Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-01-19

Tax. 1t Is well worth the trouble if
you are intellectually honest. and are
not an orthodox churchman. If YOU
are the latter. you may some day be-
come Il real christian
L.-Iom studying il in its represent
atives. | concede the possibility of AS
much difference between AN orthodox
churchman and real christian as be-
tween Henry George and real chris
tian. FRANCIS B. LIvESEY.
How Henry George Proposes to GIVE
the People the shell" While He
Keeps the Kernel"
SYKEsvILLE, Mn, Jan. s, 1895.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
The two articles in the Journal. of
Jan. 5th-one from Rabbi J l.. Stern.
of Cumberland, Md and the other
from man who seems to be ashamed
to give his name in defense of Single
Tax, both hinge upon the quotation ]
made in the JOURNAL of Dee. s from
Henry George.
| was perfectly aware when | made
the quotation that in the following
pages of the same chapter Mr.. George
condescended to modify the terms used
for the alignment of any undue excite
ment they might create in the minds
of the masses. | asked myself at the
time-''what's in a name? A rose is
just as sweet by any other name" and
| also sald-what's in a name when a
man threatens to kill us by shooting us
like dogs at one minute and concludes
ID the next that he will condescend
to have a tender regard for our feel
ings and. instead of doing the dog
shooting act, gently watt us to the
bourne from which no traveller returns
through the subtle. dreamy Influences
of chloroform We are not so much
concerned about the process in the
case as about the final result of death.
He gets in his death on us all the same
This is the way with Henry George.
He starts out and honestly tells us the
style in which he is going to turn over
our land to the government then he
suavely tells us of more polite pro-
cess, out of respect to our feelings.
whose result is the same for his pur-
pose and he p,ovesit when he chuckles
to himself in the same breath I'VE
may safely leave them the shell if we
take the kernel
do not propose to be fooled by any
such statements as these. nor do | pro
pose in arguing the peoples side of
the question to let them be fooled, and
hence, what | quoted from Mr.. George
regarding the ab0litiOn Of titles and con-
.fscotion Of land and letting it ont to the
highest bidders, constitutes the true in
wardness Of Single Tax until the
author of it calls in his famous
progress and Poverty' and Single
Takers no longer point to it as their
Bible, in which eoery sentence is fraught
with the words of truth and wisdom.
"We may safely leave them the
SHE'LL Who are the "me' here al,
luded to? They are Henry George
for president, and all the ministers,
Rabbis and hopeful politicians, and
men who have made little success of
life IN other positions, and VINO are all
awaiting their pull in case the
people of the country are fools enough
to grant them the opportunity of
getting 1t. They are the "re." honest
reader, who ",oW leace as the shell, oohile
they take the kernel.' We are the kids
it will be safe to leave us the shell y
we are apt to swallow the kernel and
get choked. They know how to mas
ticate il better; they are big folks we
are the "wee tots"
| hope that we are nothing of the
kind, but that we are independent
American citizens as capable of know
ing the value of kernels as the squir
rels of our forests, and stauuch in de-
fanl,,or hnt
should be. What use have we for a
dabbler in words The street fakr
can tell you anything about his wares
He has nice. soft, eloquent. applicable
answer to every question you put him.
He adap,s his style to every assembly
that greets him. It is one thing to the
bootblack. another to the business
man, another to the nervous old lady,
but it's all got fraud and deception at
the bottom. The legitimate dealer at
the corner store is dumb founded
fool in comparison to HIM, yet his
watches are genuine.
Honest reader, be if known that
these are fakir-dealers, and that these
are takw ref01mers.
Henry George has been before us as
reformer for some Is years. What
are the practical results following this
long crusade on the part of a man
whom his religious admirers consider
man sent of God They are no.
thing. Does God work that way f.?
Does He that slowly bless the work
of His divinely appointed agents
Did Christ, Martin Luther, or any
other reformer, ever work that long
after he began, and accomplish prac-
tically nothing Not at all. Divine
~ appointed men get il move on things.
Mind moves matter when it has truth
to back it up. Why, even the political
reformers of the day are ahead of
Henry George CoXey, Debs and John
Burns are his superiors in practical re-
suits. They have made sacrifices in
their respective lives and everyone of
them has attained something. Take
Coxey, for example. In the first place,
he had the merit of broaching upon us
something original. His reform
dawned upon him in a dream, if re-
member Alright This was superior to
the book dawning of Henry George.
He was well off. He wanted to make
practical move toward his bonds and
good roads, and how did he do it? He
got move on him. He gathered to.
gether lot OF men called tramps and
started ont for the headquarters of
bonds and national roads. He left the
comforts of home; became tramp
with his followers, endured heats of