St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-12
GEORGE, THE DEMOCRAT.

Henry George is making another
western tour, and spoke last night III
Chicago to an enormous audience that
hlied Central Music hall, and will speak
III Minneapolis Saturday night of this
week. morning paper in this city,
recently, commenting on the fact that
Mr.. George is to speak in Minneapolis.
declared that il would be great blum
der If he were to speak under Demo-
cratic auspices; that he was not
Democrat in any sense. but rank So
c!alSt, and expressed the hops that the
Democratic state central committee. IL
it were responsible for Mr.. Georges
coming herr. would call the meeting off
at once. No paper assuming TO pose as
a Democratic paper could in any other
way have demonstrated its incapacity To
know Democracy. either at sight, or even
alter an introduction to it, than in Sucn
a commend upon Mir. George.
Aside from his well-known advocacy
of the location of all taxes upon land
values and the exemption of all per-
soDal pr0pertv-a doctrine that has
made great Roadway, not only in this
country, but in European nations. and
Is being accepted, if not in its entirety,
at least to the extent Tor making the
land tax the source of all necessary rev.
enues, by men who have given 10 taxa
ton any serious study-aside from this,
we say that MIR. George is iii everything
a Democrat of Democrats. No proml-
nent man anywhere is more inslstent
than is Mr.. George upon the preServa-
ton in all its integrity of the right of
the individual. No man more strenu-
Ously opposes the encroachment OH
those rights through the use OF govern
mental power.
So far from being socialist. when he
was candidate for mayor of New York
he rejected the support of the SOclallstic
organizations in that city, and incurred
their hostility by his denunciation of
their fundamental doctrine Of state i'll
reference. Even his doctrine Of the
single tax is based upon the inherent
right of the individual, not only 10
existence. but access to the opportuni-
ties which the Creator has provided for
the Inhabitants of earth. He denies the
right Ut men to monopOliZe these oppor-
tunitleS, and of governments TO confirm
the monopoly. He insists that it is one
of the most sacred rights of every in
| dividual not only to have access 10
opportunities to produce, but TO have
the unrestricted right of exchanging the
product OF his labor when and where
and with whom he will. He is of that
advanced type of Democracy. towards
which the whole party is advancing,
which insists upon absolute freedom in
the right to exchange.
1t was his iuSistence upon this integ-
rity OF the individual that drew the
Kisses of disappFoval in New York in
the meeting which occurred during the
strike last summer when Mr.. George
| declared the absolute right Of every
man to labor, and that the action of the
unions. SO far as they attempted to re-
strict that right. was a violation of the
fundamental rights Of men. AS Dem
Ocrat he stands in opposition to the
propC siton to admit to the mint the
silver bullion of the country 10 be
coined into dollars at ratio of Ii to l,
or twice the value of the bullion, be-
cause it is protection of one class of q
most ultra form. The bounty given to
the producers of sugar is an insight.
cant gratulty compared to the bounty
proposed TO be given to the producers
OF silver. AS a Democrat, Mr.. George
is unalterably opposed to the granting
OF bounties TO anybody. in any form.
1t would lie better for the Democracy
of this nation had it more Henry
Georges in it, and were the representa-
tives of our party Imbued with his sim
certify and courage; ard it would result
in great benefit to themselves as we'll as
| their readers, were certain editors,
| assuming to be Democrats, to sit for
while at the 1eet of Henry George
and learn Democracy before they began
| to preach it.