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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

One of the last of the series of great
meetings addressed by Henry George
was held in Dublin. Michael Davitt,
the greatest of the Irish patriots, pre-
sided, and thoroughly indorsed the
single tax in the following address,
which we reprint from the London
Democrat. Everybody should read it,
The Rotunda was thronged to its utmost
capacity, and when Mr.. George, accom-
panied by Mr.. Davitt as chairman, made
his appearance, he was received with
the utmost enthusiasm. The chairman
said:
Fellow citizens, we are indebted to the
members of the National Club for provid-
ing us with this opportunity of hearing
my friend Mr.. George. Personally, l
feel very grateful to those gentlemen for
the task of organizing this meeting; and
my obligations are all the greater from
the fact that neither the club, as an
institution, nor its members, as a body,
are identified with the views which are
held by Mr.. George on the land question.
Mr.. George is welcomed by this meeting
because he is, first, an eminent Ameri-
can citizen and secondly, well known
advocate Of Ireland's cause, irrespected
of when or by what means the Irish
social problem is to be finally solved.
But there are many present here to-
night, and thousands throughout the
country also, who like myself, believe
firmly that the land of Ireland should be
the national property of its people, as it
once was-and not the patrimony of any
class or section of the community, as
English class legislation has unfortuna-
tely made it, and is still endeavoring it
shall so remain. Mr.. George will show
in his lecture this evening the justice of
national proprietary, together with the
material advantages which such system
would confer upon the non-agricultural
classes as well as upon farmers, the
workers and toilers in our towns and
cities. These are now compelled, under
an unjust system Of taxation, to pay
duties and taxes upon articles of food
and other necessaries of life which are
out of all proportion to the relative taxa
ton of ground rent and other landlords
who appropriate to themselves the pro-
perty which the industrial community
creates in both town and country land
1t is nothing less than monstrous
outrage upon the word law that an Earl
of Pembroke, say, should be allowed
to walk off with 100000 year in rents
Ievied upon the people and the industry
of suburb of this city, when every
penny of this value has been given to
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

this land, not by the said Pembroke, but
by the people who live and toll in and
near this city. Then, again, we have
ground rent landlords here in Dublin
who walk off with tens of thousands of
pounds more every year, while the taxes
of the city are ten shillings in the pound.
Workingmen are prone to overlook the
manner in which they are compelled to
contribute out of scanty earnings to the
incomes on these privileged and titled
loafers. An artisan who earns, say a
pound week, one week with another,
has not only to pay taxes to the state on
his tea or coffee or cocoa, on his tobacco
and his beer or porter, he has also to
pay, in the same manner, taxes to the
ground rent landlords of Dublin on the
very same articles-on everything else
he eats or drinks, on his clothes and
upon his furniture. If you go into a
grocery store, clothing establishment, or
furniture warehouse in Dublin to buy
any of the necessaries of civilized life,
you have not only to pay the intrinsic
value of the article purchased, and what
will also be a commercial profit on its
sale, but you will likewise be charged by
the dealer or manufacturer in proportion
to the rent he pays for his place of
business, which rent is largely regulated
by the ground rent that is exacted by
the landlord who claims to own the land
upon which the shop or establishment is
built. In the same way wages are taxed
in the interest of the same class. A
factory or workshop always stands on
land that is thereby made valuable.
The rent paid for such land is so much
deducted from the earnings of the en-
ployer, who, of course pays so much less
in wages to the men employed. Thus,
in everything we do in life in these
countries we are taxed by laws that were
made by class for their own benefit,
and that are in tlagrant violation of
natural right and justice. Mr.. George is
an advocate of land laws that will be the
antipodes of the present system. Land
must be owned in the interest of indus
try, and not for the benefit of idlers. It's
revenues must be appropriated for the
good of the community and not to sustain
the pampered drones of the social hives.
Rent for land in city or country should
be devoted to the purposes for which
farmer and laborer, artisan and me-
chanic, professional man and merchant
are now compelled to pay direct and in
direct taxation-namely, for the main
tenance of the state and the support of
the poor. When that is done taxes on
the necessities of life will cease, food be-
comes necessarily cheaper, and the en-
ployers of labor will be better able to
advance just wages to the workers, who
are the backbone of the entire social
system. now have the honor of intro.
ducing man who needs no introduction
8 wherever the language in which he will
address you is spoken: Henry George
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

The Harrison administration has given
an early proof of its capacity for reckless
expenditure of the public money. The
increase of the net debt over one million
dollars in July, though unexpected, eX-
cited no particular attention because it
was thought to be due to an accidental
excess in current expenditure. But the
August statement, showing further in
crease of over six millions of dollars in
the net debt, admits of no such explana-
ton. Evidently we have reached the
end of the policy of retrenchment en-
forced by preceding administrations, and
have entered upon policy of deliberate
extravaganza. 1t is true enough that
the money to be disbursed during the
current fiscal year cannot exceed the
amount appropriated by Congress. But
what was intended to cover the expenses
of year may be in good part paid out
in six months. In pursuance of the Re-
publican policy of resistance to tax re-
duction, it is of the first necessity to keep
expenditure as far as possible in advance
of income. Profusion in the first half of
the fiscal year will bring on compulsory
parsimony in the last half. 1t is in the
last half that Congress sits and it is
then that the clamor for more money
for Notifications, for war vessels, pen
sions, public buildings, ship canals and
Federal aid to schools will resound
throughout the land. Under cover OF
this contrived leanness of available funds
in the Treasury and of the vociferou:
demand for more adequate and libera
expenditure there will be grand rait
on the surplus. The surplus will dis
appear. Then it will be discovered tina
there is no need of tax reduction or o
tariff reform. The administration vii
have paid the debt it owes to protected
monopolies by making it apparently
necessary to prolong and confirm thei
: clutch upon the pockets of the people
1t is hardly possible that this game, il
which the government descends to tn,
sharp practices of street spectators
should pass unobserved by taxpayers
They cannot be convinced that it i
, necessary that the expenditures for tn
. two first months of the current fisca
s year should be $1S,S55, ,97S in excess o
: the expenditures of the last fiscal year
q The difference between careful econo
e my of the public resources and reck
r less determination to compel term 0
S extravaganza is too badly apparent
\ The whole matter is embraced in tn
!. following comparative showing of th
n decrease and increase of the public debt
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12
WOrtermelon Time.

Old wortermelon time is a-comin' round gin,
And they amt no man a livin' any tckled-
er'n me,
Which is the why and wherefore. as you can
plainly see.
Oh, it's in the sandy soil wortermelons does
And it's thare they'll lay and waller In the
sunshine and the dew
Till they wear all the green streaks clean Off
of theyr breast,
And you bet amt a-hnding any fault with
them air you?
They amt no better thing in the vegetable
line:
And they don't need much tendin' as ev'ry
farmer knows:
And when theyr ripe and ready fer ter pluck
from the vine,
Iwant to say to you theyr the best fruit that
grows.
It's some likes the yaler-core, and some likes
And it's some says the little Californy is the
But the sweetest slice of all l ever wedged in
Is the old Edinburg Mounting-sprout of the
West.
You don't want no punkins nigh your voter
melon vines.
Cause, some way another, they'll spile your
melons, shore;
I've seed 'em taste like punkins, from the core
to the rines.
Which may be fact you have heerd of be-
fore.
But your melons that's raised right, and
tended to with care,
You can walk around amongst 'em with a
parents pride and joy,
And thump 'em on the heads with as fatherly
aair
AS eff each one of them was your little girl
er boy.
joy in,,nGy in my hart jest to hear that rippin'
When you split one down the back and jolt
the halves in two,
And the friends you love the best is gethered
all around,
And you say unto your sweetheart, "Oh,
here's the core for you"
And III like to slice em up in big pieces for em
Espeshnlly the children, and watch theyr
high delight,
As one by one the rlnes with theyr pink
notches fall,
And they holler for some more with un-
quenched appetite.
Boys take to it natchural, and like to see 'em
A slice of wortermelon's like French-harp
in theyr hands:
And when they saw it through theyr mouth
such music can't be beat
Cause it's music both the sperit and the
stummick understands.
Oh, they's more In wortermelons than the
purty-colored meat,
| And the overfiowin' sweetness of the worter
squashed betwixt
| The up'ard and the down'ard motions of a
fellers teeth,
And it's the taste of ripe old age and juicy
childhood mixed.
Fer never taste a melon but my thoughts
flies away
| To the summertime of youth, and again l
see the dawn,
And the fadin' afternoon of the long summer
day,
| And the dusk and dew a-fallin and the
night a-comn' on.
/ And thare's the corn around us, and the lispin'
leaves and trees
And the stars a-peekin down on us as still
silver mice,
And us boys in the wortermeons on our
hands and knees,
! And the new moon hangin' DER us like q
yaller-cored slice.
o, it's wortermelon time is a-comin' round
again,
And they amt no man alvin any tiokled-
er'n me,
Fer the way / banker after wortermelons is a
sin,
Which is the why and wherefore, as you can
plainly see.
james Whitcomb Riley.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12
Used His Boy for Bait.

Keuka Lake, New York, is twenty
miles long by two miles wide. Penn
Yam is at one extremity, Hammonds-
port at the other. While making pas
sage across the lake citizen of the
former place related this story: Some
years ago friend of mine, taking his
little son along, went fishing on this
lake. The boy was at the fathers
back in the stern Of the boat. Soon a
violent splashing, accompanied by a
stitled scream, startled the father who
moment later clutched the foot of
his son, just disappearing in the wat
ers of the lake. Pulling him aboard
he also landed salmon trout five feet
long, weighing forty pounds, with his
teeth firmly imbedded in the boys
face on either side of the nose. The
little fellow, lying on the seat, his
body half over the boat, was mirror
ing his face in the lake. The fish
sprang up, seized him, and so lost his
balance. As quickly as possible the
boy was taken home, doctor and
photographer was called, and to-day a
picture of the boy with the fish attach
ed may be seen in Penn Yam.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

WASHINGTON, Sept. II, 1889.

AslilNGToN, sept III, 1859.
The disagreement between Commits
sioner Tanner and the Secretary of the
Interior has passed the pyrotechnic
stage, and for all the present indications
of trouble that are visible to the naked
eye it would appear that the previously
existing difficulties had been composed.
But the points in dispute between the
officials cover such broad grounds that it
cannot be assumed from outward appear
ances that matters are less strained than
heretofore. The explanation of the ex-
isting quietude comes in hint from the
Department of the Interior, that the
President has been greatly annoyed by
the freedom with which details and per-
sonal grievances have been discussed by
the officials involved, and that all hands
have been requested to do less talking.
Such hint coming from the White
House would be equivalent to an order,
and very meager accounts of the existing
troubles are likely to hereafter reach the
public. Secretary Rusk is said to be
Commissioner Tanners particular cham
pion in the Cabinet, and it is said he is
as earnest in having the Commissioner
protected as Secretary Noble is to have
him retired.
A SURPRISING ANNOUNCEMENT.
The announcement that the PROPOSE
for called session of Congress had
been negatived was of considerable con-
sequence to great many people in
Washington, and to none more than
hotel-keepers. Since the November
election the indications have been in
favor of an extra session being called,
and it grew to be popular and undenied
belief that October would find Congress
here. Acting upon this belief prepara-
tions were made accordingly.
But it is an ill wind that blows no one
good. On the House rolls are hundreds
of Democratic employees whose heads
will fall in the basket as fast as the Off
GERS of the next House can reorganize
their forces, The employe on the annu-
al roll has little or nothing to do when
Congress is not in session. Those who
have nothing to do go to their homes,
and frequently engage in other occupa-
tions, their monthly salary coming to
them with the charming regularity with
which their Uncle Samuel pays his
clerks. An extra session would have
cut off this advantage, and the fact that
the decision not to hold one comes un-
expectedly is equivalent to putting
money in their pocket that they could
not reasonably have hoped to receive.
POLITICIANS ON THE TRAIL.
"That is a pretty good barometer of
the Presidents movements, said an OBJ
serving hotel clerk to me, as he pointed
to the open register. "You see it was
rather dull during the first part of the
week, but now that the President is
home the politicians have commenced to
roll in at lively rate. By tonight we
will have another page full of arrivals.
When the President leaves there will be
general thinning out about the hotels"
TANNER WILL CERTAINLY GO.
1t is rumored on the streets this morn
ing that change in the Office of pension
commissioner will be made in few
days, the relations between Tanner and
Secretary Noble having reached crisis.
Tanner will offered an inferior position
and a Western man appointed instead.
Sfpore ono for Harrison
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

been an obstacle in the path of this re-
form, but the bulk of the work is now
being done by men of business and pro-
fessional pursuits who have no need to
fear such. The fact that those who
honestly have the cause of labor and
justice at heart have entered the ranks
is regarded as a very important sign of
the times and emphasizes the old axiom
that "the world does move"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

The county commissioners of the
state meet in third annual convention
at Allentown on the 23d of September.
The object of the convention is to
ascertain the operation and construc-
ton of the general laws relating
to counties; to advocate legislation
more uniform; to prevent waste and
mismanagement in the administration
Of public funds and generally to dis
cuss the duties and obligations of
public municipal officers. The pur-
poses are important and no doubt the
convention will be well attended.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

The drowning of eleven men in a
Colorado mine this week is another
pitiful illustration of the constant
dangers which menace those poor
toilers who work underground for our
benefit and comfort. They suffer so
much by mans injustice and greed
that nature might well take pity on
them.-RecOrd
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

BY the death of Congressman Sam
uel Sullivan Cox of New York on
Tuesday the number of American
statesmen has been lessened and Dem
ocracy' loses one Of its noblest and
sncerest leaders. Mr.. Cox's thirteen
terms in congress covers a career
which any man might well be proud
of. He was one Of the very few men
in public life against which the finger
of scorn or suspicion has never been
pointed. One Of the principles which
he believed in was tariff reform, and
for it he has always stoutly contended
supporting it persistently and consis
tently. None will miss him more
than the friends of this reform.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

The confidence displayed by the
Republicans after their county CON
vention was held has been succeeded
by very marked display of apathy
and indifference. The spontaneous
outburst of good feeling that greeted
the Democratic ticket and the perfect
harmony existing within the ranks
was a death-blow to all Republican
hopes of carrying the county this fall.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

That great national blessing, known
as the sugar trust, declared quar-
terly dividend of two and one-half per
cent. this week We hope the protec-
tionists are enjoying the pleasure of
paying to this monopoly an annual
tribute of ten per cent. ON the cost of
every pound of sugar And it will
be paid until every yestige of the
tariff wall is broken.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

The location of the worlds fair, to
be held in this country in 1892 to
celebrate the four hundredth anniver-
sary of its discovery, is as yet as
much a mystery as ever New York
would have it but for one great dis
advantage. There is not vacant land
enough on Manhattan Island to uti-
lie for a site. Money, men and
brains can be had without limit, but
where to erect the buildings and
other necessary fixtures for the expo
sition is not known. Chicagos chan
ces Of capturing the coveted prize are
getting brighter
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12
FREELAND, SEPTEMBER 10, 1899.

The people of Luzerne County are
perfectly satisfied with the present
efficient recorder, and his renomina-
ton by the Democrats is regarded as
a forerunner of the endorsement he
will receive at the polls on November
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

JOHN L. SULLIVAN is out with let
ter signifying his intention to be a
candidate for congress from Boston
John L. had better wait until the
Mississippi authorities are through
with him. Unless justice is cheated
he will be "doing time" when the next
election Of congressman takes place.
Some other year, Mr.. S.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

A STATEMENT issued from the pen
sion bureau on Tuesday shows that
on June 80, 1889, there were 345,125
pensioners ON the rolls, an increase of
LA, 4,600 in four years. At that rate
of increase there will be more pen
sioners in 1900 than there We're sol
diers during the war.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

IT seems too good to be true, but it
is a fact nevertheless, that this cam
paign so far has been devoid of the
ungentlemanly and undignifed meth
ods that characterized former con-
tests. 1t is hoped that the change
has come to stay, and mud-slingers
will be relegated to the rear.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

An electric wire fence is said to be
causing considerable discomfort to
cattle of Texas. Recently, a Texas
newspaper states, steer attempted to
break through the fence to join fifteen
other steers. "He had no idea," says
the Munchausen who relates the story,
"that he was tackling buzz-saw
when he struck that smooth wire
fence. Well, sir, he jumped like he
was hit at once by 40,000,000 hornets,
and with his tail coiled over his back
he wheeled and only struck the ground
in high places. Then the fifteen made
a dash to follow him. One by one
they rubbed that electric fence, and as
fast as they did they jumped, bawled,
kicked, wheeled, and sailed on as
though they had urgent business at
the north pole and had only a few
hours in which to make it. The cleo
trio fence is a stunner-it is the eighth
and greatest wonder of the world.
Not one of these cattle was hurt, but
not one of them will go near the fence
again.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12
DEMOCRATIC TICK EFT.

STATE,
For Treasurer. r...........,..E T.. y. Blgier,
of Cleariicld County.
COUNTY.
For Judge .............Edwin Shortz,
of Wilkes-Barre.
For Sheriff. ...... George j. Steigmaier,
of WilkesBarre.
For Recorder. Joseph j. McGinty,
of Halle Township.
For Coroner. r..............Wm VIM. +. Pier,
of Pleasant Valley.
For Surveyor. James Crockett,
of Ross Township.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

No argument could add to the force of
the above figures, and no explanation
would serve to break the force of their
appeal to the people who make and
unmake administrations Philadelphia
Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12
PATENTS

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and special references sent on request
j. II. LITTELL,
Solicitor and attorney in Patent Causes,
Washington, ID. c.,
lMentt0n this paper Opposite U S.Patent Office.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-09-12

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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-02-28

up, and going out into the yard discovered
that the south door of the store was wide
epen and the whole interior of the build
ing seemed to be in light blaze.
He ran to the dwelling house where Mr..
Washington's clerk slept and woke him
up. The two then hurried to the burning
building and succeeded in saving some of
the books.
They found the south and east doors of
the store open and from all the indications
they had been forced and the store robbed
and then fred.
Mr.. Washington had number of notes,
mortgages and other valuable papers in
the store all of which were burned.
The stock of goods was totally con-
sumed and the loss, including the build
building, amounts to over $4,000, on
which there is no insurance.
Mr.. Washington just now seems to be
having a streak of i'll luck. A few days
ago, while on his way home, he lost $500
in greenbacks and has never found cent
of it.