Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-19

gone like the "baseless fabric of vision"
and ''left not wrack behind" Exit
Mr.. George; enter the ghost of Mr. j.
Stuart Mill. But how shall the Pale
Shade comfort the disciples of the
prophet left to lament his strange and
startling perfdyT
Georges backsliding has caused some
dissatisfaction among the more earnest
members of the Single-tax party, and
splits have occurred in a small way in
South Australia and New South Wales.
lie actually denied having used the
word ''contscation" in Progress and
Poverty. In fact he has modified and whit
tied down his ''anti-povertyn mixture
as much as possible in order to salty the
delicate feelings of Australian capitalists
and landlords, and to appear highly
respectable in their eyes. And yet,
the Messiah" did not boom No,
although the small battalion of Sydney
Single Tax-FreeT Trade hangers-on made
the most desperate efforts to boom him.
They resorted to all kinds of lodges, gor
assisted by the cash of big Free Trade
landlords like Burdekin, hired larrikinf
to go around the country and form bogu
,'Single'Tax Leagues" placed bogu
delegates, from Leagues that never
existed, on their Conference, and tried
to use the prominent labor leaders as
tools to advertise George and his nos
trum. Henry George has undoubtedly
injured whatever reputation he had
left by visiting Australia at ALL
Thousands of Australian workers can
now see that he is a charlatan, mere
hanger-on and defender of the cherished
privileges of the capitalist class. His
Free Trade lectures drew the biggest
audiences Free Trade Capitalists swelled
his audiences and graced his platform;
Sydney Burdekin gave him farewell
banquet at his private residence; the
Free Trade capitalist papers lauded him
to the skies. His most noted convert
was brassy young land speculator,
hotel and mine boomer named Caulfield,
formerly rampant Protectionist and
an asprant for Parliamentary horrors.
George boasted of the conversion In his
farewell address. This young lurrikin,
who made his pile" by speculating in
land and ''consultation-sweep res.
ponded by presenting Mr.. George with
a scarf-pin set in diamonds and rubies
as memento of having "sa, "a hii (
(CaultieldD from life long belief in Pro
tection." A single tax album containing
portraits of Land Lord Burdekin and
his wife were also presented to him.
Another convert mot mentioned by Mr.
GEORGE was an aspiring young gentle
man named Anderton, who proved
such "malodorous infant" in the coun-
ellis of the Single Tax League that they
did not know what to do with him. He
was one of the creatures hired by the
local single takers in order to boom Mr..
George. He appeared at the single tax
conference convened to welcome George
to sydney as d delegate from Redfern
branch "a "branch," by the way, which
had no existence at the time). He was
also sent round to assist other Georgians
to form branches, move resolutions,
address meetings, and bill the show.
The very day that George made his
farewell bow to Sydney audience Mr..
Anderton, the Redfern single Tax ''de-
legate, was arrested on the Randwick
race course and charged with stealing
registered letter containing the property
of Mr. G. Cook. assistant secretary to
the George Campaign Executive. This
money, amongst various other sums,
had been stolen from the Single Tax
office. Sad to relate, this energetic
disciple of Mr.. George was by an unsyn-
pathetic magistrate sent to Darlinghurst
gaol, where he can for the space of three
months vary his occupation of oakum.
picking by medidating on the fickleness
OF fortune and the mysteries of Gun
earned increment" from a single tax
p int of view. This fellow was known
to be perfect ruffian by prominent
single takers before they hired him.
which makes the case for their side ap.
pear all the more 'fishy." For the
matter of that, though, the Sydney
disciples with two or three exceptions
are a sorry lot, mixture of land spe-
political boodlers, Orangemen
and hoodlums. And with all their noise.
buster, bluff, and attempts to throw
Socialists out of halls for daring to
question their pope, they do not num-
Der, at the outside, one hundred men,
oers. They appear stronger through
receiving the partial support of revenue
,ariff Freetraders. 1t will thus be appar-
ent that the Australian sil gle tax brl-
yade has to depend in a measure for
recruits on notoriety- money!
grabbers and members of the Fancy"
young gentlemen who "live by thei,
wits and are not hampered by such =
troublesome commodities as principle or
For example, the Darling
lurst-goal delegate was AL anarchist, a
Protectionist, a State-Socialist, a free
raider and a single.taxer by turns, and
was latterly an associate and confeder-
ate of ''three-card men" and other
'harpers.
| see by the New York Standard of
April 23rd, that John Farrell in his Au-
'tralian letter makes the astonishing
statement thpt one man fnnr Cnmrade