The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-10-25

to prevent a nomination for any office
falling to the Peoples party that by the
carrying out OF a principle therein would
permit Peoples party incumbent to be
heard OF or from in the ensuing four
1t may be suggested that the nomination
OF Castle and Barlow (two of seven NOM
Inees Tor Representatives in Congress) Is
az az variance with the foregoing, but such
Is not the case. Their reelection would
only mean that they would be again in
GGluded IN what is popularity known as
1nomaS b. Reeds list of reconcentradoeS,
Without power under the rules of the
Rouse OF Representatives to carry or be
heard on any question except with the
consent of the Speaker, in which the en-
TIRE power of the House is at present vest
ed On the other hand If the Legislature
IS carried by the fusionists the Democrats
VIII be represented in the United States
senate for six years by a Democrat, who
Will nave the right under the written and
unWritten rules of the Senate to call up
measures Tor consideration and to advo-
cate or oppose any and all measures be-
Tore that body. So it will be seen that the
Peoples Party fusionists have practically
gwen up every office that would tend to
perpetuate the life of the Peoples Party.
The Democratic party is not a national
party in any sense at the present time.
Ihe democratic platforms of New York,
view Jersey, pennsylvania ana SOHIlecll-
cut do not mention the silver question.
yet the fusionists of the Peoples Party
or California and other States have allied
themselves with the party that in the
states mentioned is as much opposed to
them as the Republican party on that and
nearly every public question. Except for
fusion the Peoples Party would to-day
line of battle to the Republican party in
every State in the Union. 1t was there
fore necessary that the Peoples Party
T1 fr,-o - +1ar
end that the few crumbs Of official place
and emolument scattered from the table
of Republicanism by the haste and greed
of allied monopolies should fall to the
party be perpetuated in power by having
opposed to it from national standpoint
party whose strength is represented by
chain with broken and missing links.
In consonance with this end the Supreme
Court, in its decision validating fusion,
held that there could be no inquiry into
even where the delegates so betraying 1t
were under instructions to the contrary
from the source from which they received
their power to act as delegates. The de-
stroy the independent political existence
of the, Peoples Party, in this State.
cre the edo Th9m w sfa carrng
tralian ballot reform in the Assembly
have believed, and still believe. that the
theory and intent of the law was not only
courage the formation of political parties,
so that all political opinions might be ex-
pressed and protected on ballot printed
at public expense. That so long as any
number of persons were DESTROYS of vot-
in a party ticket as such they should
have the right so to do where such party
had polled 8 per cent, the percentage re-
quired, of the entire vote at the last pre-
cedfng election 1t would have taken only
five weeks from and after the decision OF
the court for the people to have, decided
hni "a II
had the necessary per cent. to entitle it
to remain in existence under the operation
of the law itself.
To show the party's complete annihila-
ton 1t is only necessary to suggest that
two years from now it will be impossible
In view Of fusion for any certificate to be
that the party as such polled per cent.
Of the vote at the preceding election The
court stated that that point would be de-
termined when properly an issue before
It. The rule that perjury consists of
swearing to that which one does not know
to be true, as well as that which one
certificates being filed in behalf of the
Peoples Party.
With the party manipulated and traded
and finally adjudged out of existence ex-
cept on a fusion basis, as heretofore ex-
planned, the question arises as to the duty
of the individual voters of the Peoples
Party. If they vote the fusion ticket they
will be voting with a party which when
in full national power did nothing for
postal telegraph system, nothing in the
line Of Governmental ownership and OPP
the currency-in fact, nothing in the line
Of Peoples Party principles. Reasoning
by analogy, if the Postoffice system Of
today were IN the hands OF private fore cor
so far as either the Democratic or Re-
publican parties are concerned. A vote
for fusion is vote for Democracy and the
complete extinction Of the principles Of
the Peoples Party; vote against fusion
will constitute a rebuke to the fusionists
who bargained away the life of the party
that sprang into existence in opposition
to the two old parties alike.
The candidacy Of Mr. Mcguire Is in d.
rect opposition to the fundamental prtn-
ciples Of the Peoples Party. In a speech
10. 1893. he said:
Socialists, Populists and charitymon-
he f people gT wa4 ev are apply a bark e
ing up the wrong tree. The upas OF our
civilization is our treatment Of land. 1t
march that T avso is ng bh rhe he
Is but one cure for business depression;
there is no other; that is the single tax
What Is the meaning of single tax as
It is a tax imposed solely on land values
to the exclusion. of all other taxes, not
only for local and State purposes, but for
evidenced by Maguire's motion to strike
out the income tax feature of the Wilson
bill and insert in lieu thereof the tax on
land values. Every single taxer is free
trader, and on principle opposed to any
tariff, license or any tax except on land
values Henry George, Of whom Mr.. Ma
guire is a disciple, supported Cleveland by
reason of the latter's opposition TO the
tariff Let us see what the single tax
would mean for this State: The report of
the State Board Of Equalization for 1894
the latest I have been able to obtain
shows that the total assessed value of real
estate in this State for the year 1894, after
deducting value of improvements, to be:
Country realty, 1891 $50 30; city and town
lots, s1Ss So, 597: total value of all realty,
less improvements, S470, 569, S07. From the
last named figures there would probably
be exempted from taxation under single
tax as that tax is amied at the equity
of ownership, the value of mortgages
thereon, amounting to S21S, ,16, leaving
actual value Of owners to be assessed,
$251, SIS, 101
The valuation Of all property in the
State for assessment purposes in the year
1894 was 81. 204. 976. 952, upon which the State
The amount collected therefrom, less costs
and delinouencies under the rate levied
of .493 was S., 81, 634 Taking the yalua-
ton Of that year on realty alone, after
deduction of the value Of improvements
and mortgages, the rate Of taxation re-
quired 10 produce the sum raised in taxes
of S., 511 ,634 would have been almost 81 10
instead OF s0493 on the 500 valuation.
Thus there would have been imposed more
than four times the burden on landown-
ers for State taxes on land as whole
proposition than they paid that year.
But that Is not all. The valuation Of