Omaha daily bee., 1914-12-16
MRS. FEELS TALKS
OF THE SINGLE TAX
Says the Movement is Gathering Mo-
mentum Every Day, for the
Principle is Right,
Also BELIEVES IN SUFFRAGE
hut Tells the Women she Docs Not
Care AnythinE About suffrage
Unless This Fundamental
Reform L. Taken Up,

single tax Is gathering momentum
every day and will eventually come as the
fundamental reform" said Mrs. Joseph
Fels, widow of the late millionaire of
Philadelphia and London. Joseph FEELS,
soap manufacturer, reformer and philan-
throplst How do | know II is coming
simply by the way il is spreading and
the way II is taking hold Of the best
equipped minds of the world today. The
principle Is right. II is Gods plan and II
must triumph
Suffrage? Yes, | giNe some attention
TO suffrage / have spoken for women SUI
rrage and [ believe il Is a political prin-
ciple. but ! have told the women frankly
that | don't care anything about their
getting suffrage unless they are going to
take hold OF this fundamental reform Of
single tax. That must come before all
other reform. / tell the women that IL
they arc going to keep on giving their
attention to mere patchwork reform, l
have no interest IN their suffrage move
ment We must restore the land to the
use OF the people for whom 1t was ere
ated'
IIideous TO Think OF Poverty.
TT is hideous to think that anyone
should be hungry this time of the year.
You say you have a number of men with
out food or shelter on the streets here.
Well. that's hideous to think that anyone
should have to want for those bare neoes-
stiles. where there is so much in the
world.
My plan for immediate relief of those
people? Why, of course. If they have no
food and shelter, you must feed them
md oh ~ &c no M
mediate thing to do. There are no two
ways about that.
But you say there are in the aggregate,
thousands of acres of vacant lots in the
city growing up i'm weeds every year. Is II
not wrong to think that someone is hold
ing that valuable and fertile ground out
OF use in your city, when there is labor
here that would like TO cultivate it.
How would 1 put the system OF taxa
ton of land values into effect? ! would
do it all at once. would not go half way.
In Houston. Tex. they have gone part
way, but they still leave % per cent of
the land value mtaxed That leaves q
per cent to speculate uron, and there
should be no chance for speculation on
land"
Touching on the change that has come
over l1OuSNOn since as idN COln-
missioner, has put into operation mis- plan
of land value taxation Mrs. Fels said.
I'VE went from Louisiana to Texas, and
coming into Houston 1t was just like COM
ing from sleep to life. There was activity
everywhere. Business is stimulated Build
ing was going on everywhere. Streets were
being repaved. and activity was every
where"
Mrs. FEELS is travelling with Mr.. ard Mrs
Daniel Kiefer of Cincinnati Mrs. Fels is
lecturing on the world movement for
single tax, and Mr.. Kiefer is taking care
of the single tax propaganda, meeting
| single takers wherever he goes. in his
work as chairman of Fels Fund commits
| sion, the commission which acts as
| trustee for the fund founded by Joseph
Fels to further the single tax movement
I'm this country.
Read the For Sale" ads II you want
| bargains of the minute