Show ION SHEARilAXS LECTURE 1iOS Hon Thomes G Shearman recently I lied with Henry Ward Beecher de Ivcrcd his lecture on the single tax move jcnt at the Congregational church last lgbt as announced to a fairsized audi lice He spoke in a logical and convincing I anncr illustrating how that at the pros jit rate of consolidation of wealth nine I entwentieth of the wealth ourcountry I ould be held by a small minority within Biirty years how the tariff aided the rich Bid oppressed the poor and how to remedy ic evil He said that the present income If th people of the United States amounted > a nveiage of 70 each and the poor Iian must receive much less than that for sore are many wealthy men whose yearly comes are thousands of dollars The poor of the tariff Iian pays the major portion lid to illustrate this the speaker gave as I1 example the internal revenue recently Vanderbilt with his li rogue on matches 150000000 probably does not use over jve times as many matches as the poor Isasant he probably would pay 5125 l vcnne to the poor mans 25 cents while ledifference in their wealth is many thou E md times This he said could be applied article The aboli liany other common lonof the tariff and all indirect taxation jould stop to a certain extent the uggran izement of wealth but the only remedy is reel taxation It is said that Americans liould pay any price for goods made at Borne because the money all stays in B merica This is not a practical theory i cause it is better in the pockets of the BDCT man than in the coffers of the VanE Van-E rbSRs Goulds and others of that class he speaker went on to show in various B ays the advantages to bs derived from lie single or one method r taxaton Direct The entire arpunu snowed that nch careful thought had been given the Ijbiect |