Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-08-09
A RaId Upon Delaware.


A Raid Upon Delaware.
EDITOR CHRONICLE - The good
people of Delaware must stop Ship
| ping peaches and listen to the "sin.
| gle-taxers" that are going to raid
their State They have decided that
the Delawareans are the most fitting
objects in the United States for con.
version to single tax. They say the
State is small and it can be easily
handled; that its politics are weak
ening and they can substitute some
thing strong; and that the State Con-
stitution invites experiments" and
that theirs is a fitting one 10 try. If
they ever expect to put their scheme
into practical trial it is certainly time
that they were doing so. l am one
who has been ridiculing their fifteen
years of preaching and no perform
ance Except failure) up to this date.
They are smarting under such ridi-
cule, and now boast of beginning
with Delaware and of ultimately
sweeping the country.
Henry George is the present leader
of the Single-Taxers; but the En-
glish philosopher, Herbert Spencer,
formulated the chief ideas of the So
called theory some forty odd years
ago, and Henry George has tried to
bring the masses into sympathy with
them. In the meantime, Herbert
Spencer has grown wise enough to
see the mistakes he made in his earl
Ter years and has utterly repudiated
the ideas of his "social stactics"
bearing on the subject. This repu-
diation has almost made q mad man
Of Henry George, and well it might,
tor he calculated on the name and
fame of the old grandfather of the
ideas to assist in their universal ac-
ceptance If Herbert Spencer's adj
vanced age did not preclude him
from hostile demonst rations, he and
Henry George would, undoubtedly,
be regally the on-looklng world with
some choice animadversions upon
each other. Thus, what Herbert
Spencer has renowned as unworthy
of him and of mems acceptance.
Henry George endeavors to palm off
on them as a panacea for all the eX-
listing political and ind ustrial ills,
and as a reformative to religion itself |
The converts to Single Tax are all |
of that class of men called "sharp- |
ers." They see in its realization |
grand opportunities for the plying
of their trade. l have searched the
hole-country over and l have not
yet heard of or seen an honest work
ing man, the owner of little land,
that in the least believes in Single
Tax. l did once have in hand a
bankrupt Single-Taxer of Brooklyn,
who wanted me to assist him to get
a little farm; but, with this excep-
5ion, l do not know of any who ac-
tually wanted to get that ''access to
the land" that they all profess to
want. Neither have ever met with
my that were not sufficiently smart
enough to handle the Single Tax
subject for themselves in the papers.
None but well educated sharpers
seem to, as yet constitute their
members. Perhaps they think the
peach growers of Delaware are as
soft" as their peaches, that they can
nveigle them into Single Tax and in
20 voting for it, that they, (the
may step in and "exercIse
dominion over them"
Well, Mr. Editor, if any of your
eaders are bothered by Single Tax
and if they want any assist
nee in Kidding their State of the
Hague, just let them tell the takers
hat they are going for Livesey, and
the result proves as it has else
1here, in many instances, the tax
rs will get away about as quickly
s the tramp does from the bull dog.
fanny of the Single Tax Bibles known {
S Progress and Poverty" are scat
cred over your domain, you can re-
lember that it is a subtle, plausible !
ook in the main, with the main OBJ
,ct held mostly in reserve. Out Of Z
S 4lO pages, pages 239, 29O, 29l f
nd 292-four pages in all-give the /
erect idea Of how Single Takers
old, I'VE may safely leave them c
lie shell if we take the kernel" Yes, \
lie people eat the shell and the husks
nd the oily Takers when they sub
Igate us by their temptations) lay
ack in the enjoyment of the kernels :,
Id the corn: We have ousted their
respects in Maryland, and now let Y
) see what we will see in our sister n
late. FRANCIS B. LIvEsEY. b
Sykesville, Md. :,