The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-07
EULOGIZING Mr.. laATTHBWS
And Scoring the Pape.r Spoilers of our Fading
hOrnip Contemporary.

And Scoring the Pape.r Spoilers of our Fading
hOrnip & Contemporary.
To the Editor of THE HERALD.
Allow me, as a single-tax man, to thank
Mr.. Matthews for his able and manly res
cue of the irreproachable name and glorious
teachings of Henry George from the en-
venomed pen of the Tribune Vilitier. Fur
Their calumny demands further refutation.
OF course, it is out of the question to discuss
political economy with the Tribune. The
gross ignorance betrayed by your cotempor-
ary upon economic science renders discus
sion impossible. Insult, not logic invective,
not argument, seem to be the mOd1ts opcrdndS
of the warfare this hero wages on his own
dunghill when assailed AS to his remedies,
they are no remedies at all They are the
remedies of social quack; the mumbllng
idiocies of a disordered brain. Society needs
a reformer-a real reformer-one who can
kill or cure. l demand in the name OF
society that the Tribune man try ms skill.
From a Whole-souled theorlst he becomes
the broad-lived practitioner. II ne cant
cure, he can at least kill.
nv more protection, give work TO the idle
who will work, compel those to work VINO
won't work and kill those who can't work,
seems to be our Quack's panacea 1or a sui
fering society.
The remedy of more protection" the
moment it is pricked, bursts like soap
bubble. Suppose, for instance, the govern
ment were to increase the tariff on Stafford
shire crockery and Sevres chinaware, IN
order to foster the American manufacture
of such articles, to such point as to make
their importation prohibitory; will 1t not
follow. that for every idle man to whom
work is given in the American protected IN
dustry one idle man will appear IN England
and France to the extent OF the manufacture
transferred from those countries to TINS!
Nay, more, since 1t IS generally accepte9l
that larger earnings are due all the world
over to larger productiveness, does 1t not
follow that the American working man re-
ceiying double the wages OF his foreign
brother. will do double the work! In that
case. two foreigners will lose work IN the
foreign labor market, for each American
who finds work in the Tribune crockery
shop More still, ship builders, cordWalners
and sailors would be rendered idle by the
transfer.
Now. to make the scheme work success
fully. YOU must prohibit the immigration OF
the idle foreigner as well as the Importation
of his goods. The foreign crockery maker
must live; to live, he must work; 10 Work,
he must follow the trail OF his lying trade.
This is not matter Of choice. He Is COM
pelled to do il. Hereditary taste and the
skill and ability that unfit him for other
OCCUPATION, compel him to chase his trade
even to the uttermost parts OF the eartn.
Deprived of his work at home he Will seek
it in America. Sc, the difficulty becomes
more complicated.
It stands thus-American labor market
less one American idle, plus two foreigners.
To he consistent. stop up the gap; close
!, ,irho ava foreign
man is admitted: build up American indus
try upon the ruins Of a world and we Will
Labor IS the necessity of life. Labor, like
water. will find its level. and no scheme to
benefit one country at the expense OF an
other can for this reason succeed.
Compel the Wilfully idle to work is Ihe
next quixotic measure to be aoopted. !ue
WorkinC-classes are now IN arms against
convict labor 1t cheapens goods, reduces
wages, drives honest men out OF work IN
favor of criminals. Too many Workmen Is
what is the matter The struggle to live
has become a cut-throat struggle. Trades
unions forbid apprentices to learn TRADES.
England, grooming under social pressure, is
driving her able bodied children from her
shores America, not yet scratched, IS
CRYING 'stop,'
Would it not be best TO close the portals
of nature. as well as those OF IMAGINATION
Matthews must be right, is right, II present
social conditions are right.
The scheme collapses. The sublime de
scends to the ridiculous. From general
remedy for society the Tribune retorn!er
nrescribes a special remedy for the lndlVld-
nal He matches two dozen chickens, one
dozen turkeys and ten acres OF potatoes, IN
some seouestered vale five hundred miles
from anywhere: sells them to no one, gets
rich upon markets that don't exist and upon
freight that leaves a surplus OF nothing
Bosh! If blowing could raise potatoes Ine
forcing rooms of the Tribune would create
a glut; but work from that quarter would
create famine. ,. L..
I will wager him to be an honest, quick
witted and intelligent member OF society,"
and that he belongs TO the upper class-the
working class. ,-.-
The most dastardly of acts IS for news
paper to falsely assail the good name OF d
citizen. Henry Georges high mission I4r
bids him to notice every editorial cur gu VINO
veins at his heels Count Leon Iolstol,
next in power and influence to the Car OF
Russia: Flurckeim, the iron-tounder OF
Germany: Lord HObhouSe, William Saun-
ders M p. Thos. Power O'COnner, editor
of the london Star; DIR. Clarke, NJ: T. Tor
Iverness: Michael Davitt, the patriot, are
only few of the leaders across inc water
who are following Inc 4O4 euHCo VI 'A1N
California phrophet. ....
In America the names of traGesmen, pro
fessional men, clergymen and Worklngmen
who have received the new gospel are TOO
numerous to mention. From the islands OF
the sea. from Australasia, the cry to charge
upon social wrong has gone up and Henry
George stands in the van Of battle.
Our chief is Sir Oracle. When he speaks
let no dog bark.
When year before last he came down to
more practical explanation, he declared his
theory to be. ''that no man should have
either consideration or compensation Tor
any Improvement he may have made upon
land For this the Tribune says 1t de-
nounced Henry George as dishonest dem
agogue. If not. will the paper spoiler OF
that sheet recant and become single-tax
man? The case is hopeful. ! am ready to
prove the statement to be a lie cut out OF
the whole cloth. / challenge the writer OF
that statement to meet me on any platform
in Salt Lake and prove to the satisfaction
of the audience that Henry George, either
in private or public, by pen or by voice, ever
uttered such language or ever ADVISED tne
confiscation of the products OF industry. II
he can do so. offer to denote nifty dollars
to any charitable institution OF the city the
audience may please to name. II not, the
forfeit of fifty dollars shall be made by him.
If he rejects this offer, and otherwise re-
fuses to prove up. let him shut up. But let
him note this-he will stand convicted be-
fore the public of Salt Lake OF an arrant
and malicious falsehood upon the character
RUPERT BROWN.