Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-11-24
NEW YORK NUGGETS.
Facts fnat Are Interesting and Fancies
Thar Please from the Empire City.

Facts Tat Are Interesting and Fancte
Thar Please from the Empire City.
Especial Correspondence
The Standard will be the next to go
Henry George has forwarded to the
executive committee of the Single Tax
league communication giving notice
that he has gone as FIR as he is able il
the publication of The Standard, theil
official exponent. Mr.. George says he has
gone into his pocket enough to keep the
paper going, and that now he is ready tt
either sell or shut down.
AS an advocate Of comparatively un
popular idea, the champion of a reform
to which the intelligent minority only
gave adherence or attention, The Stand
ard has never had superior in this
country. Whatevermay be the final de-
cision of the American people on the
single tax doctrine, there can be no ques-
ton that it has had an exceptionally
able exponent in The Standard. Henry
George has deserved better treatment
from the people whose battles he has SC
ably fought. But the failure of his ex.
cellent journal is only another proof of
the ingratitude and blindness of the
loud mouthed, most of whom should be
called croakers instead of reformers.
Many labor men throughout the coun-
try will be unable to understand the
smallness of the labor vote in this city at
the late election. But there is nothing
mysterious about it. What can you ex-
pect when the labor movement is split
into dozen fragments by the ambitions
and jealousies of individuals? With So
cialists, trades unionists, Knights of
Labor and Nationalist all pulling in
different directions, and the secretary of
the Central Labor union tool of Il gang
of mongrel politicians, it is not surpris-
ing that the army of labor votes for a
ring that 'gives the boys work, if it does
rob the taxpayers.
Grand Master Workman Powderly
took hand in New York politics, and it
was a strong hand, for he supported
Dunphy, successful candidate for con-
gress. By the way, there is considerable
interest manifested here concerning Mr.
Powderly's proposition for political ac-
ton by the Knights of Labor The or
der isn't by long odds as strong here as
it was three years ago; still ii is recog-
nized factor in the labor movement,
though it is unfortunate in having for
its local head Jim Archibald, of the P.
M. L. pull my leg) political combina-
ton.
James q. Quinn, who was master
workman of District Assembly No. 40
in its palmy days, is now an employe of
the government in the internal revenue
department. He can be seen almost any
day on the downtown streets of New
York with his arms full of the parapher-
MALTA of the gauger's department..
1t does one good to witness the squirm-
ing of an apologist of the present order
when he is caught in one of his own
traps. Edward Atkinson, the economist
of upper-tendom, found himself in such
a fix recently. By reference to the back
pages of November Century it will be
seen that this gentleman was compelled
by man from New Orleans to eat his
words on the subject of single tax.
Whatever may be the weak points in
Mr.. Georges single tax doctrine it is
not within the powers of an economist
like Atkinson to overthrow them with
his trumped up statistics and nickel-in-
the-slot economy. JARB.
New York.