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Show Wrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmm wm FROM THE REFORM PRESS. LABOR EXCHANGE MEETING. No matter how you fix it, the working-ma- n The Labor Exchange meeting held at in the end pays the taxes. Pittsburg No. 309 Templeton, in L II- Grays rooms last Monday, was attended by about fifty Kansan. - freedom of trade as now exists between the Slates of the Union, thus enabling our peo pie to share, through free exchanges, in all the advantages which nature has given to other countries, or which the peculiar skill of other people has enabled them to attain It would destroy the trusts, monopolies and corruptions which are the outgrowths of the tariff. It would do away with the fines and penalties now levied on anyone who improves a farm, erects a house, builds a machine, or in any way adds to the general stock of wealth. It would leave every one free to apply labor or expend capital in production or exchange without fine or restriction, and would leave to each the full product of his exertion. (5) It would, on the other hand, by taking for public use that value that attaches to land by reason of the growth and improvement of the community, make the holding of land unprofitable to the mere owner, and profitable only to the user. It would thus make it impossible for speculators and monopolists to hold natural opportunities unused or only , and would throw open to Libor the illimitable field ot employment which the earth oilers to man. It would thus solve the labor problem, do away with involuntary poverty, raise wages in all occupations to the full earnings of labor, make overproduction impossible until all human wants are satisinventions a blesfied, render and to cause such an enormous proall, sing duction and such an equitable distribution of wealth as would give to all comfort, leisure, and participation in the advantages of an advancing civilization. In securing to each individual his equal right to the use of the earth, it is also a proper function of society to maintain and control all public ways for the transportation of persons and property, and the transmission of intelligence; and also to maintain and control all public ways in cities for furnishing water, gas and all other things that necessarily require the use of such common ways. sus. While edi .or of that paper he told more political lies on the Populist party and its officers than any or even all of the rest of the Republican party put together. He was the official State liar of that party and his paper was their bible. If there is any man on earth, the mention of whose name would give an that tuan is J. average Populist the K. Hudson. Yet, solely on the grounds of his natural fitness for the place, he was appointed to the highest rank in the Kansas army by a Populist governor, whose patriotism over- the people are fighting Spain, ladies and gentlemen, all greatly interested in this movement. An extremecapitalism is fighting the people. Pittsburg ly interesting address was delivered by the Kansan. Hindoo Siddi Mohammet Ta Eiber, who is 'You vote for my bill and Ill vote for probably as well, if not better, posted than yours, is oae element of log rolling that most men who visit Utah from time to time, will be done away with by Direct Legislaupon the various subjects which are now tion. Direct Legislation. paramount before the laboring classes . Havt shadowed all personal or political preferences. is no Direct Legislation longer merely ing traveled practically all over the world, Institute a comparison in your own mind, if desirable; it has become essential to the and coming from a race of people who are you can, between the petty, safety, if not the continued existence, of the by nature Socialists, he naturally advocates Republican politicians that hung the GovernRepublic. A few years ago the representa- Socialism, or co operation, whenever the opin effigy, and the uroad, patriotic man or tive system was in decay now it is dead and portunity offers. His lecture will serve to whom they pretended to be hanging! Then add new membership to the Exchange. stinketh. New York Journal. think of a little 2J3 x o editor of The Ogden The Committee on Constitution and Being the equal creatures of the Creator, Press standing 2,000 miles away and barking rendered its report and the same was live to entitled under His providence equally at the big Governor, all the same like a little tabled until next meeting to enable the comtheir lives and satisfy their needs, men are mittee to further revise and phist! improve it. Too equally entitled to the use of land, and any much care cannot be exercised, and in the A man does not serve God when he prays, adjustment that denies this equal use of land same way, the best of material must be selfor it is himself he is trying to serve. Thos. is morally wrong. Henry George. ected for the management of the Exchange, Paine. No person should have another do for or there is danger ahead for the promoters; There are men who have not virtue him what he can do for himself, and no com- as a care'ess or unwise manager or bungler enough to be angry. He who dare not munity, municipality, State or nation should for the organization can soon swamp it. offend cannot be honest. Thomas Paine. have a corporation do for it what it can do Several new members signed the list; the for itself. Public ownership of public utilities secretary was instructed to send for the charMr. W. W. Evans comes to the front is true individualism. Peoples Paper. ter and get bids for the printing of the conwith the suggestion that Republicans and democrats are born, but Populists and The. poor man will fight the battles of stitution when ready for printing. The next meeting will be held next Socialists are made. Nothing is truer. this war, and after it is over pay the money that it took to carry it on. While the rich Monday at same place. After the regular If the American people had only one-hawill do their share by drawing interest and business is transacted, an address will be much sense as they have patriotism, they as made by Mr. Otto Hanish, a gentleman charging the government two prices for the would soon enjoy as great freedom for themcommodities furnished. The Sun, Tacoma, who will be able to interest his audience selves as they are now demanding tor the and who will give out new ideas to those Wash. Cubans. present. Some say that man cannot be trusted with John Sherman has done one thing that THE SINGLE i TAX PLATFORM. the government of himself. Can he then be may be set down on the credit side of his Continued from ptffe 1. trusted with the government of others? Or edger he has resigned. It came too late have we found angels in the persons of provements, and of ihe abolition of all forms y nearly forty years, but better that than kings to govern them? Let history answer of direct and indirect taxation. orty-one- . this question. Thomas Jeffersons First InSince in all our States we now levy some It is a position not to be controverted augural Address. tax on the value of land, the Single Tax can that the earth in its natural, uncultivased We should have a scientific and equitable be instituted by the simple and easy way of state was, and ever would have continued to monetary system, pure and simple method abolishing, one after another, all other taxes It is reasonable to suppose that Governor be, the common property of the human race. of accounts, and independent of any mate- now levied, and commensurately increasing Thomas Paine. is disowned by the great rial which may be used for the purpose. the tax on land values, until we draw upon Leedy of Kansas is he to which of donkeys family supposed Money would then no longer affect the rela- that one source for all expenses of govern- to belong. His latest act shows that he is You cannot by any possibility tax a man tive value of exchangeable commodities and ment, the revenue being divided between not possessed of a glimmering of sense. He who does not produce wealth. Landlords, a perfectly lendlords, middlemen and moneylords proservices, and consequent speculations. Self local government, State governments and has insulted the Kansas militia-ifor manner and simply uncalled brutal and from the as the revenue general O. government, Reliance, Cincinnati, duce no wealth, therefore they cannot be direct taxes are divided between the local laughs at their indignation. When the Gov- taxed. is not an intrinsic Pittsburg Kansan. The power of money ernor was first inaugurated he delivered the and assessState direct a or, governments; craziest message ever compiled by an execuattribute of the material of which money is ment being made by the general government tive and the world has looked for something After the cruel war is over and Cuba has ancient but it an rests and that made, upon and the from States the them He has been made free, we hope the Americans will paid by unique in his subsequent career. barbarous law which elevated two scarce upon been more than unique be has proved him- turn their revenues collected in this manner. patriotic eyes and hearts to Amermetals to the pinnacle of legal tender, thus The Single Tax we propose is not a tax on self the great pyramidal clown of the cen- ica, where there are ten starving people to The Ogden Evening Press. giving to the owners of these two metals the land, and therefore would not fall on the use tury.where there is one in Cuba. of of Self the debt. out prison only key If Governor Lefdy really were about ten of land and become a tax on labor. Reliance, Cincinnati, O. It is a tax, not on land, but on the value times as big a fool as he is pictured above, The great mass of the worst criminals in of with editor bankers the Mr. Gage is very glad to protect of land. Thus it would not fall on all land, and could be yoked up all ages have been pious followers of the and give them a chance to make money. He but only on valuable land, and on that not in The Evening Press, the two would make a church firm believers that at some Day of noble team. They would be two of a kind, Judgment their sins would be forgiven by wants to increase the profits of the banking proportion to the use made of it, but in to its value the premium which the for sure. The trouble with the Press editor some friendly Judge in return for their laudbusiness, and consequently he fixes up a if carried scheme into effect, of which, land must pay to the owner, either in is that he lets his mouth go off before his ation and belief in his power and glory. user banking would turn the country over to a banking purchase money or rent, for permission to head gets loaded. To one wh knows the Charles Watts. syndicate and allow it to inflate or contract use valuable land. It would thus be a tax, facts above hinted at it is nauseating. In the currency at pleasure. Silver the wealth of the United States not on the use and improvement of land, but what way did Governor Leedy insult the If on the ownership of land, taking what would Kansas militia? Those who know the Kansas were sold under the hammer and should as we do, know that they are very bring fair prices, the amount realized would It is being whispered around that Mark otherwise go to the owner as owner, and not militia, insulted. We saw them insulted once not pay the debts of our country. And all easily Hanna has fared pretty well by reason, of the as user. before when all In the assessments under they tried to refuse to serve because, like a pack ol fools, we issue paper Single Tax war scare, in that he and his friends have Plain-deale- r, secured a government contract for 350,000 values created by individual use or improve- under Governor Lewelling; not because the bonds instead of paper money. The Reno, Nev. tons of coal to be delivered at Key West, ment would be excluded, and the only value Governor was in the wrong, but because he for which $1 a ton over the ruling price of taken into consideration would be the value was not elected by the political party that A man by the name of Murphy was arthe Alabama product is being paid. Thus, attaching to the bare land by reason of headed the militia. People who have never rested and run in last Monday for stealing a Uncle Mark is getting back quite a chunk of neighborhood, etc., to be determined by lived in Kansas do not have tbe least concepmackintosh from a dummy. Had he stolen his campaign expenses, and no doubt he impartial periodical assessments. Thus the tion ot what a Kansas Republican is or what the coats from the backs of ten thousand loves to co operate with the American people farmer would have no more taxes to pay he will do to carry his point. The whole fight he would not only have gone in the same manner as he does with his em- than the speculator who held a similar piece of Governor Leedy at this time was gotten poor people of land idle; and the man who, on a city up for political effect, the object being to scot free, but the chances are that prayers ployes. Cleveland Citizen. lot, erected a valuable building would be elect a Republican governor this fall. Pa- would be offered for him next Sunday. An Iowa judge says the inheritance tax taxed no more than a man who held a simi- triotism or love for the flag or Cuba had law of that State is unconstitutional. Strange, lar THE SOCIAL DEMOCRACY. to do with lot vacant. it Having said so much, nothing how often it is that laws intended to throw There was a meeting held on April 25 in The Single Tax, in short, would call upon let us see what it was that Governor Leedy more of the burdens of government on the men to contribute to the Hooper-Eldredgthe Building, for the purpublic revenues, not really did to so insult the Kansas militiai benefit-te- d of are local branch of the who a holders principally organizing property in proportion to what they produce or accu- He ordered a reorganization of the militia, pose of America. Social Twenty-sevein Democracy are the governing money spent by mulate, but in proportion to the value of the giving the members of that body first oppor- persons signed the application for a charter. pronounced unconstitutional. It begins to natural opportunities they hold. It would tunity to volunteer. This gave every one a A permanent organization will be formed as make me think that our constitutions themresoon as a charter is received from national compel them to pay just as much for holding chance to go who really wanted to, and selves must be unconstitutional. Certainly the land idle as for leased those who did not. Again, it was headquarters. A temporary executive board putting it to its fullest use. when was elected, as follows: Alexander Rogers, intended never they adopted The people Tax therefore would largely made up of boys and men wholly D. F. Single Mangan, John Chalmers, Warren of the to themselves them to deprive right do (1) Take the of taxation off the unfit for such service as will be required at Foster, A. V. Taylor. Next weight meeting will justice. Star and Kansan. agricultural districts where land has little or the hands of soldiers. As the Governor hac be called as soon as charter is received. meetings will be public and all are Under the Referendum Switzerland takes no value, irrespective of improvements, and only to raise 2,000 men and had 20,000 to The invited. no step backward. Last fall the people o put it on towns and cities, where bare land pick from, he determined to send no candithat country voted to own and operate the rises to a value cf millions of dollars per dates for the hospital if he knew it. This FREE LECTURE. one incensed in officers of the favor the acre. now has militia, every begun railroad. Agitation Mr. Otto Hanish will lecture Sunday even(2) Dispense with a multiplicity of taxes of whom is a Republican heeler; hence, the ing at the Business College room over No. of the State taking the grain and the flour simplify gov- uproar in which the little parrot of the Ogden 76 West Second South Street. His subject trade in hand. Switzerland has to import and a horde of Press raises his voice. But what else did Gov- will be Zoroaster, the Persian Grand Master reduce has and ernment its business cost. most of her breads tuffs, and greatly got of the Time B. C. 7,50a and into the hands of a few monopolists who de(3) Do away with the fraud, corruption ernor Leedy do? He appointed J. K. Hudson Free Philosopher alL Come and hear him. to Why? Because of his natrive princely revenues from it, at the expense and gross inequality inseparable from our brigadier-genera- l. for fitness the place. Who is J. K. Hudof every man, woman and child in the land. present methods of taxation, which allow the ural AN EPICURES APPETITE The Swiss are on the right track. Just as rich to escape while they grind the poor. son? The editor of the Press doesnt know is politely catered to and he dines sumptusoon as competition ceases in any line of bus- Land cannot be hid or carried off, and its he hasnt the least idea. Listen while w& tel ously amidst all the surroundings of luxuriness, and it becomes a monopoly and oppres- value can be ascertained with greater ease you: J. K. Hudson, until about one year ago, ious comfort in the dining cars of the Union was editor-in-chiof The Topeka Capital, the Pacific R. R. No other line out of Utah carsive, the State should take it in hand. Star and certainty than any other. (4) Give us, with all the world, as perfect official organ of the Republican party of Kan- - ries them. Ticket office, 201 Main Street. and Kansan. While By-Law- s jim-jams- , white-livere- d hall-used- labor-savin- g lf n pro-porti- Knight-Watchma- on all n. e n ef |