St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-04
THE SINGLE TAxITEs.
They Work Up Enthusiasm and
Some Ill Feeling.

SOAAO IA COkIllk.
OMAHA, July 3.-For enthusiasm and
unexpected explosions ofsfeeling the
meeting of Peoples party single tax
sympathlzers at the Farnum Street
theater this afternoon was a remark
able one. The house was packed, and
the rounds of applause with which the
big gathering testified to its approval
of the sentiments of speakers seemed to
keep the building in continual tren-
Die. Mr.. Brackett, president of the
Omaha Single Tax club, occupied the
chair, and with him on the stage
was score OF well-known followers
OF Henry George, among them Mrs.
Mary B. Lease, Mrs. Colby, Mrs. Brill.
Mrs. Alonzo Wardell, and Mrs. Muir, of
South Dakota. Hamlin Garland, the
first to take the rostrum, prefaced the
reading of the Under the Lions Paw
by saying that difference between
himself and Henry George was as to the
methods OF attaining the same end.
Henry George had attended the Chicago
convention and cast his lot with tile
Democrats, because he believed that
through this affiliation he could most
successfully work towards the single
tax goal. The speaker pinned his faith
to the Peoples party, and put no trust
in the Democrats. He had faith, how
ever, in the good time coming, and could
almost see the dawning of the single
tax day.
Mrs. Mary A. Lease, OF Kansas, car
ried away the audience in a speech of
remarkable eloquence and power. The
pralrles of Kansas, she said, were dotted
with graves of women who had died of
mortgage OH the farm. She had come
to the West In an emigrant wagon, had
helped to build the frame shantv ana
the sod stable, had followed the plow in
the furrow, to win home for herself
and her children, and today loan COM
pany owned that farm. 1t the single
tax meant doing away with the terrible
manopoly of land she believed
in the single tax. But she was
no believer in a universal remedy.
the diseases were manifold, and no
one remedy. ism or theory, but a COM
bination, OF all would cure them. The
whole world is in a con dition of unrest.
and people everywhere are STUDYING
the gospel of discomfort If this was
to lead to relief and coming of a bet
ter day, blessed forever be the gospel of
discomfort. She depicted the condition
In Russia, England and Ireland. and
said: I'VE need not go from home. We
are told by Robert p. Porter, in long
iihSo VI olotiotiCSs tIldl AucTlCd is De-
coming the most landlord-cursed nation
on the face of the earth. Beginning
March 6. 1862, for ten years was per-
petrated the most gigantic robbery in
the history of the world, when the rail-
ways were given grants of land larger
than the New England states.
LAND syndicates own tracts of land
beside which the positions of English.
landlords are nothing, and at the same
time there are 25,000,000 homeless peo-
pie in America. This statement is cor
rOborated by John j! ingalls, in his resoe
lutions before the deep-water conven-
tioh. and he is one of the men who
helped to perpetrate the robbery.''
Mrs. Lease, in conclusion, admOnished
the Peoples party it was their mission
to blaze path for the world to follow.
James Bellangee, of Des MONIES, told
what he knew of land monopolies in
Iowa, and Mrs. Kingman had message.
from Oregon.
Some one in the audience wanted to
know where the money came from
which published single-tax literature.
and man in the gallery shouted .sfrom
-here.it's free silver" and flung dollar
on the stage. This was signal for
silver shower, and the meeting nd
jUurned with funds for the cause liter
ally pouring in from all sides.