Show I GEORGE WAXES ELOQUENT I Strikes From thC Shoulder at State i and National Abuses j Xew York Oct Writing to a I GermanAmerican political club Henry j I George says i I do not believe in excise in any I I form The attempt to prevent people I 1 from drinking by taxes and excises upon j up-on liquor increases cots promotes 1 adulteration and defeats I think the I i i very end i has in view All such I t taxes are nromotive of monopoly and 1 corporations Besides what goes to the 1 government from them a much larger I amount is taken by private parties who I find a profit in th maintenance of the taxes As was the case with our whisky tax i is also with all taxes of 1 that nature The difficulty Is not to I institute them but to repeal them I j 1 censes and taxes have always instituted Insti-tuted and always must institute an element l ele-ment of corruption which is made to furnish mean by which political rings maintain themselves I am a free trader in the full sense j Of the term and put everything upon the basis of equal rights I think that the province of the government is to I prevent one Individual from interfering interfer-ing with the eaual rights of another As t the question of Sunday closing clos-ing I believe in Individual freedom I Those persons who wish to 0 to church on Sunday should not b interfered with in any way by a person who I wishes to sell or drink 3tquor on Sunday Sun-day The person who wishes to drink or sell liquor on Sunday should not be Interfered with br the person who wJshestagotanhutch i The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath The law should merely see to It that liquor sellIng sell-Ing is conducted in decency and In pr I der A mans conduct shouWbe governed gov-erned solely by his own conscience so long as he preserves the public peac I Speaking at a mass meeting at 1a j I jostle hat Henry George said For the republic now I care nothing noth-ing but i is to the republic that is I coming that I bow down to worship Not a republic of tramps and mil n i aires not a republic where one man has I the power of a czar not a republic where women faint and children chidren grow gw hungry not to this republic but to the I one which Is yet to come a republic of God a Christian republic In the true I sense of the word |