THE SINGLE TAX

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3018, 17 November 1891, Page 2

THE SINGLE TAX

TO TIIK KIHTOK. •Sill, —Tim very 110141 de 1 )1111im. under whv'i you r correspondent " Wm king man " v.■ it is in itself ail i>|>■: 11 admission if a bie ,c'.i ..f the law as act forth in Wm link which Ih •= • earnestly recommends me to study, in i.rd-a that 1 may ol)t:iin a morn correct n n -1. ■ratandins of the law of incum/uid tei am, inasmuch as he uses it to distmgui-h him-elf from the mass of those who ilo no!, bur wii-. should according to bis accepted ant lwrii y, work. I wonlil also 1 i!c-t to remind hi o that derision and attempts at sinji.m are not answers to direct questions, and ih it if I am, as he supposes, a man of mie bun],-, he is certainly u mail nt one idea, the idea, that permeates the party in whose int. ac-t ho writes—Self. As to my "dully ii"t hin.'s, " I think if he had attempted to pi ivo diem nothings instead c.f so confidently, chirnctcrising them an such, he would have f' amd the task almost as difficult as trying to tain nothing inside out. The extent of his piceptive and reflective faculties may be v.av uccuratoly es'imatcd by the fact that liseriously contemptated such an attempt, and did not become aware, until after grave consideration, of the futility of trvin': t" discover an inside to nothing. S"ch an instance of " Workingin m's " profundi! y I am not in the least surprised at, it, being fully explained tiy his m miles!, prell i 1 -c■ I n for a certain kind of antique literature, the constant .study of which tends to pi mint, tin"! train of thought in v.-hi■ hlk i-vidin'ly indulges. and doubtless en ible I him Pi perceive nothing exti aordinary 'n li: . attempt to Lni'i! nothing in ide out, utii though a li ilhing were the proposed a;,en'.. As the party to which h" b-longs in ■>> - s! roii|; likiio; for one of Dickens eh tractei I will conclude by reminding him th it he h i • not yet vmi ino the definitions asked lor, and that when lie does, " Barkis is wiiliu, —I am, etc. Osk or thi: Co. 10 run KIHTOK. BIU, —Mr Parr states that, no one h is Jiowu his atitement. "ihat the single tax uoaid lienetit the small fanner," to bo iiicire:; l .. Well, perhaps not, and if I walked irpo J.P.s' store and carried off a suit of cloth s ' without payment, 1 supp■•bb no one would try to prove that I did not b"nofit by Ihe transaction. But J.l', would be the first to'provo that it was immoral and i 1 :<--ra 1 end lay me hp by the heels for it. .I.l'. wilt say that is rpiite a different thine, ai.d I admit there is a difference all the ditf oreuoi between Meuiu and Tuuut -a h >r-e, hot ,if another colour. J. I'. will of course qu .tt the in idem and sonorous fallacy that population has made the value of the land, jr.si, so, ami he will perhapi admit that | o • ,1 >- tiou made the value, of his suit of <.)„ ||.> s , At any rate his suit would not be of much value if there was n i pouuijti ai, if he thinks otherwise let him tt v i.i. libng u.i an uninhabited islam l . Whit ha- .T.l'. d.aie to add value to his clothes '! Why, 'uillitn..'. He bought them as chap as I could and keeps them till le' fin l ' some one w.intm.r and widiu,' In give—what The prime vaiun Oh dear no I but the prime cost plus si ..inething more, which when applied to land he c.dl.the " unnamed increment." If the si>iz!>' tax means anything it means that the whole community is; toen.joy the blessings ~f |-, w anil order, peace and s 'ctn i! y, and a sini'l section iito p.y the wli 'a' o is' ■if i : , p-,-sion b-iiig confisc ited f>u ni a fotid to keep ingoing. Thank you ; lint 'he end i-. no' ye', meanwhile I would t> ;»ii Maceiv .sing',: ta.xers to emigrate '■ < sane p! ■ < ■ where the uuemval increment will a • bather them an 1 I de noio. .I.l'. i liberty to dismiss ail opponent with sumhigh soundinir phrase of which donh: less le> understands the meaning. 1 prefer to confine myself arguments suited to a Wohmn.:; .MAN