The herald., 1894-11-06
SINGLE TAX PARLIAMENT
POLITICAL SYMPOSIUM AT UNITY
CHURCH LAST NIGHT.
Self Constituted Party Champions of
Democracy, Republicanism and
Prohibition Answored by
tho Single Takers.

Prohibition Answored by
tho Single Takers.
The program me OF the single takers at
Unity church last night drew q fair
audience despite the counter attraction
OF the Populist demonstration. Four
speakers, representing the Democratic,
Repu blican, Populist and Prohibition
parties were advertised to uphold their
respective faiths and give reasons there
or and all OF them materialised save
Mr.. Hinckley, the Populist, who was,
doubtless, in demand elsewhere.
Hon. Abbot Kinney was the Demo-
cratic defender of the faith and ad.
dressed himself to an incisive commen.
tary upon the Inconsistency of the Re-
publican party, which sprang into ex.
istencs as a champion OF personal free
dom and the abolition OF chattel slavery,
and is now the ardent champion OF in.
dustrial slavery and fettered trade.
Negro slavery was originally forced upon
US by the mother country, but subse-
Quently became imbedded in our south
ern industrial system and them became
difficult to eradicate. Protectionism had
grown upon US insidiously and under
false pretenses and was now tenaciously
clung to by selfish interests though the
masses were crushed by it. In England
the laborer receives larger proportion
OF the values he creates than in the
United States. By degrees the people
are becoming emancipated from the
fallaoies Of protectionism as they become
acquainted with the elementary princi-
Piles of political economy. No phil
osopher could be protectionist. and
there were no acknowledged scientific
writer's who countenanced the system.
Mr.. James Burdette esid he was a
Republican because he was an American
citizen. His party took hold OF the gov
eminent when it had bankrupt treas
ury and proceeded to suppress tho great.
est rebellion the world ever saw. II
brought the war to successful conclu.
sion and in 80 years thereafter it re-.
duced the war debt one-half. 1t
has paid out millions in pensions
aud built great navy. Clsvelsnd's ad-
ministration had reversed the balance
OF trade, which WAS in our favor under
Harrison. He concluded by advising
single takers to study the tariff.
Mr.. Clarence "A. Miller followed Mr..
Burdstte and treated his speech In hu-
morous vein. He had once been Re-
publican, but had been Democrat from
the day Cleveland promulgated his great
message relative to the surplus and the
protective tariff. A surplus in the
treasury meant money unnecessarily
drawn from the pockets OF the people.
Protection meant that the American
people were incom petent to trade intel.
ligently and to their own advantage. To
hear Q Republican talk of goods i'm.
ported one would think he meant
"bads." Imports meant American ac-
tivityi exerted to pay in exports. If
trade is bad then goods are bad, because Q
trade 10 designed for no other purpose
than that OF procuring goods and money,
the same and no other use.
Mr.. Q. P. Dorland, on behalf OF the
Prohibitionists. said that the Populists
wrangled over the money question, and
the Republicans and Democrats divided
on a reduction in the tariff amounting
to 23 cents per capita. The liquor traf-
fic cost the people more than $50 per
capita, and was twenty times as i'm port
ant as free silver, and six times as con-
nOQuOhbtWl 40 sho o1ouuv lAVOlVou III
the tariff discussions. He claimed that
ed in the liquor eslling-the men who
make it, those who drink it, and the
politicians who buy votes with it.
Mr.. NJ. w. Conkling held that it is
not the function of government to legis
late morals or goodness into people or
to dictate what they should do so long
Of pfr;,, h.
rights OF others. The larger proportion
liquor drinking. but OF poverty. Only
assault and disorder could find cause
in liquor, while burglary, false pre-.
lenses, forgery. etc. called for coolness
and soberDess and are, nearly always in
epired by want. When you have abol-
ished special privileges and thrown open
natural opportunities, men will be en-
abled to live in comfort and plenty and
will not seek dissipation a. solace or
crime as means OF support. This the
single tax will do.
The representative of the Peoples
party was not present. Mr.. Ira B.
Wood, who was to reply to the Populst
address, INDUCED in some comments on
fOpuu6ms T16 uoiu tuht GDe IOpun6L6
are only strong whore they have not
been tried; that they represented Re-
publics nism in an aggravated form,
being equally with the latter a party of
special privileges. only for another class.
Their chief remedy for the ineuualities
existing are inadequate and dangerous.
They hold the demonstration OF
silver to be the cause OF our
woes, when only about s8 900, 900
was coined up to 1873, as there wac
really no demand for it. Since 1878
over $4l9, ,000. 900 has been coined. The
trouble is not insufficient money, but
lack of circulation of the money we
have. The circulation will only come
with industrial activity. The latter we
cannot have normally until the adoption
OF the single tax has abolished land
monopoly and given labor unhindered
access to natural resources.
Ralph E. Hoyt gave talk on single
tax, after which duet on the autoharp,
performed by Profs. Singleton and Sim
rie, closed the meeting.