In the campaign of 1918 the “single-taxers” of California made their third and great attempt to confiscate land values in that beautiful state. The issue of July 20th of “The Great Adventure,” an official organ of the single-tax propaganda, printed upon its front page in heavy double leaded type this announcement: “_Single tax will put these big land values into the public treasury and leave the Ground Hogs nothing to rent but the actual value of their buildings._” The January, 1918, number of “Everyman,” another of their official organs, contained a well-considered article lauding conditions in Russia, and promising the same for California. I quote briefly: “The people of Russia, who only yesterday were semi-starving slaves to a tinsel aristocracy, are now for the first time living upon their own lands, in their own homes, and working in their own fields and factories. They have dispossessed landlords and profiteers; and all who work have plenty. People do not starve where there is none to take the food out of their mouths. Famine is a result of human exploitation. When the people of any country go hungry it is because they are denied access to natural resources. The people of Russia have taken their natural resources, and also their industries and they will not go hungry.... Out of darkest Russia has come the great light of actual freedom; and there is every reason to hope she will soon have the weakest government in the world, which means, of course, the strongest, bravest, truest and most united people.... That is what we are striving to do in California, but we won’t stop with the land. We will only begin there. We could not stop there; the tide is too strong. It will bear us on into the new world of economic friendship.”