal that is the principal on which the com mOnWealth is founded-is that of a freeborn and self governing people. He made clear how far the drift has been from this ideal in practice though still teaching it in the schools and preach
 ing it in politics, and he made an ap- peal to the women to use the suffrage granted them in going to the underly
 ing causes of the evils that have re- suited
 The pivotal point of his discourse was the great moral maxim credited to Lord Hale, that the individual must be free to act, the only limit to his free dom being the equal rights of others, and if he should trespass his neighbor is free to redress the wrong that he has done" Within the sphere of it's activities the sovereign power of the people exercised through their governe ment must likewise be free to do what ever is to the public interest If in the exercise of this power an intentional or mistaken wrong done the people must be free to redress it. else democracy
 fails. When laws have been made the inevitable result of which has been the concentration of wealth in railroads
 oil or land in hands of a few, the only possible way to correct the evils re- sulting from this concentration Is in the repeal of these laws. Q To make
 public created privilege the basis of a
 private property right is a subversiOn of the fundamental ideal of the repub- lie. It is wrong and useless to punish the men who have been foresighted enough to take advantage of the power which the laws made have given them. If the power has been granted them they have the right to expect that they may exercise it.
 This point was very aptly illustrated by an account of the experience of a community in the early days of the settlement of Minnesota. The wolves
 were constantly causing loss to the farmers by their raids on the cattle, sheep and hogs. To correct this the county granted bounty for every wolf pelt brought in. The natural result of
 this was that the more enterprising of
 the farmers soon began to breed wol- yes. It took their less clever neighbors some time to see how the bounty was
 operating but when they finally did
 master the problem they repealed the
 bounty. It never occurred to their simple minds to attempt to punish the
 wQolf breeders by fine or imprison- ment. They went to the cause of the evil and made it impossible for them longer to profit by the law which they had passed.
 MT White closed his talk by saying that he did not ask any one to believe what he had said. His only desire was to set them to thinking and if they were interested in the problems under discussion and earnest in their de- sire to solve them as their presence there indicated to set them on the road to such solution. He suggested as books that would interest them, the History Of the Supreme Court and Madison's Report of the United States Constitutional Convention, books which would put the whole matter before them.
 Mir. White had his audience with him from the start. They were held by his l keen grasp of his subject and won by | his earnestness and his kindly humor After he had finished speaking Dr. J. W. Thomas announced again the dinner at the Arizona club at 6 o'clock | this evening which is open to any man or woman who wants to pay a dollar | for a ticket MT. White will speak here on Henry George and his Philosophy Tickets can be secured from Vic Han ny or the Central Drug Store. At eight o'clock there will be another meeting at the city hall plaza and at 9:3O a. m. Wednesday morning a meeting partic- ularly for the farmers at the Water Users Building.
 The speaker was introduced by Mrs. Eugene Brady O'Neill, who did so with a delightful little speach.
 Work Maper Out For New Federal