The herald., 1895-01-22
.srio.ion but through freedom lie. tn.

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| q consequence OF poverty and not its
cause. To the cause. there
foYs, irntesd of ths consequence should
efforts at temperance Reform be- ai-
dressed. Prob;5i biticnisss should join
the ranks Of single takers, who, by abol-
ishing the ceusa of povc-ty-which ia
the private appropriation OF land vale
ues-would put an sad to the tempta-
tion to idleness, vics and crime inher.
\ ans In the presens conditions. ans make
1t possible for every man to have snd
snjoy happy homo"
WHY POLITICAL Bossrsx EXISTS.
Mr. Ira B. Wood. speaking to shs sub
jecs "Why political oossiana exists, I"
clsimsd that while political apathy,
blind partssnship and detective syn
TENS Of administration mi2hs contri-
butte incidentally to the existence of tbs
boss, the main and fundamental reason
| lay in the Industrial aud social condi-
| ton that made hia occupation success
| full by supplying him ample material to
work with. This political dictator rea
cruiss his army from she men whose me-
cessities compel them to enlist unde r
him. Without the support of these vic
Tins of unnstursl conditions no would
be helpless.
EVOLUTION AND TIE SINGLE TAX.
Mr.. Creighton said: I'll wsrs called
upon to set up milestones in the track
Of the march of evolution from monad
to modern man. they would not be
placed at those epochs In the worlds
history which moat historians have
chosen to magnify as supremacy import
ant and interesting. l should set up
one, OF course, at the advent of man,
because when man came into this world
then came mind-of the essence of
Deity. never dying, always aspiring.
But thereafter no monumental stone
should rise until Buddah came preach
ing the kinship OF all animated creation,
and not again until the coming of the
Christ, with his humanitarian doctrines
touching the essential brotherhood OF
the race. From the time OF the gentle
Nazsrene to Englsnd's Magma Charta ia
far cry, but there is properly no place
Tor milestone to mark an enlarge ment
of human vision of the rights of man in
the interval. Another stone should 60
up to mark CromwelPs commonwealth
with its long parliament. The next
epoch to be commsmorated should be
the Que illuminated by the genius of
Voltaire, the great emancipation OF
the minds of men from religious
superstition. Then we must pass
to America and mark the grave OF him
who Numbered the rights of man in
declaration that echoed round the world.
Then turn we back to Richard Cobdsn,
the trade emancipationist, the states
man pioneer for comm srcial freedom.
Farewell then to the old world The
next stone must rise in the United
States, inscribed with the names OF
Harriet Bescher Stowe aud the slave
emsneips.ionists. The last mile stone
OF the nineisenth century is going up
today. The great pyramid shonld not |
surpaas it in proportions. It riass in tho |
signs OF him whom living we salnte."
IL will be conn lsted when the gospel |
according to ST. George shall have COW
ersd the earth as the watsrs cover the |
ses-
The history of evolution reveals the
srensndous fact that the instinct of
equity, "thst within Us which makes
ior righteousness" ia prsdiosble of |
humanity and. hencesorth, appeals to |
that Godliks attribute of msu-though |
sometimes apparently stifed by the in
never ultimately been in vain.
The universal concession of the CO.
equal right OF all men to life having
obtained, as abstract proposition. the |
next grand evolutionary expressions
came at those epochs signalized by as-
aersions, physical and intellectual, OF |
the inalienabls right of every human |
being to personal, civil and religious |
liberty. Today the civilized world has
set its seal OF acquiescenos upon each of |
these assertions preventative OF the ;ndi- |
vldual, SIS theoretical propositions, and |
an honest desire has not bean lacking to |
make them more than dogmas, But |
they can never becoms sctualities 90 |
long ss the universal iniuatics prevails
OF land ssquestration and monopolizs-
uon, IN negssion OF the peoples inalisn-
aoie right to per capita participation in
the full rental vslus of the same as the
com mon heritage of the successive gen.
erations OF men.
IL has been said OF printing that it Ia
tine art preservatiys OF the arts" The
single taxer says that land restoration in
rlght Indispensable TO the preservation
'ot all other human rights. Nav. more:
ACCESS to the eoil and its natural re-
sourcsa is an absolute sins qua non to
the wholesome evolution of tina race :
Tor 80 long as that is denied there can
he no adequate realization OF tie iudi-
vlduaPs Wanted right to "lifs. lihsrsy
and the pursuit. of happinesa.
Mr.. President; il this majestic world
was made for Caesars and not for the
multltudious children of mon, then is
land monopoly defsnsible aud tbs
brotherhood of man ohimera. That
this glaring wrong, this monstrous bar
rier TO the progress OF the raoe and the
evolution of the individual to his highest
estate under God can long withstand tho
pressure OF enlightened public sentiment
10 absolutely impossible.
We stand upon the vantage pround
of TRUTH" and await with confidence thu
new day; for the march OF our propa-
ganda ia resistless as the coming OF the
dawn, and ell mems eyes will open to it
and all mems hearts ackno Wedge il.
Such is the decree of evolution
WHY THERE is LABOR QUESTION
Mr. o. K. Gushing argued that the
present day labor question ia the re-
suit OF the artificial scarcity of land
produced by holding large tracts unused
and unproductive. The proposition ia
borne ont by the well known tact that
the evil of unemployed labor exists in
every civilized country. but only where
land ia owned and held unused, and IL
10 not found in new countries where
there ia no restriction of ACCESS to natu.
raj opportunities. The farms creeping