The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 17, 1919, Page 14

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He doubt- - less feels that a tax on improvements { is nothing short of a fine on thrift and enterprise—and, on the other side of the fence, that such a tax actually operates as a reward to the shiftless or nonresident landowner who does not improve, and who holds back the entire community and decreases its attractiveness by. refusing or neglect- ing to make use of his land to its full capacity. NEED CLEAR THINKING ON TAX REFORMS And so, writing in Coblenz, Gef- - many, on the banks of the Rhine, this 8th day of February, 1919, I say that it should be the business of every farmer to get at the root of the land question, in which the tax question is a most powerful #actor. I have met many farmer members of the Nonpartisan league who saw that tax reform would end injustice in taxation and break up land monop- oly, making it easier instead of in- creasingly harder to own land— harder and harder for a farmer’s son, who loves the land and who wants to spend his life upon it producing that which all the world needs, like these boys with whom I have talked in this army of occupation. These boys want to be farmers, to have homes and farms of their own. These American boys offered them- selves that the great boon of liberty, the free right of all people to have their own governments, to determine the institutions under which they live, should not be taken from -the world or any part thereof. These boys, these farmer boys and many -others who have never been on a farm in their lives, now stationed with the Amer- ican army on the Rhine, have read of the proposal of Secretary of the In- terior Lane to make millions of acres . of desert, swamp and timber land now. ' in the public domain available as farms for returning soldiers. And they are mightily interested. They know, or at least the farmer boys do, that the old days of the -prairie homestead, on which you could file and harvest a crop the first or second year, are gone. They know there is no more free land of the kind their fathers settled on in Minnesota, the Dakotas and other western states. So they are wondering how they can be- -come the owners of this land that Sec- retary Lane proposes to irrigate or drain or clear. Many have written to him, asking about it. - When they get- home, he will be besieged with in- quiries. s G ‘SOLDIERS WANT CHANCE TO BE FARM OWNERS One of the soldier boys who is in- terested in this plan of Secretary Lane’s is Private Walter G. Olson, a member of my company, the Seventy- Eighth, Sixth Marines. He is typical of the farmer boys in this army. He has lived on a farm all his life. He has helped his father develop and im- prove the home farm, and he left home at his country’s call. And now, like the rest of the boys in the American overseas, forces, he is waiting eagerly to “get back to the States.” He is one of a family of eight children. His father, Gunder Olson, has 160 - acres near Fergus Falls, Minn., on which -he does general farming. He is a member of the Nonpartisan league, and Walter says that he would have followed the elder Olson’s ex- ‘ample but for the fact that he went ~to St. Paul and enlisted in the marine corps shortly after his father became a member. ) : “T heard President Townley speak in Fergus: Falls,” said Walter the other ‘day in Rheinbrohl, the village where ‘the company is stationed, “and he " PAGE FOURTEEN ' We all combined “Back to the F arm,” Soldiers’ Hope seemed to me to be the man the farm- ers had been waiting for for a leader. I had been thinking along the same lines for some time, and I believe the League is the thing the farmers need- ed to get better conditions and a square deal.” Walter left St. Paul’ for Paris Island, S. C., the marine training sta- * tion, May 11 last. He completed his recruit training there, making the grade of “marksman” on . the rifle range, which entitles him to a silver badge and $2 a month extra pay. Leaving Paris Island with his battal-: ion, he sailed from Hoboken, N. J., August 13, arriving at Brest, France, August 27, without the transport hav- ing been attacked by a submarine. Less than three weeks more saw him ° a member of the Seventy-Eighth com- pany, which he joined ' at L’Oeuvre October 16. He went through the Ar- gonne drive, where the marines ad- vanced against heavy artillery fire and captured a carefully prepared line of machine-gun nests. His company was under heavy shell-fire the night be- fore the armistice took effect and the- next morning, when the firing ceased at the agreed hour, 11 o’clock. That was at Beaumont, in northern France. From there he marched into and through eastern Belgium, across Luxemburg and, starting into Ger- many December 1, down to the Rhine, which was reached December 9. The company crossed the river to its pres- ent station December 13 on a little ferryboat named “Hindenburg.” “I'm mighty thankful I -came through all right,” he said, “and all I want now is to get home, back on the farm. I wish I could get there in time to help with the seeding. Well, if I can’t, maybe I can get back to help in harvest.” X BREAK UP ALL LAND MONOPOLY: i There are lots of Walter Olsons in this army. They all want to get back to the land. It’s mighty good news that our government, under Mr. Lane’s plan, proposes to do something about it, intends to have something to offer these young fellows who came from the land to fight for world democracy, and who now want a chance to pro- duce wealth, and .who do not covet the privilege of consuming it and pro- ducing nothing. . ‘But it would be better news to hear that the government proposes to pay the expenses of the war by putting such a tax on monopoly that the big land hoarders, the big monopolists generally, would have to let go of such natural resources as coal and iron and oil and timber, which they now hold out of use while the price of products made from these resources climbs ever- higher and higher. That would be one way, and the best, of “reclaiming” land, of provid- ing farms for returning soldiers, and of enabling them to 'get the things necessary to successful farming—for the production of the food that “won the war” and which is as necessary in peace times as in war times for the comfort and safety of the world, COMBINATION WINS e Binford, N, D. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Of course we are going to win, and as we get older we will get better in many things, As we know, a good invention by one man is improved by some one else. For instance, the bin- der—one man invented the cycle, another the binder, ete., and by the combination a built. And so it is with the League. a 1 will make a great working combination for the good of the nation.. ’ Y great machine was - =1 go—— o —— ety e