The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-01-19
REV. DR.. M'GLYNN,
Ie Discusses the Land and Labor
-'' Question.
The Opera House is Well Filled, Not
! withstanding the Bad Night
d a.I ASynopsis of His Lee
ture,

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The Opera House was comfortably
filed last night to hear Rev. DR.. Nc
GNnn. who represents the advanced
thOheht of the Henry George school,
lecture on the great question of the day
Land and Labor. There were many
neOple present who came from a dis
tance, for we noticed the face of Char
ley Bonsall, the leader of the, Union
Labor party in Columbiana county,
who came here from Salem. A few
minutes after o'clock, DR.. McGlynn,
accompanied by Messrs. John Metre
gOr and Samuel j. Roberts. the man
ayers of the meeting, and Judge Under
hill, who was to preside, entered the
Opera House. The curtain soon arose
and Judge Underhill in few prelimi-
mary remarks introduced the Doctor.
The mention of his name elicted some
anplanse in various parts of the house.
The Doctor who is clergyman and a
his discussion:
"The movement we are engaged in is
not only 4 sOelal ana pohucai one, but
1t is also a religious movement. Somt
Of YOU, probably, have already Learned
that / am a-clergyman. 1t is hecauS
this movement is a religious one that /
am engaged in it. My feelings of COM
passion for the weak and oppressed.
for the misery and wreIcnednes
among the thousands of people in ou'
large cities would probably have incitet
me to engage in this movement but in
OF all that it was from a re-
ligious sense of duty. 1t is essential y
a religious movement. The labor ques-
ton is this: How shall men attain in this
life that which we are told they have
an unalienable right to. In that crisis
of time which gave birth to our country;
When those seers and sageS established
our grand republic, they declared in the
Declaration of Independence that the
rights of man are given ov The Creator.
They are unalienable. When 100000
of brave soldiers went out to battle for
the preservation of the Union and to
shatter the shackles of the slaves; in
that great civil conflict the northern
army looked to Heaven for help. And
so it is in the crisis now, that the men
who are oppressed and crushed by
are looking 10 Heaven for
help and thus it may be properly called
a religious movement.
OEhe iauUr question needS no Demon
stration. We have an abundance OF
raw material. The question is, how
shall men employ their labor and then
how shall they secure the fruits OF their
labor. The rights of all men to labor
equally upon the raw materials OF the
earth are the essential teachings OF the
Declaration of Independence. Men do
NOT work for recreation or exercise.
When men work for exercise they will
90 fishing or hunting or indulge III some
other work which is amusement. we
never hear OF men digging in coal
mines or in bitches or chopplng down
trees in the forest for exercise. They
do these things because they expect to
he secured in the fruits of their labor.
This is the labor question in nutshell.
Human life is not a brutal scramble
for selfish competition.
The first of these rights OF labor is a
mans rights to own himself; to own his
own energies; to employ them where
he will secure the best fruits for them,
But this is not the case. Men in build
ing houses for capitalist must under
bid one another to secure a job, and af-
ter those houses are erected the must
outbid one another to get chance to
live in one of them. Now this is the
condition of things at present. Now
the solution to this question is to tax
these rental values. There is lots of
land that you can get for merely moth
Jug. But if men want land close to a
CITY or near a river or railroad station
they will pay big price for it, and that
is where rent begins. Now II these
rental values were taxed we could call
our boys home from Dakota and those
western territories.
There is no reason why the State OF
Ohio should not contain 100000 of
instead of 100000. Why should
She not be as pOpulous as England? A
hundred people scattered over thous-
ands of acres, and what is their cOndi-
ton? 1t is barbarous and savage. a
hundred people put into little village
and there you have civilization. Why
civilization came from city and city is
derived from an old Latin word which
means coming together. God never
that members of a family
should be scattered all over country.
If these rental values were taxed there
would be plenty of opportunities here
for men to make living. Human life
wouldnot then be a brutal scramble for
selfish competition, but every man
would be for his brother and God the
Father for us ALL
His address was one which could
itself to the hearts of his
hearers, breathing as it did the truth of
The great doctrinal assertion that man
is his brothers keeper, and responsible
for the general welfare and happiness
Of the human family. DR.. McGlynn
holds fast to the theory of the Father.
hood of God and the brotherhood of
nan and his argument was overtiOwing
with the milk of human kindness
Edward McGlynn is a
nan of great personal power and those
who heard him last night do not marvel
hat his New Y York congregation
Almost worship him as their pastor.
The doctor talked for two hours and
lis remarks were frequently inter
'upted by applause.