The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1911, Page 4

Jependent 441 r Publishing Gc. ian matter Hix me ; Phones: Private Bvohange Main 9100 and 1 Wemrher of United roe: re ranisbed Baily bg Whe & “a tare v postattice . gut of city, cats per month up to alx months One year ro at Seat wy Victims of the Mine A half hundred men dead in a coal mine, A hundred of More women and children moaning and wringing their hand @t the entrance to the mine of workmen down in t wes RNR aR PR Nr RM NR RNR ae ne ee Nic nee ent geen earth, risking their lives to recover the bodies of the victims. | Publication of some Cor Tnvestigation of causes of the explosion Wery fine theories about cause and effect of black damp. Oner's inquests. Denunciation of corporation greed And next day public attention goes to a backwoods murder ease, or the hightoned elopement of Mr. John Doe with Mrs. Richard Roe, or a prize-fight in which is involved the hope of the white race. Those dead men earned barely a living, Their families were poorly housed, poorly fed, poorly clothed, and the source} of that poor living lies maimed and blackened, dead and useless, in the darkness ot the mine. What becomes of the hundred widows and orphans? They are the real tragedy of the mine horror. The paths of vice are Open to the girls and boys, and the widows stand upon a cliff, the sides of which are jagged rocks and at the bottom of which is degraded old age Yet, how seldom does the miner, as he goes down in the} earth daily to risk his life, consider what will come to his wife| and children if sudden death, so frequent in mining operations, comes to him! God only knows what becomes of the living Victims of the mine horror. But it is all humanity’s duty to we UNCLE SAM holds 26 per cent of the gold and 28 per cent of the silver of the world. o ° ° U, S. COMPTROLLER MURRAY reports that the banking power of the nation is $21,330,000,000, 2 o o ° FREE municipal laundry for the use of poor women of the tenement @istricts is the latest of Cincinnati's ideas. The sanitary advanta: Femoving the clothes-washing process from the living and sleeping fooms of the tenements is apparent. i of oe SARAH BERNHARDT is a pioneer in the realization that the art great actresses may be perpetuated by means of the motion picture well as a great singer's volce may be reproduced for posterity ee eae MARION HARLAND, culinary expert, says “a good housekeeper ever loses interest.” Maybe not, but she gets awfully tired of hearing Soribie ts in great tuck He sent his comle opera to a syndicate and they lost it.” Do you call that great Inek? They compromised with 28. "Clocks are different from men." “In what way? Why, when they strike they keep right on working.” WHO. wouLo QUESTION STORY 4 “How uneasy that young man ap- He tells me caught a 10-pound | pears.” Ber old man say: “W You going to have THAT stuff again a rd 2 e A SLOT-MACHINE saving bank depository In Buda-Pest is work-| tg wonders in making the peopre save their money. It's easier to drop! @ nickel or a dime in the corner machine and a recelpt for ft than} to save up the coins until you get a sum sufficient to enter on your bank account. c= The Single Tax--What Is It? Articte No. 4 BY EDMUND NORTON ‘One of the first questions that comes to our mind Is: “Why should ‘We tax land values alone and let labor values and capital go untaxed ? aoveeeen The first short answer to this question Is: “Labor values and capital values are private creations of} individuals, while land values are public creations. | Private vaines, created by individuals, belong to the} Individuals who create them; while public’ values! are the creation of society and belong to the so- ciety that creates them. When the public values are always more than the needs of the society that creates them, why should we let private per} sons collect these valu and then turn about and let the public go around any old way that ts handy and take the private creations of individuala to pay the expenses of society?” The single tax is already collected every year in the form of rent by landlordism al! over the world. most civilized countries a small portion of these rents are taken in ‘The balance of governmental expenses are then taken [rom the People throngh taxes on trade, occupations, licenses, poll taxes, per. Sonal property, improvements and a thousand other crooked ways that Make it impossible for the people to know just how much they pay and why they pay it. So the wealth producers of the world are paying, right now, not @uly the single land value tax in form of rent, but they are paying all} other taxes that have been mentioned. Not only this, but they are paying taxes npon the taxes that they pay, Later on we will see this Let us take the greatest concrete example in the Western world New York city. Official assessed values of that city (see Report of Tax Commissioner Lawson Purdy) were, recently, sixty-seven hundred} millions of dollars ($6,700,000,000) Of this, thirty-eight hundred | million dollars ($3,800,000,000) was the value of the bare land after ‘the value of everything made by man was deducted. The Dutch} traders paid the Indians $24.00 in calico and glass beads for the most of | this land in the 17th century. The growth of the city, state and nation} has made all this value—purely social creation. The less than | cent of landlords, who “own” this land, make the more than 94 per! Cent of the tenants on that land pay the single tax, in the form of fent, and then the government makes them pay all the expenses of ment in addition—minus » small portion of taxes on this en this small portion of taxes on these rents comes from the mo that these same tenants have paid to the landlords. The Le On land values would take all the tax from these rents, on the ground| that they are social values, socially created and morally belonging| to the society that creates them. This would leave all other private values, privately created, untaxed in the possession of the people who Greate them. A tax of twenty mills on the dollar of this $3,800,000,000 Would give the city the enormous sum of $76,000,000 per year from its own earnings, while stil! leaving $95,900,000 a year of the ings to go to the landlords. This is on the calculation of basis as the rental value of the land. Taking only just enough of thes the expenses of the government is called the single tax eause ALI. the rent is not taken. The single tax unlimited would} take all the public values, which would, in this case, give the city of New York one hundred and ninety millions of dollars ($190,000,000) every year. Most of this now goes to foreign lords and self-expatriated American lords of the land who live in foreign vountries. What would happen should ali this annual value stay at and, being of the people, should be spent for and by the people? 4 5 per cent publicly created rents to pay mited—be- bome CHOCOLATE ALMOND BAR Pure ground almonds, covered delicious chocolate coating. and nourishing. 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First Ave &/ Madison ent Entertainers 6 to 1. trout in that brook | “Yes; | don't know whether he's ‘@ you any reason to believe afraid they're going to call on him for & apeech or whether he's just ave me a tolerably good cigar.” breaking in his winter Nannels.” TIME oF DISCONTENT WAITING him ! 4 your order for an aero plane yet? “Looks like a real war in Europe.” “No; I'm waiting to find out what “Well, It will take @ good one to the 1912 style of houre mortgage Ix pacify the baseball fans. going to be. give to cach pur Sewing Machine solid oak sewing chairs worth $6.50. You can buy the Machine for cash or on $1.00 weekly payments, tut you get the chair just same week er of a Free one .of th a limited ing ell for week only the As we have number of chairs on hand, it will be in early in the and avoid disappointment ite $6.50 CHAIR FREE se Se you to co The Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet for r Xmas $1.00 Down and $1.00 a Week a Hoosier for Christr This week we are form- ing a club of twenty-five members who will get the Hoosier for $35.00 on terms of $1 down and $1 a week Buy Comfort Rockers Half Price Ve ng one Comftort gift in ¢ twenty hoos- Room no mistake of. the: fine Living Rockers for a There is always room very home for an extra We show about styles similar to picture, made of solid oak, spring seats and uphol- stered in genuine leather, Prices rar from $16.00 for ou will make Rockers $8.00 Rockers $19.75 niort Up to $39.50 Comfort Seattle's Largest Housefurnishing Store Buy Now Pay Later | Snare PIKE 81. AND FIFTH AV, JOBH WISE BAYS: “Ther jourin’ jwhocarries his ‘pipe in his coat pocket.” THE CAUSE “What gives Jack Pointer dogged expression?” 1 think ft is his pug none,” “PARTIALLY EQUIPPED Poote—1 tell you there's an in |deseribable sense of } in lying jin bed and ringing # bell for jone’s valet Vriend--You have a valet? Poot»—No, but I've got a bell Smart Set Magazine HER CREDIT WA3 STRAINED A young country merchant who had something of @ reputation for clone figuring was enpecially atten tive to the village schoolma‘am. |The young woman had a sweet |tooth and was not at all retiring about making the fact known, Ac cordingly, she hinted to her ad: tmirer that a box of chocolates would be greatly apprectated on the occa Jaton of his next visit, Later the saggestion was repated and again duly heeded. The third time the subject was broached, however, the dispenser of sweets turned a deaf ear to the entreaty “1 don’t know about taking that girl any more candy,” he confided to a companion next day 5 owin’ me 60 cents for chocolates alrendy.”—Lipplncott's Maguzine BREAKING THE ‘MONOTONY Tt wae « email town tn central Indiana. The village storekeeper |was ticket agent, baggage master and telegrapher of the Itttle flag station past which two fast mails! |thundered each day. At last, grow ing tired of the monotony of life, | jhe went out and pulled up the fi | The train slid in and came to a stop in front of the tiny station. Where's your passenger mandoed the bustling conductor. Waal,” drawled the agent, dunno as thar is anyone wantin get on, but I kinder thought mebbe some one might want to get off.”— Succona. de. bg | to} THEIR LOCALITY “Where is the best place to go to get cattatie?” To pussy-willows, Baltimore American you idiot."— Gordon Tracie | Follette’s, Chittenden, Seattle’s Own General, Urg Goverement Development of ‘Alaska’ 's Mines What te it that ald about war? He who made ft snyonymous with that place over the Styx t het Weil, there are lots of peop think an he, The our man, Brig, Gen. Hiram M. Chit on, U. BA fred. But ¢ hittenden doesn't say it that He's one of those fellows who are wtitutionally opposed to any di Gen. Sherman was the chap t the fi foned by Gen ean find it in Chitte War and Peace, two years ago glory of the peace ther in the of war, but in lifting the of society to a pla will #0 an abomination, Men must realize that living for the common welfare is a duty no less honorable and far more useful than that of dying for their country.” Which same, when duly digested, is quite @ solar plexus blow to the soldier stuff, coming from a soldior boy, who entered the nation’s mili tary incubator at West in 1884, and had heen there on the full army payroll until F 1910, when he reti ows incident to bin ittenden came to 1906 an the governm in charge of the Lake Washington ction. The report be submitted was the flrst upon which congress acted, and paved t to the actual beginning of the work Chittenden, however, fell seriously ill, and finally had to ret He Is now chairman of tt port comminaion, the Live office he has ever held. Chittenden treate great public wtions by putting them through laboratory text, as it were, conclusions are there fore wholly uninfluenced by pas sion or emotion Wherefore, there'll be an yow! pretty soon from certain inter interests,” as he calls them one of hiv magazine articles (Chit tenden ts @ steady contributor to national magazines of his ar: ticles being published this month), when It becomes known that the general has come out unequivocally for government control of railroads in Alaska, and also for the mining of jcoal by the government; for doing government work by the direct, rather than the contract way, and for municipal ownership and opera tion of public utilities mes out squarely for these propositions in articlos in current issues of La the Atlantic and the Forum magazines. What the General Says He wallops the arcument aga Rovernment ownership on th ground that It will tend to create a bigger “apoilx” system, by saying “It Is because thore are relatively no few interests under ¥ trol that the public gives them so little attention, and leaves them an book about iden’ publiahe caune abolition t war yoral where Point of firat elec au awful nine} three st bile con GENERAL CHITTENDEN of the scope of service be it shal! ultimately ‘8 interests, and antly resent political With the postal say the reclamation wervice and th ama canal, what ground have we to fear municipal ownership and the operation of pub lic utilities, a parcels post system and % widespread application of do- ing public work? Panama's Lesson. “Quite as important to the future country as the Panama canal itself,” Chittenden says, “will be the great lesson of its construe tion, that public authority can con. duct mighty ente s in any line of work w freedom from polit with as high effi initiative and as @ the most perfect indust jon in ex istence easy prey Hut let the panded so" that uffect the pe they will ine interf« ings bank x wysten as froe onOmy organins tency spotis politician, | And here is Chittenden’s disposal of the Alaska situation “The only way in which the Alas ka coal controversy can be settled to the permanent faction of the country at large is for the goverm ment to mine the coal on its own ae count. Let it do in thie case exactly as it did in Panama—organize an@ do the work without the interposl- tion of any private agency whatever, if we would but lay aside our prejue dices for a moment and look candid- ly at the matter, we should clearly see that the only interests which can possibly suffer by such a course are a few capitalists, who would be deprived of a bonanza opportunity, All other interests would unques tionably benefit by it. And the only real reasons why we do not adopt this course are, first, the pressure of these interests, and, second, the force of tradition, which makes it difficult for ws to change our habit | of looking at things.” BALLARD BUSINESS DIRECTORY BE GUIDED BY THE ADVERTISEMENTS BELOW. WATCH THE PHONE NUMBERS. LOOK FOR SPECIAL FEATURES THESE PEOPLE ARE AD. VERTISING. 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