Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-01-24
Henry George Talks.
He Believes the Australian System OF
Voting viii be Adopted in
New York.
The Irish Could Never Have Elected
Parnell and Dayitt Without
That Law.


Henry George, of New York, was at the
Pacific Hotel on his way to Des Moines,
iowa. When questioned regarding the
nature Of his trip west, he said;
~ am going 30 Des MOines TO lecture.
From there | 20 60 Minneapolis and S.
Paul, and one or two other points IN the
northeast and will then return 20 New
York. Last week appeared before q
committee of the Ohio Legislature 40
Columbus with Thomas G. Sherman and
Z. l.. Thompson, and made an argument
10 favor of the Australian system of
secret ballot. / bel eve the Australian
system OF voting will be the law in half a
dozen stRtes before the year "a over. II
will DO adopted again by the New York
legislature. and ! have reason 90 believe
that Governor Hin will not veto it again.
Governor Francis 1T Missouri, is in favor
of IL and the measure will be strongly
presented to the Missouri legislature.
The system is almost certain 80 become a
law ia Rhode Island and Connecticut and
may be adopted in Ohio and Indiana.
The arguments in favor of Il are much
easiar 90 present since the election than
they We've before, because the corruption
of voters was SO plainly carried 90 a
greater extent than ever before. The
public can not help seeing that the only
remedy is some such way of voting as
that provided by the Australian system.
The Irish parliamentary agitation was
made possible by the system alone DO
you suppose the Irish electors would ever
dared to elect Parnell and Dayitt had
they not been able 20 do SO by secret
votesY Il is q splendid system and as I
ssid before, u is almost certain 20 be
adopted ia Now York, by the present
legislature and be approved by Gov.
Hill.
do You think the cause OF free trade
has been set back by the election of Gen
eral HarrisOn9'
by no means. On the contrary il has
been advanced tNanty years. The party
in opposition Is the party OF the radical
ideas, and we shall presently se1 Dem
ocratic patty as radical as the most pro-
gressive men could wish. The trouble
with the tariff reform Democratic party
this year was that IL was led by Prohjbi
tionists. BY the time we are TO fight the
next campaign, the Democratic Prohibit
ZIONIST will join the Republican party
and the Republican free traders come
over to the Den ocrats. The issues will
be clearly drawn. The people will get
their stomschs full of protection under
! Harrison.
"rhe single tax idea is advancing very
| rapidly. The signatures 90 a petition II
! it's favor 90 Congress are coming in st
fast that we can hardly haudle them
! There are a million of item already. VI
expect the realization of the theory FIRE
! in the adoption Of free trade and thon II
the growth OF National party. In "a,
old country whore the land holdings ar,
more concentrated than in the United
! States, the advocates OF the tax a-e mul
tiplyiug very rapidly. This is particu.
| larly true of England, and the Liberia
! party Is likely 70 be ito champion, TIL,
! Liberals, you know, arc opposed 20 th'
| land purchase bin simply because Oh,
/ Tories are in favor Of IL. Now the Lib
erals are advocatiug a tax on RrouuC
rents, which ia the next thing to a t8l
4 ugOn land values according 80 our views
/ Tire ideas in favor OF the land tax 1rt
difusing so fast that hey will probably
| bio en issue in the neat general Pariia
mentary election Though | have only
1 been home from England three weeks
am going back again the last of mex
month, and ahall spend three months u
siumping England, Ireland and Scot
| land.n
"What do you think Of the action OF
the police in forbidding the meetings OF
anarchists2'
~ think IT was very arbitrary, and
am surprised the people OF Chicago
should tolerate II. The people Of Chica
90 HAYS been in sort OF white terror
over the anarchist business, and have
mace themselves ridiculous. The right
| OF free assemblBge must not be
intefered with by authority. Yet 30 Il
I is, the pendulum swings back and forth
the advocacy Of force on one siee and
the unreasonable fear of sooiety on the
| othtr."