fllE SUSlUt QKKUHMAX. r(IKTLA?i. MAI' lit, 1912.
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FALSE PLEAS IDE
BY SINGLE TAKERS
ONE WAT HOW SINGLE TAX WOULD WORK.
They Said
toTillamook: w
but Tillamook proved it was not boasting
"To Abolish Poverty," Phrase
Used by Communists to
Mislead Masses.
-TLLLAM00K COUNTY the past year made over three and
one-half million pounds of the peculiarly delicate cheese
which bears its name, and sold it practically all to buyers at
its own pates for around 20 cents a pound a very fancy
jobbing price for cheese, which proves that Tillamook mu&t
be very fine.
POOR WOULD SUFFER MOST
Saaaaaaaaa.
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HEESE IT"
Adoption of Henry Oeorge lwrtrtne
Woald Precipitate Panic That
Would Wrrck Bualne World.
Saj Portland Obwnrr.
BT A. 1- VEAZIK.
"To So;u(j pov-rtjr." ay th anxiou
F: cammluiiio appal tor fund".
Thar will b no poor. If only w will
lake away from tli prnt owner th
land now Id.' and t.lrow them open,
heavily ta-burined. to the wlllin
hand or th land-bucrry multitude.
And I read ll.nry 0or's declaration
la that a:l the desirable land of
Or-oo and Wanlnloa were con;
t-.at Immlcraat with capital and out
fit to Iwitin famine were retracin
their Ion Joamey to their old home
In the Kat. eoreiy waated In fortune
by their frultl queat.
The eihauatlon of the avaiiabl land
vii a lhrjr. an aaumptlon mad to
fit the failacle of a dreamer. If pov
erty wa due to the locklnc up of th
land In prKat owneratiip. It would not
fiq to ba avaiiabl land and poverty
at th am time. so. preto! Th nsabl
tanda were aone! And yet. ther lay
nut In lod aunlla-hu untouched by th
hand of man. mtlllona of acrea of th
flneat wheat land and fruit land on
th continent of America: and ren th
lt 1 year hav aeen mor home-
taada takm than any other decad of
our hutory.
An:ml th dreamer cry of lack of
opportunity. ,t u put ucb anawr
aa tie atory told m th other day by
a rrln.ed Sweltaer who. blest In world
ly po9neton only with a wU and
lltt: children, (truck Oregon In llll.
the year when our bank wer clo
Inc. the beginning of our wort era of
tlrprmslon. II bousht. entirely on
rlit. a plec of rouith land In Oark
amaa County, and beiaa with mighty
earnntnea lurrlnr It Into a farm, be
cause it w. to be his not (imply th
ver-pensMnc Improvement, but th
land Itself, would be hi own. Th
story ha It moving- parts of pathos
and humor, but w will Jump to th nd
and tvil how. with ttre children crown
to sturdy, self-reliant manhood and
womanhood and off In homes of their
own. the old couple are now abl. with
their property worth Ki.00. to retire
from tue labor of the farm and llv on
the Inrome.
It Is one story out of thousand. Tet
e l. l neen t'ld 11 years before, with
the ronrlnrlnaness of cold type, that
the lands available to the poor wer
gone and the only hop to abolish pov
erty lay In wrestin away th owaar
Mp a rea.tjr granted. That cry I
still heard. 1 wonder what vagary could
be ao wild that It would not get a
hAmee nf vnl.l If It ItrnmlMil to abol-
H l"h poverty. Never wa a quack rm-
ely urrrl for the Ills of society with
out a Irs trade mark th claim that
It W14 for th poor a arrslnst Ui rich.
Trai Is a matter of course.
!vj with our sln(le-tax friends. They
vln a big following as soon as thry
enter the field with a proposed Innova
tion, claiming It to be for th poor and
against the rich. Our sympathies are
n!l that av, and ought to be. Thos
mho blindly flKht from sympathy alone,
without th die rmination to se that
they ar In reality firhtlng against the
Interrrts of the very ones they seek
to he'.p. will enroll straightway under
the banner of (Ingle tax. It has plaus
ibility enough, as flat money had and
free silver had. an-l everv popullstlo
"lain1 has had. to satisfy without
trouble the Intellects of th shallow,
and. laleed. bard thinking la required
to fathom soma of It fallacies. Kvrry
form of communism, of whtcb slngl
tax Is only on groat branch, ha Its
strong appeal to men' heart and
mind's to be overcome only by the
strunger arguments rf reason anj hu
man cxpertcm In favor of th Indi
vidualistic stem.
Is the sing: tax th panacra for th
cure of poverty? (Should It hav th
support of every poor man and every
man of moderat fortun becaui It I
f'r th Interest of such aa against th
rich?
In th first place, th whol social
philosophy uf Henry tieorg 1 baaed
on the fallacy that poverty Is du to
private ownership of land, which re
quired him to assume, and to try to
prove by Instances at the ttm h wrot
2 year ago. that all the avaiiabl
lands wer already monopolised. Th
rtistenc of available lands, then open
for whomsoever would take, would have
kl.led his theory at Its birth. A doc
trine based on such a fallacy Is not
llkelr ! be true.
.In th next plscs. th logic and dor
trice of sing: tax ar as much against
th ownership of land by the poor man
aa bv the rU'h man. Note th word of
Henry George: "In th very nature of
things land cannot be made Individual
propertv. Thl principle Is absolute.
The tit of a peasant proprietor de
serves no mor ret-ect thsn the title
vf great territorial noble."
Stride tax aa Its first step woutd
throw all th existing taxes on the
land and then proceed to complete con
f.i...itl..n. Note again the words of It
gre.u prophet:
V4 st la the procrammef The ear te
make lafd coroniea prorertv Is llmpl te
fake rent for the cuanmoa leneflt. .vie to
'. th te mi Is te ato''aa one tax
altar ano-'i-r until the h.'le ee'cnl of Iht
titAfuT la iiiua Ibe valve ef the issd.
vvn.a !.; p.it.l Is reached the bettie is
on. The !-ara I. rsu(hl. kl'led ar
kitine-i. ar.! i rook him will be a verr .
aa iran-r The ral ncht vi ill reioe ea I
tTe prira;tin ia rnMli'l'lf aa'ailna: Ui- J
a.loB tapo-a land values. When tnia is once
imoa the la r..l. o4--a SI l merelv he
fca.n !-cilt. ae'eated. they i:l hse
l-n nu"J. s4 the r.ature of the land
vaiura will he s venersiU- enderstood that
! rete taxation .i aa te take lbs abe.e
real (r co."n.oa rtiry- ai-s an I be a mere
matter wC cvuise. The Land viueslloa. page
sa
finale tax will bard.-n the man who
la Juat making hla start on a rough
unlmprov d ple.-e of Ivnd with as great
a tax aa his rtca neighbor haa to pay.
who nur have bought a finely Im
proved and developed farm or orvhard.
with a mansion house and thousands of
dollars worth of personal property. If
will make it hard for the man wb
ha not Improved hi property ever t
Irtitrov it. by burdening him with a
much heavier tax during the time he
is trying to save the money to Improve
witu. by also destroying bis power te
borrow because the value of tho land
title he ha to offer as security ha
been diminished or destroyed, and be
tause the Interest rate will rlw a th
security become less stable.
At the sam time that It strike
thee hard blows at th man who has
not yet accumulated tho mean to build
wltfe. It will reward by Uf exemption
wiili i8kL-
aesisaeessssessssssesisssssisssseseeeeeese.ssassas ti
of their costly Improvement th rich
who hav already built and need no en
couragement. ijueer scheme that, to help tha poor
to build by taking th tax off those
who hav already bulli and ar anjoy
Ing th Income of their property, and
putting It on th back of tho as who
are trying to make enough to build
with: and yet It I th slngl taxer
-hem in a nutshell. It remind rn
of my boyhood acquaintance of man
on th cattle range. ho thought It
was a good thing to hav sore on th
back of hi horse because It gav th
horse mor spirit. Ho th alngle-taxer
say, "make th pain of poverty a
little more galling, and th victim will
atrnggl harder to get out." nhow him
how happy th well-to-do man I with
hi Improvements exempt, and It will
put aom ginger Into hi effort to get
Into that favored class. This It I
sought to justify and hav accepted,
because a few, a very few. rich men
bold some Idl sites on which they
ought to build; while th thousand of
poor men whose building site ar Idl
because they ar perhaps still unpaid
for. or. at any rate, the owner hav
not th money saved with which to
build, ar to be crushed In th effort
to get at these few.
finale tax would tend toward
crowding: doing away with open
par, beautiful lawn and Portland
roses. It would concentrate th pop
ulation In the heart of the cltte worse
than ever, killing out the suburbs. It
would tend to drive away from cities
Industrie that need ground pac
rather than lofty structures, auch a
lumber yard, foundries and stock
yard. "Ingle tax would exempt vast
fortune from any contribution to the
support of the tiovernment many of
the greatest fortune In the world. On
man or one trust might come to own
all th stores In Portland and under
single tax rr not a cent for fire pro
tection, police protection. use of
streets, or any other privilege en
Joyed, f It may b alleged that if uch
a monopoly paid taxes. It would add
them to the price of the good and col
lect them from the people; but It Is
elementary In political economy that
monopolies pay their taxes out of their
profits and not out of the consumer.
They charge for the goods all th traf
fic: will bear, tax or no tax. Th ln-gle-taxer
may -.te that file until he
1 toothless, and he cannot scratch it
Single tax avowedly undertakes to
bring about, by moans deliberately
chosen, the strongest and most serious
srmptom rf hard time, namely, a
heavy fall In real eatate market val
ues. Can we hav the main symptom
without the disease? I think not. Its
effect would be abundantly sufficient
to precipltati a panic such as would
wrvk fe bueineee world. Henry
lieorge almltted before a Massachu
setts Tr.- Commission that the adop
tion of bis pirn would break every sav
ing bank, and Insurance company.
Have the provident poor no Interest In
these things? Who ever iw good
times with real eetat values falling,
banks closing and mortgage being
foreclosed on every hand? Vet this
must be the Inevitable concomitant of
"making the land so cheap the people
can all get at it."
The opportunity for private owner
ship of land, with the prospect that In
th long run any savlnirs so invested
will increase in value, affords th on
uneq'talcd Inducement to thrift and
Industry: and by th sWe of It stands
investment In mortgage securities on
real property, the foundation of our
savings banka and Insuranc and ben
efit societies. All of tneae. alngl tax
wants to wipe out. leaving no Invest
ment Into which the poor may put
their funds with assurance of safety,
and driving all th Investing public to
th only other securities open, namely
th stocks and bonds of the great In
dustrial trusts, which already have a
threatening power by their hold on th
money of the country.
MANY HOMES BUILT
Activity in Residence Con
struction Is Marked.
CONTRACTORS ARE BUSY
Homcbnlldcr Company Organised
by fmbdenstock Larson In
crease Capital Stock to Ex
pand Its Operations.
On of th most encouraging signs of
Portland's bright future Is the large
number of homes that are being con
structed In various parts of the city,
and most particularly on the East Bide.
Up to the past year the activity In
subdivisions was marked, and while
this activity Is still noticeable. It la be.
Ing encroached upon by the construc
tion of homes. Not only do the build
ers and contractors report considerable
work on hand, but the outlook for tire
future seem blight. So great ha been
th demand for home, and so certain Is
It that this demand will continue, that
builders and contractors can look to a
prosperous future.
This movement toward building Is
best Illustrated by the experience of the
I'mbdenstock Larson Homebullders'
Investment Company. Ho great was the
demand of its customers for homes that
the I'mbdenstock & Larson Company
was reorganized last Fall Into the I'mb
denstock ac Larson Homebullders' In
vestment Company. During the six
months' period just past this company
has been actively engaged In building
houses of the bungalow type.
At a special meeting of the stock
holders, held May . the capitalization
of the company was Increased from
$:00.000 to 1500.000. This was done be
cause the business had been growing
so rapidly that the extra capital was
required.
The stockholders' meeting was fol
lowed by that of the board of director,
who declared a dividend of 1SH per
rent, this amount representing only
half of what the company earned dur
ing the six months: the other half being;
placed to the surplus account.
"We look forward to an exceedingly
bright future, basing our expectations
on the demand for homes." said J. Fred
I,sxson. rlecause of Its thorough organ
ization, the company can build first
class homes at a smaller cost to the
purchaser then th ordinary builders
and contractors.
"Ther cn be no question, with the
condition a they are In Portland, that
this homenullder's company will be suc
cessful. One distinguishing feature of
the policy of the company Is not to
start a building until a contract has
been signed, thus eliminating speculation."
HEIGHTS PROPERTV IS SOLD
IHirr E. Keaacy Co. Close Number
or Sales.
That building sites on the West Side
hills are growing rapidly In favor with
homebullders and view-lover Is shown
by the activity that Is taking place
at Kings Height and Arlington
Heights.
Dorr K. Keasey & Co. last week
closed sales as follows: W. H. Jones,
lot for 12900; J. 8. Johnstone, lot for
$2000; FL J. Blal;e. lot for t?760; L.
Hodler. lot for $2750: E. B. Hazen, lot
for $3760; Davis . Williams. , lot for
$2500.
In addition to these sales, this firm
closed the following deals:
To Misha Pels, homo at East Forty
ninth and Thompson streets, for Mrs.
Josephine Mason, for $4500; to Kath
leen M. Durham, home at 646 East
Nineteenth street. Irvlngton. for M. B.
Kindle, for $6700; to H. B. Pritehard.
home In Terrace Park, for C W. Davis,
for $2500; to J. E. Clark, four lots In
Rlverdale. for $2200; to Mr. Leslie,
house In Crystal Springs tract, for
Mrs. Littleton, for $3100: to Thomas
Haslett. home at 251 East Forty-ninth
street, for Minnie Dmlg, for $2600; to
Ada M. Hart, throe acres near Council
Crest, for N. L. and L. E. Gilliam, for
$2600; to A. O. Marlon, lot In Tua
latin View Park, for $500; to Richard
Obee. two one-half acre tracts at
hair Acres, on Base Line road, for
$1600; to Frank Templeton, five-acre
tract on Base Line road, for Mrs.
Burnham, for $3000.
PEXIXSILA HAS BIG FCTUKE
Industrial Development Is Factor In
Activity at Brldgeton.
"Portland's very near future holds
wonderful possibilities along Industrial
lines, as is. Indicated by developments
on the Peninsula, the recognized fac
tory "district," said W. A. Spanton yes
terday. "The great facilities offered in this
district for both rail and water trans
portation. Its easy accessibility from
the business center and the wholesale
district of Portland, make it the logical
point for the location of the factories
of the various Interests which are seek
ing to enter the local field.
"The rapid sale of lots In Brldgeton,
the newest Peninsula subdivision, has
clearly demonstrated the fact that the
publlo Is fully awakened to the possi
bilities awaiting the development of the
Peninsula along Industrial lines. It also
Indicates that the realization of the
hope of Portland pioneers in Industrial
development, that this city shall one
day be known as the manufacturing
center of the Northwest, is not far dis
tant. "The big picnic and barbecue which
will be given on the tract today will
give an opportunity for hundreds of
'home hungry' citizens of Portland to
Investigate the possibilities for the fu
ture of this, the hub of the factory dis
trict of Portland."
STREET OPEXIXG IS TRGED
Extension of East Burnsldo to City
Limits Proposed.
The movement for the opening of
East Burnslde street through Center
Addition and to the city limits, started
by the Center Addition Improvement
Club, is progressing. City Engineer
Hurlburt Is preparing a plan for this
extension which will be submitted to
the City Council soon. It is desired to
open East Burnslde to the city limits.
The opening of East Fifty-second
street between the right of way of
the O.-W. K. & N. and Halsey street
has Pi en approved by the property
owner. For the widening of East
Ulisan street between East Forty-seventh
and East Sixtieth streets all but
$6U0 of the $3799 damages assessed has
been paid In.
Th club will petition the city to
locate a fire station on East Ollsan
near East Forty-seventh street, where
there I no Or protection within a
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ITHlCTIRt: BlILT AT COST OK tlS.OVtt.
Tho modern four-tory structur at th northeast corner of Third and Main streets, built for J. W. Cook
st a cost of $116,000. ha been completed and will bo known as th Venable Hotel. It has been leased by
Mrs. Alice Venable. The building occupies ground space of 100x150 feet. It contains lo rooms and is
equipped with ail modern convenience. Th hotel was opened a few days ago. The building was designed
by Bennea Hendricks.
BAY CITY
DEEP WATER SEAPORT
AND
RAILROAD TERMINUS
ON TILLAMOOK BAY
LOTS NOW
$65
to $1500
ON EASY TERMS
CHEESE is one of the least of the products of the Til
lamook country: On the completion of the Panama
Canal and the Tillamook Bay deep channel (about the
same time), the outputs of immense saw and lumber
mills at BAY CITY will find markets in every quarter
of the globe.
It is then the WISE INVESTORS now
buying lots in BAY CITY will reap im
mense profits. ,
Call, or send for particulars, also for
the SECRET of successful investment.
BAY CITY LAND CO.
-701-2-3 SPALDING BUILDING, PORTLAND-
PHONES MAIN 1116. A 7023
BRIGHTON
NEHALEM JETTY
PANAMA CANAL
FISHERIES
DAIRY PRODUCTS
Oieese Alone $650,C00 in 1911
TIMBER, 25 BILLION FEET
BRIGHTON IS ON A SOLID FOUNDATION
BRIGHTON
ON NEHALEM BAY
EEMEMBER the history of Raymond, Wash. In
six years a hamlet of 50 people has grown to a city
of 3500. Brighton has advantages which insure
rapid expansion. A safe harbor just inside the Ne
halem jetty on Xehalem Bay. Assured of the ex
tension of the present jetty, the bill having passed
the House and the Senate committee having agreed
on it with additional appropriations for Nehalem
jetty.
LARGEST SAWMILL
in Tillamook County 3s now nearing com
pletion at Brighton. Brighton is on the sr.
R. N.. Ry. Daily train service to and
from Portland. Brighton, besides being a
" deep-water seaport, is a delightful Summer
resort, inasmuch as it has a magnificent
view of the ocean, bay and breakers, and
fishing and hunting pleasures. Finest
beaches in the Northwest are one-half mile
across the bay and one mile to the south of
Brighton.
"Hundreds of people have bought lots already at Brighton. Wise investors get in at the beginning
of a new town. Why wait and pay the penalty of advanced prices which accompany development?
LOTS $50 UP
On Easy Monthly Payments
v Call for printed particulars and other information.
-BRIGHTON DEVELOPMENT CO.
904 AND 907 SPALDING BUILDING, PORTLAND
FINE OPPORTUNITY FOR SALESMEN
O-S-19-12
mil or more. The club appointed a
committee to urge that there be no
more delay in the Improvement of East
Fifty-third street, which at present is
held up by an Injunction by the O.-W.
R. A N. The company objects to a
grade crossing.
Water mains have been laid on East
Everett from East Fifty-third to East
Fifty-seventh; on East Fifty-seventh
from Everett to Hoyt; on Hoyt from
East Fifty-second to East Fifty-eighth
and on East Fifty-third from Hoyt to
Wasco streets.
Residence Property Purchased.
W. F. Teaeie, assistant superinten
dent of the FaclSc Telephone & Tele-
j graph Company, haa purchased the
I beautiful home ot D. J. Mahoney. on
East Forty-fourth street, between
Broadway and Hancock streets, for
$5000. This is a two-story seven-room
residence, with finished attic and base
ment, and is one of the attractive
homes of the Menefee Addition. Mr.
Teaguo will take possession at once.
Scott & Beesley made this sale. This
firm sold two lots on Oregon street, be
tween East Eighty-first and East
Eightieth streets, for W. A. Gray to
O. T. Dllman, who will erect a modern
home in the near future.
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Plenty of Good
Milk for the Children
at Parkrose
Parkrose children aren't suffering from want of pure,
healthv milk. Livintr in Parkrose combines all the ad
vantages of country and city life. You have heard for
years of the abundance of butter and milk in the country.
J.t is all yours at Parkrose.
Hundreds of city babies die every Summer from unclean, unsanitary
milk. THAT cannot happen in f arltrose, wnere every lamuy may seep
its own cow. A good cow 6hows the family a saving of $10.00 a month and more. A cow is only one of
the advantages of liviDg in Parkrose.
The are fifty families living at Parkrose now.
THEY'VE SOLVED THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
It will pay you to Investigate Parkrose now. Take the family out to Parkrose today. Let them breathe the
fresh Parkrose air and see if they wouldn't like to live there. Take Rose City Park car.
An Acre in Parkrose Costs No More Than a Good City Lot
Call, write cr phone for further information
SLAUSON-CRAIG COMPANY
Successors to Hartmin & Thompson, Real Estate Department
Chamber of Commerce Building, Fourth and Stark Streets Portland, Oregon