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owner, to wit: society"
WOULD DESTROY HOME.

| that? man who contends for the
principle that the wife shall have no
| home, that the father shall have no
place to rest his head and caH his own!
What do you suppose would become OF
your liberty and mine and the liberty
of this country if you were to carry into
effect that horrible doctrine? It would
be the last of our liberty. cloud
cheers and applause.) 1t is that senti-
| rnent that makes men and women in
America ready to die for the protection
| Of that grand flag, because they have
a common interest in home here that
is theirs and that shall be respected by
every human being on earth. (Cheers)
| Now he says that is not an issue in this
| campaign. If his sentiments are dear
| TO him, and he declares they are, then
| he makes it an issue, for he says that
| this system of taxation, based upon
these principles which I have just an
nounced are the greatest, grandest and
| best that ever existed here on earth.
| Now let us see what he says on the
subject of mines and mining. 1 read
from page 334, part one, appendix to
the Congressional Record" second ses-
sion of the Fiftieth Congress, a speech
delivered by Mr.. Morgan, January u.
1894, and also of record at page 2,552
OF the Congressional Record of Feb
ruary IL, 1894. The following is Mr.
Maguire's language on the subject of
mining: 1.-THE margin of production,
which is now the share of the non
producer would go to the entire COM
munity for the general benefit of ALL
This would be just, because the margin
| Of &c IN oil from
the present enterprise and efforts of the
| whole community except in so far as it
represents the value Of great natural
deposits, such as coal, iron, gold, sill
yer, "copper" lead, petroleum, quick
| silver and the like under the earth
| These deposits were prepared and
stored by the Creator for the common
use of all mankind. It is right that
their value should be given to the
| whole people whenever private indi-
viduals extract them from the earth. -
There is comfort to the miner. When
ever you. by your industry, by your
energy, by the risk Of your life as you
go over the deserts, by the hardships
| which you endure when you climb the
mountains, have discovered mine, the
quartz that you should take therefrom
should not belong to you, but should
belong to the whole community, Of
which Mcguire is one drawing $500 a
month for his services applause and
cheers) and which $500 month, under
his beautiful system, would pay no
taxes whatever. Naughter)
WHAT 1T MEANS.
Now what is his doctrine Of "un
earned increment" Let US illustrate.
Suppose a tradesman in one of these
shops, a mechanic, should go out on
the outskirts Of this beautiful city, far
from railroad, where the land is
cheap, and buy a lot and pay 500 for
it. Daily for ten years he performs
his duties. He goes to and fro from
that home to his shop where he en-
cages in his trade and his wife econo-
mizes, the children economize, so that
| that property may in time become of
value, so that they may get some little
sum out Of it to enable them in GER
tain way to have sustenance and ulti-
mately rest from labor. Ten years
elapse. The city spreads and the car
line goes in the direction of his home,
buildings surround it, and the prop
erty becomes valuable-say worth
$1,000 A man comes along and says, ''I
will give you So 900 for that lot" The
owner is old; his hair is gray. His wife
says, Father, sell it. With that S3,-
OOO you may have an income, If put
out at interest, of $500 a year, which
will in measure alleviate your suffer-
ings. 1t will assist you to avoid the
terrible toll that you are now engaged
in," and the son joins in the same senti-
ment. They get ready to sell it for So
600. It has cost them $500. In comes
the beautiful and humane doctrine Of
Mcguire and says, you may sell it for
the $4,000 and out Of that you may
have the $500, and the S2,70O is an
'unearned increment and belongs to
the general crowd" applause and
laughter.) There is your doctrine of
unearned increment. A man who be-
lieves in such a vicious sentiment as
that would not dare, If he thought
about It, put his fingers in his ears for
fear the wheels going round there
would cut them off. Gaughter)
It is self-evident, and I will not oc-
cupy your time by further illustrations.
One Of the best things that have ever
heard upon that subject was what
heard over IN a mining camp the other
day. I was out there and I walked
toward a deep shaft-in Calaveras
CountY-and I heard some miners talk
ing over Mcguire and mines and land
titles and "unearned increment" And
one Of them spoke up and said: "Say,
Jack, do you know Mike Flynn, when
he came to work on the mines, what
happened to him? He told the boys
that he was a frst-class miner; that
If he only had one cint for every shot
he had fired under ground he would be
rich, and SO, you remember, they sent
him down on the seventh level to work
and sure he had never been in a mine
before in his life; and he wanted to
come out of the shaft, and he had seen
the boys who sent up quartz ring one
bell, and he didn't know that they they
should ring three bells to show that
there was man aboard, and then ring
one bell so as to caution them in their
movement; and he got into the bucket
and he gave one bell and sure the man
at the hoist turned on the steam and he
went flying through the air and
he broke his neck before he reached
the top" Uaughter.) Poor fellow"
he said, "and 1t is Jim Mcguire that
you are Dragging on is IT," he said to
his companion. why, you know how
1t is, I have been down in San Fran
cisco; sure I have been down south of
Market street and there they amt got
no mines down there, and Mcguire saws
let's take the mines away from them
fellows up in the mountains and they
all yell hurrah hurrah, hurrah!
(Laughter) And they amt cot no