Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — SINGLE TAX CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

SINGLE TAX CONGRESS.

Advocates of That Doctrine Meet at the Art Falace, Chicago. A congress in which much interest is centered met at the Art Palace in Chicago. It was the single tax congress. Advocates of the doctrine of equal tax on all land and that nothing should be taxed but land were there and listened to speeches by the most noted advocates of that belief. Henry George, the Rev. Edward McGlynn, Jerry Simpson, and others nearly as well known were in attendance. Henry George spoke on “The Single Tax." The Rev. Mr. McGlynn followed him. His subject was “The Single Tax and the Church.” The relation of single tax to the temperance question, the commercial crisis, education, the press, sanitary reform, and many other measures were discussed. The women advocates of single tax met in hall 3 and several female speakers were heard. Notes of Current Events. The graduating class at Chautauqua numbers 225. A new case of yellow fever is reported at Brunswick, Ga. Railroad property in Indiana is assessed at $160,000,000. The George H. Lain Furniture ComK, St. Paul, assigned. Liabilities, .000. Miss Opie Kinrisch, passenger on the steamer Majestic, died on the voyage between New York and Queenstown. But 1,000 men are now employed in the Santa Fe shops at Topeka, Kas. Last year at this time 2,000 men were at work. G. A. Reynolds, a Utica (N. Y.) shoe manufacturer, has failed. His assets are $500,000 and the liabilities are $260,000. Because Missouri River lines refuse to accept its basing rates, the Union Pacific declares the Western Association agreement void. A rainfall of over two inches in three quarters of an hour at Sioux City did unprecedented damage. It was accompanied by fearful electrical disturbances.