The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-24
PREBLE AGAIN TO THE RESCUE

IT is attribute of the people who want to confscate
| land and make of the of all other property
privileged class enjoying the protection of gov
eminent and paying Of its cost, to object to the
obvious conclusions and deductions from their theory
and its statement
In his first letter, defending Maguire's defense OF
anarchy Mr.. Preble quoted the Judges speech and
said: Every syllable of that speech must be in
dorsed by enlightened citizens who believe in the
great democratic principle of political equality and
freedom whose minds are not biased by race class
prejudice"
This is plain declaration that Magure's indorse-
ment of anarchists and nihilists declaration of
principles After defending the anarchists in several
ensuing sentences, Mr.. Preble returned to restate
ment of Maguire's principles, saying: what Judge
Mcguire stands for is broad minded liberalism free
dom of thought and action the reward of service and
abolition of privilege the highest ideals OF the
exalted human prerogatives-all that Paine and JEFF
ferson and Franklin and Lincoln and Henry George
stood for in the onward march of human progress.
Mr. Preble now denies that he is in sympathy with
anarchists If this be true he has changed since his
last letter and is not of the enlightened clti-
zens who must indorse every syllable OF Maguire's
anarchist speech He also denies that he intended to
say that Paine, Franklin, Jefefson and Lincoln
stood for what Mcguire advocated in that speech
Therefore in his letter published to-day he pulls
Maguite out of the exalted company of those sages,
or pulls them out of Magure's exalted company, he
does not state which.
He draws also distinction between "hunger-crazed
and poverty-crazed and says in using the latter he
meant mental poverty. Well, we will admit that
many are born that way under all institutional forms
Mr. Preble says it is caused by the denial by class
Of the right of the to the use OF the earth on
terms of equality and Justice This class the pri
vate landowners, to confscate whose property Mr..
Preble declares be his religion lust and holy, in
consonance with the laws OF God.
We invite the attention of landowners to this sec
ond letter of Mr.. Preble that they may find out what
style of abandoned wretches they
man works on the streets unskilled labor or in
the shops asia mechanic; he is prudent, temperate,
keeps his character upright and saves money. When
his savings have accumulated they represent his
stored I'D labor; his tastes lead him rural life and
instead of investing his money, the proceeds OF his
labor in personal property and business, he buys
piece of land and makes upon it his home. 1mme-
diately. according to Mr. Preble and Judge Mcguire,
he becomes "a monopost," "denier of the right of
the mass to the use of the earth OF equality
and Justice with land title 'of indefensble origin,
and "rnav at any moment be Justly expelled by the
lawful owner, society,"
He is told by Mcguire and Preble that he is the
cause of anarchy, of that poverty craze which makes
men commit murder to recover the rights he has
robbed them Of by investing his earnings in land.
Now Mr. Prebe declares that in these character
cations of the landowner he is hurting at this class the
thunder of Goods law" No fanatcisrn is dan
gerous as that which piousy asserts itself as
agency of the divine purpose Not many score of
years ago, in this country and Europe, old women
with moles on their chins or surplus hairs their
cLO
boards and sawn asunder or crushed between panks
for the crime of witchcraft When their judges and
executoners were reasoned with they replied, with
the shibboleth of Mcguire and Prcble and the land
conhscators that belief in witchcraft their
gion Mr. Preble says that millions of the brightest
inteecs believe with him and Mcguire that the land
owner is criminal against Gods law The witch
burner made the same answer, and truthfully, and
could point to that enlightened Judge, Sir Matthew
Hale and the brightest props of church and state in
Europe and America.
1t does not occur to these sechosen admins
traitors of Gods law that inequality of right to
cupy land as property destroyed in this country
when Mr.. Jefferson destroyed entail and primogeni-
ture; that may money and invest in
land and buy and sell because there Is entail by
which land may be monopolized. The transfer of
land ownership is the same in law and morals as the
transfer Of the ownership of personal property. The
laborer who saves money and buys land, and there
are more of that class in this country than elsewhere
in the world owns that which his labor has bought,
and is not criminal against Gods law, the cause
of mental poverty, nor monopoist and robber and
oppressor though he is accused of all these by Judge
Mcguire and Mr.. Prebe.
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South Omaha has enterprising Chief of Police
who believes in fighting when the purse be
split up to give him share. 1t is for this