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.. I III m I IlIagga a I I I I, Ing II • II l II IIII I I I I I Ii I :"The .World is Governed Too Much." ayIL. BIOSSAT, Busines anagr. ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1891. VOL. XLV.-NO. 6. GAHDE3N SECRETS. ,gofrist of touis Phillippe's reign Us a briefstory of a faithful twain, bho, bea parted by sona' cruel chanos, "..o.let Irom out their dream of rich romance, -jjt amdo a way by vhich their hearts could wend ia unto each, in love's embrace to blend. Athis wise they their scarty solace-found yearly flowers that f,om the loosened ground grang up and blossomed, but to strew the , clods !With shriveled petals, yielded them their pods ,isun -drieC seeds: and these they gatheredoft, -ljying them by with sighs and murmurs soft. !"en each could make a little parcel, tied ith love knots that all other eyes defied, wht wboch to them some tender message brought 7it vows of steadfastness unending fraught-. hA these they dared unfasten without fear Vst any tell-tale missive should appear. au in the spring, when garden tree-tops rang !Wlit music of the birds that in them sang, !sae lovers, leagues on leagues asunder, -strewed fle ower seeds on the new turned soil, be rK dewed Mb tender tears: then, through the summer breathed tlsame sweet perfumes-the same blossoms wreathed. dsr after year was made this interchange jween those two whom time could not es trange, d(Jgnace, or the absence of fond words; pat last the trooping minstrel birds in the spring, and sang not, for they found Seach close a Little heaped-up mound. , H. Luders, in St. Louis Times-Democrat. - TWO MINUTES LATE. o Brown's Experience at Catch ing Early Trains. R. BROWN isgo ing to the city on the seven o'clock train, ,Monday morn ing. Important business de mands that he should go on that train. The nine o'clock ex press would not answer his put pose, at all. It is imperat i ve " 2 that he should IjA,' catch the seven So'clock mail. Ile tells this to his wife on umnday evening, after they get home Yom Rev. Dr. Dingley's stirring lecture ra Total Depravity. Mrs. B. is absorbed in reflecting on Aterrible condition of everybpdy, and Abe wicked in particular, and does not " much attention to Brown's little umunication. She manages, how aE'er, to comprehend that he wants his eiaast at six o'clock, sharp. It is minutes' walk to the station, and 1O is a corpulent man, with symp of heart disease, and it is danger Sfor him to hurry. r B. calls the cook, and gives her for breakfast. The .ook is an ehnable young lady, and she has a hiaflower," who will stay later than he iliild, and Maggie is sleepy mornings, i' ross. too. For wehavealways ob d that girls whose lovers stay too eat night are invariably cross the .day. Maggie is no exception. It f hajsix o'clock when she gets out of It is a foggy morning, and so dark she overslept herself. The fire is in the range. The coal refuses to The kindlings are damp. The tney is disposed to smoke. Every is at cross purposes. Mr. Brown is stamping about over in his very creakiest boots, try to button on an extremely stiff collar. Buttonholes are never enough, unless they are too big, know. Off comes a button, and Brown is too busy quieting the by, to attend to such a thing as a but Button, indeedl when that darling cherub is crying her precious eyes at being waked up in the middle of ialght by her bad, naughty papa, Ia going to Boston, or some other place. Little sugar. honey seo she was! ,Sawn puts in a pin, and proceeds to mon his cuffs. One cuff button is lHe rushes round the room y-overturning cologne stands, - of paregoric and soothing sirup, boxes, ribbons and the pile of be and be-fluted dry-goods on the OFF C3OMES A. BUTTON. hair, which his wife wore last to that lecture on Total Depravity. r Brown spitefully tells him he 't tear the house down; and tly he finds the button in the wash I, where he remembers to have it drop last night. Sa not very placid frame of mind he down to brengfast. Coffee fear Shot, and potatoes fearfully cold. tries a mouthful of the scalding , but he ejects it almost instantly, Ssprinkles into fashionable polka his clean shirt bosom and the Stablecloth. Feels like swearing, teiebersthathe joined tho church week, and profanity is forbidden. ehokes down a morsel of soggy and watery potatoes, and begins of oatmeal mush, which he is for his digestion; but the distant e of a locomotive strikes on his st1rts up-men who are going In the railway cars always ~tbo *DU~I4 9$ 4 kolrg~ when they know that their train is LOt due for two hours. He looks at the clock. Just fifteen minutes of seven. No time to put on his overcoat, or muffle up his throat. He must do that as he goes. He crushes f on his hat, seizes his sachel, crams into g it a bundle of papers, a half-finished c novel, which he means to read by the way, and a pair of shoes which his wife C got in town for Sadie, the oldest girl, which were too small and must be ex changed. I He dashes out of the front door-the ' sachel in one hand and his scarf in the l other, and his overcoat on his arm. Mrs. Brown screams to him from the chamber window: "John, you are never going off with out kissing darling little Daisy?" g So he goes back and gets through the kissing ceremony, and hears, as he a rushes down-stairs, Mrs. B. telling him to get ashes of roses, sixteen yards, and be sure and not forget that chinchilla for Tom's coat, and mind and get the shoes with steel shanks. When he is ten yards from the house he finds that he has forgotten his watch, and by the time that is secured he has just eight minutea in which to make a ten minutes' walk. Whistle sounds in the distance as he tears along. Jones screams to him from d the piazza of his house, as he smokes d his after-breakfast cigar, that he'd bet ter hurry, or he'll be late. Brown puts on a little more steam i and puffs along. That overcoat is des perately heavy. So is the sachel. He d tries to change them from one hand to f the other. Down goes the sachelin the mud, and out roll those shoes and a i a bottle which Mrs. B. is sending to v town for "baby's drops." He secures v them at last, and starts upon the run.. i Nothing but running will save him i now. i People along the way become excited about the "thing. They rush to the curbstones to see how he is coming out. Small boys wave their hats to him, and i shout: "Go it, old Fatty!" i And he hears from a small army of gamins, who are playing marbles, such u cheering remarks as these: - "Two-forty!" "I'll bet my money on himl" "Good bottom!" "Git the pole!" "Pocket the sweepstakes!" "Go it, Toots!" Brown is angry enough to shake the breath out of the individual bodies of the little wretches, but he remembers that free speech was one of the privi leges for which our forefathers fought, t 1Y 1 ~ 1 e J I HE REDOUBLES HIS EXERTIONS. I and bled, and died, and he forbears- and, besides, he hasn't time. g All the dogs in town are congregat- p ing to see him off, and .the barking is i most enlivening. Dogs seem to know t that a man running for a train has no ] time to kick them, and his extremity is v their opportunity. Dogs are very sa- ( gacious animals. a Brown does not venture to look up lest it should take time, but he knows a by the sound of the bell that the train ( is running into the depot. He i'edoubles 'j his exertions. The perspiration is pour ( ing in a stream down his forehead, and his clean shirt feels like a wet sheet "pack," but he has hopes. Puffing and blowing, he stumbles on the rear endof < the platform. - "Two minutes late!" yells a by stander. Brown strikes into a gallop, resolved '1 to do it or die. The bell rings furiously. "All aboard!" shoute, that diabolical c conductor, in his gilt-banded cap; and a the train begins to move. - t Brown waves his sachel in the air, 1 but when did ever the spectacle of a waving sachel melt the stony hearts of t a set of railroad .employes? They rather enjoy Brown's agony. They lean out and grin at him as they glide along. His blood is up; he makes a v flying dash for the hand-rail of the last d car 'and swings himself to the platform, minus his hat, which bounces off and a rolls helplessly in thegutter. I Never mind the hat, let it go. He z has done it, if he was two minutes late. I Yes, sir. Brown is going to the city on the seven o'clock train. He is.-Kate a Thorne, in N. Y. Weekly. To Speak Correctly. I Where there is a tendency to speak flatly, or as it is commonly expressed, a "through the nose"-a great error, since the difficulty is decidedly a failure to 1 get the tone through the nose-the practice of lip sounds, in which the dramatic thought is lip expression only, will in time do away with all tendency 1 to mumble and confuse sounds. With 1 clearness of speech once established 1 the next efforts must be directed r toward volume or power of voice. t Here the aid of a good teacher will be t found invaluable in showing the pupil the difference between energy of tone and refined subtlety, the one crude and t unpleasing as the uncultured sounds .which proceed from .savage lips, the other polished, thrilling, pregnant with suggestions of deep and rich emo tions of hope, faith, affection, rever ence, love of God, of humanity, of liberty, of country, or any other of the thousand and one interests to which a human mind may 19i itself,.nJleness AN OMINOUS YEAR. What the Close of the Year 1890 :as Eevea!ed. The record of the Republican party for 1890 is one that the party would gladly expunge frinn its annals. It commences with the dictatorship of Speaker Reed in the-National House of Representatives, and closes with aI desperate and insane effoir in the Sen ate to impose upon a free people bayo net rule at elections. The proceedings of the Republican majority in Congress have been characterized by usurpation of the most reckless description, disre gard for the choice of the people by unseating legally elected Senators and Representatives, shameless extrava gance to the extent of seriously em barrassing the Treasury, the passage of a bill outlawing importers, and the in famous tariff bill, which has caused such disastrous disturbances in the channels of business, the exposure of frauds in Government departments, the attemptto place the force bill, the sub sidy bill and a highly dangerous finan cial bill on the statute books. The year 1890 is also memorable for the grand uprising of the American people on the fourth of November, which almost annihilated the Republic an party, and taught political despera does that there was a power unsafe to defy. Quay, Platt, McKinley, Reed and all the bosses that strutted so insolent ly and confidently on thS political boards for the first ten months of the year, are now objects of contempt and derision. In American politics, there fore, it may be seen that 1890 was a most notable year. The McKinley tar iff law. has had the immediate effect of increasing prices and cutting down wages, of stimulating the creation of trusts and -adding to the long list of business failures. The close of the year found the Secretary of the Treasury in a dazed condition of mind as to the out come of the financial situation, and Re publican financiers in Congress tinker ing with a bill that is likely to compli cate the situation still more. It was, indeed, a very ominous year for the party and Administration that entered upon it with such confidence and in high spirits.-Albany Argus. JINGO JUGGLERY. The Disturbing Element in the Republic an Party. An Oregon friend of Mr. Blaine is quoted as saying, by authority, that the Secretary "'is not advocating reciproci ty for a Presidential boom, but only for the good of the country." This alleged confidant of the Maine poli tician's ambitions adds that "Spain and Spanish-speaking countries annually consume 4,000,000 barrels of flour not produced in their countries, the duty on which is $5.80 a barrel." This may not have any political bear ing, but it sounds remarkably hke the sentiment of that letter about a "single bushel of wheat or a single barrel of pork," which beyond question was a powerful political factor in the contest between "the Man from Maine" and his ambitious and bumptious rival, ex Czar Reed. The Blaine spokesman concludes by saying that "the United States could furnish every one of those barrels of flour, if they got the chance. You can put it down that Blaine won't run in 1892." This is a clear case of "non sequitur." To attempt to construct so strong a platform for Blaine for the mere purpose of announcing that he won't stand on it would be a sort of nonsense in which astute politicians do not indulge. If the Republican platform for '92 is going to be the Blaine platform of partial free trade through optional rec iprocity, it is hard to see how any other than Blaine himself can stand upon it. President Harrison clearly could not without an absolute surrender to his Cabinet officer. If the President should make that surrender, he would surely alienate the McKinley. elements as represented by the declaration of the officers and organs of the Protective Tariff League and the Manufacturers' Club. With respect to principles, as well as with regard to possible candidates, the condition of the Republican party is one of seemingly hopeless discord and disorder.-N. Y. Star. THE RESULT OF OPPRESSION. The Outeome of a Tyrannical System of Mereless Exaction. The Farmers' Alliance is the product of indignation and despair-indignation at the merciless exactions imposed on the agricultural interest by the Repub lican party and despair that the other great National party would ever be able to obtain the supremacy and right the wrongs perpetratedby its powerful ad versary. That this indignation was originally well found! is beyond question. It is doubtful if the all-important industry of agriculture was ever subjected in any country, except, perhaps, in feudal France just before the Revolution, to so many crushing burdens as the Repub lican party heaped upon it in this. It is also beyond question that the de spair of the Democratic party ever com ing into power was also originally well founded. Those who organized the Al liance saw nothing between them and eternal spoliation but the unaided strength of the farmer. Since this vista was presented times have altered. The policy of the Repub lican party has been changed only to intensify it, and the indignation which was originally justified by that policy has now more justification than ever. The relief that party pretends to give is merely illusory; the burden has in reality been grievously augmented, and the hypocrisy which seeks to sugar over the superadded wrong is a fresh motive for new detestation. But on the other side of the picture there has been a genuine and decided change. There is no room now for despair as to Democratic supremacy and the permanectee of that supremacy. The Republican party has had its day and must go. The exigency which called it into existence is long over. The great party of the future in this country is the Democratic party, and no oppressed popular interest ever Iooked THE PLUTOCRATIC RAUIUi.LS. a Measures for the Perpetuation of Sectional Strife. T Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, is the gen I tleman-who so recently showed his sin t cere regard for the welfare of the coun f try by securing two cents a pound on e maple sugar from the Treasury for the a sap-boilers of that State. Mr. Hoar, of t- Massachusetts, is a Senator who during - a long legislative experience has never n failed to uise all the powver of his intel a lectdto serve the ends of the Northeast a ern "Commune of Capital." Mr. Chand ler, of New Hampshire, is as subservi y ent a tool of plutocracy as is Mr. Hoar, d and he has moreover a record in coynec L- tion with the worst period of jobt cry in i- the navy which has fixed his moral If status so that no one is at all in doubt i- concerning' it.. d These three men constitute the tri e umvirate which is attempting to coerce of the Senate into passing the Davenport e force bill, under which elections are to ,- be controlled -by District of Columbia i- returning boards, backed by bayonets. Behind this bill is "the American Pro or tective Tariff League," the association n of monopolists organized to furnish the r, fat fund of 1888 and to control money i- and supply through Federal legislation. 1- It is because of this demand for the ;o bill that Messrs. Hoar, Chandler and d Edmunds are so determined on its pas t- sage. A strong sentiment has grown il up in the West against Northeastern o control of money, and the agricultural d States of the South sympathize with it, while- in the South a from year. to year there is 'grow r- ing up a stronger competition in ) manufactured goods with the North n east. The result of this, if not checked, f will be more and cheaper goods in the )f market and more money to buy them ir with. The tariff prevents the agricult n ural States from buying outside the t- country, and the plutocratic States of 8- the Northeast have in so much a mo r- nopoly.. But the tariff can not be used i- to prevent Georgia, Alabama and Ten s, nessee from manufacturing their own ýc cotton and other raw materials in com 'd petition with the plutocratic States. h The only method by which this "over production," as the Northeastern trusts call every thing which cheapens the necessaries of life, can be prevented is . by reviving the old sectional quarrel on the line of a manufactured race issue. is The plutocratic radicals are attempting e to do that for the South, while at the i same time they are trying to keep y money and supply controlled against is the West. When every thing else fails i_ them, when the West rises in a tre d mendous revolt against them, it only y makes them the more desperate and the t more determined on returning board n and bayonet. Only through such means can plutocracy maintain the control it r- has usurped over a free people.-St 1e Louis Republic. le NOTES AND OPINIONS. a - The pudding-head leaders, who st have brought the Republican party to id its present forlorn condition, don't know c. any thing and don't want to learn any thing.-Louisville Courier-JournaL y ---Speaker Reed's remark. that this Ld is a time for patriots to keep their >f mouths shut, taken in connection with a his impressive silence since the elec n tions, leads to the inference thathe con a- siders himself a model patriot.-Boston to Herald. ie - The first result on wages that has ie occurred since the McKinley bill be >f came a law, in this locality, seems to to be a reduction of ten "per cent. in our largest steel works. As the McKinley is bill has advanced the price of most of >f the necessaries and comforts of life c- from ten to twenty per cent., is the re ,r duction in wages of ten per cent. in t. the nature of compensation?-Pitts t burgh Post. is - It looks very much as if President Id Harrison and Secretary Blaine were at y tempting to imitate the policy of the is third (and last) Napoleon, who sought e to amuse the French with outside ques re tions because the internal situation had 5' become intolerable. But have these statesmen forgotten the' National hu ' miliation and calismities which followed e the Napoleonic policy?-Philadelphia is Times. d In the defeat of the force bill the Democrats in the United States Senate S. have earned the gratitude of the coun try, and the people will look with t equanimity on the crocodile tears shed by Mr. Hoar and his allies.a Not eve : Sthe flood of oratory favoring legislation n for the benefit of silver-mine owners n will lessen the feeling of riejoicing at Sthe escape from the intended, basis for r further investments by Dudley in e blocks of five.-Chicago Times. . e - ''The Federal elections bill iis dead," says the New York Age-(Eep.), organ of the negroes. "It has gone ,to Skeep company with the Federal educa tion bill. The Republican party has ' broken faith with the voters of the Scountry upon two or three measures upon which it won the elections of 1888. SThe best interests of the Afro-Amer. icans have been cut to pieces in the House of their friends. The treachery Sof the Hayes administration, has been Srepeated under the Harrison adminis tration." Id Benny's Boom. d Harrison by the aid of his offichold ers triumphed in the organization of the s Indiana Republican State Committee, b- and his "boom" for re- lection is now o well started in the Hoosier State. By i what means this virtuous statesman 7 hopes to accomplish his renomination is r. revealed by this remark, credited to a re member of the committee who is heart n and soul for the President: "You all id know that we carried the election by - the use of 'boodle' in 1888, and that we re lost it in 1890 because it could not be used to advantage and because of the ee new Australian election law. We must d have a chairman who is smart enough >r to get around that law, and it must be y got rid of somehow." And the State so g. prolific in Dudley;, which gave its elec ly toral vote to Garfield for Dorsey's sh "soap" and was won for Harrison with r. Dudley's "blocks of five," gave to ar is risen as a fldus Achates one John R: to Gowdy, who, it is to be hoped, k "smsrt I enough"to violatel gg steel·4eStabte. PITH AND POINT. -D iven Out by Rudeness.-"Why did the soprano leave?" "She said the preaching interrupted her conversation with the tenor.-'N. Y. Sun. -Dick--"What on earth have you been doing, Jack-shoveling coal!" Jack-"No, I've been taking notes with a fountain pen."-Hlarvard Lampoon. 1 r -Judging from Results.-"Does your < daughter play on the piano?" "Waal, 1 she says she-does; but I kinder thinks I she works on it."-Fort Worth Gazette. I -Have you ever observed that when I a woman is buying a cheap quality of 4 any thing, or a small quantity tf it, she 4 generally "buyes it for a friend?" 1 Boston Traveller. t -"Well, good-bye, dear nephew. If I you abould happen to be in want of money you can write to me." "Here is the letter now, uncle, if you will be so t kind."--Fliegende Blatter,: 1 -You, say that all dreams are due to something influencing the sleeper at that.particular moment. How do you account for my °dreaminig the other n night that I was dead? "Probably the room was too hot."--Indianapolis Jour. Y nal. "-"Have you noticed what a vast. quantity of information old Simple has acquired during the last several days?" S"Yes. It is easily accounted for. His fifteen-year-old son. returned from 1 boarding school last week for a short visit."-Norristow~ l Herald.. J h -Ethel-"I am so anxious about my new dress! I shall insist on having my dress-maker make it fit me. It will then . be sure to look well." Mapd--"Yes; | but wouldn't it look better if you in- . e sisted on having the dress-maker make a you fit it instead?"-Harper's Bazar. J G- -Time's Changes.-Brown-"So you j e could never understand a woman?" f Cobwigger-"No. Before marriage li )- occupied my time in making myself out [ d worse than I was; now it takes me I i- every minute of my time to make my- I a self out better than I am."-Epoch.. L- -Medical science threatens toeireum- 1 vent all the ills that flesh is heir to, and I as in time there will be no such thing i a as death the earth will soon become I e crowded.. Therefore hold on to your s real estate. It can not help going up 1 a several hundred per 'cent.-Boston I % Transcript. - g -By Proxy.-"John," said Rev. Mr. i e Goodman to the hired man, "are you Pa Christian?" "Why-er-no, sir," re- I st plied John. "Do you ever swear?" is "I-I'm sometimes a little keerless like I in my talk." "I am sorry, John," re- I Y joined Ar. Goodman. "But we will converse about this some other time. d I wish you would take this money and I Is settle this bill of 84 for thawing out a , 't waterpipe, and talk to the man in a ' careless kind of way as if it were your own bill."-Chicago Triltme. 3 CAMPAIGN THUNDER, 0 How a Candidate was Crushed by a Feb 0 ny.a-Liner. As about eight' out of ten men one 1 Y meets nowadays are up for the Legisla ture, county sheriff or some thing, it. is not surprising that a-large, proportion . of these politicians are of the self-made h variety that could not deliver an intel-_ Sligible speech if theyweretobe hanged. I ' The result is that the hard-up penny-a-1 liners are turning an honest penny by supplying these tongue-tied statesmen s with ready-pnade campaign thunder. The other night there was a most en-; o thusiastic primary meeting at Petaluma, A r during which an aspirantsfor county 7 clerk was introduced. . f The gentleman laid a voluminously-: e written speech on the desk and started. SIn. He had only got as fatas "Fellow neitizens," when a hungry-looking party; in a week-before-last shirtflgnd whoseK whole appearance denoted; destitution;, Lt stood up in the front row and whis l-pered: . "-. e - "How about that little amount?" . It The orator coughed, colored, looked. - fixedly at the gallery, and strove toon- I d tinue. . 5 "I, say," continued the bilnterinptr, - more loudly, "you know what ;I told d you.-eashdownornosale. I a "I'll-I'll see you in the morning," t gasped the mortified politicia n... :, S "Morning don't go," replied the cred-. t e itor, doggedly. "You e~n't play the c- morngig dodge on me; I'm dead'on to h you fellows, I am. You've )got to put J d up or shut up... Pungle 6i!t that $19 t n right here, or nary an orate."'**..: . "I haven't got that amouihnt withme,"~ a murmured the distinguished spesakerdl d- fumbling in hisnilothes. ' "Js just r asi down, and I'll see you later." . n "Later be blowed," .ro led, the-. pencil parer, and reachting up heltrans La ferred the manucs~ipt to his coatrtail ),. pocke`l and walked. out.- The crushed o nominee -took a back seati on the plat-~ i - form. and weptlike" a child,' while. the J a band filled in its time'i by "Listen" to the . e Mocking Bird," with variction1s.-a u s Francisco News-kLtter, Mahogany Psekla-iCases. -There are fewr instruments or pieces il tf apparatus more delicate and fragile Sthanmany of thecostly and intricate a productions of mechanical skill in gen eral use to-day by electrical companies I for the purposes of refined electrical I measurement, and it can easily be un - derstood that the difficulty of shipping e these expensive and easily deranged in , struments from place to place without Srisk of damage from careless handling 4 y in transitis a perplexing question both n to manufacturers and users. A famous is English electrician says that he early a adopted a plan which proved so success t fal that he has adhered to it ever since. U Finding that careful packing and con 7 spincuous labels stating the contents to e be "glass, with great care," were not e always sufficient to prevent breakage e and damage to delicate parts, he hit on Sthe idea of sending out all his instru Sments in beautifully polishedmachogany O cases, with brass handles and mount 1o inga The exquisite appearance of the Scasee appealed successfully even to the "callous natures of porters and dock Shands; they positively had not theheart Sto scratch the immaculate polish by l raough handling, and the freedom of the t instruments from damage amply repaid ' the xtraostot the lnrelou sggj s SINGLE TAX DEPARTMENT. fo THE FARMER AND* THE SINGLE t TAX. It is a favorite notion of the prb-pov of erty press and platform that the land be value tax will never be accepted by ar farmers or small home owners. If that is tax were what its ignorant opponents dr describe it these classes would be hos- I tile; but when the farmer and rural to home owner learn what the tax is, as al those of New York State will in the or political campaign this fall, they will be se even more eager to adopt it than the artisan classes of the city have been. pr W. T. Hopkins, of Enterprise, Kan., dr forwards a clipping from a paper of his oli State which gives a fair idea of the way at the land-value tax is misrepresented to al farmers: After a long statement of If what he supposes the land value tax to u be and how, it would affect the interests be of farmers, the editor: says: "This is a plain and simple :'statement of the in Georgian land tax theory, put in the la vernacular of the common :people." It ul would be better English and nearer the of truth to say that it is a statement of the fa Georgian land-tax theory, put into the if vernacular of an ignorant editor. ;.: eli According to.this Kansas quill, "under la the George regime, the .-lawyer, the. a doctor, the merchant, the manufacturer m -men of every trade and profession th who own no land and whbponly repres- to ent billions of .dollars' 'qwrth of per- as sonal property-will escape all taxation, and the whole burden ..will be thrown th upon the farmer and home Owner, ex- ta cept where business men;carry on en- cc terprises in their own stores and mills." wI There is more ignorance to the thou- ec sand ems in this quotation than there th are puns in the funniestof Tom ood's sp jingles. s Until we raise up a class of lawyers, o' doctors, merchants and manufacturers th who can live without land, we shall th have no man of either class who, under ue the land value tax, can escape his share bi of public burdens. ;They all pay a land ON v*alue tax now and to the full annual oN value of the land they use; but it goes sp into the pockets of landlords instead of -w going into the public treasury.... or . This Kansas editor seems to think m that a man who did. not own the land a he used would be untaxed. It is true w he would, not pay any more for the land th than he pays now, but he now pays all i he ought to pay: The trouble is that he as pays the wrong man. He would pay no If less under a land value tax- except as at the land he used fell in .value, but so lk long as that land had a value he' could th not escape taxation. And he ought not i to pay for any thing but the land value he appropriates. That, and that alone,fa of his wealth is produced by. the com- Ov munity, and belongs to the community; a3 his personal property and land improve- tR ments being of his-own production, the mi communilty has- no right to take, them. "lo When the community compels him to 5' pay for. the land ,value he appropri- s ates it takes only: what" belongs to..it; th but when it compels hinm to give up to am it of the products of his laborone pen- de ny oveir and above the lad valula lune e has appropriated it robs him-;. m .It is not true, however, -tat lawyers -pa erchants, manufactarem :and doctors th represent billions of dollars' worthlaf r personal property. What the astute Kansas editor means by personal prop-* w ertytaay be itemised asrailroMatock: t corporation and government bonds,= pd i so _on. "Of the value of this classa oft wi property, very little is: airoperty valup f at all. So much of ýcorporation stock- stations, is propertyalue, nd pgh ;to be free oftae 6 t, becausesthe and secon to encourage thero n be txtionof -ipre But ,so imtch o'teih` W stock iand bonds as rpresents vial te privileges and ":ater"s a mere vle aI of robbery, bea inga relation a thel4- !" dustry of our time similar a generations agoe ,K -. -, -9 : ~' thi When wep pampo ettIabor r- be ducts feorm taxt'·tion, we mes labor them altogether. m - o "o * oAnd h Ho abo w theawhe btirdt ofr taxatsion being throwh upon thef a e Sand home owner~- - . T whe Kansas editoer will derta pnly with "men of tev ry-rade undprone- wit doctors o aire tQ escape thax tey baitdo farmers will tr The treth isthttmm- 1 .nt farmers, likeh dodors, will payd, lb sa.i. groteyd lda that the o now, es - e rpt as it falls in coneneneet the th instei aof settleongas It to a; a theccod'er tt d es of dlasifty o tmo st faerseabe owl. tors, lawyers ceganduma tItshea , 'nih otertgaged farmer iste their house, -That the hole buirden p taxation o will be thrown upon tfar pwners and home owners sl false upon the face of O it How about mine owneis? How 0o about stackty owniers? How about fa store owne beow eabfout water front w owners? low abort thee owpeirs of va- P cant lots? e The burden of taxation that house lt owners will have to bear will depend 01 upon the value of the land upon which L their homes are built. If they build on the most desirable land in the commun ity-as poor home owners never do, by , the way-they will have a high tax to , pay; if they build on the least desirable ~ land in the cominmnity-as poor home - owners are now compelled to do-they wm -have little or no tax to. psy; and according to the desireableness of the ( land upon which they build, from the e least to the most desireable, so will their taxes be graduated. If they adortna their grounds, embellish their houses, i enlarge their living accommodations, or otherwise improve their homes, their taxes will be no more than if they let C their homes run down to the level of Pig sties. Which is better for the home owner -to be taxeduon every improvateat he , s~lposia Re owr gSPtfeoorlr ( uss for the special privilege by way of loca tion that he enjoys and to be left free to improve to the extent of his desire? The burden of taxation that farmers will have to bear will depend, like that of the home owner, on the value of the bare land 'they appropriate. Farmers are now taxed on the value of their land, their buildings, their fences, their drainage, their stock and their produce. I~~our brilliant Kansas editor submit to.he' farmers of his acquaintsaie thq alternative of a tax on all these values or on the value of the land alone, and see which they will chose. When the average working farmer ap praisesthe value of his buildings, fences, .-: drainage,; stock -and produce in one class and the value of his bhre land inii another. he will find that the totals are.: a about as four to onie 'The total of the first class it is proposed to exempt; but under the present system the total of both classes Is taxed. And this is not all. 'When taxes are lmpesedsolely on land values, so-muh~~ land that is now held out of use for spec ulation will seek a market that thevalue_s of all land'will fall; and ast i falls the,. farmers' tax-will recedei. ittiprobable; _ if the, speculative value' of, land were. eliminated, -as. it would Ibe ~under the land value. tax, :that the value of the Z average, working -farmers'; mprov ments, stock and produce; 'compared to ! the value of his bare land, woul4 beoajag ten to one. In many cases it wotildb as the whole is to nothing,.. . r Home owners and farmers now beirJ the burden of taxes, and the land value tax would emancipate them. When we" consider the special privileges tghat tq wealthy, classes enjoy, their taxes asr; kt exceedingly light compared to those of the house owner and the farmer,.Whsq! special privileges are meager. The only special privilege that the average home; owner and working farmer enjoysi the" exclusive right'to a piece of land, the value of which relatively to the yat- s ue of the wealth he produces is a trifle; but there are mine owners, city .lot. owners, railroad owners, : elegrapb' owners and currency. makerst :whose special privileges relatively to .the : wealth they produce are in value closee on to'a hundred times,. Owheraof coal mines, for example,kget thirty-fi ve cent AF a ton for all coal mined; .how muobi = wealth do they produce? None. Under . the land value tax; which bears only: uponspecial privileges, they, and- such as they. and not the home owner or the-: farmer, would bear the burden of ta. ation"and it is in- the interest of ·bene. flciaries of these special privilege. that the farmer is appealed.to: to defeat the land value tax. Thus far of the farmer who owns his fain and the headof , amil. !whq:, owns his- home. 'ut what of .theten- - ant farmer and the tempat house holde ~ two constantly growing:clasies?"The . .must now -pay. annually to6: .lord all that their -land is w r.h an an: indirect tax: on whato Iboy on uimne, :as well asadirect tax--e.Unde the ;land~ alue tax theywouldd' pay. more for; he lanthn 4 hat tdo ow. de-d, they would pay le s, for l v sval ie would fall withth: e innreaes of market asU p:nof an. o pay no more fo, the - dprovemaettl they do ownt tleast o with th: eoweasrof woductone abhnd vo:ttzr - land values bothpartieston exo would t ore w S º - ". they woud par -ne ognitio o ` t, ' wpr ,tiey paid; to the ,an oirnu of prod e icn tr th farm eri encg e- iowint -ieto raye~pirap }om perM a;e .woT Sworkinge armer , hs a ap`i`t oletyl optodber, ased as in that o tere ast improve der th t se oar nasoe are' as will that of th e imaat bmre oner,what evera be his vocaittd Louis F. Poset.in the Suatdad So far erom ther reogsitng of improvig property in land being necessary to t .e mproper nseof ala th eontraryisthe ilstndsin the way of its proper ne ! eament, but being treated as private prop prevent others from tsing or improving what hre can not or will not ie or im anprve ehmmselo~-Proeas g and Poverty. The eou al right of all men th cliaceV of landris e eclear as their eqodtin rght tobrekthtinflaeir -it is a raight pro tlaimed by the fatof their eailotnc. Fo we cwha noer Abehis vocatlome.m