1895 
The Single Tax in Delaware. 
(CONTINUED.) 
leaves), and after a little while, I thought 
that I would try to introduce the system 
in our little city of New Castle, so far as 
raising our local revenues went. At that 
time, I was practically the only single 
taxer here. Well, 1 pegged at it, argued 
the point, showed the absurdity of our 
present system, and when our last Leg¬ 
islature met. introduced a bill to do what 
I desired. Then we canvassed (by this 
time it was we) the town for signatures 
to a petition in favor of the bill, and we 
got nearly 350 to sign, and the canvass¬ 
ing aroused such general discussion, that 
every day brought new converts, and by 
the time the bill came up, even its bit¬ 
terest opponents acknowledged that 
when it came to a vote in New Castle, 
we would have a large majority for the 
single tax. 
Our bill provided that the question 
should be finally submitted to our citizens 
before the law went into effect, and this 
proved our undoing. The bill was argued 
on before the committee in the legisla¬ 
ture, and such was the strength of the 
single tax arguments, that it received a 
favorable report by a 4 to 1 vote, although 
all had been opposed at first. Hut, when 
the bill came before the legislature, 
some one found out that away back in 
the '40s, the courts had declared local 
option unconstitutional, and as our bill 
was, in effect, local option in taxation, 
it failed on that account. The moral I 
would draw from this is that the single 
tax arguments are strong enough to con¬ 
vert a majority of the people when they 
are understood, and that the people, as 
a rule, have sense enough to understand 
them. 
I don’t wish you to think that, in tell¬ 
ing you this, I want the glory. Not at 
all ; I am not a good talker, or an able 
writer; but I kept tellingmy story,” 
believing that the right must prevail, 
and as far as the feeling of the people 
went, I was correct. 
In the campaign now started, we shall 
have the aid of the single taxers of the 
country. The best speakers will address 
our people, literature will be put into the 
hands of every voter, a red van will 
travel through the country districts 
carrying speakers, and no effort will be 
spared to make the people understand 
our system. No such work was done in 
New Castle, and if our success here is 
any criterion, why shouldn’t we do even 
better with the State as a whole ? 
HAROLD SUDELL. 
Another View of It. 
The following article, by Priscilla 
Leonard, is taken from The Outlook : 
“ The single tax propaganda in Dela¬ 
ware, will be watched with interest. It 
is a picturesque affair. The “single 
taxers” come down from Pennsylvania 
in bands each week to invade the 
Diamond State. Their uniform is unique 
—a cross between the Salvation Army 
and the brigand of the comic-opera 
chorus. It consists of an immense slouch 
hat, tan-colored leather leggings reach¬ 
ing to the knee, a tan-colored sachel 
slung from the shoulder and filled with 
tracts and newspapers for distribution, 
and a broad ribbon round the arm, with 
‘ Single Tax’ in large letters. 
“ Once arrived at a town, a band of 
orators scatter. Some speak on the street 
corners, some go to the public build¬ 
ings and parks and distribute their 
literature broadcast. Public meetings 
of any kind are forbidden in the parks, 
but the single tax orator pounces upon 
any group he finds upon the outskirts, 
and strives to gather a crowd to listen 
to his teachings. Other meetings are an¬ 
nounced in the streets, halls, etc. Head¬ 
quarters are established, if possible, at 
the home or shop of some disciple, and 
the work is kept up week by week, the 
apostles generally coming down on 
Saturdays and returning on Mondays. 
A weekly newspaper, “Justice,” is pub¬ 
lished in Philadelphia to chronicle their 
progress in Delaware. It claims that 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
6i i 
much interest has been aroused, but an¬ 
nounces few conversions as yet. Indeed, 
it is somewhat early for great results, as 
hardly six weeks of the campaign have 
yet elapsed. 
“ To the outside eye, so far, the move¬ 
ment is not popular. The single taxers 
have small audiences, and do not hold 
them. They have not even received the 
compliment of opposition, except in Mid¬ 
dletown, a small town in the interior of 
the State, where the people are accus¬ 
tomed to hold their market in the public 
square on Saturdays, and object to being 
interfered with by so useless a thing as 
a meeting. Elsewhere their presence 
has created neither comment nor inter¬ 
ference, and the newspapers do not even 
take the trouble to report their doings. 
‘The truth is that, although at first 
sight the conversion of so small a State 
may have seemed easy to the enthusiastic 
followers of Henry George, it was in 
reality the worst field they could have 
chosen. Delaware has a peculiarly 
homogeneous, native-born population 
even in her towns—a population slow- 
moving, moderate and thrifty—the true 
bourgeois element which every reformer 
dreads, with good reason. There are 
but a handful of outsiders and foreigners 
in the State, and these are all in Wil¬ 
mington, the only large city. In the 
rural districts, the farmers largely own 
their own land, and the probable recep¬ 
tion of single tax doctrines can be easily 
predicted when we remember the fact 
that the Delaware Legislature, a thor¬ 
oughly representative body, has long 
ago done away with all State taxes on 
land, and that the only State revenues 
at present are derived from the taxation 
of railroads and liquor saloons. To tax 
land, and land only, would violate every 
tradition and prejudice of the majority 
of Delawareans. It would seem, there¬ 
fore, that the new crusade is about as 
hopeless an effort as could well be 
undertaken, and that those who charac¬ 
terize the single tax doctrine as imprac¬ 
ticable and visionary, have an excellent 
text, in this new departure, for argument 
against the common sense of Henry 
George’s disciples.” 
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FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
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R. N.-Y.—We do not know the partic¬ 
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r Blood for Hens. —I saw some hens a 
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