Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-09-07
lOrdism was when | first offered my life for
human freedom

human freedom.
There we have Col Camm telling
us in the first quotation that single tax
will not confiscate an inch of Land, and
in the last we have him comparing
land -ownership with slave-ownershlp
and prophesying the equal and early
doom OF that landlordlsm under which
land-ownership alone exists. When
landlordlsm goes private property in
land goes-they both go together.
Every man that owns an inch of land
is a landlord. The miner that has q
little lot big enough for his house, his
stable and his garden is one of the
landlords that sing lie taXer, Col. Camm.
is booming to a loss of his property,
the same us the slave-owner lost his
slaves, without compensation, during
the war. How do the miner and the
farmer like the idea? How do they
like to see Col. Camm thus damning
the ownership of land as a public
calamity and holding on to all of it
that he can get for himself?
REFoRMERs MUST FIRST REFORM THEMSELVES.
Col. Camm calls himself one of a
band of proposed reformers. Did the
world ever see a reform in which the
reformers We're not first reformed
themselves? and did it ever see a re-
form that did not compel each indi-
vidual man to begin and do his own
duty as factor in the general reform
Not at all. All great things, whether
coral islands. or Pacific railroads. or
reforms, are the results of every insect
and man doing his duty faithfully and
gradually. Single.taxeIs generally
acknowledge that at the proper time
60 them) they will give up their lands,
but not before. Col. Camm may be
an exception. However, they are
going to be on the safe side and not
only enjoy the curse of and-owning in
the ordinary sense of the term, but
also monopolize it after the manner
of Hon. Tom l.. johnson and join
syndlcates for Its monopolization. like
Henry George has done himself! Con-
sistency is nothing whatever of a jewel
IN the mind of Il single taxer Where
would our prohibition be if Hon.
Joshua lowering, the prohibition can
didate for governor of Maryland, be.
longed to a whisky trust, or ran a
brewery? Where would the cause for
which he stands be if every member of
it kept his cellar stocked with liquor
and took his beer at every saloon
Where would the cause be if every
member said-''1've got the principle
of prohibition all right believe IN it
but there's no use in my stopping
drink /; what do myself don't reform
the world; | might as we'll enjoy it as
lnno ntbar
when we get a majority of the voters
to thinking our way-then we'll all
stop together" Gentle reader. that is
not prohibition but that exactly is
single tax, and that exactly is Col.
William Camm.
FARM REFORM CONSISTENT; SINGLE TAX
DESPERATE.
Here | have been preaching through
the press reform known as Farm
Reform" that seeks to get people to
leave city ldleness for country work.
Have | followed what | preach
Have | thrown off broadcloth and
donned the wollen shirt Have
worked year in and year out with
pick, and shovel and pillow? Well, if
| had not done these things | could
not stand forth with brazen presump-
ton and tell others to do it {; but |
have practiced exactly what | preach
and, the times demanding a reform of
the kind, the reform fits the times and
my own consistent experience in it is
more of an inspiring power than all
the sophistries and Inconsistencies put
upon the people by Henry George.
Well, Mr.. Editor, am very busily
engaged just at present in disgusting
the good people of Delaware with the
Single-Tax and will defer for the pres
snt the consideration of some OF Mr..
Camm's minor contentious. But Just let
me remind all people that the Single.
Takers OF the country are getting
desperate: they see no possibility of
the people becoming fools enough to
vote for Slngle-Tax and they are
prophesying that revolution will follow
the refusal, and the conclusion will be.
as Col. Camm states, that landlordsm
will be wiped out as suddenly and as
dlsastrously as was slavery. Let peo-
pie remember that beneath the placid
garb of Single-Tax the dagger of
revolution CLEANS. If Henry George
is its Wendell Phillips, perhaps Col.
Camm may aspire to becoming its
John Brown. FRANCIS B. LIVESEY.