The Single Tax Review Volume 15 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...just issued from the press of J. C. and W. E. Powers, of N. Y. City, a voluminous history of the 85th Regiment Volunteer Infantry of Pennsylvania, which saw active service at the battles of Seven Pines and other engagements. A great part of the work is given to the defence of Casey's Division at Seven Pines, to which official reports appear to have done a great injustice. Mrs. Louis F. Post was one of the party who sailed on the Holland-American liner Noordam to attend the Women's International Peace Conference at the Hague. The best wishes of all her Single Tax friends--and they are legion--go with her. A HOMELESS WOMAN. Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest woman in the world, has no home. At least the New York and New Jersey tax assessors have been unable to find it after a long search. It appears that for a number of years Mrs. Green has been without a home the assessors could call her own. THE SILLIEST THING. About the silliest thing in our governmental affairs is the present tax system because it taxes everything but the thing which ought to be taxed. The more a man works and saves the more he is fined for so doing. And the worst of it is that the fellow who can convert his earnings into hidable stuff or invest it into land for the purpose of holding it out of use waiting for a rise in value, goes untaxed. The other fellow must pay the taxes for both. Many people in Ohio this year will have to borrow money to pay the taxes on their household goods and be fined six or eight per cent. for borrowing. If land values, the only thing which ought to be taxed, were taxed, would anyone have to borrow money to pay their taxes?--Fayette (Ohio) Review. The Single Tax is reported as having been "overwhehningly" defeated in Denver. Figures are lacking as we go to...