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Show ADVOCATES OF SINCLE TAX. They Meet in Convention and Discuss Sum. erous .Means of personal Benelit. NkwYokk, Sept. 1. Special. Tho first national convention of the single tax advocates was called to order today at Cooper union. The gathering is a representative one, there being H00 delegates present, representing twenty-throo twenty-throo states. Henry (ieorge, who has just returned from his Australian tour, w as accorded an ovation, llis address, which was a brief one, was a defense of the single tax' theory, which he said was more generally accepted abroad, than in the United States. The single tax men claim that the knights ol labor and farmers' alliance are in pronounced sympathy with them. Over oue hundred thousand men, they say, are today actively engaged en-gaged in presenting to the public the single tax theory. The primary discussion discus-sion of the convention was on the best means to be adopted to bring about free trade. There were many visitors present, during the discussion who did not bo lieve in the single-tax theory, but who wanted to hear all that could be said in favor of it. |