The Up-To-Date Primer:
A First Book of Lessons for Little Political Economists
In Words of One Syllable,
With Pictures
By J. W. Bengough
(Reproduced from the Original)
25c
("Bengough's Primer")
The Alphabet and Prefatory Remarks
All |
Boasted |
Charitable |
Doles
|
Ever |
Futile |
God |
Hates |
Injustice |
Justice |
Knows |
Land |
May |
Not be |
Owned |
Poverty |
Quickly |
Remedied |
by Single |
Tax |
Upon |
Value |
Work-value |
Excepted |
Yours |
Zealously |
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|
The Author |
Lessons 1-12 | Lessons 13-24 | Lessons
25-36 | Lessons 37-48 | Lessons
49-60 | Lessons 61-70
Table of Contents |
LESSON I |
Cat — Rat — Men
Hog — Hat — Box |
seeing the cat, rent, unemployment, monopoly, landlord, commons,
public expenditure |
LESSON II. |
This is my pet cat |
unemployment, landlord, rent, land
monopoly, seeing
the cat, single tax,
privilege |
LESSON III. |
Pike Owns Stream
Perch Must Pay
Or Get Out |
ownership, privilege,
air-land-water, justice,
land includes, land different
from capital |
LESSON IV |
Crow Owns Air
Jay Must Work
Keep Crow Fat |
slavery, air-land-water, privilege |
LESSON V |
Rose In Pot
Will Not Live
Imp Owns Light |
natural resources, ownership, rent,
first |
LESSON VI |
Poor Slave Bows
Man Owns Him
Holds The Whip |
slavery, ownership, freedom, equality,
hunger |
LESSON VII |
This Not Slave
Oh Dear No
Man Owns Land |
landlord, slavery, sharecropping, freedom, ownership, land, land
monopoly,
land monopoly capitalism, created
equal, first |
LESSON VIII |
Man Lost Right
Fruits Of Toil
Life And Land |
land, war, slavery, wage
slavery, fruits of one's labors,
land monopoly, land
monopoly capitalism, first, founding
fathers, God's eldest sons |
LESSON IX |
God Made Men
Each Owns Self
Hence May Work |
right to life, freedom, created
equal, oneself, purpose
of living, human desires,
equal opportunity, birthright,
natural opportunities |
LESSON X |
Men Are Free
And Also E-qual
Right To Chance |
freedom, equality, equal
opportunity, land, land
includes, land excludes,
land different
from capital, single tax, justice, liberty, birthright, natural
opportunities |
LESSON XI |
Work Makes Wealth
Man Gets Fat
Though Don't Toil |
labor, wealth, fruits
of one's labors, ownership, rent, all
benefits... , in
one's sleep, land
different from capital, theft |
LESSON XII |
Man Owns Hat
Can Make Same
Can't Make Land |
land different
from capital, he who produces,
property rights, ownership |
LESSON XIII |
May Own Sheep
They Are Bred
Not Like Land |
land different
from capital, ownership, |
LESSON XIV |
World Grows Full
Goods Price Falls
Land Gets High |
trade, population, technological
progress, capitalization, land
price,
lowering the price
of land, sales taxes |
LESSON XV |
Man May Own
Earth But Must
Pay Land Rent |
justice, title, ownership, rent,
intergenerational
justice,
single tax, created
equal, assessment,
improvements |
LESSON XVI |
Land Rent Springs
By God's Law
Out Of Ground |
rent as God's
provisioning for all, community, public
spending, land
value, urban
land value relative to rural, |
LESSON XVII |
Wage For Work
Gold For Rent
No More Sweat |
labor, wages, landlord, ownership, all
benefits..., in one's
sleep,
speculation, inequality, privatization |
LESSON XVIII |
One Tax Plan
Now In Use
For House Rent |
single tax, rent, canons
of taxation, user fees, congestion |
LESSON XIX |
Why Not State
Have This Plan
For The Land |
canons of taxation, tariffs |
LESSON XX |
Milk Keeps Just
Rent For State
Same Calf Law |
rent as God's
provisioning for all, intelligent
design, rent, |
LESSON XXI |
Goat Owns Cow
Takes The Milk
Like Land Lords |
theft, privatization, ownership,
privilege, sales taxes |
LESSON XXII |
Toil Digs Pick
Must Have Land
Thus Makes Wealth |
labor, land, wealth |
LESSON XXIII |
Man Brings Oxen
Thus
Helps Toil
His Good Friend |
labor, capital, technological
progress, savings, interest, factors
of production |
LESSON XXIV |
Toil And Friend
Now Quite Mad
Worm Eats Fruit |
labor, capital, wages, interest, fruits
of one's labor, he
who produces,
land, land monopoly, ownership, in
one's sleep, all
benefits... |
LESSON XXV |
Coats For Boots
Fair Square Trade
Both Make Gain |
he who produces, labor, trade, |
LESSON XXVI |
Land Lord Gets
Coats And Boots
But Gives Nought |
trade, land, rent, theft, injustice, unearned
increment, deadweight
loss,
landlord |
LESSON XXVII |
Man Owns Spring
Folks Want Drink
Have To Pay |
air-land-water, ownership, justice, rent, theft, foresight, enclosure,
privatization |
LESSON XXVIII |
Want The Earth
You May Own
It By Law |
ownership, rent, land
includes, land excludes, land
different from capital,
slavery, freedom, liberty, justice |
LESSON XXIX |
God Made Land
Man Must Use
Not For Spec. |
labor, speculation, ownership, possession, usufruct, dog
in the manger,
incentive taxation, underused
land, hole in the ground, highest
and best use |
LESSON XXX |
Not The Land
But Its Worth
Would We Tax |
land value, land
price, ownership, urban
land value relative to rural,
land value taxation, location,
location, location |
LESSON XXXI |
How Would Plan
Of One Tax
Help Farm Man |
lvt and agriculture, urban
land value relative to rural, untaxing
buildings,
trade |
LESSON XXXII |
Help Toil Much
And His Friend
Squelch Land Lord |
landlord, labor, capital, untaxing
capital, untaxing labor |
LESSON XXXIII |
Three In One
This Tax Plan
Would Help Two |
labor, capital, land, fruits
of one's labor, theft, property
rights, private property, rentier |
LESSON XXXIV |
Cop With Club
Steals For State
Tax On Goods |
theft, justice, he who produces,
landlord |
LESSON XXXV |
Load Poor Toil
Make Up Fund
Land Lord Takes |
sales taxes, trade, special
interests, privatization, theft,
commons, rent
as provisioning for all, wealth
concentration, ownership |
LESSON XXXVI |
State High Wall
Keeps Out Goods
Lets In Men |
tariff, trade, wages, prices |
LESSON XXXVII |
Pools And Trusts
Their Long Heads
Dupes Get Left |
monopoly, privilege, tariff, wages, prices |
LESSON XXXVIII |
Too Much Goods
Such Bad Fix
Yet Folks Starve |
monopoly, tariff, free
trade, hunger, famine |
LESSON XXXIX |
Soup Is Good
But We Want
Right To Work |
poverty, charity, justice, philanthropy, unemployment,
Alabama |
LESSON XL |
Pull Down Wall
So Far Good
Make Rents High |
charity, justice, trade, immigration, population
increase, all benefits
... |
LESSON XLI |
John Bull Wall
Long Torn Down
Yet Has Poor |
poverty, land, land
concentration, wealth
concentration |
LESSON XLII |
John And Sam
Both Have Poor
In Same Boat |
landlord, poverty, justice,
land monopoly, land
monopoly capitalism, wealth
concentration, poverty's
causes |
LESSON XLIII |
Sam Cute Chap
John Hard Head
Both Mere Dupes |
ownership, landlord, injustice, land
monopoly, wealth
concentration,
single tax |
LESSON XLIV |
Fat Man Rich
Owns Things Which
State Should Hold |
privilege, poverty, unearned
increment, rent, ownership, possession,
land different
from capital, tariffs, is this
socialism? |
LESSON XLV |
Cows Must Starve
Near To Grass
Barb Wire Fence |
hunger, enclosure, commons, famine, land, rent, charity, privatization |
LESSON XLVI |
Rod Strike Rock
Drink For All
Man Owns Land |
manna, title, privatization,
air-land-water, theft, land
as God's provisioning for all |
LESSON XLVII |
Men Want Work
Land Needs Plow
No More Alms |
single tax, ending
poverty, charity, marginal
land, Robinson Crusoe |
LESSON XLVIII |
Work The Thing
Steam All Wrong
Wild Men Wise |
technological progress, capital, civilization |
LESSON XLIX |
Wealth Not Work
What Men Want
Steam Good Thing |
labor, capital, land, landlord, technological
progress, wealth, human
desires, law of wages, law
of rent, fruits |
LESSON L |
Lots Of Room
Yet Too Small
For The Crowd |
ownership, speculation, going
ahead, landlord, land
monopoly, land
monopoly capitalism |
LESSON LI |
Same Old Song
Through
The World
Land Lord Cause |
land concentration, single
tax, canons
of taxation, incentive
taxation,
perverse incentives, he
who produces, paying twice, privilege |
LESSON LII |
If All Men
Own The Earth
Hand Shares Round |
equality, birthright, created
equal |
LESSON LIII |
Men Own Horse
But Don't Say
Share Beast Round |
equality, land value taxation, pay
for what you take, single
tax, created
equal, equal opportunity |
LESSON LIV |
One Tax Plan
Plain Slick Just
Work Like Charm |
single tax, untaxing buildings, untaxing
wages, canons of taxation, privacy |
LESSON LV |
Land Rent Comes
Free And Full
Tax Nought Else |
single tax, rent
as provisioning for community, equity
for the landless, population
growth,
population as problem, overpopulation |
LESSON LVI |
Why Tax Toil
When Land Rent
Pays All Costs |
well provisioned ship, population, rent
as God's provisioning, privatization,
|
LESSON LVII |
Fat Rich Men
Get Their Wealth
Through Bad Laws |
privatization, ownership, enclosure, theft, commons, freedom, liberty,
equality |
LESSON LVIII |
Kick And Howl
Laws Made Right
Stop Their Game |
privilege, special interests, single
tax, created equal, labor, wealth
concentration, land
concentration, theft, injustice, justice, justice changing |
LESSON LIX |
Would Soon Stop
Coal King's Scheme
Make Fuel Cheap |
natural resources, monopoly, land
monopoly, incentive
taxation, speculation,
theft |
LESSON LX |
Not Take Land
But Just
Rent
That Is All |
ownership, theft, privatization, labor, land, single
tax, incentives,
incentive taxation, speculation, underused land |
LESSON LXI |
Plain Good Man
Does Not Know
Wastes His Tears |
labor, single tax, urban
land value relative to rural, untaxing
buildings,
perverse incentives |
LESSON LXII |
Stop Drink Curse
Lay Down Arms
Make Things Worse |
peace, desperado, enclosure, purpose
of living, justice |
LESSON LXIII |
Land Lord Stays
Still On Top
Can't Down Him |
landlord, all benefits..., population
growth, land value, urban
land value relative to rural, in
one's sleep, barriers
to entry |
LESSON LXIV |
Fine Bright Town
Free Street Cars
Land Rents Rise |
public spending, population
increase, all
benefits..., in one's
sleep,
theft, unearned increment, deadweight
loss |
LESSON LXV |
Squid Eats Men
One Tax Plan
Spear That Kills |
single tax, justice, equality |
LESSON LXVI |
With Bad Laws
Greed Won't Let
Gold Rule Work |
golden rule, poverty, justice |
LESSON LXVII |
Take First Step
Make Land Free
Then Go On |
is this socialism? land different from capital |
LESSON LXVIII |
How One Tax
Plan Would Work
Made Quite Plain |
single tax, title, ownership, possession, usufruct, land
value, land
value taxation, public spending, infrastructure |
LESSON LXIX |
Hard On Chap
Who Holds Land
Just For Spec. |
compensation, single
tax, landlord, slavery,
speculation |
LESSON LXX |
See The Cat
Now Go Forth
And Spread Light |
seeing the cat, single
tax, freedom |
FINIS |
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RESTITUTION |
earth is the Lord's, title, poverty, land
as God's provisioning for all,
well-provisioned ship, created
equal, natural opportunities, equal
opportunity,
ownership, slavery, theft, thou
shalt not steal |
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Lessons 1-12 | Lessons 13-24 | Lessons
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49-60 | Lessons 61-70
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Also on the WealthandWant Website: Bengough's On
True Political Economy: The Whole-Hog Book (1908) — also
told in words of one syllable
About JW Bengough: [source: http://www.library.ubc.ca/edlib/egoffbib/1896.html]
BENGOUGH, John Wilson, 1851-1923.
THE/UP-TO-DATE/ [pict. ornament] /PRIMER:/A/FIRST BOOK
OF LESSONS/FOR/LITTLE POLITICAL ECONOMISTS,/IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE/WITH
PICTURES/BY/J.W. BENGOUGH/Designed
for use in Schools, Colleges, Universities and other/Seats of Learning/NEW
YORK/FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY/LONDON AND TORONTO/1896/ [lines 1-7
in ornamental lettering].
Half-title. c. 1895 Funk & Wagnalls Co. 1-75 pp. 182x124 mm. Text
illus.
Light brown stiff wrappers. Front bears title, sub-title, pict. ornament & author
within a dbl. border; back bears humorous, fictitious comments within
a dbl. border.
F.f.l. n.p. 1895 (NUC).
Bengough was a cartoonist and a poet, born at Toronto,
Ontario. In 1873 he founded Grip, a humorous weekly published in Toronto,
and his cartoons
in this journal gained a wide audience. Later he became a cartoonist
with the Montreal Star and then with the Toronto Globe. He was an advocate
of the single tax, prohibition and free trade. (Macmillan). Most of
his
political ideas are contained in his Up-to-date primer. The following
is an extract from Lesson XI: 'But look at these Two! Are they not
both Men? They are. Yet one is Fat and Rich, and one is Lean and Poor!
How comes
this? It must be that the Fat one has a will to Work, and so by his
Toil on the Land gets all the Good Things he needs, while the Lean one
will
not Work and so must needs Starve and go in Rags. So it would seem,
my Child; but things are not as they seem.'
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