The San Francisco call., 1898-10-09
MAGUIRE ON THE MINERS.

N bis sneech at the Woodward Pavilion Mr. Gage
 1 read from Maguire's speech in Congress the ex- tension of his land conhscation theory to the mines The Judge regards the prospector who hndS q ledge or locates placer as a monopost who Is taking from Gods children that which IS intended for the good of all This cant, indulged in by Judge Ma o7ire and the defender of his defense of anarchy, MT. Prebe is one of the conspicuous features ot the cam Daipn against law and order and the rights of prop erty which the Judge has carried on for years
 His present speeches for the masses against the classes are in line with the opinions he has heretofore uttered against property and its owners. To him every successful man is in a class. Having quit labor himself in early life and begun holding otlce and drawing salary when he began to vote, Il not
 couple of years before, and having never lived since that time except upon salary as an ottlce-holder ms accumulations bridging him between othces Maguire has but little knowledge of the practical eX periences of life.
 He has made LID his mind that it is good politics to conclude that every successful man has succeeded at the expense of some one who has failed He does not consider the element of personal character as factor in failure or success. To him the successful man is q rich man" and the enemy of the poor" He sees only the failures in the social state and not the successes which vndicate the social order lie has succeeded in becoming the candidate ot failures It is not employing invective at all to say that he shows a venemous temper against such property owners as he believes be in the minority and there fore helpless against the majority, which he urges to despol them. The landowner and the mine-owner are the special objects of his and vengeance They are in his mind and mouth the enemies ot God as he characterized them n his letter to McGlynn They have no property rights their lands and mines which Mcguire feels bound respect Using his own language they are "monopolists, cunning robbers daeD Oi1ed +hR yveak nd what they call their own their lands and mines, must under his policy, be taken away from them.
 Ii is true he says that his land and mines cOnfisca ton theory IS not in issue in this campaign But not long ago. he said that when amendment IS pro- posed to give the people of each county the right to put all taxes on land and so confscate 1t "the fight will be on in earnest.
 We'll that fight IS on, for that is the purpose Of amendment No. to the State constitution, which his single tax junta lobbied through the last Legislature That amendment and his candidacy put land conhsca- ton in issue. Suppose that Judge Mcguire had said in print and speech, in addresses to the Delaware Legislature and in Congress: If an amendment to the constitution of California gives the Governor the power to hang every landowner and mine owner and give his property equally to Gods chil- dren and I am ever elected Governor, the fight will be on in earnest" and then when he became can ddate with such amendment pending, would any landowner or miner believe him if he said that matter was not in issue? Would any landowner in California risk hanging by permitting Maguires election? No matter how much he might protest that hanging them not an issue, they would not trust him.
 Is he any the more worthy of belief when, after ad- vocating the confscaton of lands and mines for years and having foretold what would bring on the fight against that form of property and the precise situation is upon us, he says 1t is not in issue?
 All that a man hath he will give for his life and his life depends upon what sustans it. The despolng of property-owners is in issue in Maguires candidacy, and if this forgotten the State may suffer the most serious misfortune that befall commonwealth.