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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT;.
APRIL 28, 1904.
The Philosophy of Freedom
An Open Forum for Sing! Taxer
ANSWERS CLARK.
Editor Independent: In The in
dependent of April 14, Mr, E. C. Clark,
under the heading "I Am a single
Taxer But" makes an attack on sin
gle taxers generally who do not ac
cept the whole of Henry George's
philosophy, and devotes a good deal
of his space to criticising my article
on "Progressive Democracy" which
appeared in The Independent ; of
March 3.
In the article referred to I quoted
from Mr. Ernest Crosby's article m
the Single Tax Review and the quo
tation marks were not placed Just
right and Mr. Clark quotes Mr. Cros
by's words ' as mine, and calls them
"drivel." Although the words are Mr.
Crosby's, I Indorse them, but I do not
Indorse the "Paton philosophy" 'con
structed by Mr. Clark. 1 do not agree
with Mr. George In regard to the dis
tribution of wealth between labor anj
capital, and as Mr. Clark Is a thinking
man and not a sophist, and As lie
agrees , with Mr. .George s philosophy
entirely, perhaps ho will be so kind
as to answer a few questions and
also to point out some of the flaws in
my philosophy.
As Mr. Clark accepts all of Mr.
George's philosophy, he must agree
" with the following quotation from
Progress and Poverty: "The laws cf
the distribution of wealth are ob
viously laws pf proportion, and must
be so related! to each other that any
two being given, the third may be
Inferred. For to say that one of the
three parts . of; ' a whole is increased
or decreased is to say that one or both
of the other parts is, reversely, de
creased or increased. If Tom, Dick
and Harry are partners in busings
the agreement which fixes the share of
one in the profits must at the same
time fix ; cither the separ
ate or the i Joint, shares ot the otter
two. To fix Tom's share at 40 per
cent is to leave but 60 per cent to be
divided between Dick and Harry. To
fix Dick's share at 40 per cent and
Harry's share at 35 per cent isto fix
Tom's share at 25 per cent."
Now, I agree with Mr. George in
regard to the above quotation and
consider it -a good working rule - to
discover the laws of distribution; in
fact; it is only along these lines that
the true laws of distribution can be
discovered,1 Of course, we ctmnot dls-
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Uois mention The loJeneodtnt In
cover a law that will giye us the per
cent that each factor will receive un
der certain conditions, but we can
discover under what conditions each
factor will receive a large or a small
share.
In working out the laws of distribu
tion Mr. George used, this rule to dis
cover the share of the landlord and
he" saw that the joint share of labor
and capital depends upon , what the
landlord leaves, that when Tom got
40 per cent there would only be 60
per cent left to divide between Dick
and Harrj'. ' , ,
Now, when it comes to dividing the
60 per cent between Dick and Harry
if Dick gets 35 per cent there will
only be 25 per cent left for Harry and
the more that Dick gets the less will
there be left for Harry,' the interests
of Dick and Harry are opposed when
it comes to dividing their jointsharc.
To discover the laws-tf interest and
wages according to this rule, Mr.
George should have tried to discover
under what conditions the capitalist
receives the larger share of what the
landlord leaves and under what con
ditions the laborer receives the larger
share, but this he does not attempt.
Instead of dividing their Joint share
between laborer and capitalist Mr,
George eliminates the laborer and di
vides the whole product between land
lord and capitalist, gives the capital
ist the whole of the joint share. He
first discovers that the joint share, of
labor and capita depends upon what
the landlord leaves; he then" calls the
Joint share interest and finds that in
spite. of the change of name it still
depends upon what the landlord
leaves. His next step is to eliminate
the capitalist, all the goint share
wages and finds that in spite of an
other change of name that the. joint
share of laborer and capitalist is still
what the landlord leaves. '
Instead of eliminating the laborer,
to discover the law of "interest, and
the capitalist to discover the law of i
wages; after discovering the law of
rent, he , should have, eliminated, the
landlord, and if he could discover the
conditions that would give a large
portion of the joint share to either
labor or capital he would at the same
time discover tne conditions - that
would give a small share to the other;
that Is, given, the conditions that de
cide two of the shares, the third may
be Inferred. . . ,
Now, I would like Mr. Clark to state
whether Mr. George' is right or not
in the paragraph I quoted? If he con
siders him right, I would like him to
show that Mr. Georges way of work
ing out the laws of interest and wages
was in harmony with the paragraph
quoted; and I would like" him to point
out anything I have written in this
article that Is not in harmony with it
If Mr, Clark has back numbers of The
Independent' he will find by reference
to the following numbers that my op
position to Mr. George s laws of in
terest and wages Is founded on far
stronger grounds than the "Paton
philosophy' he manufactured for me
in his article of. April. 14.
If lie will turn to The Independent
of July 2, 1903, he will find an article
"Is Political Economy a Science."
July 30, "The Laws of Distribution,"
August 20, "Rent and Interest." Sep
tember 3, "Replies to Mrs. Twitchell."
October 8, "Wages." I am quite will
ing to discard my "sophistries" if Mr.
Clark can advance good reasons lo
show that my position Is not a sou i d
one, and hope that he will undertake
the task when he is in a reasoning
mood and feeling a little more toler
ant than when ho wrote the article ot
April 14. JAS. S. PATON.
Riverside, Cal.
may" be conditions that attract ver
min and breed a pestilence,, so in the
mind, Jong closed to light, there may
be a stock of old ideas in different
stages , of decay in which are nur
tured the germs of disease and death.
To go down, into the : cellar of . the
mind and up into the garret, to drag
out the mouldy and infected thoughts
and scour the hidden corners and
flood the darkness with the sunshine
what if we were to , do this every
spring! . ;
The tenderest of men has expressed
the value of a human soul in that par
able of the loving shepherd who leaves
the ninety and nine that are safe in
the fold to find the one that is lost.
Who can see those human hives
where poverty and misery dwell with
out thinking how rare in our civiliza
tion is that true Christian spirit
which looks with pity upon each sad
dened and repressed life that lan
guishes upon the earth?
?m pain? sample offeq
May we not say truly of our Amerh
ca what Wordsworth said of his En
gland "Though fettered slaves be none, her
floors and soil
Groan underneath a weight of slav
ish toil." '
Civilization means the development
of that power of imagination which
enables a man to put himself in his
brother's place. It means the prog
ressive recognition of the rights of all
to live and grow in body and souL
TMawavavMaam
' The man with narrow mind and
low ambitions who is irritated at the
mere mention of the wrongs of others
and whose absorbing interest is in
personal gain and pleasure he is a
vulture spirit, bent on carrion, and
has not the moral perception to real
ize his own ugliness.
The criminal ? is more to be pitied
than his victim. No man ever died
for a crime who was wholly responsi
ble for it. Character is a resultant
of many forces and no human instru
ments are delicate enough to measure
human guilt. .'' ' '
The Hops of Dtmocracy
Cincinnati. O., April 21, 1901. The
following are epigrams and senti
ments taken, from a verbatim repot t
of a sermon delivered at the Vine St.
Congregational church by the pastor,
Herbert S, Hlfjelow. Mr. WKelow had
fhon the text, "Ho not conformed to
thlt world, but Ui ) transformed by
th renewing of your mind."
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The hope of democracy li In teach
ing mankind the art of thinking.
It I Impossible to avoid rating and
drinking and brrathtng the gcrmi if
dl'A. One may hop, however, to
live rUhtroruty and n-ftiit them. 0
with the mind. It li vUlted by the
evil as well M the To tan
the tvil and fM the rood U the
aim of the wise.
JuH as In a neglcto4 home there
The cords which" bind us are spun
out of our own brains. The politicians
are as good as the people. We enjoy
all the freedom we deserve. The mind
Is the seat of all slavery. The revo
lution must begin in the soul. The
world Is a mirror in which is re
flected the soul of the composite man.
If 'there is war in the world,' it is be
cause there is greed within. Ignor
ance and selfishness are the prime
ministers of evil. Paradise ts reserved
for those who learn the lessons of
wisdom and loye. , ,
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