The record-union., 1898-10-20
THE SINGLE TAX.

folloWS:
THE SINGLE TAX.
Just imagine for moment tnaI VIZ
had such a condition Of things as MI
Mcguire thinks should exist. NO MAI
owns a foot of land. II he is III pos
session of it, it is lakeland taxed d.
what? Taxed at the annual renld
value of the land, so that man can
not afford to hold it. 1t is just eA'
actly as though you had a bona ina
carried 3 per cent. interest, ana the
tax on the bond was equal to the IN
terest on the bond, and you get noth'
ing for your money, and 1t becomes al
absolutely dead investment-and lha'
is the principle of the single tax. NO"
why do they do it?
Because they say that no man mas
any title to land whatever. If he owns
a piece of land, and it increases IL
value. the increase in value belongs
to the people, and not to him. II he
has a margin Of probationary, tha'
which a man realizes from agricult-
ural pursuitS-over the cost OF plant
ing and the culture of the crop; anc
if it costs him to live and to sow his
crop $500, and the crop is worth
thousand dollars when it is reaped, thai
does not belong to him. He IS en-
titled to have what he ate; he is en-
titled to what it cost to put it in; Du'
the profit on it belongs to the Whole
people. That is another doctrine.
No man shall have a mine. If he
finds one and works it, and develops it
and builds up a city or a town about
it, enriches the neighborhood and him
self-that does not belong to him, but
it belongs to the crowd of fellows who
constitute the great public and whc
never do a days work. (Applause.,
You may follow it all the way through
the maddest ideas that have ever
been developed for a pretense Of hui
man government.
AS TO ANARCHISTS.
I shall not waste time in discussing
his expressions in Congress on the sub
ject of anarchy. do not say the Dem
ocratic party is a party of anarchists
BY no means, though my friend, the
Examiner" says I did say so.
never did say it. But what did say
is this, and nobody can deny it: Has
Mr.. Mcguire denied that, in his seat
in Congress, in January a year ago
he arose in mis- place, and, when a bill
was before the House providing fol
the exclusion of undesirable persons
from America, declared that it ought
not to excludes the nihilists and anarch-
lists of Europe; that their coming here
was not undesirable; that they were
gentlemen, many Of them holding uni
versity degrees, and that they were
the democracy of Europe?
Does he say he did not say that? He
cannot, because it is in the "Congres-
sional Record" I shall not stop TO read
it. That is what he did say. Has he
offered to explain 1t? No. Has he
made any allusion to it? No. Does
not he know that If such statement
as that went abroad to the world as
being the language of the Governor OF
California it would do this State more
harm than ten years of drought would
do it? (Applause) 1t would keep mora
capital away, keep more Yeople from
coming here, than could be counted
How much would 1t do to hinder the
development of this State that needs
so much development, with its 5000
600 acres of arabic land?-plenty oi
land for Mcguire and all his friends
VINO NdUl 10 81 " NA<Ao5A =
MAGUIRE AS A DODGER.
And l shall begin TO think there Is
something in the single tax when MIR
Mcguire and the crowd that goes about
with him in San Francisco get dowr
on any piece of land under Gods faii
sunshine, and go to work earning ar
honest living! (Applause)
None of those things does he pretend
TO deny, but he talks all the time about
the railroad, and the railroad. We can
not pin him to any one Of the PROPOSE
tions upon which we will oppose him
not as an individual, for he has the
same right to his opinions on these
subjects as any man has in the Stockton
Asylum QaughteD who wraps shee1
around himself and walks up and dowr
in the yard, among the other crazy
people. and imagines he is Julius
Caesar or the Savior of the world
They are his opinions, and he has :
perfect right to entertain them; but
we do not want a man Governor Of this
State that entertains such views. That
IS the proposition. Tremendous ap'
plause)
But why doesn't he discuss them? He
has said over and over again, in Con
xyress. especially in his great speech
mis- kindergarten" speech-on the sin
gle tax. when he moved to strike ou
Mr.. McMillan's income tax proposition
and substitute for it the levy of a ta2
of thirty-one millions of dollars, to bt
levied. in proportion TO the States pop
1latfon. upon all the lands in the I'm
ton. and upon nothing else; transferring
the tax from the income of the rich
from the income of the railroads. from
the income of the luxurious classes o.
this country, to those who struggle t
get a farm and raise something on it
He has done all that. Why does he no
now-if that is the panacea for every
ill-why doesn't he have the courage t
get up and say so?
He tried ii down in Delaware. H'
spent all last winter nearly, spending
Uncle Sans money, given him for hi!
salary and for doing his work in Con
gress, in roaming up and down th'
State of Delaware preaching the doc
trines Of Henry George and the singl'
tax. The proposition came TO vot'
in Delaware-that little State-and tn
vote was SO, 900 to 900 odd. And that Il
about the way he will come out here