, 1886-12-02
Distribution cf LAM

til" Henry George Idea Of govern /
mental ownership and individual !
represents the other. BE |
tween these two autipoies there l.
happy medium we'll suited to the
habits, temperament ana Institutions
tie A.-erlcan people. Individual
il fee simple, and those
generally small. couduce to the high
est welfare Of society in general. 1t
Is this sense Of absolute proprietor
ship, Of individuality, equality and in
that infuses into the
breast of the citizen a feeling Of
proud satisfaction. No man can
feel deeper the llingly consciousness
OF personal sovereignty than the one
who can repair at night to his little
spot OF soil and there realize that he
has castle supreme as against the
rights of all the world II there is
any pride or ambition within his
heart it will surely be developed by
such surroundings. Think of sIav-
ing to beautify a piece of land that
is only rented, where every stroke Of
improvement but adds to the value
Of dHother'S property, The strong
est incentive to home building is
wanting under such state OF affairs.
Love OF home is not an art or an ac-
complishment 1t does not need to
be taught in our public schools nor
thundered from the pulpit. 1t is the
instinct Of humanity, and even Of
dumb creation-the gift of an infin-
itely wise God to His creatures. 1t
is pure emotion bringing JOY equal
ly to the humble and the great.
''Be it ever so humble,
There's no place like home"
No wonder John Howard Payne
endeared himself to all the, world by
that simple song. Humanity felt its
tender truth, and wept a sympathetic
tear. 1t is the want OF homes that
makes lawless vagabonds. Whoever
heard of a tramp that owned land
There have been miserly tramps with
plenty Of money, but people do not
leave their homes to become vaga-
bonds. The sense of utter loneliness
creeping over stranger in a strange
land-who can measure it? Usually
it is the man far from home who
loses self respect. There is some
thing about the old homestead, with
its familiar landscape, its trees
and vines that have borne us
fruit or afforded Us shade-some-
thing about the old hearthstone
suggestive of the friends of our
youth, that aWakens within US the
keenest and tenderest emotions that
develop nobility of soul. Domestic
animals will travel many miles and
brave anything almost to get back
home. In war time, the man who is
defending mis- fresidShis loved ones
and the home that is his own indeed,
is the one most valiant and most en-
during. Patriotism, love OF country,
in its most intense form, is developed
in the home. Poor down trodden
Ireland has been struggling and ap-
pealinS for homes that shall belong
to her citizens and not to the pam
pered, pauper aristocracy of con-
quering race. Grand old Gladstone
knows that the principle for which
he contends is not only as old as hu-
manity itself, but will continue with
unabated intensity till time with the
human race shall be no more. In
our treatment of the American In
dian, by dragging him from his ac
customed haunts and placing him in
enforced exile on distant reservations,
we DO violence to every instinct of
his human nature. Love of home
was highly wrought among the an
clients. When the Jews were de,
spoiled of the land of their nativity
and were carried into Babylonish
bondage, and were there taunted and
requested to dance before their cap
tors and sing the sweet songs of
Israel, it is recorded that their lamen-
tations broke the bounds Of hopeless
despair and they said; by the rivers
OF Babylon we wept; yea, we wept
when we remembered Zion" The
earth IS the Lords, and the fullness
thereof" yet it is for the creature
man; and, although compelled to
earn his bread in the sweat OF his
brow, he is most kingly, most noble,
when literally obeying the divine
eommand-and that under his own
vine and fig tree. It is his badge of
true nobility rather than servflity. 1t
IS under such conditions that the
highest type OF manhood is develop
ed, with the smallest percentage OF
crime, ignorance, pauperism and
physical deSeneracy. Henry Georges
idea Of a socialistic nation Is not
only ephemeral but indicative of any
thing bat a truly philosophic mind.
Colfax CORmOner: On carefully
eanvassing the situation, our hopes
for The admission Of iEaship,rt,.,,