The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-25
THE MAGUIRE OF RECORD.

THE landowners OF California need to consider
we'll whether they want man tor Governor VINO
/ has shown such hatred and spite toward them
and has persstenty for years. charged them with re-
sponsibty for every crime that committed by men,
as has Mcguire If he has believed what he has said
on the subject of land confscaton and in abuse or
landowners he is their virulent enemy and believes
them to be the Of all the economic ills that beset
society. In November 1885, he made speech in this
city in which he used this language:
There is a greater evil than Chinese immigration
preying upon labor which the people must discover
and destroy The great evil which blasts and scourges
our social life which produces industrial depres
sions which robs the producing classes for the benefit
of the non-producer, which gives wealth to the idle
and brings the specter of poverty to the door OF IN
dustry, which within thirty years has locked up the
natural resources Of California and reduced her labor
ing classes to paupersm is other than the grim
1nonster-private ownership OF land. The iron hand
of land-ownershp must be away from the white
throat of Liberty or she perish forever from her
chosen land"
Here we have the landowner held up as:
''Worse than Chinese coolies
Blasting social life.
"Scourging our social life.
Producing industrial panics.
"Robbing the producing classes
Making the idle rich"
'Impovershng industry"
"Pauperizing the laborer."
"a grim monster"
Choking the white throat of Liberty"
1t is doubtful whether equally awful list OF crimes
and offenses was ever charged against any class be-
fore.
1t will be observed that like all of his denuncia
tons of landowners these serious charges are not
backed by any proofs. 1t is simply a. Mcguire say,
that the landowner is scourge, robber and mon
opolist!
If candidate for office had expressed himself Ill
terms of equal accusation and abuse OF mechanics they
would regard his elevation the Governorshlp with
Unsuitable APPREHENSION and would unite against him.
If Mcguire sincerely believes all these things OF the
landowner he owes to his conscience the duty OF
doing whatever Governors influence may do to de-
srov and-ownership II the landowner is than
the Chinese cooie opposition to Chinese immigration
is secondary matter and the landowner should be
suppressed first. If the landowner is blasting and
scourgng our social life bringing panics, robbing
the producer mpoverishng industry and pauperizing
the laborer as Mcguire says he is, then the land
owner is the most pernicious person in the COM
munty. and Mcguire will fail of his duty if he fail to
suppress him.
But worse than all this, Mcguire says the land
owner has an iron hand and that metallic member
foong around the white throat of Liberty and threat
ening to choke her! Surely, them it is time to ring
the tocsn and put stop to this. Mcguire is always
seeing Liberty in all kinds of scrapes In his book
ireland and the Pope" he had Liberty snake-bt by
the Pope whom he called the Serpent of the Vat-
can" Between being choked and snake-bitten
Mcguire puts Liberty in position where she is en-
titled to the protection of the police.