Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-31
nsnry o..rss ana Labor.

Will be away up in the thousands.
henry Oesrge and Labor.
Henry George is posing - the
1riond Of labor. As such he ran for
mayor Of New York and was de-
lSntsd. The reason Of his defeat was,
~ course, tbs fact that labor does not
1ocept him rs its exponent. In any
! oom munity tho man who can get the
nabor vote Is as sure of election as he
{ = tAst the sun will rise. The only
] 1oason Why labor candidate fails ct
+ - polls Tor any Office is that he has
1nfled to impress labor With sense
- ~ genuineness Of his pretensions,
nnd the honesty Of his intentions in
1ohalf Of the cause he claims to rep
8 pooont, ~ we'll as with the conviction
nat he will prove able and wise in
~ 1 dyocacy Of that cause.
81 i IL most notorious that of the mon
s Vhe have como up with = specific
Glaim 70 be representative of labor
F. = peculiar sense ninety-nine out Of
o1Ury hundred Of such have been the
1lost absurd shams, the most preten-
cD6ne humbuGs, the most unwise Of
onders, and the most uninstructed Of
lfoFA muses.. Charlatans, loafers,
Hod- beats and fools to . most alarm
- sxtont have tried to ride the labor
1 1okse into Office.
kll this makes the "son Of toil''
II very shy Of ali who rise up and
MI him Of some political Mecca
k5ro the streets are paved with
nhlo eagles. and the houses built
fRjcks Of fruit cake. The "horny-
~ 1ed's sre getting slow to believe
~ any act of Congress will be able
~ mako them millionsires per saltum.
0sorse suffered from this slowness
- belief, and all the concomitant cir
E Gnm stances begotten of the labor ele-
1nont having had its eye-teeth cut by
s = hard, unsatisfactory and painful
ooess Of too much 'fooling."
~ to the personal causes in
oorgess own case it is quite enough
= point out the foundation stone OF
- political edifice. 1t is that land
hould bear all the taxes incident to
~ burden of maintaining the gov
m ment. Now the land is used for
- purposes of agriculture. 1t is as
broad rule owned by those who till
In the United States the farming
A1erest represents q greater portion
4 the voters than any other one
rauch OF enterprise, more than all
1kers combined. Furthermore the
fGoter part of the land is in small
@ldings, and the men who hold it in
~ simple, and plow, SOW, reap and
fesh its crops are poor men. They
u more downright, bard hand labor
IN ell the rest of US put together.
= one of the fallacies OF most men
- George to adopt the false notion
&f there is no labor but that done
the hand, and no genuine toiler
aept tho man who uses the pick
N shovel. Brain toilers do not
unt for anything. Taking it at this
innate, unfair as it is, the farmer
~ uld not be forgotten as the FORE
1Dt man of all the world in the
~ Of honest toll. He is up with
lark and TO bed long after the
Sg come out, and in all the inter-
ing hours of the long day, he
d few moments for the indulgence
laxiness. The summers heat is
6e by him, aud the winters frost
= his bare fingers as he swings the
II the forest or doles out fodder
Be animals which help him in his
rous labor. Out OF all this the
&c is meagre at the best. The
p1shop, The maker Of threshing
chines, the transportation compa-
the commission merchant and
middlemen, all take toll from his
IS it passes. II at the end of
hahn the sack has anything left
(which the farmer can call his, it
rjng morcto the good fortune of the
yer than to bad management on
pnft of those through whose
il passes. Gases are not want
b which the sack itself has been
~ il the glaring, wide-open,
9potin George e'ssystem, through
~ bright sunshine of truth |
and warns labor that the
SilI not do to carry water from
q ia. In this one aspect Of
he farmer, the genuine toiler
bear all the burdens of tax
rs only too evident that the