The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-28
DIR. sANGRADo MAGUIRE.

| UNTIL he became candidate TOR Governor
II Judge Mcguire had but remedy for all the
- evils of society, and that was the single tax
Sangrado bed for all disease, and Mcguire proposed
by bleeding the landowner abolish crime, poverty
and all unrighteousness without regard to any moran
change in the personal character of men,
On account of the single tax he boted the Demo
cratic party in 1885, and for that he kicked and de-
feated Hastings, Ferral and McCoppn in succession
as Democratic candidates in his Congressional dis
trct. In each of these bolts against the Democratic
ticket he was aided and abeted by his next TREND,
Barry, who is the Democratic candidate TO sue
coed him in Congress In addition to all these bolts
and betrayals OF Democracy 1887 he by letter per-
manenty Withdrew from the Democratic party be-
cause it would ndorse the single tax For that ne
cursed and quit it, renarking as he left that it was
rather nasty party any way, with which no honest
man or gentleman could safely associate. Now, as
he found the Democratic party unfit to stay with in
1887 because it did not ndorse the single tax why
does he 90 back to it now? Has it Endorsed the sin
gle tax by indorsing him!
Until now in everything Judge Mcguire has written
said the single tax appears as inevitably as the
head of Charles in the essays of Mr. Dick. He left
his seat in Congress to make long single-tax cam
paigns in Delaware and boosted that he had broken
down the Democratic party of that State by raising
the single tax issue He lately addressed the single
tax is the sole issue worthy the support OF good
citizen No longer ago than the 18th of last February
(see Congressional Record Vol3I No. 54), discussing
the bankruptcy BILL he said: "1n the course OF my
remarks on the floor to-day referred briefly to the
causes of bankruptcy in the United States, and ex-
pressed the opinion that legislation for the relief OF
ruined merchants and others who carrying on the
weath-producing and Notwithstanding enterprises
of our country is poor substitute for legislation that
would remove the great universal cause OF nearly all
the unmerited distress and bankruptcy among our
people" Then quoting Henry George on effects of
the single tax he sad Socialists, Popusts and
chartv-mongers, the people who would apply little
remedies for great evil are all barking up the wrong
tree The Upas of our civilization is treatment OF
land 1t is that which is converting even the march
of invention into blight. There out one cure Jor
business OPPRESSION there Other: that the single tax
If these were his convictions only seven months
ago. is he honest in becoming the candidate OF three
parties which fuse upon the single proposition that
the free coinage of silver is the for business
depression?
Fusion here and everywhere is upon free silver as
the panacea but seven months ago Judge Mcguire
said there was but ,edv, and that not tree sill
YER but the single II that true then why IS
not true now7 If free coinage of silver then were
the remedy for business depression, why did he say
the single was? o.
Does Judge Mcguire believe in free Coinage of sill
yer? Does he believe it will cause the economic re-
form declared to be its purpose by Mr.. Bryan, Con-
gresham Towne Coin Harvey and its other pro-
ponents? If he does so believe his singletax theory
is myth and sham If his single-tax theory is true
then free silver is lie and sham
Is there anythng shonest in this free silver fusion
candidate who denies that there is any remedy for
business depression except the single tax and by that
denial repudiates free silver?