The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-21
course. necessary that the whole of the
value should be taken for the common

course. necessary that the whole of tn,
value should be taken for the common
benefit
He is not in favor OF paying the present
land owner for his land as is shown by thu
following from Progress and Poverty, >
by Henry George, book which he recent.
| ~ endorsed in letter to constituent:
Il 40 not propose either to purchase OF
to confiscate private property in land. The
first would be unjust, the second needless.
Let the individuals who now hold it, still
retain. II they want to, possession of what
| they are pleased to term their land, Let
them continue to call it their land. LIE,
them buy aud sell and bequeath and de.
wise it. We may safely leave them the
shell if we take the kernel It's not nee
| essary to confiscate land; it Is only
necessary to confiscate rent. We already
take some rent IN taxation. We have only
to make some changes in our mode of tax
alton to take it all"
| In this view of taxation tho congress
man is opposed by Republicans who be-
lieve in tariff for protection, and by the
/ Democrats who believe in a tariff for reve-
nue.. l believe in the private ownership OF
land and do not believe in increasing the
taxes on land SO high that it amocnts to
practical confiscation. This is the largest
agricultural district in the United States
and am i'll favor OF the people having the
right to own their own homes as they now
| do"
Speaking about the fair name of Kansas
| Mr.. Long said:
Another issue Of the campaign is of as
much Importance as that of taxation.
There was another question for our people
| to decide. and that is, whether they will
stand for their own state, district and
homes, or whether they will abandon
| them and endorse the misrepresentation
that have been made concerning them.
Representatives, in congress since the
beginning OF the government have engage
ed in a friendly rivalry always. concerning
| the merits and resources Of their districts
and constituencies
But it was lett for these ten men-ths
ten men whom your representative in con-
gress from this district says are the first
and only representatives the people have
| ever had in that body-it was left for these
ten men to inaugurate a new policy. Aud
with these ten individuals it has been a
rivalry. contest, as to which could say
the most evil things about their state and
their constituencies. Particularly has
this been SO of the represen tatives sent by
the so.called Peoples party to the senate
and honse from Kansas
Mr.. Long then called up the remarks of
Senator PETER at Cooper Union institute,
in the midst Of the financial circles of New
York, a place where of all others credit
ought to be had by our merchants, trades
men and farmers; his statement being, as
will be remen bered, that one half the
homes of Kansas are mortgaged for more
than they are worth, aud would not pay
their Indebtedness If sold at auction.
But has there been mortgage paid OF
in this vicinity-paid by the products
raised upon the farm?
A voice--Y es, sir: there has.
There has? There had been many paid
off in Barber ana in other counties of the
district, too. But Mr.. Simpson says of
this, that today there are homeless women
and men wetting the soil with their tears,
because of the pernicious legislation of the
Republican party. Again, he says that
no man with any sense would
accept farm as gift, either
in New England or in the
west. Aud what he says cuts a figure. +"
He is our agent, our representative, sent
by us to represent us In congress, and his
ST statements carry will them the wright Of
our endorsement. All the advertising we
may do; all the agents we may send into
| the east to secure immigrants; all the as
sertions OF our papers and of ourselves
could not offset the misrepresentation Of
thisANau that, seus 10 represent us, had
villitied and slandered his state and dis
trict. 1t is time to treat him seriously and
to treat his actions and words seriously
Because we know they are not true
we laugh at them, but in
the east ihs people do not
know but they are truthful and until We
make change and once more see capital
coming into cur state, and immigrants
seeking our neigh borhoods once more, as
they did years ago. even when we were
not SO prosperous, we shall not realise the
in Jury the damage, we have suffered at
the hands of this set of mis-representss-
tiyes.
Would man come to q country, the
representative OF whose people asserts
in the halls Of congress and before the
pee pie OF the world that no man of sense
would accept farm there as a gifts
Would IA man immigrate iuto locality
he is assured tue property Is not worth
the Indebtedness upon 1t. where not
enough can De made upon a farm 10 pay
its running expenses aud taxes: The tins
has come for sne people of tnis stats 20 lay
aside their levity aud treat such
ISLANDERS with seriousness: at the polls on
she Ssh oi November they will have an
opportunity TO speak Ia unmistxka bis
language and their decision will result
either Ia bringing proepeIlty or Ia caas-
ing the reverse
Mr. Simpson had said in the speech
from which he was now reading.
that the people of Kansas had seea
themselves shaking deeper into
debt frcm year TO year until they have
been forced 20 surrender everything, and
this caused by legislation IN the interest
OF corporations.
Will immigrants come into a country
where lrgsslst.o GU has made il impossible
To make living. Will capital seek suca
a field for iase>tineusf
Another compliment of the representa-
tive from the Big Seventh TO his constifu-
euts: My, Mr.. Simpson had said, should
farmers and I~ria~rss wives 10 dressed Ia
rags. CAS- the speaker looked out over tie
ausliS1ce a smile came upon his face az The
absursiisy of the assertion; for before hlu
we're many iarm<r.' wives and daughters.
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