Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-06-10
COMMUNICATED.
WASHINGTON, 1856.
PROGRESS AND POVERTY.

" A-HlNtHI' N, ICCp.
PROGRESS AND POVERTY.
The comments OF the press on the
Nihilist methods but just inaugurated
al Chicago aud Milwaukee, read TO
me so much like the weird impressions
we sometimes experience as OF history
repeating itself in the minutest details
Of events, that find myself mystical
" wondering if book entitled "Thc
FaH II The Gloa' E,pVbHe, 1856
1889, Jv .Su. Hnay Stmadish Carer
sl,l,, DLt.naelt for he Hoard Of Eu
,uD,, on administration u, The Pro-
r,,,cr Of Ncr York;. Jy pcrmts>,o" Of
N, HUr,o, OF he Pros Csasor>k,p,
Nrr IWrk, 1895, ever really was wit
ten, or if my fancying had read such
a book is only a Don QuiXotte-like hal
Inclination, which should, being SO re-
coguized. account for the stunning
conviction that besides myself nobody
else has read with the exception
perhaps Of Representative Hewitt, OF
\. Y, as suggested by his glorious
effort recently, qaoad the Redemption
of Democratic pledges, II, !, Tariff Re-
form, Ne. The book above cited is an
echo Of The Battle OF Dorking, and
though the authors name is evident
" fictitious with everything else on
the title page hero quoted, it is as evil
IDENTIFY the production of an English
Ian: this, the Arcadian picture of
WAYS and means in the conquered
COLONY" under The firm Int benign
r.g,n3, Of Tie European Alliance,
shows without telling; but that he Is
well-wisher of "the Americans -
equally plain from the inception and
| subject matter Of The Fall of the
Great Republic" For all know, it
: bv the author OF The Battle o!
Dorking
1t has passed into history, At least,
into what the eldest n'Israeli would
have rut into his "Curiosities OF Lit
erature," under the chapter of Sc
crrt History, that while the book,
The Battle OF porking. "riIed John
Hlli ~ lauch a "lunius Letters.
vet the warning it conveyed SO opened
EnsAnl's eyes to her neglect OF mod
yrn appliances Of war that she forth
with went 10 work and brought her
Navy up to the first place among ma
! tious. and recovered her FIST waning
prestige a tie mistress Of the high
seas
The Battle # Dorl;ing' was extern
sively enough read in this country,
perhaps because 1t gave occasion to i
iiSrespectful laugh At our mother coun-
try. But We have here the anomaly
Of a people deaf to the warning Eng
lands experience has so wildly com
! mended TO orr attention that if events
| should take the turn that our condi-
! tious and materials render so eminent
" >>iir, We won't even have the
fools excuSe-"l had not though" -
for the re echoed satire has called upon
/ our attention. Now We are not fight
ing England, that We should slight
the counsel Of her acts in the interest
OF seli-protect.ou: We are struggling
out Of the tyranny OF ancIentism. As
Bagl.Jt Or Herbert Spencer so graph
Ica,iy puts Il, the particular phase Of
il which Henry George has shown Us
with Irresistible logic and the most
approved scientific methods conSti.
tUtes the head and front OF our social
malaljuStment, identically the same
that alone rlausiblv accounts for the
fall Of the Roman Empire and the de-
cline Of all past civilizttion-to wit
that monopoly of land Saps all the
wealth produced by labor and capt.
tai, precisely as has been reported in
medical records that one twin, first
born. robbed his unborn brother Of
his htes blood, and so OF his life.
through the umbilical connections Of
a y,a,,n.aanomalously common to the
two.
Mr.. Georges remedy is 10 drop all
taxes and tariffs except that of land,
AID to tax land to the full extent Of
all rises in rent, as these should oc-
cur, above 4 fixed standard based on
the margin Of rent-this to apply 10
land alone and not TO improvements
- Nh1N - Nt"1uUt pay 10 Ao.u Ianl T
idle for speculative advances in rent: so
also farmers with stock, fences, houses :
and implements would pay no more
taxes than rich neighbors would paw
on lands they might hold unimproved .
and idle. and land tax would be the .
farmers only tax, whereas thev now
paw by indirect taxat!on-not really .
70 The commonwealth. but to the land .
monopoll~tS-hunireis on every ar
tlcle they buy and every Improvement
they put upon their land where they
would then pay dollars. These doll
lars too would amply support the
Government, !or they would all 30
into lis treasury seyen-eishts OF
the Government : work-Gsorgs esti-
mates-could and would be abolish
ed, and improvements on land
would still 60 on, since increase in
population aud increase in proluc-
tiveuesS OF labor, facilitated by such
increase OF population and of labor
saving appliances, would legitimately
enhance rents Of lands actually used /