Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-02
HENRY GEORGE HOME.
He Has Not Yet Been Asked to
Stump the State Of Pennsyl-
vania for Mr.. Pattison.
TIE SINGLE TAX CONFERENCE
Warmly Welcomes the First and Fore
most Leader of the Movement,
and Also Gives Hearty
CHEERS FOR EI-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
A National Organization Of the Advocates Of the
Idea to be Formed.

National Organization Of the Au'OCdtes VI VIC
Idea to be Formed.
sPEcrAI TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.i
NEW YORK. September 1.-When the
Seryia reached her dock about 7:3O o'clock
thIs morning, Henry George found 25O OF
his friends and followers assembled to well
come him after his tour around the world.
At their head was Louis T. Post, President
of the Manhattan Single Tax Club, and
among them were many members OF the
Single Tax Conference which convened to-
dav. When the welcomers saw Mr.. George
as he stood on the captains bridge with an
eve glass on his nose, cigar in his mouth and
Scotch cap on his head, they cheered so
loudly that nearly every one else on the
dock caught the contagion and Joined IN.
Mr.. George waved his cap in reply and
when he got to the dock did some hand
shaking, and said he was glad to see his
friends. Mr.. George has been absent seven
months. When in Australia he delivered
lectures in advocacy OF free trade and the
single tax in all of the principal cities. He
saws be made many converts and that single
tax clubs sprang up behind, him as he
travelled over the continent
CONVERTED THE PREMIER.
Among his converts he SAYS, was Sir
Henry Parkes, Premier of New South
Wales, who intends to introduce bill en-
bodving the theory in modified form in
the Legislature of the colony. Mr.. George
,bar IN m N
Der of questions which were asked haphazard
bv group of reporters. Here are some of
the questions and answers:
Q. Will you run tor Mayor?
A. No.
Q. Would YOU run if a monster petition
such as that OF 1886 were presented?
A. No. l did that once under sense of
duty, but l think 1 discharged my duty
then.
Q. viii you run for Congress?
A. No.
Q. Under what circumstances would you
run?
A 1 would not run at all. I have other
work to do.
Q. VIII you go to Pennsylvania to stump
the State for Pattison?
A. l have not been asked.
Q. Ii you should go, would that commit
the Democratic party TO free trade?
A. l don't know how it is within nv
power by doing or not doing anything to
commit the Democratic party.
@. You have said the Salvation Army is
inclined to assist the single tax movement;
how far has it gone in the single tax direc-
ton?
GRAPHING WITH POVERTY.
A That is hardly the way to put it. 1
have said that the Salvation Army is about
beginning to attempt to grapple with the
poverty and destitution which exist in all
the cities of Great Britain, and [ am salts
fed that any attempt OF this kind must ul-
timately lead them 10 single tax views. 1
think am now breaking no confidence in
saying that Mrs. Booth, who has been the
sharer of all the Generals labors, has been
for years what we would call single tax
woman.
Q. What do you think OF the influence of
the Salvation Army in the British Empire?
A. 1t is very great, not merely in England
but in all of the Australian colonies. Dur
ing the whole time was in Australia did
not speak in a single town where there was
not a detachment of the Salvation Army,
and everywhere the report of cool and
dlsinterested observers was that they had
done great good.
Mr.. George came Just in time to guide
the dOings o. the Single Tax Clubs national
conference, which was opened to-day. More
than 800 delegates, representing 800 clubs
and 80 States, besides the District of Co.
lumbia and Territory or two, met in the
great hall of the Cooper Union. The pur-
pose of the conference is, In the language of
the call convening IT, ito consider the best
means of securing united action in behalf of
free trade in the coming Congressional
elections, to consult as to the best means of
promoting the single tax movement in the
several States and to name a single tax
national committee"
DELEGATE FROM ALASKA.
This call was issued by committee which
has been engaged in securing signatures to
a petition asking the House Of Representa-
tives to appoint a committee to consider the
propriety of abolishing all direct and indi.
rect taxes on the products of labor and the
raising of all public revenues by a single
tax on land values. The committee reports
an enrolment of 81, 600 names. Among the
800 delegates were several women. who
represented California. Far-away Alaska
was represented by a single delegate. Can
ada sent sympathies
There were several clerical delegates. Two
ofthem, the Rev. DR.. Thackeray, of Newtown,
/. l., and the Rev. John Anketell, OF %
West Fifteenth street, represented the Single
Tax Brotherhood of Religious Teachers
This society numbers 80 members, compris-
ing clergymen of all denominations Dr.
Thackeray, who is secretary of the brother
hood, is doctor OF laws, not of divinity. He
is clergyman of the Church of England,
and the University OF Cambridge gave him
the degree in recognition of his single tax
book, THE Land and the Community
On the wall behind the platform American
flags were grouped around the banners of the
single takers, whose prominent feature is
pretty girl wearing q streamer inscribed:
''Single tax, free trade, Tree land, and free
men," The meeting was called to order
about 3 p NJ. by VIM. T. CrOasdale, Chair
man of the Enrolment Committee, which
called the conference.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC AssEMBLAGE.
Then he alluded to Mr.. George as a
philosopher, philanthropist and states
mar" and said that "he had often seen the
sore spot in the body polite and provided a
remedy for the evil" The assemblage
stood up and ebeered itself hoarse. A COM
plimentary reference to Cleveland's tariff
reform message drew cheers for Mr.. Cleve-
land. On finishing Mr.. Croasdale named
the Committee on Credentials. While the
committee was at work snort speeches were
made by H. f. Ring, OF Texas, William
Lloyd Garrison, of Massachusetts, DR.. II.
S. Chase, o Missouri, and others.
Louis F. Post was elected permanent |
chairman by acclamation. Messrs. Ring,
Garrison and A. H. Stephenson, the last |
named from Pennsylvania, were made vice |
presidents. w. L. Brokaw, OF South Da- |
kota, was chosen secretary. A committee |
Of seven was appointed, to which are to be |
referred all resolutions coming before the |
coming convention. After much wrangling |