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CHICAGO LETTER.
Tariff Reform.-The Labor Issue.
Tie ''Single-Tax,' and National
Parties,

CHICAGO, January 3Oth, 1890
Special Correspondence of the DIES
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Just at present. -Four movements Of
n politlco-economic character are in
sctive progtess. First. there are
tariff reformers, who ought mort
properly TO be called tariff abolition.
lists, inasmuch as that is the shape tar.
1T reform has taken Of late. The CRY
Of reform now Is, "Reform the tariff
10y its total abolition" Tie propa.
sanda in this line is active, aggres-
sive and seemingly effective. It Is
expected that the next national
platform Of the democratic party
will declare unequivocally for trade,
free, absolutely free, even to the
abolition Of tariff custom houses.
Workingmen in general begin to
think that perhaps the tariff is not
the bread and butter gospel OF labor
in the United States. Persons who
were rabid pfoteetionists year ago
will now stand to hear free trade
speeches.
The second movement next in
importance 10 the tariff one Is the
labor issue. Trade and labor organi-
cations are not Idle at present.
Every means is adopted to organize
efficiently and effectively all
branches Of labor 50 as to be pre-
parcel for the demand OF an eight
hour dag on May ], ls9J-that is in
n few months hehcc. Labor is 60
ing TO make its boldest effort to at.
tain its object next SUMMER. The
leaders do not project a general
strike in case OF a refusal Of the eight
hour day, as on former occasions,
but they will designate n few trades
10 make the demand, and then the
whole labor party will support these
-rades, which will be 'sthe men in
he gap" The support will be
given by means Of pecuniary help.
lnd a mild system OF boycott Of ali
PRODUCTS and materials used in the
,trike trades. This means n great
zeal II labor Is as well organized as
1 claims 10 be.
The third movement dcsignates
tseif the single-tax party. Henry
George is its apostle. 1t is simply n
AK on land for all purposes. Though
Is aggressive and pushing lis doc
nnes earnestly among the masses.
yet 1t seems there is little chance Of
e achieving anything. OF course
here is great dissatisfaction with
cal estate people who buy city prop-
irty and hold it idle for a boom to
ealize handsomely. Real estate is
'onstanuy increasing, and sharps
'uy lots, then won't build, but hold Z
n a year or two for profits, and then I
ell again to sharps. The tax on
and OF this kind is very small. The 4
ingie-tax men propose to tax unim- /
roved city property on the same /
ass US the land adjoining, which /
ias immense buildings on. The
forkingmen look upon this move l
lent with favor, because it would /
ompei Spectators aud monopolists
build or quit the business. More
ulidlngs, Of course, mean cheaper
ONES, cheaper tenements and less
by no means ignored
mong smallindustrialists and wage
The fourth movement is knowna as
ne Nationalist party. 1t is simply
proposition TO establish State
'cialism on the Bellamy plan. A
ian named Bellanny wrote a work
the imagination entitled ''Iook-
'g Backward, J" and this book is
lade the platform Of the State
,cialists Here i n paragraph
hich viii give an idea OF the book
entioned:
In Looking Backward Mr.. Bella
y has described a twenty-first CEN
- ctopiA- ne mas carried out the
ca OF state socialism 10 what he be-
sEed to be its logical conclusion, and
Is recognized all the nations OF the
GRID on this plan. There are no
niger employers and employed, cap
iiists and wage-workers, masters and
Aves- In their place h one grand in
istriai army for each nation, in which
cry aole-bodied man and woman
tween the ages Of 81 and SO is en-
ted Those under 81 are at school:
ose over IS are on tho retired list;
others are laoorers In their chosen
appointed fields. Money and wages
We been abolished, but every human
ing-mens woman and children, the
ie-bodied, the halt, and the sick-is
owed an annual credit, estimated
convenience in dollars and cents,
incient TO provide him with not ouly .
necess7ries but also the comforts