THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
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HENRY GEORGE EDITION
APRIL 23, 1003.
AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION.
. Our friend James Bartley, of Am
sterdam, N. Y., write3 the editor that
his contribution for the Henry George
Edition (May 14) will be upon "The
Foundation of Independence." He
writes also touching upon three
points which contributors ought not
to lose sight of. Letter follows:
i Editor Independent: Single tazera t
win, i am sure, appreciate The Inde
pendent's progressive and widely lib
eral policy a? exhibited in its an
Hounced intention to devote the is
sue of May U to the single tax phil
osophy.
After a review of the subtonies sug
gested, I am moved to express the
nope tnat In these numerous branch
discussions, the essentials of the main
Inquiry may rot be lost sight of. To
my view they are these:
:H. Is the chief purpose of governs
ment to secure and preserve to every
dtizen, as far as possible, the full
and free enjoyment , of his natural
rights?
2. Are all men, of every generation,
born with an equal natural right to
stand on this earth, and to use its
richest (as well as its poorest) re
sources, and its choicest (as well as
its least advantageous) locations?
If the answer to these two essential
auestions Droves to be conclusivelY
negative, then there the discussion
ougnt obviously to end. But if tin
answer is affirmative, then this third
question logically and inevitably fol
lows: 3. How, or by what means or
method, may our government most
easily, safely and satisfactorily re
store to the masses of its citizens
these fundamental natural rights, of
which it has by unnatural and unjust
laws deprived them?
Single taxers answer these first two
questions emphatically in the affirma
tive; and in answer to the third re
spectfully submit the simple single
tax plan proposed by Henry George.
These three questions. Mr. Editor.
embrace the essential features of your
proposed inquiry. Because, if govern
ments were not instituted chiefly to
preserve , the natural rights of the
weak from the unjust encroachments
of the strong and to protect the in
nocent and confiding from the schem-
i . ....
mg maenmauons oi tne snrewd, the
selfish and the cunning then it like
ly is none of our government's busi
. ness whether the natural rights of its
citizens .are being withheld or inter
fered with or not, or whether or not
they are being unjustly ignored re
stricted or encroached upon.
But if this is the chief business and
purpose of all just governments and
we so determine then we evidently
have to decide on question No. 2, be
fore proceeding further. Because, if
all men are not born with equality of
natural rights regarding standing
room and working room on the earth
(as has long been held in Europe),
and regarding the use of the really
desirable and available resources and
.locations of their separate countries,
,it would evidently be idle to discuss
ways and means for securing to all
the people the increasing commercial
lvalue of such supposed rights.
With the pertinence of all these
. other questions so evidently hanging
upon the answers to the first two of
these three I am encouraged to ask
you to give them special prominence.
and to invite every contributer to
this symposium to give his views re
garding them. JAMES BARTLEY.
Amsterdam, N. Y.
Editor Independent: A copy of The
Independent, April 9, came to my no
: tice through courtesy of the editor of
the Syracuse Democrat; he has. my
gratitude. It is both refreshing and
encouraging to know that there is
now and then such an able, fearless
and well-conducted paper in Ne;ras-
ka, and if it could be placed in every
home in the statepolitical degener-
. acy would take an upward trend and
real democracy would soon secure the
state from the hands of economic
spoliation and plunder by special in-
it-rtjBus, su cieany manliest m tne
course pursued by the legislative ses
sion just closed. The paper, as a
whole, has a very wholesome senti
ment, while its "editorial", trinity of
attributes, liberality, patriotism,
courage, make it a valuable educator.
Am glad to know that you are soon
to give place for single tax agitation.
This Is the "stone" that the "build
ers" rejected and which is to become
the "head of the corner." Nothing
can ever be settled unless it is set
tled - right Along the - lines of the
single tax philosophy there is much
common sentiment, even among
those who never heard of Henry
George. Land monopoly has bo as
serted itself in this comparatively new
country that it? bane has unconscious
ly wrought In the minds of the com
mon people a grave suspicion against
our land system, and this is not con
fined to any party politics, though
among what is known as the "reform
element, with its various "isms,"
land monopoly is recognized in all its
virility, while the remedy alone is a
mooted question.
Radicalism and half-heartedness
cannot agree upon a panacea, while
the half-hearted think "Utopia" is a
word borrowed from some terrestial
sphere and want it extradited. Henry
George saw that the, chief barrier to
the early adoption of his philosophy
by the masses was its simplicity cou
pled with its far-reaching Utopian ef
fects. It is what John of Patmos
saw the. coming of the kingdom of
God upon the earth the kingdom of
the Prince of Peace, without blood-
sned, without revolution or strife of
a sanguinary type, but merely by the
adoption of what is styled by the late
Mr. Thomas G. Shearman as "Nat
ural taxation," a self-evident truth.
What is needed now is the union
of sentiment along this line, a rally
ing under ons banner. Energy lost
among the "isms" is the magnet that
gives success to the monopolistic ele-,
ment, it is the secret of the power of
the few to dominate the masses.
Your symposium will do very much
toward directing thought and central
izing sentiment along remedial lines
and I shall be only too glad to make
contribution to the k theme of the
"Single Tax" in your May 14 number
and both thank and congratulate you
upon the project. ;
At the recent session of the English
parliament the adoDtion of the sinele
tax for all purposes of revenue of the
realm only lacked thirteen votes of
carrying. This was the first test vote
of that body on the Question and it
has now become the basic measure of
the liberal forces and is stated, by
most reliable authority over there, as
the presage of certain success when
the parliament shall be again pro
rogued. This should remind us that
we get our best democracy from the
mother country, a fact not generally,
accredited by many of our people. I
think your sub-titles are too much
split up. The benefits of the sinele
tax will make little if any discrimlna-
uon among tne various vocations of
life. The "idler." whether of . th
luxuriant or proletariat type, will be
the only victims of the single tax re
gime. E. C. CLARK.
Syracuse, Neb.
Standpoint of a Single Taxer." The
league meets on the second and fourth
Wednesday evenings of each month
at the Aschenbroedel Club Hall, 604
Market st,' St - Louis.
Among the manuscrints rewtvarl
Monday to be used in the Henry
George Edition (May 14) are the fol-
owmg: "The Sinele Tax" hv Snd
Mosby, Jefferson City, Mo., treating
the subject from an historical and le
gal standpoint; "The Meaning of
Life," a sermon bv the Rev. HetviPrt
S. Bigelow, pa&tor of the Vine Street
Congregational church, Cincinnati;
ana a number of short editorials by
A. Freeland, Mr. Pleasant. Term
covering the subjects of t'New South
waies experiment," "According to
Ability." ' "The Prorter niffiisinn nf
Wealth," , "State Insurance Emial
Freedom,' "How to Tax. Texas Oil
.anas," and "The Irish Land Bill.",
E Kenhev. Creaton'. Ta '
V r J MJ VA1 VMUVU
his desire to submit an article on
"Progressive Indirect Taxation," hav
ing a bearing on the single tax ques
tion. ' '
"The Independent, of Lincoln, Neb.,
one of the: ablest and brightest of
populist papers, announces a Henry
George Edition for May 14, to be made
up of articles by single taxers. The
program suggested by the editor in
the issue of the 9th Is most intelli
gently conceived. The issue of June
11 is to be devoted to replies." Louis
P. Post's "The Public," Chicago.
E. C. Clark, Esq., of Syracuse, Neb.,
has forwarded manuscript of his con
tribution to the Henry George Edi
tion (May 14), taking. for his title,
"Ethics of the Single Tax."
F. M. Marquis, Station A, Milwau
kee, Wis., writes that he hopes to of
fer a contribution to the Henry George
Edition, but does not indicate what.
the title will be.
Hon. L. P. Chester, nresidenr f th
St Louis single tax leazue. 1202 Mis
sissippi ave., writes The Independent
tnat ne win rorward manuscript, - for
publication in the Henry George Edi
tion (May 14) of an article entitled
"A Phiiisophical Potpourri, From the
WANTS THE EARTH.
Rather a strange desire for a sin
gle taxer but he is a Nebraska man,
and this doubtless accounts for the
paradox. This is the letter:
Editor IndeDendent: I am very
much interested in the comine Single
Tax Edition. I write you to beg that
some one haviner a standine as a sin
gle tax writer or a speaker be placed
in editorial charee of the issue. If I
knew that an ideal copy would be
gouen out, I would spend all the
mcney In the house for extra copies.
If care be not taken "stuff" may get
into the paper that will do the cause
more harm than good. If I may judge
by their . comments on articles an-
rearing in The Independent- neither
th3 editor nor assistant editor i is
qualified . to edit the edition. Please
let me make this suggestion if you
edit it yourself: Reproduce article?
from the best writers on the subject
rather than new articles from ordi
nary writers. I shall send something
snore and I hope we may make ar
range; nents for a single tax column.
I dropped The Independent some time
before you took charge of it because
its space was filled by the communi
cations of men from whom one could
learn nothing. If I hear from you as
to who is to edit this edition I- will
see what I can do to-distribute a lot
of them. - E. B. SPACKMAN.
Fullerton, Neb.
(Perhaps Mr. Spackman wants a
single taxer to operate the linotype,
a single taxer to make up the forms.
etc. There will in strictness be no
editor" except the contributors and
if single taxers, such as Shandrew,
Hill. Freeland. lark and others, not
to speak of Bolton Hall, Swinney and
others from whom The Independent
expects to receive articles, if these
men need an editorial censor to pre
vent them from writing something
"that Will do -the cause more harm
than good" then the cause is In a
bad way. - .
Whether or not the editor or as
sistant editor is Qualified to "edit the
edition" is a matter of no partic
uiar moment Mr. Spackman is en
titled to his Opinion as to that An-
parently he has reached surh a hie-h
plane of intellectuality that "there is
just one man" from whose writing he
can learn anything and the initials
of that man are: E. B. Spackman.
Single taxers themselves are by no
means united upon the proper method
of treating,, for example, the railroad
question under the single tax, and
both the editor and the associate edi
tor may be pardoned if they refuse
to. swallow -the single tax pill at a
gulp, without any attempt at. mastica
tion. It is very likely that the Henry
ueorge mention, will be by no means
"ideal" in the eyes of Mr. Spack
man because other single taxers will
nave a hand in preparing it, but The
Independent has faith to believe that
they at least will be pleased with it
Associate Editor.)
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Tne legislature of Illinois nassfi n
resolution the other dav-demandinp-
the. election of United States senators
by the people. Populism continues to"
make its way. ,
NOTICE OF INCORPORATION.
Enow all men by these presents : That we,
Charles L. Meyers and Charles T. Hill do asso
ciate ourselves together for the purpose of form
ing and becoming a corporation under the laws
of the state of Nebraska for the transaction of
the business hereinafter described.
1. The name of this corporation shall be the
CITY GARBAGE COMPANY.
2. The principal place of transacting its bus
iness shall be in the city of Lincoln, county of
Lancaster, and state of Nebraska.
3. The nature of the business to be transacted
by said corporation shall' be to do a general
scavenger business at the city of Lincoln ; to
bny, sell, own, lease, and encumber real estate,
and execute the necessary papers therefor; to
bny, sell, own, and enenmber personal property
to erect, own, and maintain a crematory, and
aoy other builaings and structures necessary to
thee onduct of taid business.
4. The authorized capital stock of said cor
poration shall be Fifty Thousand ($50,000) Dol
lars, m eharea of One Hundred (f 100) Dollara
each, to be subscribed and paid as required by
i ".Vd ol fcireetors; provided, however,
that aid corporation may enter upon the pur
pose of its creation whenever the sum of One,
Thoutand l,000) Dollars of its capital stock hai
been subscribed.
5. The existence of this corporation shall
commence on the first day of March, 1903, and
continue during a period of fifty years. '
6. The business of said corporation shail bm
conducted by a Board of Directors, not exceed
intflvein number, to be elected by the stock,
holders, snch election to take place at such time
and be conducted in such manner as may be per
scribed by the by-laws of said association.
7. The ofbeers of said corporation shall be a
lhJ??H7- efr.4 Pi .?Ar?ct?'"wo shall
:A Vt v VL"Ka ,vr uo penoa oi one year, and .
until their successors are elected and qualified.
h nnet amount of indebtedness to
WhlCD thia CAmiMtinn shall . i i
ject itself shall be not more than two-thirds of
tuw vyii,eii iwjc or saia corporation.
n yj oivi vui yuruiiua snail
Hold their annnai moAtincr nn k. j
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nockholders of annual and other meetings, and
the method of conducting the business of the
corporation, ahall be regulated by by-laws to be
adopted by the Board of Directors.
In witness whereof the undersigned have here
unto set their hands this 3d of February. 1903.
VLM Li. StCVKBS,
CHABLK8 T. HlLh.
"Wish the Gouverneur experiment
could be repeated here," writes a sub
scriber at Mattawan, Mich.. . "Doubt
less results ,would be same. It re
quires constant hammering to .inter
eat Without-much effort it is fruitless."'