The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-09-03
Our Rockland Letter.

Our R0ckland letter.
MEssRs EDrToRs: Dear Sirs:-Your cor
respondent soarosly feels competent to
discues through the columns of your
valuable paper the great subject Of which
shall be the best plan for raising the No.
cessary financial support Of this great and
glorious country OF ours.
There is one thing. however, that is very
evident to our mind and that is that all OF
the fanatics and oranks are not dead yet.
We noticed an article in one Of last
week's lssues OF the REPUBLICAN headed the
Single Tax written over the signature
Of W. II. Keevan, setting forth some of
the charaoterlstics OF the system OF Sin.
gle Tax. We arc not sure but We believe
enthusiast and ono who hasIan axe to grind
that does not belong to another.
What has the public to do with private
parties or whose business is what Mr. q.
Lpponoott paid for her lot at Broad and
Walnut streets. Philadelphia, or whether
che Improve on it or notf We presume
she got 1t honest. We are also of the i'm
Preston that she contributed her prorata
toward the fifteen million dollars that
was spent In widening tho public building
ir Philadelphia, and therefore had a rer.
feet right to enjoy the Increase In the
value OF the lot purchased by herr
We doubt not that when she gets ready
ID cell OK build on that lot the will do it
Without consulting single tax advocate.
We findly looking over the!past and on Q.
fully reviewing the present that we had
natio ms on the face Of the globe. and Ii
hAs b cen brought to tte present high STAN
dArd under the present eyetem of taxa
fion in conjunction with the proteotin on
IA We which have been so Wiseiy inserted
IN Its statutes.
We think he who would advocate the
taxing of vacant lot OF ground for as
much as the same lot with two hundred
thousand dollar Improvement on 1t Is
blind and can't see far of. II Ia an err.
Foneous idea that such course would ex-
tsrminate the misery and degradation
that Mr.; keeyan portrays to US. We say
never while the beer saloon Is all lowed to
drag men from tue honorable vooatlons
of life down to the most degraded post.
tione In life-that OF a drunkard. Why do
men spend so much time and energy for
that which is naught and which can bring
about no goods
The people are satisfied with the present
system and that is the way 1t will remain
regardless of the croaking and adm oni.
ton OF a few filibusters who set them.
selves up as single tax projectors and
undertake TO tell men who have forgotten
mote than they ever knew how to con.
duct the finances of a country. We call
such men smart only where the SKIN 10
ehafed.
s. W. Miller, OF Piedmont, West ylr.
ainia. spent q day or two In the village
lhst week. He reports everything boom
Ing at Piedmont. BIT Miler loft here for
New York City, where Ia will spend few
daye after which he will return to Pied
mont.
Miss Maggie Green of this place return. .
ed home laat week from a four W eeks' trip
through west Vlginis. She reportsa pi cas-.
ant ii me.
Johnnis Miller OF Piedmont has ent Q red
rofessor Goldey's Com mmercial College
where ne will take business course.
TIE colored paople OF this vicinity are
holding protractod meeting In the woods
adjoining their church ne1r Guyencourt
Station, on the W. d N. II. r.
Mrs. L. w Jordan, who has been for
many years a member of Mt. Lebanon
and also an excellent singer and organist,
has entered the choir OF Mt Salem Al. e.
Church.
The Sunday school of Mt Lebanon N.
E. Church will hold a festival on Friday
and Saturday evenings next at the church.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Long of this place
spent Saturday Gnd Sunday at Unionvlile.
Pa.
The public sc hool here opened on Mon
day with Mise Annie Walker of your city
as principal and Miss Butler OF Ora
pogue as assistant. We are hoping that
much good may be the result of their
labors. LAoUApR