The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-03-14
SCHOLARLY WORK
BY COUNTY MAN
NOTED ARKANSAN PRODUCES
NEW BOOK IN EXPLANA-
TION OF ECONOMIC
PROBLEMS.

K P. Alexander resident or
\ title Rock, who is considered the
heading exponent in Arkansas on the
subject of single tax, has recently
Snublished a work entitled, "The
Foundations of Prosperity" which is
held by critics of note to be book
'of much value not only as literary
effort, but primarily for the valuable
information contained.
The book, which is now on sale at
heading book stores, is divided into
four general divisions. The first is
thorough explanation of the laws of
distribution with an interpolated
SYLLABUS of Progress and Poverty"
Thee fundamentals of property
rights are explained in the second
mart of the work, treatise on the
|dissimilarity of land values and per-
|sonality being introduced.
In the third section the economic
effects of population increases are
described sub-head being the dis
advantages to business and agri-
culture.
The book closes with a chapter ON
ethics and economics scripturally
commanded. This subject is worked
out in such a manner that violations,
It is shown, are responsible for basic
war causes. A timely discussion of
the present war and the "Kultur" of
the Germans is included.
The foreword to~--thers-haok is as
follows:
"From a business mans point of
view. unbiased consideration of the
natural economic laws invariably
governing production and distribu-
tion, as practically affecting the in
dividual the social and the inter-
national relations of all mankind, is
opportune at this time.
Far-visioned humanitarians, while
orderly change is yet possible, hope
by peaceable means to bring NAL
adjusted economic conditions into
equitable adjustment. Others, hope
less, Indifferent to or ignorant of
fundamentals, or, selfishly hopeful of
profiting by economic injustice and
special privilege, are as the foolish
ostrich that thrusts its head into the
sand to avert threatened danger. But
what short-sighted folly!
In the gradual adoption of land
value taxation, by the orderly means
u non-partisan constitutional amend
nent or referendum vote, lies, the
writer believes, the only hope of
World peace and of the final and
permanent scope of productivity
Employed capital and labor from the
unanimously increasing trend to-
ward minimum net returns, with the
onsequent magnified and violent re-
" WING CCOliOlIiiC SOllultlOhS
low expressed by the misdirected
1iorts of Bolshevism and other isms.
mere Is grave danger in delay.
by simply changing the incidence
I ftaxation as herein proposed,
mere would appear to lie the only
aslc recognition, protection and
aiety of property rights in the
nings that men by their individual
aoor and thought produce, and
'nleh, therefore, should be sacredly
no exclusively theirs. By this
method only can communities obtain
heir lmperatively needed socially
reduced values.
Justice, righteousness, peace and
eneral prosperity must depend
'naliy upon unabridged equality of
opportunity for all men, all
ommunlties and all nations. Upon
nus Philosophy are based the follow
" monographs. For these things
ae peoples of the world vaguely, but
one the less certainly, grope."