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Mention this paper. 
First a town and then a great city appears 
and the land increases in value a thousand¬ 
fold. That increased value is given by the 
people who have crowded to the spot. Fart of 
that value belongs to them and they ought to 
get some of the benefit of it. It. should not 
all go to the few men who got there first and 
secured the land. Mr. George proposes t.o 
equalize matters by compelling the land own¬ 
ers to pay all the taxes. All personal proper¬ 
ty, houses, money, etc., is to be exempted. 
Again, he gives the instance of settlers who go 
into a new country and make improvements. 
Some stay and attempt to make homes’ 
Others secure land and let it remain idle. 
They propose to wait until new settlers 
or the improvements of the settlers already 
on the spot shall increase the value of their 
land. Mr. George thinks his plan would put 
a stop to such work, because no improvements 
would be taxed aud all land would be taxed 
alike at such a rate that no man could afford 
to let a large tract stand idle. His idea is to 
eventually make the tax on land equal its au- 
uual rental. He would make the community 
the real owner of all land, thus carrying out 
bis belief that land should be as free as air or 
water. Thus, a farmer or other occupant of 
land would in time be considered as a tenant. 
While he paid his annual rental into the com¬ 
mon treasury lie could call the laud his. 
When the payment stopped the land would go 
to the general community, to be rented to 
somebody else. This, according to Mr. 
George, would in time split up lurge farms 
and the tracts held by monopolists and cor¬ 
porations, because nobody could afford to bold 
more land than could I** profitably employed. 
The holding of land for a rise in price would 
be unprofitable business under such a rule. 
From the vast tracts thus given m to the gov¬ 
ernment the poor could select homes and pay 
the government lent. Thus property would 
be more equally divided—the very rich and 
the very poor will disappear, the middle class 
will increase. All personal property, stocks, 
bonds, houses, etc. etc., will not be taxed. 
They represent man’s labor both of mind and 
body, and to exempt them from taxation puts 
a premium upon them and encourages others 
to similar works. The immense sums derived 
from land taxation are to lie applied to the or¬ 
dinary expenses of government. They will also 
pay for water and light, and the running of 
railways. Public parks, libraries and colleges 
are to be provided by this tax fund. The 
sick and needy, widows aud orphans, and oth¬ 
ers are to bo given homes from this public 
fund. A fixed sum might bo paid to every 
citizen who reaches a certain age. That is to 
say, the land is to support ail who live on it, 
be they lazy or industrious, virtuous or 
vicious. Such, very hriefiy, are Mr George’s 
views as we understand them. We give them 
without comment at this time, though we hope 
in the future to still further explain them aud 
show wherein we think they fail. 
PERSONALS, 
Ex-Senator Ferry, of Michigan, who 
failed in 1882 for $1,500,000, has since paid off 
$ 1 , 200 , 000 . 
Ex-Governor William Aiken, of South 
Carolina, died last week, aged 81. He was 
Governor of South Carolina in 1811, Congress¬ 
man from 1851 to 1857, and before the war 
was the largest slaveholder in the State. 
Messrs. George & MeGr.YNXare said to be 
fighting a very good anti-poverty battle for 
themselves. George is said to have made 
$50,000 in two years by the movement, and 
MeGlynn is of late doing equally well. 
Pension Commissioner Black has signed 
the pension certificate of Gov. Oglesby, of 
Illinois, under the Mexican Pension law based 
upon the Governor’s service in the Mexican 
war, and ou the fact of his being over 62 years 
old. 
William H. Earle, the Prohibition candi¬ 
date for Governor of Massachusetts, is a pro¬ 
minent member of the State Grange. He is 
an extensive market gardener and has been 
proprietor of an agricultural tool and seed 
store. Ilis age is 55, 
Flood, (he ailing California millionaire, 
has resigned the presidency of flu- Nevada 
Bank, and has been succeeded by bis old part¬ 
ner, Senator Fair, who him put $ 1 ,500,000 into 
the batik. This will probably enable the con¬ 
cern to tide over its difficulties arising from 
the disastrous wheat deal. 
Bret Haute makes his home in London at 
the house of the Belgian Minister. The 
famous author’s hair is snow white and lies in 
masses on his forehead. His moustache is not 
so white. His complexion is florid. He has 
not grown especially stout, and were it not for 
his hair would look like a young man. 
Nellie Grant Sartoris lives in South¬ 
ampton, England. Her home stands near the 
river, and is as comfortable and as pictur¬ 
esque as most English homes are. The house 
is two centuries old, and has been added to by 
each generation. Besides this country house, 
her father-in-law has given her a house iu 
London. She is very comfortably fixed, as 
far as money and houses go. Mrs. Sartoris is 
the mother of three children; the oldest, a 
boy, is 10 , aud the youngest, n girl, in six. 
Confederate General Loxostreet intro¬ 
duced General Grant to Miss Julia Dent, who 
is tiow General Grant’s widow. Longstroet’s 
mother was a Dent. On graduating from the 
Military Academy Lougstreet was stationed 
at Jefferson Barracks, below St. Louis. 
While t here be v sited his relatives, tne Dents, 
on the Gravois Road, and when Grant was 
assigned to the same regiment with Longstreot 
he accompanied him to the Dent place, aud 
“the little man with the big epaulettes,” as 
Grant was sometimes called in those days, 
was presented to bis future wife. 
gretted that many young men are gaining 
the ideas expressed by our correspondent. 
Instead of blaming our parents for giving 
us life and for failing to equip ns for life’s 
battles as we would like to be equipped, we 
believe it to be the duty of a true son or 
daughter to feel that the love and care of good 
parents entail upon them a debt of gratitude 
that yeurs of duty cannot repay. Unfortu¬ 
nately, mauy of us do not realize this until it 
is too late 
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Last week a correspondent criticized a re¬ 
cent statement of figures as to the cost of 
bringing a boy from infancy to manhood. 
These figures, as we stated, were taken from 
an article in a magazine. We are uot respon- 
sible for them. They were quoted as being 
the first estimate of the kind we had se*ui. 
The young man was the son of a bookkeeper 
iu the city. He had good clothes, a bicycle, 
money for base-ball matches aud other sports. 
There was no work about home that could 
keep him busy. His training had never fitted 
him for useful work. The point wo desired 
to emphasize was the fact that the young man 
had no right to blame his father and accuse 
him of “doing nothing” for him, after caus¬ 
ing him tin expense of $4,000, besides an ex- 
{>enditure of love and care ou the part of 
both his mother and father, that no human 
measure can estimate. The young man of 21 
who finds himself face to face with the world 
with nothing but a stout pair of hands to 
make his way with, is far bettor off than his 
father, the man of 50 years, who has spout 
the best of bis life iu supporting his sou. We 
look upon it as the meanest kind of imperti¬ 
nence for u young man who has played for 
the first 21 years of his life to come to “the 
old man” at the time when he begins to need 
help aud accuse him of “doiug nothing” for 
him. A young man who finds himself thrown 
upon the worid with no preparation for fight- 
his way may feel like blaming his parents be¬ 
cause they reared him iu idleness aud did uot 
force him to learn some useful trade or pro¬ 
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dervalue the money, love ami care bestowed 
upon him during his youth. It may be pos¬ 
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trials of an earthly existence. We do not 
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A subscriber asks us to explain, in a few 
words, the “laud theories” of ilcnry George. 
This is a difficult thing to do. Mr. George 
has already written some 1 , 000,000 words on 
the subject and seems only to have begun. So 
a "few words” can hardly give a fair synop¬ 
sis of this much-discussed question. We can 
onlv give, in a general way, the idea as to 
what this “land theory” is, which we have 
gained from a careful reading of Mr. George’s 
books. It may uot be entirely correct, but it 
is as we understand it. Wo do not consider 
it practical, but it is certainly one of the thiugs 
that all well informed persons should think 
over. Discussing a thing which wedo not un¬ 
derstand is not profitable business, yet only by 
discussion eau this question be cleared up. 
The foundation of Mr. George’s theory appears 
to be the assumption that the land belongs 
equally to all. It is as much God's free gift 
to man as air. water or fire. He also assumes 
that as society is at present conducted, the 
rich grow richer and the poor poorer, and that 
the more wealth accumulates iu cities the more 
squalid will be the poverty by Its side. The 
main object of his theory is to equalize wealt h, 
to give the poor a liottor chance aud to mako 
the rich contribute more to the good of the 
general public. The man who makes use of 
the land should compensate the entire com¬ 
munity for such use. Everything that is not 
land is the product of labor and should not be 
taxed. Whatever a man produces is his own 
and should not be taken from him for any 
purpose. Mr. George proposes to raise all t he 
money needed for carrying on the govern¬ 
ment by taxing the soil at what he calls land 
values. He says that the value of the land is 
determined by the people who liveou or about 
it. A man secures a piece of laud from the 
Government. It has little or no value. By 
and l>y other people are attracted to the place. 
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