Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-12-24
Georges Land Theories.


1t was the attitude of the Rev. DR.. Nc
Glynn, a prominent Catholic divine, OF
New York city, in the recent mayoralty
campaign, in which he SO eloquently sup
ported Henry George and his peculiar land
theories, which evoked the able pastoral
letter of Archbishop Corrigan, defining
the legality and Justice of individual titles
in lands to which reference was made in
the TIMES. DR.. McGlynu has been since
summoned to Rome to answer before the
Papal Court for the extraordinary social
and political doctrines to which he gave
the sanction and prestige of his priestly
office and which contributed so largely to
the great popular support gives to MIR.
George The Rev. Doctor has been tenn
porarily suspended from his sacred off ces
and will repair at once to Rome to make
any defense he may have and receive such
censure and discipline as may be adjuds-
ed against him by the highest ecclesiasti-
cal authority of the Church.
Mr.George's doctrine as 10 a common pro-
perty in lands doubtless fall with pecu-
liar junction upon the ears of the oppress-
ed Irish tenantry in the old country and
their warm hearted American sym ,athi-
zers There, where the old institutions of
the feudal aristocracy have served to per
petuate large tracts of the choicest lands
under single arbitrary ownership and to
protect them by perpetual entails from the
inroads of commercial barter and exchange,
the oppression of individual monopoly in
the ownership of lands is seen and fet in
a different light to what it presents in this
Democratic country with its broad and
fertile acres still preserved to settlers
That was the evil which Goldsmith had
in mind when he sung SO plaintively of
how,
''The man Of wealth and pride
Takes up space that many poor supplied. y
That is the evil which Parnell and
Gladstone are now exerting their best en-
rgies, within the bounds of law and So
cial orde to remedy 1t was that evil
aud the remedy to il which seemed to be
contained in Mr.. Georges clever falacies,
which deceived SO learned a scholar and
eminent Christian gentlemen as Dr.. Nc
Giynn into an open support Of him and
brought to his standard so large a vote in
the city of New York.
But the more discreet of the American
sympathizers with the suffering Irish will
not see in the sowing broadcast in this
country of the seeds Of Mr.. Georges com
munistic doctrines any promise Of remedy
to the evils by which the Irish peasantry
are oppressed. Here in this country the
law of entails and the principles Of landed
aristocracy do not exist. All lands are
subject to The transitions OF commerce.
And there is not as VI George has assert
ed AMI assumed 10 he proved, any undue
disposition on the part If the capital of
this country to invest in lands. 10 be ten
anted out to the actual occupants. On
the other hand capital seems u find more
remuneratiyc Investment in almost any
other fed at present than in thIt 81 agri-
ricultural hnis. This - sttestei by he
fact that in many sections Of this cnuntry.
especially in some p.rts Of tie South.
good auds. which my be bought for a
song. are growIn- SIP in,n lores, f'r the
lack of occupancy AMI tillage. Such is
The case here in Sou hcrn VI .ry and within
an easy days drive Of the national capita.
Mr.. Georga is a clever 'heorist, but the
trouble with lin is that his mental vision
has been too ny bounded hy the limited
horizon Of lie work shop. He has thus
been deprived Of the advantages of ohser-
walton in the rural districts Of America,
which might have served II have tempered
and modified his high-blow1 theories by
actual facts which are patent II the ohser-
vaiion of more Pr4ctrcAl people. 1t is to
his mechanical raining also, perhaps, that
is due his app rent oversight OF a fact
which lies at the foundation ot his land
theories: viz. that Ian | in its native forest
state ia only prepared TOR occupancy and
agriculture 10y the minging OF the labor
of the first settler with it. often 20 the full
market value Of the ard Itself and is on
" held in an arabic state Iy he C n in u
ed exertions OF tabor.
The recent signal defeat Of McNeil /, the
labor candidate for mayor Of Boston,
in whose behalf Mr. George himself had
made an active personal canvass, seems to
indicate that the free land" bu. BILE has
already been punc'ured, and that Mr.
Georges ambition to convert himself into
political party ia probably nipped IN the
bud. McNeill received less than 1900
votes. while the Democtctic candidate, Mr..
O'Brien, was elected by plurality of over
5000 and majority over DO his Repub-
lican and labor competitors.
The bill in regard to the trade dollar
recently passed by the Senate provides
that trade dollars mot defaced, mutilated
or stamped" may, until July 1. 1887, be
exchanged for standard silver dollars, dol