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The Great Adventure One Tax Campaign
of 1916 thru 1918
James H. Griffes
[Reprinted from the publication, Everyman, of
which
James H. Griffes served as editor during this period]
Everyman was published
in Los Angeles, California from around 1906 thru at least 1918.
Editor and manager James H. Griffes wrote under the pseudonym
Luke North.
The material reproduced here involves a period of strong
divsion within the ranks of the movement to implement Henry
George's system of public revenue, by this time referred to in
the popular press as the "Single Tax." The
overwhelming majority of Singletaxers supported a nationwide
campaign in the United States to press for legislation in one or
more states to raise all revenue from the taxation of land
values.
The first step in this campaign occured during 1916 in
California, where several hundred thousand Californians voted
for the Single Tax. Although this vote was not sufficient to
make the Single Tax law, the effort to educate the public
continued during 1917, and the issue was again placed on the
ballot. In this instance, the number voting in favor fell
significantly. In the October 1917 issue of Everyman,
James H. Griffes detailed the events and editorialized on the
reasons for the failure to gain sufficient public support.
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CONTENTS / OCTOBER 1917
SHOVELS, TEASPOONS AND TRAITORS
Eggleston and "Single Tax
Incorporated
The "Singletax" Allies of
General Otis
Who Didn't Know It Was Loaded
Plutocracy's Line of Attack
THE NATIONAL GREAT ADVENTURE
MORE TO COME ...
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I had many fine friends in Los
Angeles, ...there was my friend of many years, James Griffes,
better known as Luke North, who wrote beautiful things that did
not pay but were a delight to read, whose devotion dated back to
our youth in Chicago, and who found no day too long and no night
too dreary to work in my behalf. [Clarence Darrow, The Story
of my Life, 1932]
CLARENCE DARROW
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CONTENTS / MARCH 1918
KING HUNGERS THRONE TOTTERS
The Inopportunist Reappears
A New Program of Inaction
For Another Decade of Theory
Educative Value of Applied Single Tax
California Battle Line Closes
Obvious Public Need for Open Earth
Do the Singletaxers Want Single Tax?
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