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tion of its laws is concerned. He and he alone is exempt from service in the public road work during his term of office.This rough outline of the governmental system of the hidden republic is true of today and for any other day you please back to six hundred years before the land that was to be the Republic of the United States was discovered. And population has remained as fixed as the forms of government. It hu now and there are supposed to have been about that number of refugees from Catalan in the beginning.That is a point that is particular.y interesting to Fhke Warren.. As it is now and always has been Andorra is a complete and very tangible proof of the Malthusian doctrine that population increases faster than the means for subsistence. The births of Andorra naturally exceed the deaths, for perfect health and long life are the rule of the country. But in this republic of rock, of very steep mountains and very narrow valleys, where the saying is “ we make our bread out of the stones/’ no way has been devised of growing enough to feed more than six thousand persons, AM itis, ®°me of the food supplies are brought from over the border, there being no tariff whatever on imports. So ^ each year is in emigration of the young men of Andorra into the more ferule regions of France and Spain.But on* of tit* dolm*George w tliot the theory of M»'tn«* was all wrongand Fink*F«ren of Tohut-t0 i, convinced th.t th* UmiUttoM to the wealth, speaking In term. of ptdit-ical economy, which the little republic may produce for itself, ore not in It. barrier* of stone but te system of private ownership of land and Its taxes on Industry. Except for the pan* ciple of the thing the taxes are almost negligible. The total public expenditures of the National Government and the parishes do not exceed six thousand dollars and the revenues are only a trifle more than that. There is a poll tax, for example, of something like 6 cents a year. The chief revenue is from the rent of publicly owned pastures for the fattening of cattle. These taxes will all be done aw'ay with and the necessity for emigration will cease, according to the single tax belief, if the republic as a whole decides to try the plan of which It is now having a demonstration in the village of Santa Columa,The Syndic of Andorra (Centre of FroatRow) and Members of Andorraa Congress.It walt;; at the Tahanto farm, in the town of -Harvard, Mass., hill country as beautiful if^iot as rugged as Andorra, that Mr. Warren told me of his economic adventure in the Pyrenees. He is a mar. of dreams and visions, who does not stop with the dreaming, but puts things through. As in 1893, when, interested in tennis, he went in for the champion-thip of the United States and won it. so now* in 1916, he not only believes that Andorra is a -rood place to try the single tax, but tries it. And he will consider the experiment worth while if the system is not adopted by the Government. . .“ We are not concerned chiefly in eon-verting people,” he said, “but in converting land. If we can bring a piece of land under the single tax system we are willing to let it speak for itself to the believers and unbeliever* of the sur rounding territory. If the system is never generally adopted in this^ountry, the country* nevertheless, will W better off for the example of Tahanto and the other similar experiments. An anecdote about Charles Lamb fiU the case. Somebody told him that there was a spot on his coat. 4 You mean a clean spot,be replied.” .If he were asked, Mr. Warren might describe himself as a paper manufacturer orlsa political economist, but in reality he is a poet. A good volume of verse might be written about him and hts Tahanto a.^sociates and called “ North of Worcester.” Here is the proof. He showed the interviewer about the big house at Tahanto. which is the last word in the architecture of comfort and convenience for men and women who want to get together in the hills to think about things and find the right answers. But after ehowing the big room where they all can think together or have a play and the little rooms where they can think separately he came to the real thing about that house. On one flight of cementAacieat Chapel ef Santa Coloma.steps leading down from the west porch were the imprints of small bare feet, going away from home, off in the direction of Mt Waehusett and the luke. My children,” he said, and then hurried to the steps at the other end of the porch, where footprints left in the hardened cement were toward the house“ and here they are coming hack to me.” On* of these children is in the |»ortiait by John Singer Sargent, “ Mrs. Fiske Warren and Daughter,” now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.From looking at the house and the hills we got back to Andorra and Henry George while we had lunch of pecan nuts raised in the single Ux colony of Fair Hope, Alabama. Fiske Warren cracked them, fast enough for two, and threw the shells into an open fire of white birch. He carried the nut* about with him in a long bag, verylike the thing that Fulataff and other Shakesperean heroes carry their money in when they have any. In addition to the nuts wa- a loaC of Lread, not to eat, hut to talk about, for it wa^ made In Andorra fiiom win at rai ed at Tahanto. Mr. Warren shipped fourteen bundled pound.-, of th* v- n on the steamship Montevideo for Barcelona on Jan. 10. It wa- taken from Barcelona over the mour.ta ‘ Andorra by mule and the sample loaf of bi fad got back to Tahanto early in April.“It is much better wheat Jhan XMf can rai-e there and 1 sent it as an experiment. You esc, there is no tar.ff in Andorra and that makes it, in one respect, at least, an ideal country for a 'tingle tax experiment 1aonoae of freedom of exchange. 1 had that fact in mind »hen I first went there m to see what could he done.“This year, in association with william L. Price of Philadelphia and Dr. Francisco PU of Andorra, I have begun the work. I bought land in Santa Coloma, in the very shadow of a church that was built in the eleventh century,'and Mr. Price and Dr. Pit »' w,th m€ “trustees. From the tru tees 1 have leased a portion of the land, on which I will pay the economic rent, and the trustee* will refund to me such sums as I have to pay out in taxes imposed by tho authorities of Andorra. That is the way we do it in the colonies in the United States, only here we have the tariff and tho Income tax, which for obvious reasons we cannot undertake to refund, so the conditions in the Pyrenees are moeh better. The portions of the land which the trustees have not leased to me w® be available for others, the Andorrans them-celves, on the same term#. We are not Irving to convince them by argument, but to convert the land and let them see the results. With all its blessings and simplicity Andorra is a landlord-ridden country. The single tax would remedy that.“I have named th'- -ingle tax area in Andorra Sant Jordi for several reasons. St. George is the patron saint of the Catalonians, he was the saint who fought the dragons, and the landlords are tne dragons of today; and then we bnrg in the name of Henry Georg* ”
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