Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1885 — The Road to Prosperity. [ARTICLE]

The Road to Prosperity.

Imagine a village of say ICO voters. Imagine two of these villagers to make such a proposition as this: “We are desirous, fellow-citizens, of seeing yon more prosperous, and to that end propose this plan: Give us the privilege of collecting a tax of five cents a day from eveiy one in the village. No one will feel the tax much, for even to a man with a wife and eight children it will only come to the paltry sum of, fifty cents a day. Yet this slight tax will give our village two rich citizens who can afford to spend money. We will at once begin to live in commensurate style. We will enlarge our houses and improve eur grounds, set up carriages, hire sen ants, give parties, and buy much more freely at the stores. This will make trade brisk, and cause, a greater demand for agricultural productions, which will enable the neighboring farmers to make a greater demand for store goods and the labor of mechanics. Thus shill we all become prosperous.”— Henry George.