Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-03-07
NATIONALIST CLUB NO. 3.
The single-Jax Corpse Fxhumed and
Dsseeted by Coroner oppenht inner at
the Request of the widow siibernick

The singIe-TaS Corpse Fxhumed ant
Dlssected by Coroner oppenhs i'm Ell nj
the Request of the widow silberniol
The Democratic Smell OF II sickVn,
the Audience.
The large audience that gathered al
the club rooms last Sunday had an en-.
JoyabIe time of it. The subject foT
debate was the Single Tax. With i +.
| Sllhernick as the trance medium. aae
splrlt of the disc IA h. y uitA Single Ak
tloated with Spirit-like caution out Of
the cabinet and Went through the cas-
tomary evolutions of whitfs. At this
stage the audience presented an appear
ance both interesting and suggestive.
The bulk Of it wore an expression of
amused curiosity and suppressed mirth;
while here aud there, sprinkled through
the body, were a number Of persons Of
the crack Drained variety usually met at
s6ances, who take the performance
seriously and gaze on in ecstatic rapture
Mr.. NJ. Oppenheimer represented the
Socialist position, his tactics were 81
simple as they were effective; they cor.
sisted in doing virtually the same thing
that Intelligent s2epttCs frequently do at
seances, to wit: turn on the g4s--with
the usual DISASTROUS effect upon thu
spo0k show.
1t were waste of time, paper and
ink to repeat Mr. SIlbernick's trvialitles
Mr.. Oppenheimer's arguments conferred
essentially around the axiom that the
destruction of one monopoly would only
increase the powers of those allowed to
survive.
Mr. }. W. Sullivan acted as referee,
an office which he filled with masterly i'm.
partlalltY, and that had for its inevita bic
result to discomiit the spook still more.
This was especially the case when he
criticised Mr.. Sllbernlck's expression Of
The policy of us Single Takers" Mr.
Sullivan showed that there was no
settled policy among them as a body;
that no convention had favored the
Hopping over to the Democratic party:
and that, so far as there was a policy,
it was one framed exclusively by "a
attenuated clique and contrary to the
wishes Of those who called themselves
Single Takers.
The floor was then opened to the pub
lie. Mr.. Edeman was called upon as
Single TaXer, but his arguments showed
he was nOne as far a4 he understood
Socialism he was Socialist.
Mr.. DE Leon closed the discussion. lie
remarked that there were two sorts of
Single Takers, The one was Socialist in
its tendencies, only it believed the thing
would come via the Single Tax. These
men were not single Takers proper, they
were 5ingle.Taxers IN trdpSitu, and with
them Socialists or Nationalists should
have no quarrel, they were all sure to
come together, The other sort consisted
of the EpLeptics; when George took
snuff they sneezed; those were the
pure; but neither in mum
bers nor in any other quality did they
reserve notice, The speaker closed with
the eXhOrtation that the movement in
favor of the social revolution be kept
upon the lines on which experience and
the philosophy of history placed it; that
1t keep its skirts clean from the plutocra-
tic parties, these being inherently reac-
tlonary and corrupt, and that it uph old |
IN all completeness its banner and its
as a beacon to the masses.