Southern Illinois Record

              The Southern Ilunois Record
A  (iooil  Newspaper  i8  a  Power in  the  Home.  Sehool,  Stnte nnd   Nation
VOLUME 3
FLOR.V. HJNOIS, TIHRSD.VY. OITOHER 22. 1914
NO. 4
ROBINS A SINGLE TAXER
Do    The    Farmers    and   Home
Owners Want to Pay All the
Taxes
Senator Lawrence V. Sherman told Ills farmer audiences today that Ray¬ mond Rubins, whom Col. Roosevelt wants them to send to the United State Senate, Is a single taier. The Senator said that Robins was not only an advocate of that doctrine but that he believes In It. He said he was a member of the Joseph Fels commission and that he had contrib¬ uted, both financially and verbally, to the propagation of that faith.
"Mr, Robins," said Senator Sher¬ man, "IsacandidatewhomMr. Roo.se- velt advisjs the voters of Illinois to elect to the I'nited States Senate. As I'nited State Senator he would, if he were sincere, promote the single tax Idea In that IxKly. He would endeavor to impose iipo;i the government, slate or nalional, bis views and embody them In the law, coii»tltutioiial and statutory.
"Roosevelt now seeks to commit and deliver every Progressive voter In Illinois to Mr. Robins and thereby elect him senator, to the end that tlie land now held by private owners shall Ite taken from tliem and converted Into coiiiiiion property.
It Is time for some independent tliinking rather than to heed Roose¬ velt's appeals for   Robiny.
'•Tlii.-5 is the -New Nationalism'. It Is taking from tlin.se who have and giving to tbem that have not. It isa leveling of possessions. It is an eiiuality of economic opportunity.
"It Mill please Debs. It would make Carl Marx rejoice eiceedlnglj If he were alive. It would make every /.oalot, inliabilingan air castle, mad with envy. It would make even a French revolutionist retlect how use¬ less It was to behead people when you can get everything away from the victim peaceably by taxing liim to death.
••It Is for this Roosevelt has trav¬ eled a thousand miles to ask the Progressives to do.
"I condemn tlie entire theory of tlie single tax as an ei-onoiiilc vagary —a visionary theoretical experiment, a menace dangerous to entice tlie un¬ wary, to arouse tliose who may de¬ sire t