Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
SINGLE TAX
Petition For Amendment in CirouIa
tiOn Are We Ready for a Tax on
Land Only? Toward What Does it
Tend? Single Takers Near the
Throne.

Ohio may be called upon to decide
this fall whether to limit taxation to
land only, for all local, school and
municipal purposes. Such a petition
Is now in circulation and single tax
ers are actively campaigning to build
up sentiment for it. Their speakers
are everywhere, at farmers institu-
tes. oranges, clubs, conventions and
in the public schools. They expect
opposition in the rural districts but
do not fear unorganized opposition.
Seventeen counties of the state poll
more than half of the vote of the
state. A single taxer frankly admit
ted in his address at a farmers in
titute that government ownership of
lad was the goal and that they ex-
pected to get it through the single
tax. Another single taxer declared
the intention to be to "divide at the
ballot box among all that which be-
longed to all, but which had been ap-
propriated by the few"
The proposed amendment provides
Tor "home rule" in taxation and would
enable a township, school district or
municipality to submit the proposition
on the petition of small per cent
of the electors and a majority vote
on the measure, not a majority of the
electors. would decide whether land
would bear all the taxes.
The Ohio Republican Land Owners
League has been organized to fight
the proposed amendment to levy all
taxes on land and will carry the
fight into every school district in
Ohio.
Single takers are entrenched in
power near the throne through ap-
pointment by the President.
Newton D. Baker, Secretary OF
War, is one of the most brilliant OF
the single tax-socialist group of the
Democratic party. Secretary Wilson
is another cabinet member who is {
single taxer.
Brand Whitlock, Ambassador t,
Belgium. is single taxer who urge
upon voters their power and duty t,
divide at the ballot box the propert,
now held by private owners. Will h
hold out the glowing Endorsement t
the war and debt burdened soldiers O
Europe to flee the ills and horrors o
Eheir own country to land where
IS easy and speedy to become a citi
zen and where citizenship means pow
er to divide at the ballot box by tn
simple means of the single tax, tn
heritage of a nation made rich by tn
valor. self-denial and thrift of an in
dustrious people?
Louis D. Brandeis, appointed to tn
I-s4 L
President Wilson. is claimed by tn
single takers as of their faith. .
judge on the bench of the Unite
States Supreme Court, who believe
that all men have equal rights i
land and that private ownership j
land is a crime, will strike at tn
very vitals of our free institution
and our liberty.
Sooner or later the validity of til
laws providing for single tax wi
come before the Supreme Court fl
determination. This is the final tr
bunal to which the people can resol
for the protection and preservatio
for their personal and property righ
and these questions determined by
court composed in whole or in pa,
of men committed in advance to s.
cialistic theories threatens the stru
ture of our entire social and indu
trial system.
Write Senators Warren G. Har
ing and Atlee Pomerene at Washin
ton, D. c.. protesting against the Co
irmation of Mr.. Brandeis as memb
of the Supreme Court of the Unit
States.