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t-.ntred a* Second Cista Mail Matter at Lents. Oregon, Auguvt 25, 1911 % Published Every Thursday at lent». Ore., by the Mr. S- ott P vhiisiiisu C o . H. A. DARN ALL, E ditob amd M anaum . D. M. SIMONSEN. lax al E ditor and Bt sinkss R kikkskntativ t: Office Phone: Home 1111. Residence Tabor 2x13 rpHE Herald recently had a lit* pen of our townswoman, Mrs. O Ji tie write up of the Mc R. Addition, it treats of the Namara matter and related sub part woman is taking in the work jects. A certain local publica of the country and appeals to the tion says: “He said that 'walk people for the right of suffrage. ing delegates’ and leaders called the strikes, and they should not Another holiday edition that be allowed to do so. He evident commands attention is The Rur ly knows less about unions than a al Spirit. This issue contains child knows about a submarine two full page illustrations of not- destroyer. No strikes are called able western live stock, and a by ’walking delegates,’ or sec- number of excellent articles on retaries. or leaders. farm and live stock matters. “Where men are thoroughly organized there are no strikes It took seventy pages to hold whatever. When a strike or all the good things The Pacific boycott is ordered it is only after Homestead had to tell in their careful consideration and the vote Holiday number- pages filled of the membership. The rank with well written articles, cuts and file of the labor unions prac of the highest quality, and a fine ticed the initiative, referendum line of advertising. and recall long before it was made a part of the Oregon sys F the many questions being tem. It is practiced now.” discussed by Oregon cit This may all be true. We ad izens. single tax appears to be mit that we never belonged to one of considerable moment. The such an organization. We have Herald herewith presents the is alw’ays felt that we could find a sue as viewed by VV. S. V’Ren, job. if desirable, and quit it when an enthusiastic advocate of the it was undesirable, without being issue, and The Pathfinder, a pub dependent on any secretary, del lication directly opposed thereto: egate, president or other boss. There is this difference between However, accepting the correc Henry George single tax and the tion, we wonder if the various County single tax measure to he vot explosions, murders, and fires ed on in Oregon in 1912: Oregon charged to certain labor leaders Single Taxers propose to exemp i’l labor and industry and all products are the initiative or referendum and savings of all labor and industry products of the organizations from taxation That is the exemption those individuals have been program for Oregon Henry George single tax means not only the exemp manipulating? O tion of all labor and industry and all products and savings of labor and WO Portland investigators industry from taxation, but in addi started out the other night tion it means taking by taxation aU to locate a policeman. After of the annual community-made value prowling around for four hours of land, which is in substance the yearly ground rent value of bare land they found one at Sixth and Oregon Single Taxers propose to Stark and in trying to congrat put only so much tax on the unim ulate him for his bravery in be proved or community-made value of ing out 90 late, and his devotion Land as will raise the same amount to duty, they inadvertantly of of money as is now collected for state, county and local purposes Our fered him a drink. But the of County single tax bill for 1912 ;>r- ficer was too honorable to ac poses' cept even a compliment, took it 1 Exemptions —All business, Li as an attempt to bribe and hauled bor. trades, occtipati' >ns. professions the pair to the police station. and the right to conduct, work at or Evidently the Portland police are practice the same; all forms of i»e not all afraid of the dark, neither sonal property; all improvements .>n. in and under the land No license o: are they all willing that anyone permits for the purpose of raising shall impugn the honor of the revenue, but all such licenses or per- mits to be issued at actual cos* of department. issuing This will not interfere with the police power of the state, county ulletin hi on orchard or city. Management is just off the 2 Taxes.—All taxes are to be levied on and collected from the 5- Oregon Agricultural College sessed com munity-made values OÍ Press. It is one of the best things lands • including city lots), water that has ever been issued. Nine powers and other natural resources. ty-six pages of matter relating and on and from the assessed values soil. Seiection’of trees, laying of public service corporation fran out, ploughing, tillage, fertilizers, chises and rights of way But '.he pruning, varieties for localities, proposed County law can not '-’.er- with the State law for collect budding and grafting, are the fere ing license, corporation fees and in leading topics. The edition is heritance taxes, and will not tax lots limited to 20,000 copiesand while and lands used only for municipal they last a copy will be sent to educational, literary, scientific. 1— any one interested in the sub ions or charitable purposes, which .:r ject. who may ask for one. Ad already exempt from taxation. What Are Community Value? dress Prof. C. I. Lewis, Corvallis, The Oregon & California RaRv .-y Ore. Company owns in Clackamas county 89,370 acres of unimproved land as- January Everybody’s has one sessed in 1910 at $1,105.555 That land is part of the Oregon & Cali- of the most instructive articles fornia land grant, which was given that has come to our notice on to the company by the government “Dollar Diplomacy.” It shows on the basis of $2.50 an acre. ft clearly how big interests are pro was assessed at $12.35 an acre in tected by the administration to 1910 That is an increase of $0 85 an the sacrifice of national honor acre since the land was given to the company, and V total increase of and moral principles, One of $881,130 for the 89,370 acres, which the instances cover a Morgan is is a free gift to the corporation by deal in Central America where a the people of Clackamas county loan of $10,000,000 will necessi- That land value was not created by tate the co-operation of the gov the company, for it has put no labor INTO the land or ON the land. The ernment in protection of the value was created by the growth of money barons during the life of population and industry. It is a the ioan —forty years. The an value added to the land by the people nouncement that the United of the whole community So it it a States is to take charge of the community value and the value is Customs Collections of Nicaraug- growing every year in proportion as the population and industry of ua to protect a $10,000,000 loan i Clackamas county and Oregon are seems to prove that the deal has 1 growing That increased value every been carried through, without year is a free gift to the corporation In Clackamas county there are 265,- the assent of Congress. 742 acres of unimproved land, in tracts of from 160 acres up, assessed Industrial Womanhood is the $3,482,240 in 1910, and owned by 372 title of a new pamphlet from the individuals and corporations That is T B 411 average of >14 acres for each own er and an average of $9„!85 of com inunity land values to each owner That community value was created by the people—not by the speculator who own the land But those lands are held by speculator», who are waiting for more people and more industrv to- give them a greater value Do the »peculator» earn that increased value by their labor 1 Here arc the figure« show ing the community value of the unimproved lots owned in the following named towns in Clackamas count) by »pec ulator* in 1910 Number. Value Drcgon City Lfft $249,325 Oswego 2.3W ... .to2 Willamette <MS 477 33.075 Milwaukie . Canby 317 26.110 Canemah 553 13.980 1.489 118.155 Gladstone '<>.850 Oak Grove 341 Estacada 25.635 553 would hive paid several thousand dollars more under the Single Tax than they paid under the general property tax for ¡910. In making our Single Tax asaeas tnent we have found that the water power claimed, used and »old by the Portland Railway. Light anil Power Company in Claekama» county in |9|0 had a capital value of $7,626.707, but it wa« not «»»etied by the State Tax Commission ami not a cent of tax wa» paid on it The State Tax Commission believes there is no law for assessing and taxing that water power Our Single Tax bill proposes to tax that valuable water power, because its value i* a community value, not a labor value Our bill proposes to exempt the improvements and per sonal property of the company, be- cause they are labor values But even with the water power exempt. the company would have paid m<»rc taxes for 1910 under the Single Tax than it paid under the general prop erty tax Thia i» a moral question as well a* a pocketbook <|ue«tion When we tax any man'» labor or product or taxings, we take from him something that belong« to him 11 it right to do that? If we tax a nun in that way, we prevent him from getting the full product of his labor We believe every man is entitled to the full product of his labor Rut if we tax only the community value of land, we take for our public purposes nothing except what all the people create: we do not take from the producer anything he produce« If we do not tax the community value of land, and nothing else, we permit a few to take the enormous community values that belong to all the people Is it right to do that’ NEW YEARS INVITATION « With excellent banking facilities. k < xm I connec tions, ample capital, a conservative and able man agement. we ask you to consider this bank, and we extend a cordial invitation to you for your banking business in the new year We have grown nicely*during the past year and have aimed to give the public in l<ents and vicin ity a g«sxl safe and reliable l«nk. We want you feel that what is worth having is worth asking for. hence your business is welcome be it large or small. « Tout 8.155 $746,745 Those lots were not improved. There were no labor vatuc* on them In the same towns there were 1.7’M improved lots assessed $799.515 in 1910, with improvements or labor values on them assessed $779,680 Our proposed law. if it had been in CORNER OF MAIN STREETANO FOSTER ROAD force in 1910. would have exempted the $779.o80 of improvements, or la bor values, and would have taxed the $1.546,260 worth of lots But no tin provements and no good.», machinery, furniture or other personal property would have been taxed What Are Labor Values’ C E Spence, Master of the State Grange. has 70 acres of land near Cams He had 30 acres improved in 1910. assessed $1.350. or $45 an PROFESSIONAL acre. He had 40 acres unimproved. assessed $800. or $20 an acre His W tNTEI>- Wood*« Do per oird cogl General Practice. Atatracta marie and (T ub O thiui View.) improvements on his land w-ere a»- ÿH.bo |»r ton. Plowing and moving sessed $450. and his livestock and File single-tax thmiry 1» one got up W. A Hall A "-one, Fsrter Road lamia, examined. oth. - personal property was assessed with the »«me old idea of »hitting the Tatar -jaxM. Rollo C- tirotsbtek $rO0 So his total assessment in 1910 burden of taxes from the consumer Attorney-at-Mw WANTED—Boy» nun t>e had ami was $3.200 But his Single Tax as and user ’o someone »I m -, some mythical The older oiim at sessment would have been only party who doe« not exist. All attempt* «omet i me» girl» I’none Tabor 1599 ordinary wage» and other» to I* $1.400 because his $1 800 of labor of thi» sort in the past have failed, (or schooled ami cared for in return (or South Main St. Lent», Oregon values would have been exempt it is a proverb that death and taxe» are • light services rendered For |>articu- — two thing* in this world that cannot be lars adilree» W. T. Gardner. su|>erin- What were his labor values? Clearings, fences, drains, fruit trees, evaded. No matter in what sugar-coat tendent Boys and Girls Aid Society of W. F Klineman C. E Kennedy Oregon. Portland. Ore. If Attorney-at-laiw 6M24 43 Ave., S. E. houses, barns, implements, furniture, ed or disguised form you ¡my it, you live stock are labor values The dif ■tiU pay your »hare of taxe«. Braz I Kill* HAI.K Kennedy & Kllnem<in ference between the value of his im puts rvsstriction* on coffee, and the tax HENS FOR SALE -Pure brad while Real Estate and Rental», Notary proved land per acre and the value follow» the coffee wherever it goes, to Wyandotte breeding hen» Ply mou l Public Work per acre of his unimproved land rep to the uttermost parts of the earth Rock crowed with Blaek Minorca. resents his labor value IN land, and When you drink your morning cup of Good layer» Of fire Phone T. 3*12 Keaidenee 749 Watson Station, second Main St. and Car line, lam ta, Oregon in 1910 that was $25 an acre for his coffee, there is right where you pay , hou«e to left on Hill street. improved land, or a total of $750. yvur share of the tax prorata. When FOR SALE A good fresh cow; 4 Reside«, he had $1.050 of labor values New York state |>a»*e» a law taxing Office hour» 6-10 p. m. yunnold Apply t<> Paul Dunn. R. I, Tabor 1516 ON land So hi« Single'Tax exemp mortgages, with the view of reaching Box 10H. Boring. 51-12 Sunday by appointment the lender* of money, the tax follow* tions in 1910 would have been $1.800 and his Single Tax assessment in the mortgage »nd the del tor ¡»the one WANTED - Service* of thoroughbred Dr. Ervin L Sells who finally pays for it A landlord Holstein bull. Address Box .’>56, Lenta, 1910 would have been $1.400 Practice Limited to the Eye. Brother Spence's taxes for 1910 own» a house and lot and ha» to pay Ore. taxes on the assessed value of both, but 300 Gilbert Ave. Lenta, Ore. were $48 If the different values on FOR SALE— Fine thoroughbred White which he was taxed had been item i it is the man that rents the hou*e who I’lymomth Rock Cockrela. See Mr». ized. his tax bill would have looked finally foot* the bill for the taxes and ' Freeburg, Lent» Hani ware Co. everything else. "lie who breaks, | C. €. morldnd. Dentist like this: pay»," i* an old and wise maxim, and I F<*R SALE—Pure bred Minorca cock- C. E. Spence, Taxes 1910 719 Dekum Bldg., Third ami Wash reis W. Fairhank». tant» 2 block» he who has the uae of a thing should North »nd 2 block» West of school ington, Portland. Ore. Tax Rate, 15 mills Why »hould not bouse 4'i t I City Office, Slain 51*55; Lent» Office, 2833 Labor value IN land $ 750 $11 25 and does settle for it Why should Resilience, Tabor 2587 Labor value ON land 1050 1575 the luxuries be <sxed? not the people who drink wine, smoke I FOR SALE—One share of Multno Residence Corner sth and Marie St»., mah ami Ciai'karna» Telephone Stock. Total tax on labor $27 00 fine cigars, wear dimonds, ride in costly Herald, I-erita. < Ire Lents, Ore. Office Hour» 8 to 10 a. m. autos, live in palatial residence», etc., Tax on Community value pay something for the privilege? They Of land $1400 $21 00 FOR SALE—One half acre, fenced, receive the protection of the govern-| front, some orchard, good location, H. *1. oTT ment for all their property, and why ; $1<* down, Flo per month i Enquire at Total, all taxes $48 00 should they not j ay a little to help sup j Mt. Hcott Publishing Co’s, office. How would his tax bill have looked On Brothers port the government? Many very rich if the Single Tax had been in opera FOR SALE — One fourth acre,cleared, DENTISTS people own no land at all, while many in Walden Park. Five «foliar payments. tion in 1910? We will soon have the other people are "land poor." Why Enquire at Mt Scott Publishing Co's, Gr«<»lia*n, Or«>g<>n Single Tax rates for all of Clacka ■hould a capitalist escape taxation just office. mas County for 1910. The tax rate because his wealth is in the form of on Brother Spence’s property for stocks and bond, and notes? One man | mihckli . ankovm 1910 was 15 mills We know that mr$. laneife Besell saves his money and buys a few acres I under the proposed Single Tax the of land, whileanother also savesand in miss Kuih Beiell FOR SERVICE—Pure bred 2-year- rate would not have been more than lawaonn in China Painting vests in a motorboat, say. Why should old Jersey bull. W. Fairbanks, 2 blocks 25 mills At that rate, Brother China deeorated to on 1er and firing the land pay a tax and the motorboat North and 2 blocks Wcet of whool house, Spence's Single Tax bill would have tant». 4V 14 Sample* of our work on exhibition al none? It is not true, as the singie-tax- la-nta Pharmacy. looked like this, if itemized: ers claim, that "the rich are growing LUMBER—At our new mill I mile» Studio, Itoth Ave X E . Gray* Crossing C E. Spence. Taxes 1910 richer and the |*x>r poorer," or that southeast of Kelso. We deliver I u in tier Tax Rate, 25 mills wage* are force«! down as land values go (• Labor value IN land Exempt up. The very contrary is true, as any Jonsrud Bro». Fttr$ Ctona*6rttnt Daniels Labor value ON land............... Exempt man of common sense can satisfy him Tax on labor Nothing Tax on Community value of land ...................................... . $35 00 So, even if the Single Tax rate would have been as high as 25 mills he would have »aved $13 We «hall know soon what Single Tax rates would have been in every district in Clackamas county for 1910, because we are having a "Single Tax Assessment and Tax Roll” for the whole county made for that year. It will show how much was paid by each taxpayer, and what his tax would have been under Single Tax, so as to raise the same amount of money that was raised in the county for all purposes for 1910 That tax roll win be published and the books will be open for inspee- Hon. Corporations and Water Power». A Single Tax assessment of the franchise and right of way values of the public service corporations doing business in Clackamas county has been made. For the nine big cor porations doing business in the coun ty in 1910, the State Tax Commis sion fixed the assessment at $2.989,- 963, while the Single Tax assessment is $2.943,329, after exempting all the improvements and personal property of the corporations So, with the higher tax rate, the corporations self by his own observation. Land values have risen greatly in this country in the last century, and wages with them. It is true to a certain extent, as Henry George declared, that "land values are made by populate n. All Manhattan island wa» bought once for 424, and recently a single lot on Broad way has sold for about flkX* a square foot. Quantities of lanti can be had within 50 miles of the national capital for only a dollar or two an acre. But this is no reason why this cheap land, which no one wants, should lie taxed on the same basis as New York city property wnicb is in great demand. It matters very little where we lay taxes as the consumer ¡ays the lax anyway. He could not secape this economic law even if we adopts«! the single tax. Ths shiftless, laxy man will be the same no matter what the system of taxation ia. Poverty can't be abolished by legisla tion. The aingle-tax system has been tried in a number of placea and yet those places ars not more prosperous than communities having the present system. There is no talisman to ward off taxation. The people have to pay the taxes anyway and it makes no dif ference which pocket they pay the mon ey out of —The Pathfinder. The home merchant who solicits your patronage deserves It. 4 LENTS, OREGON C LASSI Fl El) tXECUORS’ NOfICt 1)1 RECTORY 4 I I Teacher of Piano and Voice In the County Court of the State of Conservatory Methods iiMtl Only Oregon, tor Multnomah County. 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