The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-11-16
LIVE ISSUES.
Henry George on Hill.


ings before the election, in which he
painted the normal United States
Senator in faithful picture of
David B. Hill. The following is
the photograph
"David b. Hill," said he, "is
now posing as a lover of labor; as a
man who has the interests of labor
at heart. What has he ever done
for labor? Possibly some little
things called for by organized labor,
and he has appointed lot of labor
leaders to little positions, earning
their support. Labor is the creator
of all wealth; labor is the one thing
that has no little favors to ask. 1t
is monopoly that wants protection.
But labor-Iabor wants only justic;
labor wants only fair play. What
we want for labor is not such mis-
cradle and shameful laws as those
which meet men seeking our shores
and turn them back again; men
who come here to this country to
work, as our fathers came. The
great movement for labor is along
the line of taxation.
"David B. Hill has persistently
opposed every movement of that
kind, and to-day, he assures us that
the national revenues should be
raised by a tax on commodities of
which this sugar tax that he helped
to put and prevent the repeal of, is
an eXample-the tax that falls on
the poor sewing girl as heavily
almost as it falls on the wife of the
richest hundred millionaire in the
land.
"Mr. Hill is posing as a defender
of liberty of religion and opinions.
He has raised the cry against the
A. p. A. | do not need to tell any
one here that | do not belong to the
A. p. A. | do not have to tell any
one here that | am not bigot in
religion. But seek where you please,
there is one place where you will
not find them, and that is in the
ranks of the single tax men. AS
for this A. p. A., it is sort of eX-
cuse for democracy. l have seen
the thing where it began. | have
heard the beat of the Irish drums
the Orange drums on the ami
versary of the battle of the BOyne
at Belfast, and very funny thing
it is. Wherever that has existed it
is simply an importation from the
other side of the water, something
that grew up there. 1t was de
vice to split the Irish people. But
it will die out here. 1t cannot live
at this time and in this country.
David B. Hill is posing as de-
fender of the right of belief and of
opinion He is a nice man to pose
as a defender of that right.
HILLS ANARCHIST BILL.
"Here is something that there
has been very little said about. l
would like to occupy little time
in speaking about it. Here is a
copy of Senate document-Senate
Document No. 2314. Since the first
Congress met, aye, since the first
Colonial Legislature was formed,
there never has been so wantOn, so
fragrant an attack upon the prin-
ciple ofliberty, ofliberty ofthought,
as this bill, and David B. Hill is its
author. This is the bill popularity
known as the anti-anarchist bill,
the bill introduced into the Senate
of the United States in its last clos
ing days by David B. Hill.
e 81 am not an anarchist; it is also
needless for me to say that. But
am far from sharing in that opinion
o that an anarchist is merely man
who wants to use dynamite. The
} anarchists have not a monopoly OF
physical force. That has been used
over and over again by trades
unions, by American patriots and
by people of all kinds. Anarchy in
its true meaning is a belief; it is a
political philosophy. 1t is an eX'
tension to its limit of the old demo
. cratic belief that the best govern
, ment is the government that
; governs least.
!, "The anarchists would abolish
g government. In that | think they
, are mistaken. | think they go toe
e ia on the other side. But every