Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-23
SINGLE TAX EXPLAINED
LUCTDLY BY ASSISTANT
SECRETARY OF LABOR
Louis f. Posts Book Outdoes
Even Henry Georges Able
Exposition of Proposed
Economic Reform
OTHER NEW VOLUMES

What with soap-box orators and side.
walk propasandists, cheap demagogs and
sincere but woefully ignorant humanitari-
ans all marching under the banner of re-
form. the name "reformer" has fallen into
disrepute, Just as the name politician has
for all the President and Mr.. Hughes and
others are admirable men and politicians,
too.
Louis r. Post. assistant Secretary of
Labor of the United States, is one of those
intellectual economic reformers that are
distinguished from the contemplate mass
by reason of the fact that they do not ap-
peal to ignorance, passion, prejudice, sell-
ishness or Covetousness. BY calling Jphh
". Rockefeller names or railing at j. i.
Morgan, MIR. Post could quickly become one
OF the best-known men in NOrth America.
But MIR Post prefers something less pop
ular and financially profitable.
MIR Posts "The Taxation OF Land
Values tBobbs.Merril Company, lndian-
npolis) Is an exposition and an argument
i'm favor of what is known as "the single
tax the land, labor and fiscal reform
popularly but crrouCCusly supposed tbe-
cause of his mastery advocacy of iD to
have been conceived by the late Henry
George.
The reviewer to whom the literary editor
intrusted this volume happens to be n
single taxer Therefore he may not prop
erly say Mr., Posts boo, proves the virtue
of the single tax. But he is able to say
'iat 'iat @ h'e N ,"Nn''oi, " I, 80, Inn
t, - - t,t,,t,,t,. ,tan ,r,, other
IlSeis ''H.' 49, 80 ts ~, ,,,n,, tb,t rnn
spare. or thinks he can spare, but little
time to learn what the single tax is. TINS
is the one book, so far as the reviewer
W N.o' I,,, ,,1,,, condition nr Labor"
,.. a., .o,,t,. 60 a, orrvclical letter in
tit ,h in,a I,orc Loo XIII opposed
,,.t,its,, ,rd odvornted trades unionsm
-, 49,, ,r,,.,, % o,,,,.
me s'nsle ,aAe' S',,'',,.a or irvoiuntarv
ershlp OF ll''u n%S % tn' t'."Iv W ,f lard MS n
poverty u''u pelleNvS ,',e ' ,.,rad tn averv
liou's >Tt ~ ~. ~, S III ,his 10 told in MIR
,,Ia', ~ ~ "rs, W 90 ,ha oxnos,tion and
ost . nV0N ,,,l"' ~ a,onr enough charts
,hat ,,,ise then, evor ,loiner are employed.
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man VINO mas learned TO reason WIZ ieuu ',
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Know what the slhsle TAX Is anu thuS' S"re'S
want 10 Nho" more ABOUT n'
we are accustomed to think of when we
hear the word mentIoned-those which
frIphten humans and stife busIness--is de-
scrihod In n Iittla volume written nv viii.
INN vernon Backus and published bv Henry
IInit G 90 Nav York II treats OF hanni
o, ,So n,o,s ~ ro.cb n and than
tans % tbo means Of extending II To our
sou,,,, ana Tho ioy ,hat COMES througb
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sueh ei1ueaSot S S't,e ~. 20 ,.,, ,,.,,,,,d @di
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