WESTERN CANADA.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13754, 20 June 1913, Page 2

WESTERN CANADA.

j A- bank which has its headquarters ! .ui Victoria, this capital ». of British Columbia; lias been advertising lately that Western Canada is "the ymost prosperous country on earth" arid that this pleasant . 6 tate of affairs i[e duo largely to "common-sense ta^ lawa i3a4 %> immigration theso incauce." ''Mi* partial appllcatlori ""o? famf troorge's singlo tilx idea td Vijc^ri'a andl ..VancoUvor," sayß tli6 worked so well that ovei-y town, 'every City *ttYd every proving, in WeWrni Canada is worfciug foi\4eir full Adoption. Holt© it i s no longer a .greater crime'to Hoild n . chickoahouso l^lian to rob ono, as it is in every coiinty of ovory-«no o .f the United States. Mon . aro not unished . for building homes,' stores, or factories or for raising crops or cows. Ho me as, factories, 'cattlo and .all personal pro^ porty aro exempt, and taxes aro levied' on land values and natural resources. This tends to prevent monopoly and.to increase wages, profits and interest." Tho system of taxing which has received this high praise is familiar enough to New Zealandors. Tho levying of rates and taxes on. tho unimproved valuo of fh© land had been tested and approved in, this country (cays the Lyttolton "Tlmc-p..") .long before British Columbia thought of abandon--ing tho older methods.