The San Francisco call., 1898-10-13

out with a smallpox of "Aphorisms by Ma
 1 o11ire" These aphorisrns relate to equal rights special privileges. etc. and are mainly extracted from his speeches in favor Of land confscation-
 His diatribes against landowners arcNusually in troduced by references to the rights of Gods chil dren" and denunciations of monopoly. The fusion papers print these texts or introductions, but
 fully refrain from exposing anything that follows in the sermon for they would find Mcguire denouncng their country subscribers the rural landowners as cunning robbers, who have despoied the weak and undesgning' as "sordid extortionists' who make
 Gods children pay tribute them for the privilege of inhabiting Gods earth, and as wrongdoers whose investment in land must be destroyed. who may complain that to destroy 1t IS hardship and so t will be- but 1t will be just
 The Placer Herald in its last issue quotes this aphorism: Give to all citizens equal rights in al that constitutes the country and dsaecon, the germ of dissolution, can live within our country You cannot conceive of a time when, under such recognition of equal rights, sedition could be to- nented or organized.-Hon James c. Mcguire, speech on Free Homesteads, House of Representa- tves, March 10, I898.'
 If the Herald will print all of that speech on Free Homesteads7 1t will find it to be declaration of war against landowners whose lands, 1t declares must be taken from them 10 be given free homesteads to Gods children In that speech Mcguire said:
 Equity does not permit property in land; for if one portion of the earth's surface may become fully the possession of an individual and may be held by him for his sole use and benefit, as thing to which he has exclusive right, then all portions of the earth's surface may be so held and our planet may thus lapse into private hands. Whether 1t may be altogether expedient to aon1lt claims of certain standing is not to the point. We have nothing to do with considerations or conventional privilege or legislative convenience We have simply to inquire what is the verdict of pure equity in this matter. And this verdict en- joins protest against every existing pretenslon to individual ownership of the soil and dlctates the assertion that the right of mankind to the earth at large is still valid all deeds, customs and laws notwithstanding. Not only have present land titles an indefensible origin but 1t is impossible to discover any mode by which land can become private property. The world is Gods bequest to mankind. All men are joint heirs 10 It. 1ou are among the number, and because you have taken up residence upon certain part of it. subdued, cultivated and beautided that part-improVed 1S as you say-you are not therefore warranted in appropriating it as your private property. At least, if you do so, you may at any moment be justly expelled by the lawful owner, society"
 There is the sermon preached by Mcguire in his Speech on Free Homesteads House of Representa- lives March 10. 1898" from which the Placer Her aid prints and parades its text We invite the Herald to print all and see how the landowners who have improved and beautifed the Gateway County from Rockn to Cisco like 1t They will all declare that the Government sold the land to them or their grantors that they paid their money for it and 1t is theirs h the same speech Mcguire answers them He says: How can this be done since we have sold the land? Why We sold 1t subject to the unlimited right of taxation reserved by the Federal and State Government. Exercise that right by concentrating all taxes on land values, and the only incentive men now have 10 own land will be instantly taken away.
 So the landowners of Rocklin, Loomis, Penryn, Newcastle Auburn. Applegate and Colfax and the miners of Iowa Hill Forest Hill and Dutch Flat, to be robbed of their holdings instantly by the single tax.
 Will the Herald print the speech and see how they feel about this recipe for curing disaffectlon Chief Justice Marshall said, truly. that the power to tax the power to destroy" It has been used by tyrants in all ages Revolutions have been caused by destructive exercise of the taxing power Ma guire simply proposes to use the taxing power to destroy private ownership of land, to destroy in stantly every dollar invested in land.
 The Herald has taken up this issue by printing the text the aphorsm Of the speech It cannot decently avoid printing the speech
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