The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-21
HENRY GEORGE ON POVERTY.

CTlJnG IS HOW 50 well eSLaDllSl6Q as to have become almost axiomat- is. The causes of poverty are also the causes of crime.
 Henry George, the eminent ccono- mist and originator of the Single Tax theory, delivered a lecture in 1885 entitled Poverty a Crime. This lecture has recently been re- read in Congress and, tho we can not reprit it in full, we take of it's pregnant paragraphs.
 There is a Cause for poverty, ard if you trace it down you will find it's root in a primary injustice. The one sufficient cause that is com mon to all nations is, the appro- priation as the property of some, of some, of that natural element on which and from which all must live.
 "We talk about overproduction. How can there be such thing as overproduction while people want? All these things that are said to be overproduced are desired by many people. Why do they not get them? They do not get them be- cause they have not the means to buy them, not that they do not means to buy them? They earn to little. When great masses of men have to work for an average of $190 a day it is no wonder that great quantities of goods cannot be sold.
 "Now, why 1t is that men have cause if they were to demand high CT wages there are plenty of unem- ployed men ready to step into their pieces. It is this mass of unem- ploycd men who compel that fierce competition that drives wages down to the point of bare subsistence. Why is it that there are men who cannot think what strange thing it is that men cannot find employ Elcnt?
 If men cannot find an employer, why can they not employ them selves? Simply because they are shut out from the element on whick human labor can alone be exerted; men are compelled to com pete with each other for the wages Of an employer, because they have been robbed of tEC natural oppor- tuE.ty of employing themselves, be- cause they cannot find piece of Gods world on which to work with out paying some other human crea- ture for the privilege.
 Mature gives to labor, and to labor alone; there must be human work before any article of wealth can be produced, and, in natural state of things the man who toiled honestly and well would be tine rich man, and h. who did not work would be poor. We have so re- vcrsed the order of nature that we are accustomed to think of work ingmcn ;.s poCr maj.
 And if you trace it out l be- licrc you will sec that the primary cause of this is that we compel those who work to pay others for permission to do so.
 Take away from man III that belong to tho land, and what have you but a d.se mbodied spirit? Therefore, he who holds the land on which end from which arother must live is that mans master, md tho m2n is his slave.
 ''Talk abou, abolishing slavery we have rot abolished slavcry-we have only abolished one rude form of it, chattel slavery. There is 6 deeper ans moro insidious form. g -amore cursed form yet before us tc abol.oh in til;3 industrial slavery ihct makes man a virtual slave willie taunting him and mocklne him with the name of freedom
 The Single Tax, which Henc5 George advocated as a remedy fol the evil. may not be remedy a all His diagnosis may be incor rect. The conclusions he draw from study Of the symptoms ma, he faulty. The fact however, tha the symptoms which he points ou indicate the presence of disease