Workmen's advocate., 1889-05-25
COMMUNICATIONS.

Norlrr To CoRHEsroNurNrS.- Write plain; boil down. your letters, make them short Write ulJ1y "n one side o( thepaper Re as good naturcd ns you can he under the c'rcum stances. To He H'orhmcIiS ldroodr:
 Mr George is in Europe and his dep- uties are busy ovcrturning the princl- ples up,u which his fame rests. and the Stdmiui has become vehicle of slau- der and faIsehood; hence is losing the support of those who are sandered and those who love fair play. llr. W. T. Croasdalp is evidently employed ny some power which will gain by d diyi- sion in the reform forces, He receives a stinging rebuke from Mir, pcntecost, of the Iw.Widh CcWWY a single.taX journal, who plainly hints that Mr. CroasdaIe should oppose socialists with better weapon than talsehood.
 In book 9, chapter i, of "Progress and Poverty" Mr. George thus states how public revenues could be used.
 "We might not establish public tables they would be unnecessary; but we could establish public baths, museums, libraries, gardens, lecture rooms. music and dancing halls, theatres. universities, technical schools. shooting galleries, play grounds, gymnaSiums, etc. Heat, light and motive power, as well as water, might be conducted through our streets at public expense. Our roads might be lined with fruit trees. disCOv- erers and inventors rewarded, scientific investigation supported, and ill thous- and ways the public revenues made to foster efforts for the public benefit. We should reach the ideal of the Socialist but not through governmental repres- sion. Government would change it's character and would become the admin istration of great cooperative society.'
 Just how repression could produce public conveniences is not shown Mr. CroasdaIe finds a microscopic differ ence between the above programme and Socialism, and tries to broaden it into an impossible gulf. He says in the Stand, ard, April ?:
 "There is no utilization between us and these people. On the contrary, they are our natural antagonists, and not merely our antagonists, but our enemies.
 We are hereby taught that a man who favOrs a public bath-hOuse is the natural enemy of him who proposes a public laundry, although one pipe could supply hot water to both. Mr.. CrOasdale would have a municipality distribute motive power through the streets, but he asks to be loved for making an enemy of the man who would have the municipal ity use the power for production. "So- cialists," says he "seek the overthrow of society, not reformation, They would cast aside the ballot and return to barbarism. They sympathized with the executed anarchists because the latter represented the policy of destruction, notwithstanding they, the Socialists, de- cared that their sympathy was founded on the injustice of the sentence"
 Mr. Croasdale is thus supcrnaturaIly able to pull aside the veil of mere Ian- guage and lay bare the real motives of l men.
 If evolution operates Tn social reform, why does it indulge in freaks. such as setting reformers to fighting? Both sides use equally hard names. An Eng fish socialist thinks all are fools who flock to hear Mr. George. Mr. Gron- hnd, in a pamphlet full of logical defects, claims the socialists have the best reform brains. Iquote d sample defect; "When land has been closed to the enterprise of capitalists, they will very likely invest more cdpital in industry and thereby create a still wilder competition, more overproduction and more crises.
 A little thought will show that to stop traffic in land would not release one cent of capital; the price of a land title merely passes from one capitalist to another.
 Single-tax men regard socialists as tyrants, fools and hunglers; yet my quotation from MT. George proves his object pure socialism. Is it q wonder that people refuse to support either side while this antagonism exists?
 RINCTUM.