Show CJIICiCO LETTElt r I I i j Tariff Iteform The Labor Issnc I Tile She Tax and National I iarhhe4 CHICAGO January 30th 1S90 I Special Correspondence of tho DES cItES NinvJ We have the live just at present Jour movementsof a polillcoeconomlc cliaraclcr arc In rctlvc progtefcs flnt < them art tariff reformers who ought morb properly be called tariff abolition ifUIunsmucli asliiat IhcshajM tar I IfTrufomi has taken of late The cry of reform now f Reform the tariff by its total abolition The propaganda I propa-ganda In tills Hue 13 active nggrcs I itvcanJ teemingly effective It Is I Ijtptctenl that the next national platform of tIle democratic party I will dcclaru u ne juH ocally for trade 1 free absolutely free evjn to the I abolition of tuitT custom liotttta I i Votkln3mcfa in jjneral bigln to I think that ixrrhips the tariff is not the bread and butter go pel of labor In the United Slate Persons who were rabid protcttlonUts n year ago I will nowttand to hear free tfculb speeches The second movement next in impoitance to tho tariff ono It the labor Issue Tnwjs and labor organizations I organi-zations are not Idle at pitsent lIvery means is adopted to organize efficiently and effectively all I tranches labor so as to bo pre plTCl for Urn demand of an tight hour day on Jiay J IS9Jthlt Is In n COW mutllB liclfcfc Labor going go-ing to make its boldest l effort to attain at-tain Its object r cxt Sumnlcr The leaders do not project a general strike in case of a refusal of the eight hour day as on former occasion j but they will ilcfhjuate n few trades to snake tho demand and then the whole labor tarty will support theo trades which will be tho men In tho gap Thu fupport will be given by means of pecunlary help and a mild system of boycott of all products ana materials used In tho strike trades ThIs means a great deal If labor bits > ell organized as it claims to be lzfth rg movement designates itself the singletaxparty Henry George is its apostltv It Is simply a I tax ou land forallpurposes Though t I aggressive SU pushing its doc trines earnestly among the masses I I yet It seems there Ii little cbancu oC 1U achieving anything Of course there is great iii < calii ictlon with real cstat people who buy city prop I I erty and hold it idle fora boom to realizo handsomely Real estate Is I conitanUy Increasing and sharps I buy lots then wont build but hold Ion ton t-on a year or two for profits and then I selt again to ghnrpa The tax on land fi 1s klni laverysneall I The I singletax men propose to tax unim j proved city property on the Mme I basis as the land adjoining which has immense bUIld pgs on The I worklngmen look upon tills move elect with favor because it would compel gpccufators aud monopolists to build or quit the Justness Jiore uulIJings of course mean cheaper homes cheaper tenements and less tales factors by no means Ignored 6mallIudutrlalUtsanii ware workers The fourth movement Is known tho Nationalist party It Is simply a proposition to establish State socialism on tha Bellamy plan A I man named Bellamy wrote a work of tho Imagination entitled Look leg Backward and thls book Is made the pUtfonu of Uio Ktale socIalists Hero K n paragraph which will ghcan idea of the book mentioned mnh looking Backward Mr Bella I bins t my devrrilxxj a twcntynrst ceo tory Coop Uo HM carried out the Idea of state socialism to what hs be Uered to be Iu lostoal conclusion and has reorKaDtzed aIl tho nations of the world on this plan There are not no-t employers t employed cap IU1UU and wageworker masters mid I slaves In their place one prand In dustrial army for each ruUonln which j > Tell ablebodied man and woman between ha oc nt anti 40 is en listed Those nnder 21 are pebool chews over 45 arooollio retired list all others are laBoren 1n their chosen I orappolnted fields Money and wares i bavo been abolUbedbat every human being men woman and children the I ablebodied thuJial nnd the nckU i allowed an annual credit estimated for convenience In dollars and cents I anfflciect to provide him with not oalr I tbo nwssarfes bttf also the comforts I r I and J luxuries of life Competition and j profits bade become obsololo terms I Civilization has been brought to a do I gree 80 high that there is almost com jplcte I social educational and mental t i equality Them Is no negro problem no race conflict In the south no pov I erty no wealth no debt no tarili no j taxes I I This is a platform that may da Sir the millennium but it will hardly I work under present circumstances j However there Is no harm In cult TIlting the Ideal in politic as well i as In art when tliat ideal looks upward I up-ward and onward Ihefa 2fo a number of smaller political 1 moveincuts all fending In reformatory direction The manual man-ual trainingof children ii I taking a jolltlcUaifpcct 111LU proposed by sonic to establish public I manual training school oLa supported by a syttem of Income null Bilateral tax fits Income tax system iiai a kind of toclalltllc I J look 11 proposes ProIW to tax on a graded plan Fifty thousand dollar men trill bu taxed mcderately but God help the millionaire I WoCtel IOIfI lionaire I ° hu Is I to bu faxed fifty per rent In addition there Ispropo vd a ryfcUra of legacy taxation such as Is Iu force in hnglaud and in a Wild way In New I ork and PenIs svlvaulo Money or properly bequeathed rJ queathed In a collateral way that is outof tho line of direct heirs ordcs cendantH to be taxed as high In tomo cases aa fifty per giJr On this plan It Is claimed tliat children canto can-to all made tkiiletl workmen read maintained at school until 21 years of ngo It Is good l perliai too good to lire Then there Is the Interminable I public school cjuestlofl The lu themns Catholics and Bapthta are In lie van on tha onslaught in the public schools The trouble Js bin public school Is handled by politicians poli-ticians and made kind of boodle vineyard by unscrupulous ward gerrymander who could hardly I tell now a 17 B eenator Is elected Teachers are appointed t by poll tlclansj the school books arc selected by politician Iho school boards are entirely composed of griming politicians poli-ticians Then comes that most infernal in-fernal of all foclal and economic agent tho politicopreacher That Is ono who l perpetually clamoring fur n paraUou of Church and State and yet In all bIn utcrancxs in the lIeU practical overk ho wnnta tbu tale to uo all the Church work Huvrauk the Sunday iiaiier tuiv ntl b th l iiKcscd he want Ilia Sabbath ob served he wants the public schools naturalised t oiyl yet Iru icaliI votes 3107000 a year io t coach German Ger-man In these schools lie talks about latrlotlsra and Amerlcanl Slid yet iliomiserable traitor would surilant the language of Jefler on Jackson and Abraham Lincoln of > 7 ilifiKtoD Franklin and Patrick Henry pf Webster Conkling and Sumner with that of Bismarck Rudolph and Herr Most Vei this class of man to get a paltry olllcc by means of a few votes among Gennnns wouU wield the crotrlm to destroy thin first stone laid In UO great political edifice by George Vnhln tan cud Ihomac Jefferson lie would murder the Declaration cf Independence by depriving it of its majestic and poetical poet-ical garb and cutaway Its kinship with the language of Burke and Jllltonof Hampdrn and Sydney of Shakespeare and Drydcn And it Is this cbS of menln Chicago who have established seven or eight denominational de-nominational systems of education In Utah That is they are lie men who helped to organie anti supped roUt of the missionary societies in Utah for this iiurpose These are I lie men who now ciarzor for a Federal j Fed-eral agency themselves to nm or ruin UlaU education Tliuy claim they are American yes degenerate I ones who by tlitir action In this city I have struck the first blow at Am erlcnrl Integrity when they want to supplant the fcnguaRb of iJyraouUi Hock and James River of LOrd Jtaltlmore and William 1enn with i I their KxvagS cuttnral The man j who would raise a hand it removes single cobweb in tho grand structure struc-ture built b he fi1lnt fnUel nC u urc L In I Ishment May the broad earth I deny such a man a home aye even a grave and may heaven deny him j Its God j ProtcctnuLi tied Catholics are still at war This war too hiss taken political Jrfo i Ikf Jfu itical color Morgan the Indlaii CommiMloncr 15 tile hiie nowThe I Catholic Church has taken active antagonism to his continuation by jtho United I States Senate The I tdC I Protestant Church or at least that part of It which called itself Protest I nut has espoused Morgan Tho poor Senator is In a 111 lIe fears the nod of that feeble old man in tho Vatican and yet he fears tbe home politicopreacher I pity poor Senator Purcell of Illinois The loor wretch hag a hard time between the Mother nnd her Harlots for they ray Home tho mother harlots and he cant get a single ClannaCJacl man Into cllce After Af-ter next year he stand a chance being returned from Uashinkton but ho can measure Cafllt by the bcudlV at home TheAVomensTctSpcrance Union has become tho most pronounced kind of a disunion The fact is them aro two Unions fighting vigorously The Presbyterians are In a muddle also They are trying to find out where their religion is I or whether they have any Africa and the Caucasus areat war The Pectin and tho Celt arc at It I again here The last flsiit resulted In the probablo death of an Irish politician politi-cian at tho handsofa Teuton polIceman police-man Then Chicago and Xew York are at war for the Worlds Fair Texas has an ablebodied fight on hand about the locallou of county seat i On the whole we have Ihclyl I i t time but It is only live nations tliat have live issuer Spain has none k Turkey has none Tiiey are nond j i Portugal showed signs of life but I John Bull shook his head at her I John Bull hlmiclf would die but for I I Ireland In Florida consumptivea I dont get time to die because the fleas keep them moving In Eng I I laud John Bull would fall Into n perpetual per-petual torpor if Pat did not keep punching him once in a while We have issues becauo we are a live I nation we bavo race fights because we have all races Wu have rellg ious troubles because w o are relig ious All will come right yet Nor monlsni has no connection with the mother orlier bnrlou > therefore they ought to give it fair play Mormon ism is American long lie Amer ica Juns |