The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-08-06
The single Tax nuia on DeIn,vDr,.

EDITOR REPuBLICAN:-Ise see by letter of
Mr.. III. j. Chase of Cambridge. Mass, in
the Providence Journal Of July 25th, and
also by leading article In tho Baltimore
Sun OF August 9, that your little. good
old-fashioned Site i5 doomed to a oru-
sade from tho single takers OF the entire
country The temptation presented to
them is alleged to be found In the exist.
Ing political disseniIons and In the open
door offered by the State Consultation for
the trial OF experiments" Nobody per-
sonally. likes 10 be experisnented with,
and " remains for the good OF your State
TO quickly demonstrate that fact In their
own particular and releRate the convert.
lrg army OF single takers to an immedl.
The baslc princlple-if principle It may
be ealled-of single tax is that all private
ownership OF land is wrong. unjust lniqui
tous and damnable. Those are the exact
terms applied to II by Henry George him
sell and his most able writer's, and they
VIII undertake to prove that nothing In
the Old Testament or New or In tho laws
ara customs OF men, from the earliest
periods OF history down to the present
Time substantlate the claim that mon have
any right whatever to personally own
elther square foot. an acre or Thousand
acres OF land anywhere on this planet
How doee this strike the average Della
warehnf Did he ever hear tell of such
ponstrous proposition befoIef Did be
SiSt tooi ANY CDfD pu1CI1OnB OF NOnHClenc6
where he honestly earned money and
bought bit OF land and had 1t recorded
TO hi6 credlt2 Did he ever hear that our
laws we're In the slightest degree opposed
TO euch an acqusitlonf Did he ever read
that the lawe Of any other civilized nation
didf Did he ever read In any part OF the
Bible that 1t was sinful to own land got
ten under proper conditioner
whence, then, comes suddenly upon
him; the news OF his iniqulty In owning
land 1t comes from band Of political
and religious adventurers who fight for
all the land they can get In their own In.
dtviduRl possession-the rich mon OF
whom are genuine monopolists Of 1t
whilst they want others to prepare to give
up their land to the government they
may organize and pay rent In The shape
OF taxation b ok again for it. Not one
oi them. apparently so conscious stricken
on the subject of land holdings. has ever
been known to prove his precepts by his
example and hand In his land TO the gov.
ernment and wash his hands OF the un.
clean ownership.
Henry George hlmself hns been Mt tho
head OF land grabbing syndicate and
from Hon. Tom L. johnson down the evil
dences ere daily furnished that single
takers hug the Gin of private ownership
with all the infatuation of the most
"bloated capitalists
Single takers also tell ns that slave
owning and land.owning aresynonymous
yet. unlike, the conscience stricken slave.
owner, who before the war freed his
slaves, single takers under no clrcum.
stances free themselves from their land.
They call ownership OF land equivalent 10
the ownership of stolen goods. yet, with
the stolen goods on their own backs, they
attempt to preach honesty to other men.
Do honest men want such dlssemInators
NJ inconeistency preaching to them and
telling them that theirs ia panaeea that
will banish poverty end bring prosper.
ity and substitute political harmony for
political dissentlon? Not much. ONLY
those accept 1t who are equal to the
tricks that 1t proposes and expect TO live
and falten at tho expense of others. IL Ia
only spaoles of socialism in which the
poor aud the honest and the industrious
VIII be expected to support the rich. tho
dishonest and the lazy. No poor man
who owns an acre OF ground has vet
been found Qn answer to my advertise.
Ment for one) who believes In Single
Tux. Do the people of Delaware want it9
Francis B. LIvEsEY.
Sykesyllle. Md.