The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 3, 1921, Page 13

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CO. otrain: ik PAGE FOURTEEN Land Speculators and Their Victims (Continued ffom page 6) street, Chicago, and get a copy of the speech delivered by Congressman Florian Lampert of Wisconsin in the house of representatives on July 25, 1921: This remarkable speech shows in a series of tables where are the land-values of the United States. For example, the land values in the city of New York exceed the farm land values of all the New England states by more than four to one. The land values in 25 of the largest cities of the United States are greater than all the farm land values, including improve- ments, in 34 states of the Union. The value of the land containing coal, oil, iron, copper, lead, zinc, gas, silver, marble, granite, gold, stone—in other words, the mineral lands of the Unit- ed States all owned by the trusts—ex- ceed the value of all the farms, includ- ing improvements, in the United States by nearly $10,000,000,000. Mr. Lampert’s speech was delivered in support of the four federal revenue bills introduced into the house of rep- resentatives by Oscar E. Keller of St. Paul. 7 ? One of these bills provides for a tax of 1 per cent on land values, after ex- empting $10,000 of\land value for each individual holder of land. The bill also exempts from the tax all build- ings "on the land. In- the case of farms, the bill exempts from the tax everything that the farmer “has built or created on the farm—cost of tiling, clearing, fencing, machinery, live- stock, orchards, wells. It also exempts the cost of fertility which thd farmer has built up or maintained. ' The tax proposed in the Keller bill is not a tax on land, but a tax on LAND VALUES, and it will not hit actual working farmers, because of the exemptions. The great bulk ¢f the land values, as Mr. Lampert shows in his speech, is in the cities and in the mining, oil, gas and timber districts. In the case of the cities, the land is monopolized by landlords. In the case of the mineral and timber lands, thé land is monop- olized by the trusts. -Neither the land- lords nor the trusts pay any federal taxes on their land values. 3 In this article I have shown the in- evitable effect of letting land values in the cities escape taxation. It has increased prices and cut down.the farmers’ market because a city popu- lation which must pay excessive rent have little or nothing left to purchase farm produce. In my next article I shall show how all monopolies are founded on land monopoly, and that the only possible way to break up . these monopolies is to tax land values, exempting, of course, the land of ac- ual producers, but hitting those who hold land for excessive rent or for an- excessive, speculative selling price. Those, and not, farmers, will be reach- ed by the tax bills I mentioned. WILL HELP Editor would be glad to do my best to help out the circulation of the Leader in my vicinity. I am filling out and sending in the blank to learn your proposition to circulation representa- tives. Mpyself and my neighbors have been trying to get a government loan but couldn’t. We know why conditions are as they are after reading the Leader articles in regard to the Fed- eral Land bank system monopoly. Fellow -farmers, the big harvest rush is about over. Let’s go! Let’s put on speed in our membership and educational drive! - - H. N. MEWHIRTER. Hopp, Mont. = . / Nonpartisan Leader: 1~ Petitions F fled in North Dakota. (Continued from page 10) for checking over the names, to see whether the petitions contain the re- quired number of legal signers. : No people have ever had a more bit- ter struggle for the right of self gov- ernment than the people of North Da- kota. The brutal power of wealth has decreed that self government must be denied, at whatever cost, to the people of North Dakota, since they have assumed to take control of their own marketing system. Unable to beat the people in a fair fight, big business has deliberately adopted a program of wearing them out. But the people of North Dakota are fight- ers. They are wearied of the long struggle, and poor crops and deflation ~have robbed them of practically all spare cash, and yet they are entering “upon this final campaign just as de- termined that their program shall be given a fair trial as when they first started the Nonpartisan league. THE LORD ARTICLES Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I have _just finished Mr. Lord’s third article and I must write and tell you how much I like it. T am highly pleased ° that you are publishing articles on the money question. I think Mr. Lord is just right in' his charges and con- clusions. I am glad he took up the problem of “inflation” and “deflation” and the effect this has on the price of commod- ities, and how a change in the volume of money changes the value of every contract, as this is not understood by the majority of our -citizens—some bankers included. I have studied this - subject all my life and think I under- stand it quite well. This power of “in- flation” and “deflation” is too great to be placed in the hands of any but con- stituted authorities, as the founders of “our Constitution intended. Mr. Lord plainly shows how the house of Morgan, through the Federal Reserve board, can take property from other citizens of our nation by loaning them millions of dollars while they are carrying out the process of inflation, getting them to borrow while money is cheap and commodities are high, and then forcing them to pay while they are deflating, or when money is/ high and commodities are cheap. PERRY OAKLEY. Joplin, Mont. 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