The San Francisco call., 1895-10-14
SINGLE TAX IN DELAWARE.
Congressman Maguire'S Ad-
dress at Foresters' Hall
Last Evening.
SENATOR GRAY's ANSWER
How Democrats and Republicans
Regard the Movement = Mr..
Scully's Ruse.

"The fight in Delaware cannot help being
of great and lasting good to the single
tax movement ali over the world" Con-
preciative audience that gathered at For
ester's Hall last evening to welcome his
return from the East.
cit may not succeed in carrying Della
ware for the single-tax in 1886, though
am hopeful that it will, " he added, "but
whether the end of the campaign shall be
in honorable defeat or glorious victory,
the great stimulus given the movement
by the campaign will surely be of lasting
value to the cause at large
1t was of the Delaware single-tax cam
paign almost wholly that Judge Mcguire
spoke last evening, but at the end of his
address he reverted to the case of William
Scully in Illinois, as showing the futiilty
OF laws forbidding the alien ownership of
land. The Legislature of Illinois passed
such q law i'll 1884, aimed particularly at
Scully. He had been driven out of Ireland
for his brutality as q landlord, and had in
vested his great wealth in immense farm
land holdings in Southern Illinois After
the law passed, Scully came over to Illinois
from his London palace, and gave notice
of his intention to become a citizen of the
United States. A few days ago he took
the oath of allegiance to Uncle Sam, and
then made preparations for resuming his
residence in London.
As to the campaign in Delaware, it had
progressed to an extraordinary extent in
the northern part OF the State, the speaker
said. And now about the only public
question discussed there was the single tax
on land values. There are three counties
in the State-Newcastle in the north and
Sussex and Essex in the southland all of
them do not cover as large a territory as
Santa Barbara County.
The single-tax men claim to be able to
carry Newcastle County should an election
be held at once, and Judge Mcguire be-
lieves they will certainly be able to carry
1t by the time of the election in 1896. In
Sussex and Essex counties the campaign
has not been as successful for the reason
that in these counties reside the more con-
servative elements. Here, too, in the last
years OF the nineteenth century are to be
found the pillory, the ducking-stool and
the whipping post of the sixteenth CEN
| tury.
The local single tax men, however, are
very hopeful of carrying the entire State
In 1896 in being able to hold the balance
of power among the electors of the south
ern counties. They do not propose to in
stitute third party movement, but to
| pleQge canQlQateS fOr the Legislature TO
vote for single-tax measure. At first the
| Democrats were alarmed at the movement
and vent to consult with United States
| Senator Gray. They told him it wou uld
be necessary in order to save the party in
that State to get up counter meetings ana
answer the single-taX speakers. Senator
Gray asked who was going to do the an
swering. They replied that he should do
some OF 1t. He told them frankly that he
could not answer them. He said he did
not want to see the single-tax principle &C
| into effect or the Democratic party lose It's
| grip on the State, but he told his col
leagues plainly that at bottom the single
/ tax men had truth and justice on their
| side and that the less it was argued the
| better for its antagonists. Meanw hile the
/ Republicans looked on with complacency
| Then a number of educated and distin-
! guished colored men from Philadelphia
and Washington, orators and men of great
prominence and ability, came down into
Delaware and told the negro Republican
voters that the single tax meant freedom
| from industrial slavery. The Republicans
| tried to offset this by explaining to the
negroes who owned their own homes in
| that State, and consequently had great
influence among their less thrifty brethren
| that the single tax would increase then
| land tax. But the negroes answered, said
Judge Mcguire, that the freedom from all
personal taxation would far more than
compensate for this slight increase in their
land rates, and to-day nearly all the negro
voters in Delaware are single-tax advocates