The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-11-28
THE MALTHUSIAN THEORY
Lecture by Mr. Henry George on Popuis,
ton aud Subsistence-Wh Ireland il
Miserable

Lecture by Mr., Henry George on Popuis-
ton aud Subsistence-Wh Ireland is
Miserable.
Mr.. Henry George lectured upon the NAL
| thusian theory before large audience at
Chickering hall last evening, and Incl
dentally discussed the question of land and
rents. His hearers were evidently in hearty
! sympathy with his views, for the applause
was frequent and spontaneous. Mr.. George
was introduced by Rev. DR.. Newton, and
Professor Felix Adler also accompanied Mr..
George upon the platform.
At the outset Mr.. George briefly described
| the condition of Europe ut the close ~
the last century, when Nautilus appeared
with his theory which justified the
unhappy existing condition of things,
and, taking the responsibility for it off Che
shoulders of the rulers and teachers of the
people, placed it upon the Maker of the
universe. Mr.. George discussed at length
the principles laid down by Nautilus, and
the substance of which is that population
tends to increase faster than subsistence,
and that vice, misery and pestience were
natures means of getting rid of the super.
ilu0us people who come into world which
did not want them and was unable to sup
port them. The uniounded assumptions
and loose congratulations to be found in the
essay were rs repugnant, the lecturer said
to the logical faculty as its conclusions were
repugnant to the moral sense.
ireland was cited by the lecturer as zone
OF the stock cases" quoted by the Malthu-
SLAMS. For century the English had SOL
aCed themselves and told the world that
tho want aud p,iooryr -, Irol
to over population, but the truth was that
under the social conditions that existed
there If the country we've the Garden of
Eden there would be misery. Mr.. George
drew terrible picture of the condition of
the Emerald Isle, giving the result of obser-
yatlons made during his recent soiourn
there. He spoke Of one old town, all the in
habitantsol which depended for water upon
one old pump, hut there were tweptysiy
constables aud iitty.siX soldiers stationed
there. As facts would not support the the.
Dry OF Nal huS be claimed it coulu not beuu
heh by analogy, lie argued - atmen,b by ex-
ttndlnS the conditions favorable to the px.
lstcnce aud reproduction of fishes, birds
and beasts, caG secure their MULTIPLICATION
ut pace which hispowers OF increase could
not rival, Then too, itwasan acknowledged
TACT that where the population was densnst
wtall h was also greatest. Within the limits
OF the United States there were now So.
W2WO people, where in the time OF Column
bus there Serc only few hundred thous-
ana yet the territory vas improved so as
to- yield more food per capita tnan it did
when the population was thin. Mr.. George
argu Il, IN short, that the law of popuia-
ton involves jast such beautiful adapiions
as We're to be seen in every natural law,
and asserted that the existence Of want and
misery is due to unjust distribution of
wealth. II was not the fault of God but
the fault ofman. This brought him to his
invorlte theory of land and reuts which he
discussed at great length.-[New York
Times.