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So Long As All The Increased Wealth Which Modern Progress Brings Goes But To Build Up Great Fortunes, To Increase Luxury And Make Sharper The Contrast Between The House Of Have And The House Of Want, Progress Is Not Real And Cannot Be Permanent.

There Are Only Three Ways By Which Any Individual Can Get Wealth — By Work, By Gift Or By Theft. And, Clearly, The Reason Why The Workers Get So Little Is That The Beggars And Thieves Get So Much.

When We Consider That Labor Is The Producer Of All Wealth, Is It Not Evident That The Impoverishment And, Dependence Of Labor Are Abnormal Conditions Resulting From Restrictions And Usurpations, And That Instead Of Accepting Protection, What Labor Should Demand Is Freedom. That Those Who Advocate Any Extension Of Freedom Choose To Go No Further Than Suits Their Own Special Purpose Is No Reason Why Freedom Itself Should Be Distrusted.

At The Beginning Of This Marvelous Era It Was Natural To Expect, And It Was Expected, That Laborsaving Inventions Would Lighten The Toil And Improve The Condition Of The Laborer; That The Enormous Increase In The Power Of Producing Wealth Would Make Real Poverty A Thing Of The Past... From Progress And Poverty, To Those Who, Seeing The Vice And Misery That Spring From The Unequal Distribution Of Wealth And Privilege, Feel The Possibility Of A Higher Social State And Would Strive For Its Attainment.

The Tax Upon Land Values Is The Most Just And Equal Of All Taxes. It Falls Only Upon Those Who Receive From Society A Peculiar And Valuable Benefit, And Upon Them In Proportion To The Benefit They Receive.it Is The Taking By The Community For The Use Of The Community Of That Value Which Is The Creation Of The Community. It Is The Application Of The Common Property To Common Uses. When All Rent Is Taken By Taxation For The Needs Of The Community, Then Will The Equality Ordained By Nature Be Attained.