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Les diagrammes suivants iliustrent la m^thode. 1 2 3 4 5 6 mum m MM Quotations and Opinions ON THE Land Question. Saxon Proverb, quoted by SHARON TURNER :- " A landless man is an unfree man." HORACE QREGLY : - ' He who has no clear, inherent right to live somewhere has no right to live at all." Bishop NULTY :— " '• The land of every country is the common property of the people of that country." ANDREW CARNEGIE :- " The greatest discovery of my life is that the men who do the work never get rich." JOHN LOCKE :- " No man could ever have a just claim over the life of another by right of property in land." Professor ZACHARIE (TAe Eminent German Jurist) .— ■ "All the sufferings, against which civilised nations have to struggle, may be referred to the exclusive right of property in the soil as their source." 51SM0NDI: - " Let the great landlords beware ; if once they believe that they have no need of the people, the people may in their turn think that they have no need of them. " JOHN RUSKIN :— " Bodies of men, land, water and air, are the principle of those thmgs which are not, ind which it is criminal to consider as, personal or exchangeable property." Hon. TOn L. JOHNSON :— " The foreign ctooqs that compete with the goods of our manufacturers and trusts are neavily taxed at the Custom House, but foreign laborers are admitted free of duty." Professor W. A. HUNTER, M.A., L.L.B. :— "The English landlord system, so far from having any moral basis, is founded upon a supercilious contempt of the only moral principle that can afford any justificaUon for private property in land. " J. A. FROUDE :- " Under the feudal system the proprietor was the Crown, as representing the nation ; while the subordinate tenures were held with duties attached to them, and vievt liable, non fulfilment, to forfeiture " St. GREGORY tfie GREAT :- " Those who make private property of the gift of God (land) pretend in vam to be innocent. For in thus retaining the substance of the poor they are the murderers of those who die every day for the want of it " LORD COLERIDGE:-" «' I should myself deny that the mineral treasures under the soil of a country belong to » handful of surface proprietors in the sense that this gentleman appeared to think they did U>., to do with as he pleased)." A Slflgl* Tax on the vaiUM of land Is the Mily Just and proper tax. I \\- gUOTA'ilONS AND OUNIONS ON THE LAND QUESTION CARDINAL MANNING :- " The land question means hunger, thirst, nakedness, notice to quit, labor spent in vain, the toil ot years seized upon, the breaking up ot homes, the misery, sickness, deaths of paients, children, wives, the despair andwildness which spring up in the hearts of the poor, when legal force, like a sharp harrow, goes over the most sensitive and vital right of mankind. All this is contained in the land question." Right Hon. Justice LONQFIELD (Cobden Ciub Essays) .— "Property in land differs in its origin from property in any commodity produced by human labor ; tne product ot labor naturally belongs to the laborer who produced it; but the same argument does not apply to land, which is not produced by labor, but is the gift of the Creator of the world to mankind. Every argument used to give an ethical foundation for the exclusive right of private property in land has a latent fallacy. " THOMAS CARLYLE :— *' Properly speaking the Land belongs to these two : To the Almighty God and to all His Children ot Men that have ever worked well on it, or shall ever work well on it. No generation of men can or could, with never such solemnity and effort, sell Land on any other principle : it is not the property of anv generation, we say, but that of all the past generations that have worked on it, and of all the future ones that shall work on it." ADAM SMITH (Wealth of Nations) .— "The wood of the forest, the grass of the field, and all the natural fruits of the earth, which, when land was in common, cost the laborer only the trouble of gathering them, come even to him, to have an additional price fixed upon them, when land has become private pro- perty. He must then pay ior license to gather them, and must give up to the landlord a por- tion of what his labor either collects or produces. This portion, or what conies to the same thing, the price of this portion constitutes the rent of land. " Qeneral FRANCIS WALKER (''First Lessons in Political Ecomony ") .— " It certaivily is true that any increase in the rental value or selling value of land is dua, not to the exertions and sacrifices of the owners of the land, but to ♦he exertions and sacrifices of the community. It is certainly true that economic rent tends to increase with the growth of wealth and population, and that thus a larger and larger share of the product of industry tends to pass into the hands of the owners of land, not because they have done more for society, but because society has greater need of that which they control. " Hon. JAMES Q. MAQUIRE:- " Labor and capital struggle with each other in vain attempts to shift the burdens of excessive rent. The land monopolist who exacts the rent tribute is so strongly intrenched that neither labor nor capital thinks of trying to beat down the speculative rent tide which is strangling them both. * * * Production, by reason ot this unatural pressure of speculative or excessive rent, gradually becomes unprofitable 'erywhere. Stagnation ensues, and labor and capital, in utter helplessness, awaits the inc tble hour of their universal bankruptcy. •' GRANT ALLHN (Contemporary Review, May, i88g) .— " Not one solitary square inch of English soil remains unclaimed on which the landless citizen can legally lay his hand, without paying tax and toll to somebody ; in other words, without giving a part of his own labour to one of the squatting and tabooing class (the land- lords), in exchange for their permission (which they can withhold if they choose) merely to go on existing upon the ground which was originally common to all alike, and has been unjustly seized upon (through what particular process matters little) by the ancestors or predecessors of the present monopolists. " ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE ('Malay Archipelago,' 1868).— "We permit absolute possession of the soil of our country with no legal rights of exist- ance on the soil to the vast majority who do not possess it. A g^eat landholder may legally convert his whole propeity into a forest or hunting ground, and expel every human being who has hitherto lived upon it. In a thickly populated country like England, where almost every acr« has its owner and occupier, this is a power of legally destroying his fellow-creatures ; and that such a power should exist, and be exercised by individuals, in however small a degree, indicates tnat as regards true social science, we are still in a state of barbarism. " Access to land can only b« brought about by tta* application of SingU Tax. T QUOTATIONS AND OPINIONS ON THE LAND QUESTION. D? KEY'S mSi PILLS. THE TRANSFER CIGAR STORE 449 YONGE STREET and Door Below College St. TORONTO, ONT TRY OUR FAMOUS SPECIAL The E.B.H if you want a good Bicycle see the ki ARIEL" Write or call for Catalogue THE A. D. FISHBR CO. 205 YONGE ST., TORONTO. STUTCHBURY & CO. STATIONERS & NEWS DEALERS Full Line of Henry Qsorge's Works in Stock - ^ ^ . Latest Novels and Magazines 54 VICTORIA Street Freehold Loan Building TORONTO, ONT. The greatest medical authori-j I ties and scientists in the world! J recommend Adams* Tutti Frutti [for Indigestion. Among themj I Dr. Cykus Edson, Health Commis- Jsioner, and B. Ooden Doremus,J ^M.D.. LL.D. ,* Allo\r no unitationi to (« palmed off on you. Single Tax and a Single Price Our Motto. Give us a call tor BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS and VALISEF JOHN B. THOMPSON 142 KING STREET-OPP. THE MARKET TORONTO E«tablithcd 1843. Telephone 9996, DR. THOS. HENDERSON ?— t-DENTIST* < ■ Office : 445 Yonge 3t Opposite College St. TELEPHONE 3798 TORONTO. ONT. nini#rn'0 shorthand school m VS wM 111 t ri U Fitmak'b Phonetic Journal says:— "Mr. Barker baa attained great success in teaching the Isaac Pitman Shorthand." NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO ENTER. 14 KING ST. W Toronto, Ont. tfmmmn^^mm W QUOTATIONS AND OPINIONS ON THE LAND QUESTION RICHARD COBDEN ;- " I warn ministers, and 1 warn landowners and the aristocracy of this country, against forcing on the attention of the middle and industrial classes, the subject of taxation. For great aj I believe the grievance of thr protective system, mightj as I consider the fraud and mjustice of the Corn Laws, I verily believe, if you were to bring forward the history of taxation m this country for the last 1 50 years, you will find as black a record against the landowners as even in the Corn Law itseU. I warn them against ripping up the subject of taxation. It they want another league at the death of this one— if they want another Organisation and a motive— then let them force the middle and industrial classes to understand how they have been cheated, robbed, and bamboozled. " New York Sun, Aug. 36, i8gi :— "The best and surest subject of toxation is the thing ;hat perforce stays in one place- thai is, land " St. Lou^., Chronicle :— " Take the annual rental value of land for ;axes, thus relieving all improvements, regardless of their value. " United States Supreme Court .— "The reserved right of the people to the rental value of land must be construed as a condition to every deed. " New York limes, January 10, i8gi .— " The ideal taxation lies in the single land tax, laid exclusively on the rental value of land, independent of improvements." London Times. — \ " One rises fiom a reading of 'The Land Question,' that weighty but most fascinating booK, with a conviction of the justice of the theory advanced." Grand Rapids IVorkman . " Over three columns of matter in the ' Chicago Herald' of Monday last was'devoted to the lecture of Henry George in Chicago the day previous on ' Business Depressions.' Time was when the Herald had hardly a good word to say of Mr. George and his theories. It is one bright spot in the cloud of depression to-day to read the sayings of such men as Mr. George, men who are not politicians and who make no claim to being statesmen, but who are alone actu^itedby honest convictions, and who have made a lite study ot human ills and woes." "More can be made out of the man by owning the land he lives on, than by owning the man. " " The community creates land values. The community makes government expenses necessai-y. Fay the one with the other, instead of allowing land owners to appropriate the natural revenues." " The Single Tax is not a tax on the area of land, but on the value of land, irrespective of improvements. With a local .option taxation act, any municipality can, if it desires, abolish all other taxes, and levy a single tax on land values as the basis for revenue." " The assessment laws of Ontario specially favors monopoly and the monopoly of mineral resources. According to the Act, all mineral lands are valued and estimated at the same value as other lands in the neighborhood used for agricultuial purposes. V/hv are not our mines developed ? B( cause a few men are allowed to own who will not develop them, nor permit others to, until the 'owners' are paid a monoply price for the privilege. Put a Single Tax on, then note the result." ■ > » UNITED STATES'* "' " CENSUS AGENT GEORGE K. HOLMES DIvUlon oJ Population : I Distribution ol Wealth : Working Class, Middle Class, Capitn list Class. 52 39 8 3-5 per cent Working Class, Middle Class, Capitalist Class, 4 1-2 per cent 24 71 For Information, Tract*, Etc., Write, ALAN C. THOMPSON, ~V^ Secretary Toronto Single Tax Ass'n. ONTARIO 5INQLE TAX LEAGUE 72 Victoria St., TORONTO. Temporary Office: 18 Court St.. lORONTO. I