SECOND BOSTON OBJECT LESSON 75 
Why should the Boylston Building and the old 
Masonic Temple and the old Public Library have come 
down in their youth and beauty while these Washing 
ton Street buildings are allowed to remain standing 
in their decrepitude? There must, we say, be some 
sufficient reason. If the reason here suggested is not 
the real one, we ask the? reader what it is. 
Question. How, then, are we to know just when old 
buildings should give place to new ones? 
Answer. When the single tax shoe begins to pinch, 
that is, when, under the single tax, the old buildings 
cease to be profitable: in other words, when, upon 
land with buildings unsuited to the situation, a tax 
seems heavy which, upon the same land with proper 
buildings, would seem light. 
The Honourable Henry Winn, a well-known advocate 
of the multiple tax, says: “Why does a man owe a 
tax? First, because society protects his person; 
second, it supplies and keeps in order streets for his 
Passage; third, it lights his way by night; fourth, it 
furnishes parks and libraries; fifth, it schools him 
a ud his children; sixth, it protects his property; 
seventh, it keeps courts open to redress his grievances; 
eighth, it provides a government to make and enforce 
iaws; ninth, it supports him if he falls into poverty; 
and tenth, chiefly because he has been placed here by 
God to serve and improve, not himself alone, but 
urankind in general, and as that can only be done by 
uaaintaining government, order, and civilisation, he 
owes his tax as he owes his life, to support that 
government.” 
“Amen,” says the single taxer; and these are 
exactly the things for which every man is paying when