The San Francisco call., 1898-10-06
THE MAGUIRE OF RECORD.

hardly wait for another campaign to begin bolting in and out of the party which had given him an otce and salary These bolts were not because the Dem ocracy had abandoned any principle which 1t heid when he took office under 1t, but because 1t would not abandon those principles and adopt his personal and anatcal ideas Finally, in 1886 he bolted, and joining Barry now Democratic candidate for Con press and Hinton, now Democratic candidate tor Railroad Commissioner and number of others who are now candidates or wanted to be, and are running the party they bolted then, he put up ticket m op- position to the regular Democratic ticket and led its fight One need not seek far for his purpose in this final bolt He sought to destroy the Democracy to make room for another party, which he intended to lead In 1887 the Henry George movement took on great proportions in New York. Father McGlynn had joined forces with George, and there the shadow of schism in the Catholic church. ot which McGlynn would be the leader. It was dream ot Henry George that this schism would detach large force from the church and attach 1t to his political fortunes and McGlynn would be the religious and he the civil chief of great movement, which would revolutionize American politics.
 The extremes to which McG1ynn went are not for gotten He assaed the Pope, and, when reminded of the obligations he had voluntarily assumed when he entered the priesthood, responded with the re- mark that he wanted to Pope who would take off his petticoats, plug hat and walk down Broadway like anybody elseP'
 Mcguire lost no time in getting into the McGlynn and George procession. As early as March 1887, he wrote McGynn the following letter:
 Dear Sir: I have often thought of writing to you to testify my unbounded admiration for the which you have been and still being subjected
 Though I have never had the privilege of meet, brotherhood by the ties of common devotion to the principles for which you are now be:ng perse- cuted and by that touch or nature "hich ls breathed forth In your puDllc writings. o.
 The nclosed clippings from , the Weekly KY, star ,o what my feelings and opinions are concerning your your pending controversy do not send the t Gip pings for their intrinsic value, but merely to snow the cause of humanity are appreciated, ana tnat your course is being watched with anectionate aa, your enemies are confined to those who the enc mics of mankind. Their enmty is, of course. lofty tribute to your character and strong recommenoa-
 Before closing must add my voice to the pro- tests against your going Rome to answer for ex- ercsing your sovereign rights of American citizen ship in favor of the Labor party in the late cam a better opportunity for teaching the world, incud- ing the Propaganda that American CaInocs aie @ uoe purpose of answering the charge of having advo- cated in favor of raising all public reve- nue from single tax on land values would. in my judgment, be a virtual abandonment of your Amerl- citizenship.
 For If the decision should be against your prin- cples and against your chosen party how could you submit to the decision and yet retain your citizen
 Submission to a trial involves submission to adverse decision of the question In controversy and would seem to be voluntary act of donation aiization if not legal act of -dsfranchsement teach natural rights of all his children in the and sustenance of all mankind, and that henceforth your duty 10 God and to fellow man lies in this take the other side in the struggle. your duty mains the same, and Is none the less plain. In the it. God will surely sustain you and soon enlight- ened elevated and prosperity crowned humanity
 Let me, then the automaton of tom. and not an idle and unmeaning act of po- liteness and compliment but in the earnestness of friend JAMES G. MAGUIRE.
 These were high-sounding words, Does Mcguire stand by them now? If the Propaganda opposed the confscaton of land, he impeached it of "perversity Ii the Pope held priest to his voluntary obligations, Catholics became his 'chattels."
 The writing of this letter was almost concurrent with his letter permanently withdrawing from the Democratic party because 1t would not adopt the single plan for conhscation of land, in which he made use of nearly the employed in his letter to McGlynn. A few months later he wrote and Barry published his book Ireland and the Pope" in which he said the Pope "a serpent, sinking his angs in the heart of the spirit of liberty
 This IS a country of perfect freedom and toeration If Mcguire sincerely believed in land confscation the extent indicated and expressed in his bolt of
 
 Has the Democratic party indorsed the single tax conhscation of land that he returns to 1t and again seeks office and salary its nominee and did he and McGlynn so the Propaganda of its "perversity' and the Pope of his desire to several millions of "chattels" in the United States to end the con troversy?
 Or IS Mcguire mere mouther of words who shrinks from the consequences and is ready to shift his position at any time for an office and salary?
 ( 4t.o H.. of I887 on what side is Mcguire now? If the Creator were against landowners then, what stronger demnation can there be of land-ownng sin? That was Maguire's notion at that time. What does he think of 1t now?
 In his speech to the Delaware Legislature he said that while single tax would destroy investments in land and be hardship on landowners, it would not be unjust. Does he still believe this?
 Under his scheme of land conhscaton investments