Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-01-12

thunders into the ears of the idlers who
who listen to him heterogeneous
combination of earth and heaven TO
light up fiction for fact and lie for
truth. Buy men pass by the single
tax millennium fakir. Idle men wait
ing for something to turn up, wherein
something can be had for nothing, or
wit gives place to work, accept him.
They have lived on his airy nothings
for upwards of Is years His theory
materialized for year only at Hyatts.
Vile, this State, when law became dis
gusted with it and retired it to the
nothingness from whence it came.
God Is just. The child of the pauper
and the child of the millionaire come
into the world on an equality regard
ing land ; both have possibilities. bu
neither own an acre. NAKED thew
come into the world and naked they
go out of it," What they do in the in
tervenlng time depends entirely upon
their choice and the effort they bestow
for good or for bad in realizing that
choice. They are started out in 1.-THE
race OF life toeing the same mark.
God is just. The rich child inherits a
fortune. lives idly and fares sump-
tuously and squanders it; the poor
child works hard and saves and be-
comes rich. God is Just. Both have
the same start and the same free-will
both brought nothiag into the ,corM and
doth take nothing ont Of 1t. One chooses
certain causes to produce certain effects
and the other chooses others. The
rich man gets poor and the poor man
gets rich. The laws of nature of
sowing and reaping-are realized in
both cases; likewise are realized the
laws of man and of God. AT this
juncture Henry George comes along
and instiis into the ears of the once
rich man, now the pauper. the idea
that the world is treating him verv I'M
justly, that he ought to have free
access TO the land" and that nobody
ought to charge him "for the mere
privilege of living upon it." What
the rich man lost by neglect of the
laws of nature, of man and of God,
Henry George intends to supply him
by perversion of the three and rob
the once poor man, now the rich man.
to accomplish it by abolishing his title
to his land and letting it out to the
highest bidder, with the government
as owner-a change of landlords i'm
plying free land" for all in the single
tax humbug sense. By such perver-
sions as these Henry George breaches
in churches in Scotland sermons called
Thy Kingdom Come From such a
kingdom, | would say, in the language
of the Episcopal litany, Good Lord,
deliver us !" were there any fears of
the realization of such kingdom.
F-Let US work for better, purer
and juster laws, that shall give to all
the people their natural brthright and
at the same time deal ont pure justice
and real righteousness to all
1.-The laws of this land are, in the
nam, good enough, if we only had
honest men to enforce them. Some of
the principles of labor organizations
incorporated into them wonld be well
enough; but ! have not seen any
evidence that single tax theories
would be more productive of justice in
general. or that the takers themselves
are more honest than other men.
For pure justice and real righteous
ness" we must look. not to the laws of
men as generally administered, but to
the laws of christian life individually
administered. and. in that case. we
"Render unto Caesar the things that
are Caesars and unto God the things
that are Gods and do not attempt to
invade the realm of Caesar to attain
''every good and perfect gift which
cometh down from above" but look to
God alone for them. am not of the
opinion of the Rev. Edward T. Root,
of 1912 North Broadway, Baltimore,
that the poor, as classes, are "the
meek" Of whom Christ spoke, and that
Henry George has opened the way of
salvation to them through single-tax,
which needs only their ballots to usher
them into his aud Christ's millennium.
FRANCIS B. LIvESEY.