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to the meetings. The city solicitor took
it up. He decided that Father Nc
Giynn Gould not speak on political subjects.
Then he said that the address could go on
but officers were stationed in the opera
house to arrest Dir. McGlynn when
ever, in their opinion, his address savored
OF politics.
Mr.. George had already encountered al
most similar trouble, only threats were
made or arresting him at his hotel. But
this proved to be pure bluff" and the
Sunday meetings were continued. At
every one there was a crowded house OF
eager, Interested people, anxious to learn
all possible about the question.
ANTAGONIZED BY NEWSPAPERS.
Among those who addressed the meetings
were Herman v. Hetzel, Rev. Jesse c.
Taylor, Lewes, Del; Lewis F. Post, New
York; Edward Lawson Purdie, New York;
W W. Callaghan, Camden, n. j.; 7. W.
Swan, colored; DR.. Amies, Philadelphia;
Joseph Farris, Springfield, ILL.,; james A :.
Heard, the actor and author; Col. William
b. Norton, Wilmington. j q. MCGUIRE Wash
ington; Alfred B. Mason, New York; James
McGTegor, Henry +. Davis, president OF the
Washington bar; A. F Broomha,l, a lawyer
Troy, O.; Rev. Father W. c. johnson, an
Episcopal minister, New York: Bolton Hall,
.
HowariCrCsby,E OIL. Jerry Simpson, Edward
Osgooi Brown, a lawyer, Chicago; Thomas
g. Sherman, the eminent statistician, II.
p. Lippincott, president Philadelphia Single
Tax Society: DR.. s. Soils Cohen, a pro minent
Hebrew rabbi, Philadelphia; Alfred b.
Cruikshank, New York; James r. Brown,
secretary of the New York Tax Reform
Association: Mrs. Florence E. Burleigh,
Germantown, Pa, and William Lloyd
Garrison.
One night was given over to a debate
between A. II. Stephenson of the Delaware
State campaign committee, and William
A. Whittick of Philadelphia.
These meetings have had the effect of
solidifying the numerous street corner and
club meetings. Atevery one Of them more
people continue to come to ask questions
and be informed Oh the practical working
value OF the tax as proposed here.
One OF the principal forces against which
the single takers have had to contend has
been the newspapers of the State, which.
with one exception, have sought In every
way to belittle, obstruct and ridicule the
reform. That one, the Sunday Star, has
been very fair and has given space both to
the publication OF news about the cam
pagn and communications on the subject.
The campaigners have now started
weekly paper OF their own, called Justice.
which circulates throughout the State.
WILL N A ME- "A 11ChEI.
Probably the thing which has given the
greatest impetus to the movement has been
the arrest and Judgment in Jail Of the
single takers at Dover, for speaking OH
the street corners.
They have now all been released. 1t
is estimated that the advertising received
by the single takers, because Of the arrest.
could not have been purchased for $780,
900.
rT-t.- t. rolN t,y,
voluntary subscriptions from clubs and
indi vidual siugle takers throughout the
United States aud Canada.
The fact that both the Democratic and
Republican State conventions refused to
incorporate the single tax plank in their
platforms puts the adherents Of the re-
form TO the necessity of naming legts-
alive ticket of their own, or capturing
the nominating conventions of the Demo-
Gratis, from which party majority OF the
single takers are drawu
That this Is feasible is shown by the
ease with which Democratic meetings In
the Seventh ward, Wilmington, and in
New Castle, were packed and controlled
by single takers.
An enthusiastic single taxer examined the
Wilmington assessment lists, and found that
the working classes, who own property,
are assessed from 20 to 30 per cent more
than merchants a nd other business men.
Takingtwenty.fiveh houses Owne i by work
ingmen, none of which were valued at OYER
$4,000, and averaging about 81 ,5OO, he
found that they were assessed at from
rs to so per cent OF their real value.
Twenty-Five business houses on Market
street. averaging $4,000, were assessed
only from 80 TO go per cent of their
valuation.
The same number Of residences on Della
ware avenue, wilmiDgton's Fifth avenue,
| averaging $1,000 each, were assessed AT
| only 40 to 90 per cent OF their valuation.
The same was true Of 232 vacant lots in
the Ninth ward. They were assessed ut
| only 2 per cent of their selling value, and
other land in the Seventh ward, amounting
| to eighteen acres, valued at 2O,0OO,
was assessed at only SIS 900.
Water Supply on Rocky Islands.
Proceeding on the theory that the vari-
| ations in temperature ought to cause shear
| ing strains between the upper and lower