Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-09-28

ptodcneu me. OOllan never invited
David to leone on" with more
equanimity than do they me. had
told the good people of Delaware that
the Takers would get away from me
about as quickly as robber does
from bulldog. This was exasperat-
ing to all of them but those of them
who knew me gently swallowed it, and
the novlces started in upon me with the
same confidence as did their fore
fathers. An official challenge came
to me to meet them in debate on the
curb-stones presumably of Whining
ton, and Harold Sudell, in the Dover
State Sentinel, of Sept. 18th, sarcastical-
ly asked me to give the people
sample of one or tacO Of my a1yuments."
AT about that time and since then |
gave "a sample''-the last one appear
ing in the Sentinel of Sept. 7th and
l an still acaitiag to hear from Mr.. SudeU.
Another secretary. Leonard futile, of
Wilmington. is about in the same boat
with Mr.. Sudell.
HOW SINGLE TAXERs ANSWER LIvEsEY.
The chief single tax newspaper that
is engaged in the Delaware work is
Justice, of Philadelphia. On August
9th. under the heading of "Worthy of
the Paper" it said:
The Wilmington Republican. in its issue of
August 18th, prints a blackguardedly letter
from Livesey, which is worthy of the writer
and the paper. He says:
If robbers who were making preparations to
appropriate our property We're pounccd upon
in the act by the officers of the law and could
blandly drop their kit and their tools and sit
God made the property they were about
TO steal for all mentor them as well as
the owncrs-the robbers would be giving an
exact representation of the cool audacity of
single takers in their work of Appropriating
what they allege God has given to all. But of
ticers of the law, and private individuals as
well, are in no disposition whatever to
''argufy" under the pressure of such circum-
stances. 1t is not considered the time to show
the power OF arguments as much as the power
OF physical force and blows to capture the
robbers and break up the ncfarious business in
which they are engaged.
The above Is but a paragraph of a whole
article in a similar vein and the only reply
single takers make is blackguardedly."
That's the way they squrm under
charges brought straight to their faces.
WILL GIVE LIvEsEY A WIDE BERTH
About the only taXer that has at
tempted to defend the takers against
any charges is DR.. Dick but he has
given it up, and it seems that a CON
vention or takers has been held, at
which they have concluded to give
Livesey a wide ber:h-al in accord
ance with my bulldog prophecy, be it
remembered. The doctor says in his
last:
Brave men who have breasted the fiery
hail of shot and shell have been known to
do. IL
and, in like manner, when earnest, fair
| minded men throw into the arena of public
discussion a proposition to change present
methods of taxation, you evade the question
and attribute unworthy motives to the pro-
posers. AS rule, they will leave you Col
Camm Will not and i'll the future give you a
VIDE berth, not on account of your proves,
on which you pride yourself. but rather on
account of the otfensiveness of your methods
of warfare.
All, brother Dick. "all things are
fair in love and war" That is what
the Austrians said about Napoleon
''he doesn't fight like gentleman
Napoleon and both have had original
methods, and | have seen socialists,
thinkers and editors following mine
to the dot.
SOVEREIGN FARM REFORMER.
With view of enlistng the SYM
pathles Of working men, the Single
Takers have published it throughout
Delaware that the Kni ghts of Labor
are in'sympathy with Single Tax. 1t
is very true that one of their planks
reads that way; but change has
come DER the spirit of their dream.
Like Pingrce, they have gotten tired
OF waiting for Single Tax and are ac-
cepting Farm Reform. Mr.. Sovereign
has repeated my very ideas on the
matter. The first place | have no
tlced them is in the August number of
The SOutherm States, Of Baltimore. He
has actually gone down to Arkansas
to look up land for the Knights to
make permanent homes out Of Each
of such homes, of course, mates another
landlord to zee the righteous souls (2) of
Smgle Iacers. How do you like it,
brothers ? It's the grandest joke yet
played on the Takers. Sovereign's
paper is giving weekly lengthy articles
with flaming headlines from Takers,
and the Takers think they are running
the Knights straight along to the
Single Tax millennium, liz the mean
llIhe, ooNefelSH is not saying WOfu
about his Arkansas trick. While he's
doing this Chauncey M. Depew comes
out in full accord with the educational
demands of Farm Reform, and the
Providence Journal comes out for
Farm Reform and educational re-
trenchment also. On every hand the
questions are asked-"how shall we
get the people away from the cities -
-'how shall we keep the boys and
the girls on the farms ~ Farm Re-
form answers both so that he who
runs may read.
FRANCIS B. LIvEsEY.
p. S.-Since writing the above |
see that the Wilmington NeaoS says:
The people of Delaware should not forget
that the single takers are still waging their
war here. They have ceased to be even a
corner attraction, however, but they are
building great hopes on their circus tent.
| always said they were fakirs and
clowns and now, sure enough, they
have put up a tent with pretty things
to see and be heard in it, by way of
converting unsophisticated minds into
philosophical (O single takers.