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...Encouragement of independent thinking among voters.- [d] Education of voters.- [e] Increase in the political power of a reliable class of voters.- [f] Purification of politics. Farm, Stock and Home, Aug. 15, 1890, p. 317 and Dec. 15, p. 35; Mar. 1, 1891, p. 121; Forum, X, 322; Chamberlain, ch. VI; Public Opinion...
Best general references: Forum, V p. 634; Griswell's Canada, ch. XXIV...
...present system of taxation is so bad as to demand radical change: it is indirect, wasteful, confused, shifting, unjust to the poor, and promotive of dishonesty: Carey, Vol. III, ch. XLIII, secs. 5, 7, 9, and 10; D. A. Wells, Cobden Club Essays, 1871-72, p. 504; D. A. Wells, Lectures at Harvard, March 24th and 31st, 1890; Tucker, "Evils of Indirect Taxation," Forum, Feb. '86; Nathan Matthews, Jr. "Double Taxation," Qr. Jl. of Econ. Vol. IV, p. 339; Quincey, "Double Taxation in Massachusetts...
...land tax system can be brought about without any social convulsion: Progress and Poverty, Bk. VIII, ch. II; S. B. Clarke, A Reply to Criticisms...
...operation it would (a) prevent speculation in land, (b) lower taxes on food, (c) reduce the capitalized value of land, (d) lead to a more effective use of land, and (e) relieve the extreme competition of the labor market: Labor Movement, ch. XXIII, p. 561 et seq; Sherman's articles in Forum, Sept...