Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-05

"refOrHa known generally as the sin
gle tax" IT advocates the ex1f1p.
ton from taxation of all Improves
lnents and Of personal properly and
increasing taxes on land up to the full
mount Of the rental value. thereby
value. This IL precisely the Socialist
msthod of confiscating to the state
all lands and thereby ell agricultural
industries, at the same time that
!, other industries r taken over from
private ownership and control Of the
state. Al Henry George wrote, the
object Of the single tax was. that the
landlord without calling herself, So.
He did not propose either to purchase
or to confiscate property in land. To
purchase, he aaid. would be unjust. To
confiscate would be needless. SIT is
only necessary to confiscatc theErent'
for. he says. we the state) may
safely leave them the shell. II we take
kota farmer members Of Townley's
league" when they come to "the
morning after" their present political
debauch!
Now do not say 1 said that. Rome
g. Brown said II:
In conclusion there are just one or
two words l would like to say. There
is one thing 1 have never known to
work any other way but one and that
is, that a man will gather unto him.
self birds Of the same typelo of feather.
The good natured, iovial sort of fell
low who goes up and down your trains
friends: the pinch nosed, weakened
up little fellow, who says the world
has all one wrong" always has
around him his type.
i, The mar of the UNDERWORLD the
ltcentious man. would naturally feel
uncomfortable in any but company
of his own type. Listen. What is a
man doing with associates and adj
visers who are affiliated with the So
Of them? Is that not a sane ques-
ton What is he doing with Arthur
LeSeuer, as secretary? Whose letter
has been reprinted, and will be yours
Tor the revolution" the co-partner.
the c%o-patriot with the I. w. WIS,
who sat in <Minot with these men,
and sanctioned their condemnation of
is Walter Thomas Mills (post-grad.
uate of the Socialist school)? whose
by-product is Mrs. Kate O'Hare,
whose venonous tongue has placed
naught but hatred in the heart OF any
whom she could appeal to against the
Tag and our country. Who is D. c,
Couts, James Manahan. John Hast
ings' and Allan Box? Who arc theyo
Republicans. No. Socialists. What
are they doing in this state? They
are helping to manipulate the ma
chine at Bismarck. And I say it here
and now, that if the Nonpartisans
claiming three hundred thousand
members and that. is their claim in
black and white, and I have it. She
claims she has y bona fide member
ship of three hundred thousand mem
bers. II the three hundred thousand
of that organization, pro-
vided they are farmers and. own
farms, knew the leadership they have,
tar and feathers. and riding the rail
would be tame to what they would
DO to their leaders. But they do not
know. and the bunco game works.
they fill the farmer with the idea that
the big business man is going TO eat
him up, but their object is to eat him
and you, too. So say the fundamen-
tails of the leaders. We want to cat
him up and YOU too. and the beauty
is, o do not know it. Many, many
years ago. in the year lego, there
landed on the rocky New England
coast the men and women who were
the nucleus of building this new coun.
try. A new nation. From 1920 on up
to 1910, all seemed to so we'll, until
oppression was cast upon them and q
desire for the voice in their govern
ment came so appealingly to them
that they rose up and threw off the
yoke Of Great Britain. The first flag
they unfurled to the breeze was I:
banner similar to this one. The only
difference was the stars were in Il
circle and there We're thirteen in
number, and that new flag was
launched out among the powers Of
the world, and it grew and it came
forth in all it's splendor a promising
youth. growing in physical proper
ton, and waxing strong and becoming
a power. But the dav dawned when
it seemed that this land would lie
divided in twain. From 1861 to41S65,
at last the dawn of the bright morn
ing came declaring peace TO the LAND
known as the United States of Amer
lea, and what made it sweet? Because
the nation had not been divided in
twain. and that the people that could