JANUARY 21, 1904.
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The Philosophy of Freedom
An Open Forum for Single Taxers
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
HOW THE SINGLE TAX ON LAND
VALUES WILL BENEFIT
FARMERS.
Editor Independent: I think there
is a good deal of truth in what you
say in reference to Mr. Doblin's re
marks in your issue of January 7, and
I want to emphasize on the govern
ment's use of that income from land
values, as the great and lasting ben
efit to the farmers especially. Our
greatest land values are in qui large
cities and many mining properties as
well as uncultivated acres in large sec
tions in many states.
' Take, for instance, the Cripple Creek
mining property in Colorado, only 4
miles by 6 miles in area, yet it has
produced since its discovery in 1S51,
$150,000,000, and for several years its
output has been $2,000,000 per month;
and according to a recent report (Jan
uary 9) its dividends for 1903 a bad
year because of the strike was- $1,
706,902.69, let us say $2,000,000.
Now all this $2,000,000 is land val
ue, after paying wages, wear and tear
of machinery, superlntendency, etc.
Let us allow that they have $500,000
worth of machinery capital and we
will give them 10 per cent for the use
of that. And the single tax would I
take for the state of Qolorado, for fed
eral as well as local use, $1,350,000 a
year.
For it is civilization's use of gold
for ornament, medical and financial
purposes, that creates that price or
value to that great bounty of nature.
And when we take it for our com
munal purposes, and with it build and
run a railroad, a telephone or tele
graph system, how quickly our present
corporations will commerce to serve
instead of rob the people and the
farmers! And if all the mineral
wealth of Colorado alone, much of it
untaxed and unused, was treated as
though put to its full use, what an
enormous fund would pour into the
public coffers; enough to put an elec
tric light and motor In every farmer's
home and barn to run the washing
machine or churn for his wife and
daughter, as well a3 a telephone for
the home, all paid for with those
same dividend? now paid to eastern
capitalists, whose damnable greed is
crushing down labor to a point where
it restricts their enjoyment of farm
products to" a meagre allowance.
Here in Michigan the Calumet &
Hecla, a few hundred acres area in
the copper country, has paid dividends
of $5,000,000 for several years. This
represents the difference (because la
bor and wear and care of machinery
has been paid before this dividend is
declared) between this land and land
that has no value. Again, it repre
sents in its price the demand for cop
per consequent upon the discovery of
electricity and its many purposes and
powers. So when by the single tax
we the people take- it for our own
public tises we will stop that infamous
confiscation of human rights that for
centuries has wrought such an amount
of war and hell on this earth.
Now, imagine if you please, Tom
Bawden elected governor of Michigan
on a single tax ticket, and at once
taxes the land values of the Calumet &
Hecla $4,500,000 per year (allowing
$500,000 for actual interest on actual
capital) and then announce the build
ing of a railroad with that money,
from Detroit to Grand Rapids to run
at 1 cent a mile for passengers and
equally low rates for freight. How
quickly the G. T. R., M. C. R. R. and
P. & M. lines would be at Governor
Bawden's feet to pray him not to
build that railroad; that they would
carry the people for 1 cent a mile,
etc. In other words, they would serve
instead of rob the farmers and mer
chants. And thus compelled to be use
ful citizens, the $1,500,000 each year
could be put to use making asphalt
roads for the farmer all through the
country, lighted with arc lihta just
Ilk the cities with a 'phone for the
farmer's house; an electric light and
power for a motor for hi ham for
threshing or churning; and all paid
for with what i now paid out to a few
parasitic capitalists in Wall id roe t.
How thU would rnlu the Mock
market and cause the mire decline of
Wall fctreet and the money power ore
can rrnlLr when we think vt the mime
tax ti'liis; levied on th Iron, coal,
granite, xlnc, cement, timU-r laud,
etc, iwt of whkh U unused, hi Id
title and U I an wild An.) worthlM
i,md. For thU ml It Ion of dot bra now
unallowed by Wall treet in r pecula
tion would tWti W thrown oti the
nutlet, and capitalist would tld
autnt each other for the me of I.
lr; money would become, ch'p and
labor manhood dar, And wouldn't
i
that cheap money enable many a
farmer to pay off his mortgage or buy
machinery?
ONE MORE INSTANCE.
Los Angeles, Cal., May 16. A few
men now hold, unused, fully nineteen
twentieths of the arable land of Cali
fornia, while millions of people are
suffering for the want of that land. In
the Miller and Lux estate alone
(which comprises 14,539,200 acres)
there is enough land held out of use
'to support a population of 5,000,000, or
nearly four times the present pop
ulation of the state. Fifteen men own
nearly all the valuable land in Colusa,
Glenn, Tehama and Butte counties.
From the Boggs ranch to that owned
by Rawlins, comprising 74 miles of
exceeding fertile land, we find only
one small village, one chuich and
three school houses. Competent
judges state that this land could eas
ily support a city of 50,000 population
and a rural population of 200,000.
More than 16,000,000 acres of Califor
nia land are held out of use by only
eight persons and estates. Besides
this, the greater part of the millions
or acres given to the railroads in this
state are still unused. Ralph Hoyt in
Johnstown Democrat.
Suppose a single tax governor and
legislature in California was to im
pose a tax of $2 per acre on chose 16,
000,000 acres. Wouldn't it cause those
landlords to hustle to pay $32,000,000
a year? Wouldn't they be compelled
to employ labor to put it to use to
raise that revenue? Wouldn't ' they
give up large tracts of it to the state?
And wouldn't California (one of the
best agricultural states in the Union)
then be able to offer that good land to
hundreds of farmers' sons lor noth
ing? Paying merely $2 per year per
acre for schools, roads, courts, etc.,
not land! For land is the free gift of
God to all. Why should a man be
compelled to buy God's gift from his
brother?
And if farmers carrying a mortgage,
could thus get good farms for noth
ing, how long would they stay with
the mortgage around their neck?
Wouldn't it mean a lot of mortgagees
who would be glad to get any kind of
money (silver or greenbacks) as long
as it was legal tender, for the farms
they did not want and could not use?
And how such a use of the land and
the land values by an awakenea con
science and an aroused intelligence
would knock all kinds of trusts to
smithereens can be seen in a few mo
ments, by any farmer who knows the
difference between threshing sugar
beets and pui'iikiv.. I will be pleased
to answer any further questions on
this matter at a future time if re
quested by yonr rear'a-.u
TOM BAWDEN,
Editor "Our Commonwealth."
Detroit, Mien.
(That little editorial" note to Mr.
Doblin's communication had the in
tended effect. Mr. BawJtn is certain
ly at home in explaining what the
farmer could reasonably expect to re
ceive in lieu of that rise in land value
which is now about all he gets out
of years of toil. But
There are still a few little prelim
inaries. Suppose Mr. Bawden were
elected this year as governor of Mich
iganand I know of no man I would
rather see elected governor of that
state. And suppose he should have a
legislature fully in accord with.hi3
views. And suppose the necessary
laws should be enacted to carry into
effect the single tax as to Michigan.
Could Tom Bawden tax the Calumet &
Hecla $4,500,000 a year? I don't be
lieve he could do it. That is. I don't
believe he could ever collect it.
There is a United States supreme
court to reckon with, and we, out here
In Nebraska, have pome Idea how that
court locIde3 matters affecting the in
terests of the big fellows. We had a
maximum frelaht rate law have It
yet hut it Is huns? up, like a scare
trow in a cornfield, bv a fedTal court
decision which no man tlearh under
stands, except that the railroads don't
have to obey the law!
I raU objection to the tlnslo tax
in order to ret rlnsle tisor to come
Kick to earth oncp In a while. It's
easy to picture an Imneimry heaven
and Torn lliwden H surely an rttt;
hot the rrcnt limmtty U to pet there.
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