The San Francisco call., 1898-11-01
MAoUIRE IND LAND conFIscaTIoN.

L 1 O-0NA- ~--N / ! advocate in the United States and Canada points to Maguires candidacy here as a battle for land conhscation. The Boston Herald, an organ of that policy, says: Monopoly on the part of the landowners who have held real estate for the un- earned increment has been of the heaviest bur dens the State of California has had to bear Judge Mcguire makes his professions of tax reform without qualification whatsoever and he hopes to have elected with him at the same time sufficient number ot Senators and Representatives to control the State Legislature and n this way make practical the re- forms he Is advocating
 This declaration, by one of his outside organs of what Mcguire is hoping to do, makes very necessary a constant examination of his intentions cop iously expressed in his speeches and writings. On December IS, 1897, he said in the National Single Taxer, No. 46 vol. 6:
 ''We propose to raise all public revenue on land vaues".
 -"We propose to exempt all personal property from taxaton' ;:
 We propose to abolish poll tax" : "We propose to exempt from license all business enterprises"
 I'VE PROPOSE TO DO AWAY WITH ALL VESTED RIGHTS AND TITLES AND OWN ERSHIP IN LAND AND RAISE THE PUBLIC REVENUE FROM LAND RENTAL"
 Of this rental value" which figures so largely in
 
 says: T think it necessary raise the rate of taxa ton high enough to take may be the whole of that value. Unless you go you will leave gin for the owners of the land
 II a man own land that yields him a profit of $Iooo year and above his living, that profit, which is the rental value IS per cent $2oooo and he may estimate that as the value of his land. But Henry George says in his speech in St. Lous published in the National Single Taxer of December I5 1897: As you increase the that land the selling value will diminish If you $Iooo per year the selling value will be gone. It would be worth nothing to own, but would be worth just as much to as be- fore That is to say the man who wants to use that land to-day would give thousand dollars for the of it under the present conditions, but the puts that in his pocket and will not sell the privilege of ap propriang that thousand dollars per year except for $2oooo. Now, if you are to take that thousand per year for the use of the community the selling value of the land would disappear the owner would get noth- ing the community would get the thousand dollars @ That is probably clear explanation ot the pro- cess of destroying landed property n the hands ot its owners as has been made.
 Judge Mcguire applies the conhscation to the. miner and the mines. In speech made in Congress January 3I, 1894 he said: "The great natural de- posits such coal, iron gold silver copper, lead, petroleum quicksilver and the like under the earth; and forests over the earth prepared and stored by the Creator for the general of all mankind. IT IS RIGHT THAT THEIR VALUE SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE WHOLE PEOPLE WHENEVER PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS FIX TRACT THEM FROM THE EARTH"
 We think there is no misunderstanding these utter ances Every landowner in the State and every miner can figure out for himself what will happen his property if Maguires influence to promote its confscation is increased by eectng him Governor.