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The San Francisco call., 1898-10-07

Wilson, W. H, Aussa,. F, G; Brown ,L [. LacaZi James GaisteI. A. Coad, F. G. Rob recht, J. c. Anderson, Alfred White, D. Mayer, George Grant, H. Roth NJ. Walser' P. Wagner, T. Mulligan, R. Pillster, C. J. Muller, C. ". Wall, J. D. Mccarthy, James Shay A. L. Saunder, G. Blair, R. Reed, John Quarrels J. Wilson, J. F. Con- zales, J. M. Clune, A. Mann, F. G. Hawes, C. Martin, J. S. Fisher, G. Taconi, H. Zim- merman, J. J. FOgarty, L. F. Schuman c. B. Hale, T. Swenson. P. Deveny, E. Cook, ". Frederick D. Beban, H. John, D: Hanke, c. Sontagg. Ed Mclaughlin, Ed Seaman, G. B. Knowles, Robert Martin, George Hudson, J. Leinhart. John Hosmer, G. H. Williams. J. J. Coffey. Tim Crane, J. G. Shannon, C. Schafer S. Brizolari. M. Vogle. F. Lundquist. Leon Dennery, George Bryon, August Koehler James Gun ningham. H. H. Lynch, John Klopenstein. H. M. Sanders. Henry Roster Charles Campbell, s. Eckee, John Lipman, E. D. Howard, J. B. Richmond George Carter, w. J. Crozier J. W. Howell, L. M. Isaacs. ". T. A. Assman, " Upton, H. J. Hess, ". J. Tyson. H. Kennedy John SchIeiff, A. W. Martin, F. Clifton, Charles Moril John Kean. P Bradley. James Margo, S Baker. R. H. Warfield C. B. King. S. W Backus, D. H. Claim, O. T. Radloff John Recault, c. A. Dancke, Paul Duardo Dr. R. C. Macbeth. G. H. Thompson. E. Drien, George Hilton Sam Kneil, Vic Ben guire Fl. Larson. F. Clifton G. Adams G. Selinger, A. s. Hallidie. Harry Hoff, T. B. Duncan, J. H. Knarston, Joseph Marshall, Martin Brady.
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should be made decisive as an indorse- ment of the administration of that able statesman and patriot, William Mch1n- ley. Men of all political faiths had agreed that he was the right man in the right place in the crisis through which the country has just passed. It was due to Mckinley that this State should roll up a grand majority for the Republican ticket. Referring to the Philippines, Ha- wall, the Pacific cable and Nicaragua canal, he declared that it was of the ut most commercial import to California that Republican Congressman overturned to Washington this fall.
 "We want more foreign trade,' said he. "carried in American ships manned by American sailors. We want a navy sec ond to none and we have the men to man them and carry our flag to victory when ever it Is called"
 The speaker took occasion to denounce the efforts that are being made to deceive the people into the belief that he was in any way allied to the railroads. He further stated that the railroad question appeared to be all the Democratic party had to stand on, and 1t had been proved that that institution was not an issue in this campaign The battle cry from now till November s should be, California for progress, prosperity and advancement
 Ex-Judge D. J. Murphy, candidate for District Attorney, in Well-Worded speech paid high compliment to the Republican ticket and platform, and declared that 1t should receive the fullest support of the people of this State. He referred amid cheers to Henry T. Gage and Jacob Neff as two of the most honest and fearless men in the commonwealth, and said that the voters would never have cause to re- gret electing them and the balance of the ticket. In speaking of the local Republi- can ticket and platform, he said that they were among the best ever put before the people of this city. The ticket was head ed by man against whom islander or libel was never spoken, and no man could make mistake by voting for Charles l.. Patton. The Republican candidate was man who, whether in office or out, would have as much consideration for the poor man as for the Mob Hill millionaire. Judge Murphy closed with some convinc- ing reasons why he should be elected Dis trict Attorney.
 When Charles L. Patton stepped to the rostrum he was eheered to the echo. lie spoke briefly, owing to the failure of his voice, urging the election of Judge Mur- phy and the ticket as well.
 1T have no political record, said he. T hope never will be a politician. Mayor Phelan has been in office two
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init his right, by discovery, to have the land patented, giving him continuous right to secure private ownership in the precious substances discovered and worked Customs ana usages of mining in all civilized and progressive nations have given the miner tSe benefit or hls discovery and labor, aHd through this in centive the world has witnessed great hu- man struggles for the development Of material wealth. The miners labor. stimulated by hope, has opened the sides of the mountains and disclosed veins Of precious and useful ores, and poured the molten metals through the channels or the social and commercial world. His labor has explored the desert, and through his industry his cabin has given way to towns and cities The Yigor of the prospectOr. spurred by the sense of gain, has built schoolhouses and de- Veloped industries richer and grander than the yellow prize. Surely, fellow citizens, this one, at least, should be en- titled to the fruits of his labor and enter prise Yet not so at all, if we will give heed to MT Maguire's scheme of single tax, which the new Democracy has adopted. (Cheers).
 In the course of the same single-tax speech just referred to, in his attempt to defeat the Wilson bill, to relieve the money-lender from taxation and to inn pose the burden upon the farmer and landowner, he repudiates the miners right to the product of his labor; for, even as to him. MT. Mcguire invokes the single tax imposition. l read from page 2552 of the Congressional Record of Feb Tpary. T, 1894 The following is Mir Maguires language:
 The margin of production which Is now the share of the non-producer would go to the entire community for the gene ral benefit of all. This would be just, be- cause the margin of production results in all cases from the presence and enter prise and efforts of the whole community, except in so far as 1t represents the value of great natural deposits. such as coal. iron. gold, silver, copper lead. petroleum, quicksilver and the like, under the earth, and forests over the earth; and these de- pOsits and forests were prepared and stored by the Creator for the general, common use of all mankind It Is right that their value should be given to the whole people whenever private individu- als extract them from the earth"
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Julius Kahn Club.

The Julius Kahn Republican clubs of the Sixth, Seventh and Ninth precincts of the Thirtieth Assembly District met Wednesday evening at AIS Tehama street and elected the following named officers John T. McGibney, president; James Ma loney, vice president; Charles Johnson. second vice president; Emil Heydenrich, secretary; William Mayhood, financial secretary; J. J. Smith, sergeant-at-arrns executive eommittee-John Engstedt. F. s. Mead. J. c. Bruce, Charles Locke. John C. Mellon, J. Long, Sam Meyerdorfer, John Meyer, Stephen Cook. William Min ahan. Emil Heydenrich and J. T. McGfb- ney; campaign committee-N. Harvester, c. Brady, J. Nolte, O. Jahnsen. c. Brand Miller.
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was well aware at the time that he used this argument that MT. Spencer had in 1891, In his Data of Ethics" frankly ac- knowledged his early error in assuming that the private ownership in land is moi based upon natural ideas of Justice In the Data of Ethics" MT. Spencer uses the following forclble and comprehensive answer to the basic theory of the single taXers:
 Were the direct exercise of ownership to be resumed by the community without purchase the community would take (along with something which Is its own) an immensely greater amount of some thing which is not its own. Even if we ignore those multitudinous complications which, in the course of century after cen tury, have inextricably entangled men S claims, theoretically considered. even if We reduce the case to its simplest theo- retical form. we must admit that all which can be claimed for the community is the surface of the country in its orig final unsubdUed state. To all that value given to it by clearing, breaking up, pro- longed culture, fencing, draining, making roads, farm buildings, and so forth, con stituting nearly all Its value the conmu- nity has no claim. This value has been given either by personal labor or by labor paid for, or by ancestral labor or else the value given to 1t in such ways has been purchased by legltimateIy earned money All this value, artificially given vests in existing owners, and cannot without gigantic robbery, be taken from them
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or the prOspector who has suffered hum ger and thirst in his journey throughout the arid lands of the State, hesitate to which fosters his industry and Is pledged to conserve his vested rights, and the new Democracy, which, through its dis can, the private reward and property rights to which he is entitled by his brain, his muscle and his privations? For tunately for the people of this State, as well as of the United States, the old Democracy from which MT. Mcguire with drew in 1887 was again in power in 1894 and as MT. Maguire's new Democracy contained only six members. his single tax amendment to the Wilson bill was overwhelmingly defeated. But the leader with his plan of divesting the people of their private rights in and to landed prop erty. MT Mcguire rendered more faith ful and efficient services for the single tax, which have commended him to his party
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UNJUST DISCRIMINATION.

Gentlemen, that these plain principles are consonant with justice may be seen from practical illustrations. An instance may be given. A poor man has gone into an un- settled part of the State and secured, through the beneflcence of the Govern which could not be sold in the market for the Government price of g 50 per acre. He has labored for years upon 1t Sand around 1t, cutting down trees, building a cottage and outhouses and constructing roads. He has earned for himself dur Ing years of practical isolation, an un-
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Pledged to support Lane.

At large meeting of the West of Cas- tro Street Improvement Club held on Wednesday evening the following reso- lution was unanimously adopted by a ris- ing vote:
 "Whereas, Franklin K Lane. now a candidate for the office of City and County Attorney, represented the prop erty-owners of this district in defense of their homes against the attacks of the Noe claimants; therefore. be it resolved that we, the members of this organiza- tion pledge to Mir Lane our united and energetic support in appreciation of his invaluable services to us"
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J. F. D. Curtis J. H. sain. J. A. Holland, Charles Holbrook John F Merrill. L. Scott. H. c. Dibble, E. P. Danforth. J. B. Steven son, Peter owens, H: E. Law; Horace Da- wis, ". C. Burnett. Lowell White. Silas A. White, Al M. Hauser, Ben T. Ehnemann, Claus Spreckels, J. B. Stetson, J. c. Chase, M. Friedman, P. P. Horn, Al KauffTn3an4' D. NJ. Burns. C. C. Burr, R. E. McGtl. II. M McGiH Thomas M. Cuff, Irvine Gra- ham, Eugene Fisher, Frank P: Topping, Walter Mead. W. T. Gorham, K Melrose. Henry Schultheis John W. Van Bergen, Ed A. Van Bergen, Henry Van Bergen. C. B. Wilzel, Charles Kaufmann, William Knight P. Crowley Dan Gorham, Henry Raymond, C. F. W. Voss, Dr. F. W. Lux, E. J. Att ridge, John c. Ringon. H. C. Kaiser, ". Fonda, '. J. Kydd, F. McDermott, J. S. Hart Henry Falck James Hamilton
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.' and the lot increases greatly ln xaIue; A purchaser comes along and offers nlIn 5000 for the land, in addition 10 the FdLue of his improvements. He wishes 10 sell but MT. Mcguire denies his prlVate oWHoo ership in the land. He tells him that S9o" of the price offered is an unearneQ mere ment and deprVes him Of 1t by the appII- cation of the single tax. In other Worus the human incentive of gain, Whlch sum ulates poor and rich alike, which con structs the mansion and horal cohseIEa- tory as we'll as the cottage ana the gar den, Is to be destroyed through the appH- cation of single tax upon land values. 1It
 neer of the forest, or the settler on the frontier who builds himself home amid wild beasts and savage human foes, who. for years makes his breast the barrier or civilization and raises a family to own ana till the land he fought and toiled Tor. al last beholds that sparse settlement Iasl transforming itself into a populous city Shall he be denied the ownership or ms land? Shall he be denied. through an in famous single tax, his right to the land, because of the claim that the rise Tn value Is an unearned inCrement-that value which his thrift and industry and Va!or earned? On the other side, behold, the application of Mir. Maguire's scheme for the arnelioration of mankind. A capltal- ist with q half million of dollars. acquired by inheritance, lends to his needy fellow men, In different amounts, large sums, at rates of interest varying from to Zf per cent per annum. and-haVing no real prop erty in the mmunity-absolutely escapes Mr Maguire and his party. A railroad having millions of dollars worth of rolling stock and merely having a right of way over the lands of others, extorting heavy passenger fares and heavy freights from its people, is, through MT Maguire's plan of a single tax to be wholly exempted. The wholesale merchant and monopollSt who "corners" the products of a com nunity with view to increase the prices of the products "cornered,' shall hold those products free from taxation during the matching of his scheme. The millions of dollars of coin and other personal prop erty. either lying Idle or changing hands, shall. through this scheme of MT. Ma guire's, be freed from the burden of con trbuting to the revenue of the State,
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 tional principles, maintains as a basic proposition that the advancement of the American people and the perpetuatfon Of their liberties depend upon the retention of the present system of representative government, with its grand system of checks and balances, alike protecting minorities from the passions of majori- ties, and preserving the rights of the whole people from the encroachments of minorities. Our party now stands. as It has always stood, for the maintenance of liberty of the people, It's great rival, the old-time Democratic party, which revered the constitution, stood at least for law and order, notwithstanding its erroneous statesmen, loyal to the country: but that Democratic party of the past is either dead or sleeping. (Applausel.
 whether Federal powers should be strict ly construed, and whether the tariff should be for revenue or protection, are of that brave and brilliant antagonist there now appears against us a coalition of three parties, fused and confused, as serting in one platform the doctrine of States rights in another the annihilation of all rights, both of States and individu- als. change in the constitution, both State and Federal. is demanded. New and various governmental theories are offered to the people-the initiative and referendum of socialism, the single tax of Henry George, the Government owner ship and management of railroads, tele- graphs, telephones and all public utilities, the Government operation of railroads as public highways for all competitors, the removal of all tariff on imports, and substitution of direct taxes upon the peo- pie of the States for the support of the Federal Government the standardization of land, the governmental distribution of silver and paper money, eheapened by the sovereign fiat, the abolition of the judicial writ of injunction, the election of Presi- dent Vice President and United States Senators by direct vote of the people; and finally the denial of all individual rights by Populism and the repudiation of all Federal rights by the fusion De- TnOcrpcV
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CONSTITUTION MUST STAND.

An ingenious leader, pliant to all these revolutionary demands, endeavors to
 elaborate from them homogeneous sys- tenn of government. But, fellow-citizens, when viewed from rational position, do not these demands signify that the prin- ciples of the fusion party have declared our American representative Government a failure, and that they will build up for
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IT elEEI NNt1NE T r
 ing the Govern ment's right to tax personal property one might have eX- pected that he would concede the right of the miner on public mineral land to the ore and metal extracted from the land, or that he would ad-
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party success. The battle of i d e a s |, which is prophetic of future political action, makes this a time of great con- cern, in which local prejudices S h O u l q
 yield to calm delib- eration. The Repub- lican party, again rea GSpr+inD itG na-
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lars. in a remote and sparsely populated place, and ereCtS thereon a dwelling. For years he daily travels afoot a long distance between the place of work and fo Wn. The city grows. 4 street rail- n-a,- ma ssaS his door.
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the new DemOcraCy for which he has been commended by his party, and those are some of the views of him who promises to assist our State mining property rights. Will he who has toled
 and perspired in the depthS of the earth.
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Young Mems Republican Leaeus

The executive committee of the Young Mems Republican League met Wednesday evening at PAP O'Farrel street, A cam paign committee was elected to make in- dorsements for the league. The commit tee consists of the following named mem bers: F. K. Spencer, A. M. Currie and J. l.. IouniDus. The secretary reported that In all the clubs that have associated tai of 5000 members, all pledged to vote for the nominees of the league.
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philosopher, an error committed by Spencer in 1850, when he was young and inexperi- enced, and long before the maturity of his g r 2 a [ sociological works. I am satisfied, from the rumors of MT. Maguire's exten- siye reading of politi- cal economy and kind red cIth1no4g 4L.
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THE ISSUE MADE PLAIN.

Gentlemen: This is one of the faith aul and efficient services. of the leader of
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SINGLE TAX AND MINING.

Notwithstanding this remarkable effer- vescence of socialism by MT. Mcguire just quoted, denying all private property
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THE FATE OF THE LABORER.

Still another instance: A poor laborer in the city buys from his earnings lot
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THE GOVERNMENT ON TRIAL.

Gentlemen: The real underlying issue presented to the people means more than
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Read Explorer von Brenner's ac- count of his interview with canni- bal chief in next Sundays Call.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-11-25

The following call for a meeting Of
the Cotton Growers Union Of Missis.
ppi Inns been issued by Nice-President
w, q. George:
iii accordance with a request Of Presi-
dent Maxwell Of the Cotton Growers.
Union, ameering Of the union for the State
Of Mississippi is hereby called at Vic6shurg
OF Thursday Dec. J, 1898, for the purpose
Of perfootihg M organization. An agri-
culturists associations, mayors Of towns
and cities and presidents OF boards of SUI
porvisors are requested to appoint dele.
gates. and all who feel an interest in the
cotton growers are invited to attend and
take part in the deliberations. As the con
Veutiou viii be held during the Vicksburg
fair # is thought that a reduction in fare
will DO obtained from all the railroads. g
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-11-25

According to the official figures, the
revenue agent has collected and paid
into the State treasury since the year
1880 the sum Of ]2l0+04l.9O, this being
collected from levee boards, county
t]reasurers, sherifs and other sources,
In addition to this the revenue agent
now has suits pending involving an
amount of over $1,000, 900. These col
lections are made without COST to the
State and are either voluntary pay
ments of money admitted to be due, or
are payments made ia obedience to the
judgments Of the courts. The revenue
agent retains a commission, fixed by
law, on what he collects, and receives
no other compensation.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-11-25
MIssIssIPPI NATTERs.


The auditurs Office has seut out 20 the
counties interested the vouchers Tor the
semi annual distribution OF The Chjclla-
saw school fund These vouchers are
sent 20 the ebaneery clerk III each eDun-
ty and when signed and returned the
auditor will issue his warrant for the
amounts. There are tweuty-three coun-
ties 20 the ghlcBasBw district which are
the only b~enefciaries Of this fund The
Chickasaw school fund is based upon
the sales Of the C~hickasaw school lands.
The State sells the lands, uses the
money and pays interest on the fund TO
the counties Interested in the school
fund As the sales Of lands increase
each year and the fund grows, the in
tcrest Increases. The distribution is
based upon the acreage Of Chiclasaw
school lands ia each county. Following
are the counties aud the amounts al
lowed each on the present distribution:
AlcUrn, 81, O52. 70; Benton, 81, lOa.s1f Cali
houn. El, a45.43i Chickasaw. Sl.8a4.sO;
Clay. 5000. SO. Desoto, 81, 201.OI; La
fayettc, st,s2l,70; Lee, sl,2l3.6l; Mar
shah ST sos. 7s:M Monroe, 81. ol3.l1;Panola,
Sl.I9E15 Pontotoe, sl,350.50; Prertiss,
Sl.i2s.7I Quitman, Sg2Qtl7 Talla-
hatchie, $3.50; Tate, si,lO5.g9: Tippah,
El,23L39; Tishomingo, st,1s7.S 80; IUpica,
sl,l7G.l4; Union, sl,l32.59i Webster,
sl49.I3i YaIobusha, S73S.40.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-11-25

al would like 10 see THE ARENA IN every
home. WILLIAM j. BRYAN.
september 90, 1897"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-11-25

spIclnEa cory AsO PROSPECTUS FR1E
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-11-25

State superintendent of Education
Whitfield states that those teachers
who were not able to be examined in
The counties in which they expect to
teoch on account Of quarantine rcstric-
tions can send their license, examtna-
ton papers and $3.50 to the department,
and the transfer will be made by the
State board of examiners.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-11-25

pu6Tsaod Noalhy, Is ca re- AaaaH, SIS
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-11-25
Vote on the Constitutional Amendment.

Vote on the constitutional Amendment.
The full returns from the vote on the
constitutional amendment show that
1t carried the State by 9,t95 majority,
The yeas We're 1856 and nays 1891.
sharkey county was the only county IN
the state which gave a unanimous vote
for it. There was not a single nay vote
cast In Sharlkey.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-11-25
New Edocatlonal Organization.

Prof. II. j.. Wilson Of Wesson has
issued q call for the organization Of a
principals association, members to
be in charge Of high schools below
jackson, on the Illinois Central rail
road. The call is for a meetiuga at Yves
son on the 25th and Goth instant The
association is not intended to conflict
with the State organization which will
meet at jackson the latter part Of De-
gember.
Evening star., 1898-12-14

torial staff of the Washington Post. has re-
signed from that paper to accept the man
aging editorship of the Evening Register of
New Haven, Conn. Mr.. Page is a Wash
ington boy, who has only been in the news
paper business about four years. He is
now in complete charge of the New Haven
Evening star., 1898-12-14
Charles Doves Death.

Coroner Carr has decided that it would
be unnecessary for am to hold an inquest
in the case Of Charles -. Dove, who was
found dead in bed at No. 713 o street late
yesterday afternoon. The gas burner in the
room was turned on full at the time the
Evening star., 1898-12-14
Maria O'Leary's Will.

John F. Green is named executor in the
will of the late Maria OLeary, dated The
18th of last March. and filed yester-
day for probate. To Margaret Driscoll