Morris tribune., 1892-11-02
BETRAYED ITSELF.
That Is What the Democratic
Party Has Now Done in
Minnesota.
While Seeking to Destroy Our
Farmers, 1t Has Asked
For Their Votes.
It's Latest Infamous Move il
an Insult to All Farmers
In Our State.
xs.
Democracy Cannot Escape the
!. Wrath, Aroused by It's
Treachery.
FARMERS, BE WARNED |
FARMERS, BE WARNED |

Democratic party in this State has be-
traysd itself.
1t has asked your vote for Its candi'
dates and for the Fusion Ticket, on the
ground that it was the farmers friend
and advocated the farmers right.
Now, look for yourselves, and see to
what deep and infamous enmity against
your interests, against your very exist
ence as free and independent men, it
has confessed.
1t has brought to this state Mr.. Henry
George, to advocate its cause.
He has stood on the platform with it's
cantiidstes, at its meetings, introduced
by its officers as speaker in the cause,
applsuded by its palms, as 3 good
enough Democrat for the party in
Minnesota.
. It cannot get away from this record.
And now, who is this Henry George,
and what does he stand for in the COM
mon life, and in yours?
He is q man whose whole energy has
been given to an idea that would strip
you of your dearest possessions, take
from you the reward of years of honest
toll, deny to you the right to keep the
homes you hold and the acres you have
called back from the wilderness, and
place upon your shoulders the whole
burden of taxation necessary to the
support Of the State.
He is this bitter and unsympathetic
foe Of you and your interests, and he is
preaching Democracy today to the vot-
ers of Minnesota because it comes near
est to representing his beliefs, and be-
cause it is through that party alone that
he hopes to see his wish accomplished.
Mr.. George has a right to this conf
dencs.
He has been legally adopted by the
Democratic party.
The principal work in which he sets
forth his theories is Progress and Pow
erty;" and the Democratic party thought
80 much of it that its members secured
the publication of the whole of it, at the
last session of Congress, in the Congress.
sioaal Record, by pretending to have it
inserted in their speeches.
This is what Progress and Poverty"
teaches: That private ownership in
land is crime; that the whole annual
value of the land ought to be appropri-
ated by the state; that the posses
sion of the mechanic who has
won his little home, and the farmer who
has earned title to his homestead ought
to be free to anyone who should happen
to want them; and that this practical
confscation Of landed property should
be brought about by making land
bear all the expenses Of government, by
taxing nothing but land, and by making
those taxes so heavy, over and above
what the state might need, that men
would find it easier and cheaper to give
up their properties than to hold them
This is the idea to which Mr.. George
has devoted his life.
This is set forth over and over again
in all his books and speeches.
This has become good Democratic
doctrine by the party's acceptance of
Mr.. George "a its representative and
champion.
This has become this belief Of the Pee
Piles party, because it is in close alliance
with the Democrats, and must take it's
bhare Of responsibility for Mr.. Georges
help.
Farmers of Minnesota, how do you
like the appeal made to you to give up
what you have worked for all your
1iyesr
The personal property of the pluto
Graf, the stocks ana Donds ARD mort
cages that represent immense wealth,
the income Of the millionaire, the earn
ings Of mighty railroad corporations, all
are to go free and untaxed, in order that
the pitiless power Of taxation may be
exercised upon your holdings till you
surrender the right to them because
you can bear no more.
To you, who have suffered cheerfully
the privations of the frontier, Mr..
George and the Democratic F usion
party say that You are partners in the
greatest crime with which humanity Is
stained, and that the most you have a
right to claim is to ask that you may
become tenants of the State, pay to it
as rent the full annual value OF the
land you live On.
You shall judge for yourselves.
Take no faith III this on the word of
any man.
Do not accept the denunciations of
Mr.. Georges enemies or the protssta-