The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 9, 1918, Page 8

name (Nuxate = ome give cur al f information or advice for publication as 1” the packuwe if you have taken preparations BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNB A LEAGUE Tay nok Every League. booster will have to do a lot of arguing during this campaign. Everybody will be asking you questions on the League pro- gram. Can you hold your own in argument? Can you answer these questions? Don’t you wish a thousand times that you knew more facts and could put up a better argument? We have found the hears thet will give: Fon the ammunition for this fight, It is. t isa textbook. it sold for 31 50: While it was’ well worth the money, we felt that it we could ell Wt for leet we canis get more copies in circula- tion, So we wrote the publisher and we have bought = speci ial League edition to sell for $1.00 per copy to ue members. this TRE, DUMDET & Himited—zet your erder in at once, Yeu can't afford to be without a ‘cut off the following coupon, pin a dollar bill to it and b: mail the best book ‘vou ever read on the farmer's problema and the League progracs. ne THE NATIONAL NONPARTISAN LEAGUE, + Educationak Dept Endicott Bldg., St. Paul. Minn. pr oblems the tax: ition of land values is the simplost and most éffective.’ IN THAT THE LEADERS OF TifE LEAGUE HAVE Seer es Her- alded Frederic’ C. Howe’s Book, ‘The High Cost of Living’? “The League - Text Book,”’ it is ‘certainly Fair and P roper to quote from it bs correctly voic- ing the sentient of the Lepage telders Here is what ‘The League Text * © Book” says: |, si ictal it eo “Of all the 1 measures proposed for the solution of these BY _“This reform, known gency as the single tax, is com- paratively easy to inaugurate. It can be put ect by the legislature of any State or by a county where home rule in taxation exists, »» an act which exempts from-ocal taxation all houses, barns, improvements, growing crops, machinery, and ‘personal property of “every nature. By merely exempting these kinds of property from taxation all taxes will au- _tomatically fall upon the land. No other taxes. w “all Be) ener Asa result. the: baits on land WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9, 1918 Enclosed find $1.00 for which please send me Howe's “Bigh Cost ef Living.” ‘will be automatically increaged.”’ - “If the tax upon the iad was tntreased to 52 péroertts on the actual value it would become such ‘i burden that owners would’ seek Sone’ means of escape fr on it. A tax rate of 2 per cent on land valued at $100 an acre would. amount to per acre.’ - Ror ~ canes on land are pices ‘hi PRICE of the es Oe /MS.-Hf theitax amounted to 5 or 6 percent of the selling value,’ Jand would — ral - VALUE. And the taxation of all'land values up to the full amount of the rental values is the al aim of those who believes i in ne single tax philosophy.’? “| From Statement of Henry.George, Original Single Tax Advocate Read carefully the ede of Frederic Howe and Henry George -— Think of the possibilities of unlimited ‘public debt. . By Henry George (Original Single Tax Adyoeate.) me wi “I do not propose either to pur- chase or to confiscate 1 a Hee peer | at only fair that idle land be iaied to pay its fait ahate of cost of who now he soe "' | development but wouldn’t it be wiser to support the idle lands tax we ganai es Om measures now pending in Congress instead of exempting improve- “It ls not necessary to confiscate Bite a er ments and personal property, mortgages, notes, etc., from taxation? As taxes increase land values decrease. eed 1 \ ‘SINGLE TAX is a PART of the PROGRAM of STATE-WIDE SOCIALISM THINK. THIS OVER CAREF ULLY - ee Missouri Defeated the. Single Tax, 508, 137 to 86 647° as JOINT CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE . , ’, POLITICAL ADVERTISING, eros ees