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Show SINCLE TAX CEORCE. 1 A ltlg Reception Tendered the YUlonary ! Labor Ayitator. Xkw York. Sept. 2 Two thousand ! people attended the reception last oven-! oven-! ing to Henry George at Cooper union. I Judge Maguire of Suu l'raueisio welcomed wel-comed (.Ieorgo, ami verses of welcome by Francis M. Milne of California were read. In response, among other utterances. Mr. George said : 'America is a great and beautiful laud, but she is not free. The Americans are not free to build and sail ships, not free from the dominion domin-ion of politician?, not free to buy and sell a peck of apples without a license." The speaker was not proud of this republic, but ho had hopes of it. Speaking of the dissatisfaction existing between capital and labor and the manner man-ner of curing it, Mr. (icurge said - "Labor "La-bor combinations won't do it; strikes, co-operation, sharing of profits, dealing out of cold victuals won't Holt, The only thing that will do it is Justice and , the carrying into effect of free iiade. Cheers. To give to every man that which belongs to him. What will give him this? Single tax." (Cheers. J |