The San Francisco call., 1898-10-11
THE MaGUIRE OF RECORD.

has made himself. Mcguire IS very anxious to create a record for MT. Gage that MT. Gage has not made for himself He strives to falsely create for Gage
 railroad" record when the real record of MT. Gage is entirely different. His law practice has been against the railroad not for 1t. He stood with the people for San Pedro against Santa Monica, ana his whole record is that railroad should attend to its legitimate business in lawful and just way.
 It is one of the amusements of the campaign that Mcguire while running awayfromh own nrecord,tries to invest Gage with record that does not belong to him Nothing IS more significant than Magure's silence on land conhscation His record on that sub feet is long and prominent He has insisted that the landowners are privileged class and that their privilege must be taken from them and their invest ment in land destroyed. This IS his own language and he says that while it will be hardship to the landowner it will not be unjust.
 At the close of the last Presidential campaign he printed in the Examiner of November G. I8oo, the following letter:
 THE NEXT GREAT ISSUE.
 ''It may be that another great national campaign must be devoted to restoring the liberty of the people to use gold and silver freely and without limit as money If so, the land question may be thereby further postponed but it is coming and it is at hand Few, even of those who believe in it, realize how thoroughly and how generally the single tax
 
 singletaxers demand that practical effort be com menced immediately to force the issue into politics in California.
 "The Legislature will be asked at its next ses- sion to submit to the voters a constitutional amendment remitting the whole question of taxa tion for State county and municipal purposes to the Legislature as first step toward the single tax. The moment that amendment Is submitted the battle will be on in earnest.
 Educational work will be commenced at once, and all who are willing take part in the distribution ot
 literature in their several neghborhoods are requested to communicate with James D. Reynolds Esq, 4o5 Montgomery street in this city.
 "The land question is the greatest and the simplest of all possible political issues. It touches and materi ally affects the interests of every human being from the richest landlord to the most miserable tramp
 Every human being has a natural relation to the and the common heritage of all mankind from the
 immediate gift of the Creator, which no human law can or ever could rightfuy cut off by any form or system of land tenure (title).
 God intended that every man, woman and child, in all ages and generations, should have to the land which He has freely and abundanty supplied for their support The curse of undeserved poverty in the world to-day is directly traceabe the perverson of Gods bounty by the monopoly of land, and the modern spirit of altrusm demands that it shall cease
 "Landlordism has never added the value of farth- ing to the wealth. nor joy to the worlds stock of happiness It is sordd, extortionate system which compels the masses of Gods children to pay tribute to few for the privilege of inhabting Gods earth. Ii cannot be justified any moral ground, and it must ultimately fall and perish before the advancing forces of social evolution which carrying civilization to higher and higher levels.
 "The single is the scientific and effective remedy for land monopoly It should be studied immediately md hve mar md vh keep abreast of truth. JAMES G. MAGUIRE"
 There is the same vitriolc denunciaton of the land owner that runs through all his speeches and letters
 It will be observed that he gave notice of the stitutional amendment No. g. which, when submitted was to bring the battle in earnest. That amend ment was asked of the Legislature at its session fol- lowing this letter It is before the people. It will have the vote of every land confscator in the State, as will Mcguire. Its submission the people concurrent with his candidacy and yet he says land confscation is not an issue!
 In 1896 he denied that any law can give man ten ure or title to land Therefore the present land owners, according to Mcguire do not the land they have paid for and have titled and made fertile and beautiful by their to It belongs to 'the chil- dren of God" says this fanatic, who takes to himself the office of telling mankind what the Divine purpose
 The landowner who has earned the money as a mechanic laborer to invest in real estate is to have his investment destroyed because Mcguire de nounces him as "sordd extortionist."
 We object, in the interest of fair play and decency to the sinister and evasive and indirect method by which Mcguire and the land confscators forward ing their schemes. They amendment No. ? through the Legislature of I8o7 get submitted to the popular vote, refuse discuss and declare it not in issue; while they know that it planned by them years ago. and that under they expect to destroy land titles and investments in this State
 They know too, that small minority of the voters may adopt this amendment. The constitution only requires that majority of those who vote on an amendment shall adopt reject it. If there are TO- GOO land conhscators in the State they will lie low and vote for amendment No. 2, while the land owners, deceived by Maguire's deliberate misstate- ment that this question is not issue may omit to vote against it. If Is,ooo vote the amendment and only 10000 are for it, it is adopted and under it Macr1re can carry out all his land con6scat;o,,