Leavenworth Labor News from Leavenworth, Kansas • 6

SERIOUS ABOUT Franco had 4,000 duols last year and the coroner didn't get a fee out oi the entire lot. FACTS BHEAD what can then be obtained upon free land. This increase of wages will enable workingmen to cooperate in production, combining their savings to supply tho capital. Wherever labor is not get QUERY AND CRITICISM, Under thiB heading brief and pointed objections to tho single tax, and questions regarding it, will be printed and answered. Readers are invited to send questions to the pub-ni ii.

Whloh Efowekeepern Should Earnestly Consider. ting its share this will naturally be done; and free competition The Host Fystoui of Fortification. is that adopted by people In procarlons health who wisely fortify tliolr systems uxuIdhI dfs-ease wilh that acceptable and effectual barrier ftdiiiust Its inroad Hosteller's Stomach Hitters, Precimtloniiry meivsure, wlien the health Is but Mitrhtly, lmpn.it od Is. as physicians well know, woith uny amount of niodkatlon afterward. A premonitory malarial chill, a fit of Indlgrention, increasing Inerrulut'ity of ths bowels, a warning rlicumatlotw.mro, Inactivity of tho kidneys, slight at fli'Mt.

billons sallow neb? accompanied with furred toe riic these are appeals to tho sense of wolf-protection which no person of common Judgment will disregard. IIostotter'8 Stomach Bitters preserves those who take It from malaria, dyspepsia, chror.lo constipation, rheumatism, kidney and bladder trouble and liver complaint, Nervous Invalids, persons troubled with the infirmities incident to iidvuneed years, ladies in delicate health and convalescents rinrive infinite benefit from tho Bittern. everywhere in production and ex prefer to dig few? Is it not, on the contrary, a benefit to all to have the largest possible total protection! The cultivation of 160 acres would not be taxed at all, directly or indirectly. As tho owner of 1G0 acres he would bo taxed only if his land were especially desirable, and then in proportion to its especial desirability. In this sparsely settled country nearly the whole value of farming land is due to tho monopoly of vacant land.

This monopoly having been done away with by th6 single tax, tew farmers will have any taxes to pay, either as cultivators or as owners. Only those who have peculiarly favorable locations, near towns, will be taxed at all. If you doubt this proposition, I am prepared to demonstrate it. Percy Pepoon. change will prevent the robbery of labor.

Now, the system of rebates given by tho railroads to large concerns prevents free competition; then, transportation monopolies being abolished, all will have equal access to the markets as well as to the earth. Percy Pepoon. i usner oi win pupur LIMITATION OF WEALTH. I have read your paper in the hope that you had found "tho remedy." But I cannot agree with you that the single tax is the remedy for the great evil of concentrated wealth. If your object is to prevent "land monopoly" your paper is right; but why tax the poor cultivator of 1G0 acres in order to get at the owner of thousands of acres.

Horace Greeley once said: "The way to resume was to resume;" tho way to put a stop to land monopoly is to put a stop to it. It is much easier to get public sentiment to that point where it will consent to the owner Circus performers are counting on a backward spriuar. 99 William MclCeekan, Drusftistat ship of small homes than no homes at all. I have read "Progress and Poverty" and o.ther suggested remedies for the evil of Bloomingdale, Mich. I have had the Asthma badly ever since I came out of the army and though I have been in the drug business for fifteen years, and have tried nearly everything on the market, nothing has given tne the slightest relief until a few months ago, when I used Bo-schee's German Syrup.

I am now glad to acknowledge the great good it has done me. I am greatly relieved during the day and at night go to sleep without the least trouble." (D millionalrism, and the more I read the more I am convinced that the only remedy is in "arbitrary lirai-; tation of the amount of wealth any one shall hold, whether it be in land or other property. To this I Henry George is opposed. If the unlimited ownership of wealth is I "tfftKt A serious danger menaces tbo hoalth of the people of this country in the numerous alum baking powders that are now being urged upon the public. There Is no question as to the detrimental effoets of those powders upon the system.

Every Hoard of Health, every physician, will tell you of the unwholesome qualities they add to the food Some countries have absolutely prohibited the sale of bread containing alum. Even small dates of alumi given to children, have produced fatal result, While cases of heartburn, Indigewtion, griping constipation', dyspepsia, and various kindred gastrlo troubles from Irritation of the mucous membrane, caused by the continuous use ol food prepared with the alum or alum-phosp' ate powders, are familiar in the practice of every physician. It is nofc possible that any prudent housewife, any loving mother, will knowingly uae an article of food that will injure the health of her household, or perhaps cause the death of her children. How shall the dangerous alum powder be distinguished? And how shall the danger to health from their use be avoided? Generally, alum powders may be Known from the price at which they are sold, or from the fact that they are accompanied by a gift, or are disposed of under some scheme. The alum powder costs but a few cents a pound to mike, and is often Bold at 2D or 25 cents a pound.

If some present is given with it, the price may be 80. 40 or 50 cents a pound. It is impossible to name all the alum powders in the market, but any baking powder sold at a low price, or advertised aa costing only half as much as cream of tartar powders, or accompanied by a present, or disposed of under any scheme Is of this class, detrimental to health, and to be avoldpd. But the easy, safe, and certain protection of our bread, biscuit andjjoake from all danger of unwholesomeness is in the use of Royal Baking Powder only. This powder ia mentioned because of the innumerable reports in its favor by high rccdical authorities, by the U.

S. Government, and by the official chemists and Board of Health, which leaves no doubt as to its entiro freedom from alum, limo nd ammonia, its absolute purity and wholesomeness. While its use is thus a safeguard against the poisonous alum powders it is satlslactory at the same time to know that it makes the whitest, lightest, sweetest and most delicious food, which will keep moist and fresh longer, and that can be eaten with immunity hot or cold, stale or fresh, and also that owing to its greater strength it is more economical than others. These facta should incline consumers to turn a deaf ear to all opportunities to buy the inferior powders. If a grocer urges the sale of the cheap, impure, alum brands, it should be borne in mind that it is because he can make more profit, on them.

The wise housekeeper will decline in all cases to take them. Take no chances through using a doubtful article where so important a matter as the health or life of dear ones is at stake. oil tlie tac. Sturgia We indulge in domostio drama every night at our house. Parkea Indeed? Who takes part? Sturgis 3-montha-old daughter is leading lady and I do the walking gentleman pari A HOST OF WITNESSES.

wrong, let us stop it. If it is right, then let up shut up for we are certainly getting there. Geo. A. Abbott.

Falls City, Neb. ANSWER. Single Taxers hold that the concentration of wealth to-day is due, not to superior ability and industry of those in whose hands it is found, but to the fact that a few have been given legal power to appropriate the earnings of many in plain language, to rob them. The clear, simple reform to which we are pledged is the stopping of such legal robbery by the abolition of monopoly. Mind you, Single Taxers intend to abolish all monopolies; but they point to the obvious fact that the monopoly of nature, and natural forces, through private monopoly of laud, is the basic monopoly; without tho abolition of land monopoly all other reforms must prove useless.

A CONVERT. Mr. Henry George: Dear Sir For a number of years I have heard of you in a vague way, through newspaper squibs, etc. My idea had not been well defined nor firmly fixed, but it was this, that you were the teacher of some vague and visionary, perhaps fanatical teaching, something im practicable and impossible to carry out. I attended your lecture in St.

Louis yesterday with the result that it made me a convert to the theory. Before the conclusion of the discussion that followed your lecture I was compelled to rise and leave the theatre in order to make my train for home. I take this means of propounding some questions that I should have been glad to have asked there. I do not intend that you shall take the time necessary to answer this communication in writing. If you have written any works that answer my questions, or if there is anything in print answering them please consider this an order for such printed matter, and have it forwarded to me at once.

I will remit the price upon receipt of bill. Question: (1) By your proposed change what would be done with the titles of land as represented by the deeds that are now held! Would the rights under those deeds be confiscated! (2) Would those who own buildings be allowed to retain all the land that they occupy provided they paid the tax? (3) Would those who have brought, by clearing and cultivation, large tracts of land to a high state of cultivation, be allowed to retain and cultivate that THE NEXT MORNING I FEEL BRIGHT AND MW AND MY COMPLEXION 15 BETTER. iTy dootor aavs it nets gently on tho stomach, liver and kldnevs, and Is a pleasant laxatives This drink Js mdJo irom herbs, and is pxepUxedJor n8 as easily as tea. it is called Ofl'S MIMCIII All drusttlfits sell ltatCOo.ni $1 a pnekape. If you cannot it, shnri vonr' Rrtrtreni for free Bample.

line's Family lledielno moves (be tlO'4 els eiU'li inv. Arirtiw JP Oli ATutl II. WOODWAB t. LuROY, N.X, WHY LABOR COMPLAINS The writer agrees with "Aunt Matilda" that man, in order to exist, must have food, clothing and a shelter, and that we want more workingmen in every department of life. These workingmen will appear as soon as we abolish the drones, who have a thousand times more food, clothing and shelter than they ever can use.

How did they get all this wealth! By their own exertions? Let us see! All wealth is produced by labor applied to land. 1. Where land is free and labor is unassisted by capital, the whole produce will go to labor as wages. 2. Where land is free and labor is assisted by capital, wages will consist of the whole produce, less that part necessary to induce the storing up of labor as capital.

3. Where land is subject to ownership and rent arises, wages will be fixed by what labor conld secure from the highest natural opportunities open to it without the payment of rent. 4. Where natural opportunities are all monopolized, wages may be forced by the competition among laborers to the minimum at which laborers will consent to reproduce. A careful perusal of these four quotations will convince "Aunt Matilda" that the millionaires obtain their millions by some hocus-pocus privileges that enable them to appropriate for themselves the wealth produced by those who applied mind and muscles to matter.

Men do not labor for the fun of it, but to satisfy their wants and desires, and as all these must be produced from the raw material stored in the earth, "Aunt Matilda" can easily see that he who owns the earth and who, therefore, has the power to exclude others who have an equal right to the use of it, is the one who takes the lion's share. For those who have to work from sixty to eighty-four hours per week in order to keep themselves and families out of the poor-house, there is no "bright side of the picture," not even in this land of the landlord and the home of the slave. "Aunt Matilda" may rest assured that the adherents to the new political economy are not only laying the foundation for others to "build on" but they arealso looking forward for the glorious results of thier work and their self-sacrifice for the good of those who come after them, but in the meantime we most strenuously object to let others reap where we have sown, i. e. steal from ns and call it taxation.

Your correspondent should carefully consider the decalogue, the Lord's prayer and this psalm of David: The earth is the Lord's, and the ullness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein, etc. Poverty may be a blessing to "Aunt Matilda" but long as the golden rule is ignored, there will always be kickers like me. Uncle Tom, in St. Louis vj! zMtrJ- i land by the aid of hands they could hire, as long as they could pay the tax thereon? (4) Would your system in any wise tend to abolish the vast accumulation of Curoj xilis. Csagia, ites Tsroij, Crcns, Ttmeozs.

Whoeplat Ostjh. B'enrMliMiUtthLu. first itijci tti a relief la 4-TOOsi ttajss. it Ten vrf.J sso tho excellent Offoct after tho flfR (cm. CcH br dca'err owv-trhera.

tarr twtv TO wt do wealth as represented by large manufactories, railroads, steam ship companies, etc. (5) Where a man is a laborer in a factory, what tendency would your system HoiisYiorilood? have to give him his just share of the production of his labor? Under yoar system would he not be I bad a malignant breaking out on my leg below the kDee, and was cured sound and well with two. and a half bottles of Other blood medicines had failed Kgsiij to do mo any good. Win. C.

Beatv, YoikviUe, S. just a likely to be robbed by the operator, the operator getting an unjust Bhare of the profits of the manufactured articles for the use I WAS troubled from childhood with An Air. gray-! ed case of Tetter, mid I hrea bottles of V3a cured ine permanetlv. It will prove to be much easier to get people generally to consent to a stopping of legal stealing than to agree to a communistic legal limitation of wealth. Aside from the moral question, your scheme is impracticable.

But it is impracticable chiefly because the mass of the people regard it as immoral, and a robbery of those who possess wealth. Unlimited possession of wealth is wrong only when the wealth is gained by appropriation instead of by labor, and this is the case with all great fortunes today. to illustrate: Suppose the world to be fashioned like a potato patch, and men, primarily, can live only by digging potatoes. Now, if we allow private ownership of the patch, all will be at the mercy of the owners, who can accumulate vast piles of potatoes, while the laborers obtain baiely enough to live upon. Then if private monopoly is allowed of tho roadways through the patch, the owners of the roads also have a power to appropriate arbitrarily, and, if unchanged, may have the whole people, including the land owners, at their mercy.

If the charges of the road monopolists are limited by law or the fear of legislation, the owners of the potato patch and of the roads will, between them, accumulate great wealth while the masses are in want. What would be the remedy! Would it not be simply to reassert tho equal natural right of all to the use of the land from which all necessaries and luxuries are produced, and of the means ol tran-portationf This done, does it injure auy body if one man chooses to dig many potatoes while others WALLACE MANN, of his oapital, and his skill in managing the factory as he now does? Respectfully, C. A. Singletary. Collinsville, 111.

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(1) The single tax will not 3i Consumptive and people affect title deeds. It will simply prevent monopolistic appropria Dia, should nso I bo's Cure for ft to" tion of labor products through the tkoniaodi, (t hns not Injur- ed one. Itlt rot tmd to tuUe. It is the best cotieh syrup. bold everrwhern.

R. PEE ownership of title deeds. (2) Yes. (3) Yes. (4) Yes.

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monopoly privileges which free trade and the repeal of subsidies, patent monopolies, will do away with. (5) Giving labor access to natu- mm will cimrc CATARRH LPrlceBOCents. 1 1 Avpt? Balm la to each nottriL. BLT ural opportunitiss will everywhere raise wages to the level of The Bishop of Lasitgno has been appointed Apoe.tolie delegate to the Kouth American Governments..