THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA.
LIVE QUESTIONS.
A Series of Articles Contributed by
Advanced Thinner.
NATURAL TAXATION IN DELAWARE.
The proposition to remit nil tnses on
building ami improvements, gcxxls,
chattels, occupations, imports and other
subjects and raiso nil nroessnry revenues
exclusively on laud values in other
words, thn single tax doctrine hits
grown to such proportions in the past
few months that it is fast taking on tho
uppearauoe of a nationnl movement.
Only ns recently as June of last year
he doctrine was practically a philosoph
ical speculation. Today it Is an open
issue in many sections of the conntry
nd in Delaware is the political plat-
JOHN J. M'CANN.
form of thousands of the people. When
it is remembered that the entire voting
population of Delaware scarcely reaches
40,000 and that of these probably one
half are either active members of the
various single tax leagues of the state
or quiet sympathizers with and believers
in the principle, the full force of the
progress there made can be fairly realized.-
It being known to tho friends of the
cause that the constitution of Delawaro
permitted taxes to be levied on such
properties and in such proportion as the
legislature should from timo to time de
termine, the more active among them
proposed to make an open fight for the
adoption of the Dew system in that
state. The idea was eanght up by their
friends throughout the country and lib
eral contributions began to come in. At
that time the enterprise was looked on
with contempt and derision. Today the
old parties are warily measuring its
strength and recognize the fact that a
farreachiug principle is involved in the
contest
And what is the real basis for all this
enthusiasm? What is the reason for tho
new departure? Is it that its advocates
shall gain some special advantage over
their fellow citizens under the new or
der? Is it a movement of bondholders or
importers, money owners, manufactur
ers or traders in goods, for the purpose of
shifting the burden off their own shoul
ders on to the shoulders of others?
The very simplicity and naturalness
of the single tax doctrines in these days
of voluminous, perplexing and bewilder
ing policies are the features which re
deem it 'from all suspicion of selfish
ness and enshrine it in the affections
of so many of its advocates. It is more
than fini-al. It is a moral reform with a
fiscal name.
Tho single tax is so called becauso it
proposes to abolish all other forms of
taxation and to raise all public, revenues
by assessments upon one thing, and ono
only, and thut is the value of land. It
is not a tax upon land, for that would
he laid, according to area, equally upon
good and poor, but is a tax upon tho
value of land without regard to tho
area or to the improvements upon it.
The value of land is created wholly and
absolutely by tho community, and not
by the owner or by any other person.
Therefore, we say, 1 'Let the communi
ty take whut the community creates
and use it for the community and leave
to tho individual what the individual
produces for his individual enjoyment. "
Suppose two men land on an island
through which runs a ravine. Suppose
that on one side of the ravine the luud
will produce 300 not 200 bushels of
wheat per acre or 200 head of cattlo or
300, but 200 units of value per year.
Tho laud on the other side, equal in
area, will, produce, with the samo ap
plication of labor, only 100 per year.
The flint place will have what single
tax men call an "unearned increment,"
a "rental value," of 100 per year, be
cause there are two men on the island,
and both will want the same piece, foi
land never has any value until nt least
two men wont it Which will get the
better piece? The stronger man. And so
it is that all laud titles the world over
are based upon force, because every mun
wants the best piece, and we have as
yet not had the wit to devise and oper
ate a "single tax" to remedy the evil.
These men go to work, and thoy agree
that they will pay every year 10 pet
cent of their product into what they
cull tho publio treasury to make roads,
bridges nnd other common improve
ments. At the end of the year tho first
man pays into the treasury 20 and re
tains 180, and tho other man pays in 10
and retains HO. And so it is, year afuti
year, tlutt tho first m.n gets richer thitn
the othur, ulthough he works no hardci
nor more intelligently that is, the
wealth of the island is "inadequately
distributed. " If the poorer man objU,
the other replies: "I pay more taxes
than you. What have you to complain
of? You aro a disturber of the peace."
The poorer man sees that his rioher
neighbor does apparently pay more
taxes, and so ho submits patiently to on
injustice because he cannot fathom it
But nil the while tho rich man is lie
coming richer and the other man rela
tively poorer, and it is beyond the
power of either to correct tho difficulty,
if howoald, so long as the f nndamentitl
wrong exists.
But now suppose that these two men
when they landed, being just nnd de
siring neither to take the ndvnntng" of
the other, had agreed between them
selves thnt whoever took tho better piece
of land should pny into thepublio treas
ury annually tho rentnl value of 100 for
common purposes and thnt tho other
man should pny no tax. At the end of
tho first year nnd of all subsequent years
each would have 100 of private proper
ty ns the result of equal effort and 60
from tho pubho treasury for common
improvements nnd benoilts. This is tho
single tax principle. The objoct of the
Delaware campaign is to npply this
principle to correct a fundamental
wrong, so that tho inalienablo rights to
"lifo, liberty and tho pursuit of hnppi
ness" may not continuo to be violated.
According to this principle, it will cost
a man us much to hold voluablo land
out of use ns if it were put to the best
use.
Will the logical outcome of the new
policy justify tho hopes (hat tire based
upon it? Certainly tho idle lot or land
owner will not be benefited. On the
contrary, his occupation will be gone.
It will not pay to hold his property un
used, as at present, waiting for the boom
that will never oomo again. It will not
avail to raiso tho price, for the annual
value made by tho community will be
justly taken for the use of the communi
ty. The application of tho principle will
compel the owner of unused lands to
put them to a good use or let others use
them.
Then will come the day looked for
ward to by the single taxers, when in
dustry need neither idle nor beg, when
tho man out of a job will bo a curiosity
and the one in want a rarity. Then
"overproduction" and "underconsump
tion" will not be subjects for serious
consideration, for, with a more cquita
blo distribution of the bounties of un
til ro to her children, want and the fear
of want would vanish. The helpless
class, "out of work, able and willing,"
would no longer exist. If there will be
fewer millionaires, for each millionaire
less there will be hundreds more com
fortable and better citizens. There may
not be so many party managers and
bosses with barrels and boodle, but there
will be fewer railroads fattening on the
peoplo's birthright, fower trusts, corpo
rations and combinations feeding on the
land privileges accorded them by a cred
ulous and impecunious people, and there
will be no lords or burons or dukes of
foreign governments to fence out Amer
icans from Amerioa.
It is the undertaking of land values
and the overtaxing of the works of man
that have made man and his works cheap
and land dear. Tho single tax proposes
to simply reverse the policy and make
human lives and the achievements of
industry precious, as they should be, and
the barren deserts of the city and wastes
of the country worthless, as they are,
until occupied and used.
Viewing the far-reaching effects of
this movement in this sordid timo, one
can but think that there is in the single
tax that precious talisman, the "touch
of nature that makes the whole world
kin." JonN J. McCann.
St. Louis.
PROBLEM OF THE UNEMPLOYED.
Inhuman and Oppreaalve Tax on the Poor
ct and Most Dcfenaelea Clan In Society.
From tho best information obtainable
during the threo years 1870, 1871 and
1873 there were an average of 1,000,000
men idle.
And in speaking of the idle, or un
employed, I mean those who are willing
and able to work when there is an op
portunity, but being unable to procure
work are in a state of enforced idleness.
This 1,000,000 men at $2 per day,
boarding themselves, would have earn
ed 13,000,000 a day, t00, 000, 000 a
year, or in the throe years $1,800,000,
000. Take the next period from 1878 to
1879,inclusive seven years. This period
includes the panic year of 1873, yet I
have averaged the seven years on the
basis of 2, 000, 000 idle. At 3 a day there
is a loss of 4,000,000 a day, $1,200,
000,000 a year, or $8, 400, 000, 000 in the
seven years.
Tho next period, from 1880 to 1890, in
clusive, tho times were better, and we
find that 1, 000, 000 is about an average
of idle or unemployed.
One million of men at $3 a day equals
$3, 000, 000 per day, $000,000,000 a year,
or $6, 000, 000, 000 for 1 1 years. p
Now, take the last four years, from
1 89 1 to 1 S04, inclusive. Here we find the
number of tho unemployed vastly in
creased. Many estimate the number at
4,000,000, but to be within bound I
have placed it at 8,000,000. From this
we find a loss of $6,000,000 a day, $1,
800,000,000 a year, or $7,200,000,000
for the four years.
To recapitulate the losses to society
from this source alone wo find a grand
total during these 24 years, from 1 870
to 1804, inclusive, of $24,000,000,000.
This is a' loss to the world thut makes
gains for no one, but the.se poor people
havo been compelled to endure it so that
the wealthy, who control the volume
of money, may exploit other millions
from a more fortuuuto class.
The statesmanship of a nation that
will fasten a public policy producing
such results cannot and ought not com
mand the respect of mankind.
Such a public policy is not only heart
li'SB and cruel to tho last degree, but it
is so unjust that it becomes robbery. The
laboring class have but one thing to
sell, and thut is their power to labor.
If they ure robbed of this by a vicious
luiuuciul system, they are made beggars,
and the whole peoplo are made the poor
er by the lack of what might have been
produced.
IC uuy one is in doubt us to the cause
of this tremoiidous loss und waste, let
him study tho finance question.
Our medium of oxchungo consists of
$1,000,000,000 of money nnd $4,000,
000,000 of bank credit. Chango these
proportions to $3,600,000,000 of money
nnd $2, fiOO, 000,000 of bank credit, and
you will hear no moro of tho unemploy
ed or (i financial panics.
J. B. Follktt.
A Non-Puucturable Bioycle Tira,
A young man flamed Shaffer, of
Coatesville, Ta., claims to have made
a fortune by his inventive genius, but
is holding out for more cash. He
claims to have at last found what
bicycle manufacturers have been
searching for many years a tire
which will not puncture and which is
so simple that no time is lost in the
work of repair. The principle of the
invention he does not divulge. It is
said that he has received an offer of
$65,000 in cash ior his invention
from the Remington Fire Arms Com
pany, but that he has refused the
sum offered. He is holding out for
$300,000.
Weakness and Headache-
Dudley, Pa., May 6, 1896. "In
1892 I was afflicted with the grip and
after I got better I was very weak and
had headache. I saw Hood's Sarsa
parilla advertised and thought I would
try it, and it did me so much good,
that we always keep it in the house
since that time.'' hits. Laura Stuller.
Hood's Pills cure all liver ills.
It takes the average woman from
three to ten minutes to say good-bye
when she sees a friend off at a rail way
station. It the train waited longer,
she could use half an hour. No matter
whether it is raining, hailing, blowing,
freezing or snowing, she thinks it her
duty to stand at the car window and
talk to her friend till the train is half
a mile away from the station. Men
say good-bye and wait in the dry till
the train pulls out.
"As if a brick were lying in my
stomach" is the description by a dys
peptic of his feeling after eating.
This is one of the commonest symp
toms of indigestion. If you have it,
take Shaker Digestive Cordial.
Not only this symptom, but all the
symptoms of indigestion are cured by
Shaker Digestive Cordial.
So many medicines to cure this one
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acts in a simple, natural, and yet
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no dangerous ingredients, Shaker Di
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and restores to health all the diges
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Sold by druggists, price 10 cents to
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School Directors to Qualify.
An Act was passed by the last
Legislature and approved by the Gov
ernor June 25, 1895, giving power to
the directors holding over to qualify
the new members by oath or affirma
tion, and are authorized to certify the
same to the proper authorities.
Biliousness
Is caused by torjiid liver, which prevents diges
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the stomach. Then follow dizziness, headache,
Hood's
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The only fills to take with flood's SarsanariUa.
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