Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-30


1Dle neglect? 1t proposes to put a
M&x on land and after 1925 to tax
me full rental valueS of all Ian
Cor government use.
What does this mean?
II simply means that every farm
~r shall be renter from the go,
Arnment and pay cash rent. 1t de
1<roys all value in land and Ian
1eecurities.
It would confiscate the land o
All land owners who are not physi
~eaily able to till the soil and sc
4hem adrift.
It would throw all unused Ian,
Ito the hands of the government
where 1t would yield no tax.
It would compel the land rente
- pay cash rent and keep up tn,
'Ansurance and repairs while nov
me landlord bears these expense,
s1nd bears a share OF the loss of bat
s&rops with crop rent. Instead o
s0urnishing homes for the homefs ss
- would destroy all security valu,
a@Sf land and the homeless mar
would not be able to get money
with which to build, even if he got
affe land free.
Now the homeless can bu,
shomes already built and Day for
chem In easy installments. Undel
single tax they must have suffi-
cient money! build. With land
@tent money to build. With land
euald except for his own use and
then the least expensive building
mo more fine homes.
Let's vote No.
A. FARMER.
10 the Editor:-A great deal is
sbeins said and written these DAYS
sAbout the high cost Of living. Our
nresses have shown almost Grim.
mai disregard for the scarcity of
Hrint paper by pouring forth col
amns Of good advice, filling our
ncws columns full of essays on such
Hnbjects as Thrift" "Econotay."
Rhey have laid the high cost OF liv-
1ng to extravaganza under .produc-
aion, initiation, failure to Join the
1eague OF nations, lack of Under
standing between labor and cartial,
@hilc publications controller by
organizations of merchants and
manufacturers are working over
ftme passing the buck from one to
fhe other, trying to confuse the
Rublic mind to the extent that 1t
will finally weary Of the attempt
40 find the profiteer, and pay pre-
vailing prices without question.
Retail dealers have been cspe-
srially Keen to resent any atfe,npt
20 show that they are in any man
Aer responsible for the un.eason.
able prices asked for the commodi-
1ics they sell.
We have before us at this writ |
ng an example of arbitrary price
mxing which believe is fitting
comparison for many of the high |
lprice evils to which the pubhc falls
P1ctim every day. For some rea-
Eon. which we safely assume is not
m the interest of the consumer, the
srAneries are not handling the sa,-
snon catch this fall, and as a result.
many fishermen are idle. Retail |
mealers We're holding the price so
miBn that the public Is not buying
IN anything like quantity for can
ming, though the dealers haya ad-
vertised salmon at thirteen cents a
pound, stating that this is the
Gneapest IN years, to make us be-
neve we were getting them "dirt
rheap." Local dealers were charg-
sng as high as twenty cents for
xiiced salmon.
One enterprising citizen OF Salem
Bot III touch with some OF the fish
erlnen at nearby fishery, ana sue.
Eeeded In getting prices that en-
ADied him to offer the fish to CON
sumers at the very nominal price of
sAsnt cents a pound. The result of
= little nd in the Journal to this
kffect was. that the fishermen have
seen unable to supply the demand,
ana although several tons nave
seen sold to eager buyers, some
Aaye had to be disappointed, and
walt for the next shipment to ar
rive People came in autos and by
rain from nearby toWns, some beg.
gtng to be supplied with MS much
- Two hundred pounds. The.y came |,
N such numbers that the supDly &
q each customer had to be limited /
N an attempt to have enough to s
30 around. In
The effect on local prices wis MS.
Ionishing. The good shin "profl- Ii
eer which has flated SO tran II
Iuiiiy above our heads these nlany /
months, inflated by the exrortion- I
re profits wrung from hell.iess +,
Aublic, lost friend competition" 1t Il
aust have been an awful shock, for c
ne lost more than seventy pcr cent s
= her gas In the drop, as tho Mon y
lay Following the beginning oS the |
ale OF salmon at eight cents, sal q
non previously quoted by some Sa- u
en- dealers at thirteen cents had
ropped to seven. To show that this e
rice was arbitrary, and offered in n
n effort to freeze out their compel a
'or, will state that on the same a
ay that salmon started selling for o
even cents in Salem, Albany was II
elling for the prices OF thirteen n
ents for salmon by the hundred
ounds. or fourteen cents by the,
sh. A few such demonstrations
the above Will convince the imb-
Q who the profiteers really are. 1,
nd the only question remaining is,
hat are we going to do abou; il?
Is IL fair to assume tina, basi- =,
ess men may maintain orgaiiza- :,
ons where they meet to fix prices =,
q a public be damned" po.cy, n,
hen IL, laboring men meet IN an =,
to fix wages to lneet =,
lese prices. there are "bolshuc.ks" n,
ld are plotting to overthrow the ii
,vernment. -
If the country were full OF d,al- n.
8 like our enterprising citizen, we al
light all have a few spare dollars
buy pretty flowers for the grave ,n
old III. c. L. who would soon be
ID TO rest and forgotten. a.
"A. CONSUMER 81,
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