Widnes Examiner. — 1907-01-26 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

PUBLIC BENEFIT, UNDER THE CLOCK FOR BEST BOOTS IN LANCISHIRE.—AdVt. Taxation of Land Values. At the seventh fortnightly meeting of the Warrington Branch of the E.L.T.L.V., Mr. A. Hulme in the chair, it was decided in view of the fact that the Postmaster General is coming to Warrington on February Ist, to postpone the Co-operative Hall meeting from that night to February 15th,and to have on February Bth another rehearsal of the six chapters of "The story of my Dictatorship"which are to be performed a week later in the Cooperative Hall. Mr. Hulme's report that Mr. Carnegie had published in -the" Review of Reviews "a remarkable article in which he proved that all the earnings of a millionaire came from the land and were rightly earned by the whole of the nation and therefore proposed that all the great fortunes ought to be taken by the State at the death of the owner, caused Mr. Ockel to express the -hope that Mr. Carnegie might still develop like the millionaire Tom L. Johnson. who once asked why he was spending so much on the Single Tax, answered: " I would prefer to leave my children penniless, but in a state of society in which they always could command the full fruits of their labonr, than to leave them my millions in the present state of society, which enabled me to earn them." It is interesting to learn how Mr. Johnson got converted. He wanted to prove the fallacies of , Henry George, and therefore , studied his book "Progress and Poverty." But he! seemed to be enchanted! The more he studied it, the more he was forced to agree with Henry George. Sol he went to his lawyer and asked him,whether he could disprove the fallacies of "Progress and Poverty."—. " Nothing easier than that !" said the lawyer.—Then do it—" I have no time for that "—Well do it as an I order from me, as your client said the millionaire.— ' After five weeks the lawyer came to him and asked : 1 -4' Do you acknowledge George's premises as right, that every child born has a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness ?" " Yes I do "—was the answer. "Then George is right and cannot be con-tradicted !" said the lawyer. Consequently Tom L. Johnson visited Henra,George and became one of the staunchest supporters of the Single Tax. He it was who brightened the last years of Henry George, who gave him the means necessary for the leisure to write his last great work ; "Science of Political Economy" 'The German Single Tax paper:"Deutsche Volksstimme" contains in the last number an article by Damaschke, who is putting up for the Reichstag Election showing how the troubles in German South-West Africa are also due to land-monopoly. More than one third of the territory belongs to six companies which -stand under the influence of English speculators. How 'little these companies add to the colonisation of the country is shown by the mightiest of all, the SouthWest African Company. which holds the most valin able mining rights and which has brought into the country in every four employees,one white one and three coloured ones. How this company secured for itself the sole mining right in 0 vamboland is very significant. Once upon a time this company had managed to get from the German Colonial Office the sole right of building railways. Remember the right but not the duty! Ten years ago in 1897-revolts started and a railway from the port to the capital become necessary. The company flatly refused to build the railway. When the German Government laid the railway itself, the English Company forbade the us of steam and the mighty German Empire was forced to pull the cars by donkeys! Englishmen and natives watched it laughingly. At last the South-West African Company allowed the use of locomotives after having sipeezed out of the Colonial Office the sole mining Tight in the whole of the Ovambo country. TABLE, FLOOR, AND HANGING LAMPS in large variety. Latest patterns.—J. S. GARLAND, Ironmonger Bridge st., Warrington.—Advt.  Suicide Follows Trouble. Mr. S. Brighouse and a jury incjuired into a sad case of suicide at Warrington yesterday. On Wednesday Joseph Lawless, 47, Orford-street, Warrington was found hanging in the back kitchen of his house and when cut down was found to be dead. It appeared that the deceased had been out of work and that recently his daughter was killed by being run over by a motor car. Depression followed these troubles—a depression which was increased later by the illness of his wife which necessitated her removal to the hospital. —Commenting on the case Mr. Brighouse said trouble always seemed to visit those who did not deserve it. He supposed, however, that it was the inscrutable way of Providence and they must not complain.—A verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound mind "was returned.