The Public -- Editorials and Articles (1898)

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The Public: Editorials and Articles

1898

APRIL

Editors:
Decay of Cobdenism (23 April)

Editors:
Fighting for Property Interests in Cuba (16 April)

Editors:
Financing War with Bonds Sold to the Wealthy (23 April)

Editors:
Funding Public Transit Systems (23 April)

Editors:
Jerrard Winstanley's Views on Just Law (23 April)

Editors:
Justifications Offered for War with Spain (30 April)

Editors:
Progressive Victory in London (9 April)

Editors:
Property and Property Owners (16 April)

Editors:
Reactionary Party in Germany (30 April)

Editors:
Review of the book:
The Science of Political Economy, by Henry George (9 April)

Editors:
State of Free Trade in Britain (23 April)

Editors:
U.S. Citizens and Wealthy Spaniards Leaving Cuba (9 April)

Editors:
U.S. Congress Acts in Support of Cuban Independence (23 April)

Editors:
U.S. Declaration of War Against Spain (30 April)

Editors:
U.S. Imperialism Toward the Cuban People

Editors:
U.S. Preparing for War Against Spain (16 April)

Editors:
Vacant Lot Cultivation in Philadelphia (30 April)

Editors:
War Revenue Bill Being Proposed (30 April)

Editors:
War with Spain Over Cuba Inevitable (9 April)

***

Post, Louis F.:
Aims of the Public (9 April)

Williams, Charles:
Patriotism of Peace (16 April)

MAY

Editors:
A Remembrance of Edward Bellamy (28 May)

Editors:
A Remembrance of William Gladstone (28 May)

Editors:
After the War, What? (7 May)

Editors:
Amending the U.S. Constitution to Change the Beginning and Ending Dates of Terms in Office for the President and Vice President (21 May)

Editors:
Any Lawyer Should be Permitted to Submit a Brief on Issues of Law (28 May)

Editors:
Beginning of War in the Philippines (7 May)

Editors:
Could the War Have Been Avoided (14 May)

Editors:
Landlordism is a Root Cause of Riots in Spain and Italy (21 May)

Editors:
Looking Ahead to What Constitutes a Just Peace (21 May)

Editors:
Louisiana Legislature Disenfranchises Negroes (28 May)

Editors:
Many Clergy Accept Henry George's Teachings (28 May)

Editors:
Philadelphia Single Tax Society Votes to Support the Liberation of Cuba (28 May)

Editors:
Political Instability in Spain (14 May)

Editors:
Privilege and Status in the U.S. Military (28 May)

Editors:
Professors of Transporation at U.S. Universities Support Railroad Monopolies (21 May)

Editors:
Spanish Threaten to Attack U.S. Shipping on the Open Seas (7 May)

Editors:
Street Car Monopoly (14 May)

Editors:
Tariffs, Trade and Paying for War (14 May)

Editors:
Tension Between Britain and France over the West Indies (28 May)

Editors:
U.S. Alliance with Britain Opposed (28 May)

Editors:
U.S. War Aims Sadly Shifting Away from Liberating Cubans (21 May)

Editors:
War News frm Cuba and the Philippines (21 May)

Editors:
War News from Cuba (7 May)

Editors:
War News from Cuba (14 May)

Editors:
War News from Cuba and the Philippines (21 May)

Editors:
War News from the Philippines

Editors:
War News from the Philippines (14 May)

Editors:
The General Property Tax (14 May)

***

Abbott, Lyman:
If Christ Were Here (21 May)

Clemens, Samuel:
Woman's Suffrage in New Zealand (21 May)

Curtis, Eleroy:
Costa Rica: A Little Republic to be Respected (21 May)

Hoffman, Frank:
Municipal Points from Germany (7 May)

Ludlow, William:
Present Condition of the Panama Canal (21 May)

Martin, E.S.:
Character Made by Poverty (28 May)

Ralph, Julian:
Russian Ambitions (7 May)

Rubens, Horatio:
Insurgent Government in Cuba (28 May)

Simpson, Jerry:
Selling Off Natural Assets to Pay for War (14 May)

JUNE

Editors:
Address by C.B. Fillebrown in Support of Local Option in Taxation (4 June)

Editors:
Anti-Imperialism Meeting in Boston (25 June)

Editors:
Calls for an Enlarged Navy to Protect New Territories (25 June)

Editors:
Case for State Militias Over a Large Standing Army (11 June)

Editors:
Congressman Says Iowa Colored Volunteers Must be Led by a White Captain (25 June)

Editors:
Contempt for Cuban Republicans Racially Based (25 June)

Editors:
How Intelligent Spaniards View the War (4 June)

Editors:
Latest War News (4 June)

Editors:
March of Empire That is the United States (18 June)

Editors:
McKinley Plan for an Independent Cuba (11 June)

Editors:
National Expansion (11 June)

Editors:
News from the Philippines (18 June)

Editors:
News from the Philippines (25 June)

Editors:
News of the Fighting in Cuba (25 June)

Editors:
News on the War with Spain (11 June)

Editors:
Plutocratic Patriotism (4 June)

Editors:
Political News from France and Germany (25 June)

Editors:
Proportional Representation (11 June)

Editors:
Report on Income and Wealth Distribution in Britain (4 June)

Editors:
Right of Self-Determination of Cubans (4 June)

Editors:
Situation in the Philippines (18 June)

Editors:
Some in U.S. Calling for Large Permanent Army (4 June)

Editors:
Spiritual and Economic Law (4 June)

Editors:
The New College Graduate (25 June)

Editors:
Threat Expansion Poses to U.S. Democracy (11 June)

Editors:
U.S. Forces Engage Spaniards in Cuba (18 June)

Editors:
What Awaits the New College Graduate (25 June)

Editors:
What the Unemployed Need is Access to Land (25 June)

***

Baker, M.N.:
Public Ownership of Water Works (18 June)

Bigelow, Poultney:
A Bit of Spanish Public Opinion (25 June)

Bourinot, John:
National Integrity of Canada (4 June)

Maguire, James:
Single Tax in a Nut Shell (18 June)

Miller, Joseph Dana:
Liberty for the Cuban People (18 June)

Mills, James:
Two Great Commandments in Economics (25 June)

Ralph, Julian:
Russia and the Russians (18 June)

Ralph, Julian:
Russian Peasants Capacity for Self-Government (25 June)

Sala, Ramon Rayes:
Philippine Islands

Sellers, Edith:
Galacia is Home to the Most Miserable Peasantry in Europe (11 June)

Unsigned:
A British Citizen's View of the American Temperament (11 June)

White, Arnold:
Gladstone's Faith in the Common People (4 June)

JULY

Editors:
A New Era in U.S. Foreign Policy Has Begun (23 July)

Editors:
Case for Proportional Representation (16 July)

Editors:
Critics of Henry George Misrepresent Him (16 July)

Editors:
Death of the Spanish Empire (9 July)

Editors:
Debate over Annexation of Hawaii (16 July)

Editors:
Disputed Authority Between the Presdient and Congress regarding Cuba (2 July)

Editors:
Election Reform (16 July)

Editors:
Emasculated Economics (2 July)

Editors:
European Socialism (2 July)

Editors:
Formal Surrender of the the Spanish Forces in the Philippines (23 July)

Editors:
Governor Pingree Opposes U.S. Imperialism

Editors:
Hawaiian Question (9 July)

Editors:
How Cities Should Pay for Street Improvements (9 July)

Editors:
Is a Positive Balance of Trade Needed? (2 July)

Editors:
James Bryce on Equality (30 July)

Editors:
Landlords are Everywhere the Same (30 July)

Editors:
Naval Battle in the Philippines (9 July)

Editors:
Naval Battle in the Philippines (16 July)

Editors:
Newspaper Editors Losing Independence (23 July)

Editors:
Our Foreign Policy (23 July)

Editors:
Progress Toward Peace Between U.S. and Spain (30 July)

Editors:
Review of the book:
The American Commonwealth, by James Bryce (30 July)

Editors:
Situation in Cuba (30 July)

Editors:
Spanish Naval Force Defeated in Philippines (23 July)

Editors:
Universities Abandon Political Economy for Economics (2 July)

Editors:
U.S. Constitution and the Taking of Colonies (23 July)

Editors:
U.S. Currency Introduced in Cuba (23 July)

Editors:
U.S. Imperialism and Hawaii (9 July)

Editors:
U.S. Military Forces Land in Cuba (2 July)

Editors:
War Burdens (9 July)

Editors:
Wealthy Owners Control Editolrial Policy of Newspapers (23 July)

Editors:
Yet Another Poorly Reasoned Challenge to Henry George's Analysis (30 July)

***

Altgeld, John:
Our National Development (30 July)

Bigelow, Poultney:
A Yankee in Spain (23 July)

Bonsal, Stephen:
New Russian Occupation of the Far East (30 July)

Harrison, Benjamin:
Difficulty of Taxing Personal Property (23 July)

Herron, George:
Real Causes of the Fall of Poland (30 July)

Lewis, J. Hamilton:
Taxation of Franchises and Public Buildings (16 July)

Macy, Jesse:
Result of the Scientific Spirit in Education (16 July)

Sinton, W.D.:
Reforms That are a Waste of Time (2 July)

Vorse, Albert White:
Greenland as a Summer Resort (9 July)

AUGUST

Editors:
A Remembrance of German Chancellor Bismark (6 August)

Editors:
Britain and Russia in Conflict over China (20 August)

Editors:
Ethics of Repudiation of Public Contracts (13 August)

Editors:
Hawaiian People Oppose U.S. Annexation (27 August)

Editors:
Peace Protocol Signed Between U.S. and Spain (20 August)

Editors:
Report on U.S. Occupation in Cuba (27 August)

Editors:
Review of the book:
Natural Taxation, by Thomas Shearman (27 August)

Editors:
Self-Government (20 August

Editors:
Update on the Cuban Situation (6 August)

Editors:
U.S. War Aims in Cuba (13 August)

Editors:
U.S. War with Spain Parallels Crimea (13 August)

Editors:
War in the Philippines (13 August)

Editors:
War Report from Cuba (13 August)

Editors:
Will U.S. Assume Spain's Cuba Debt (20 August)

***

Braun, Robert:
Condition of Labor in Hungary (6 August)

Herron, George:
No Man is Saved Alone (20 August)

Higginson, Thomas:
Responding to Arguments Against Women Suffrage (13 August)

Jones, Edward:
Resources and Industries of Spain (13 August)

Maguire, James G.:
Problems with Railroad Competition (27 August)

Post, Alice Thacher:
You Cannot Change Human Nature (27 August)

Will, Thomas Elmer:
Problem of Social Duty (13 August)

Winthrop, W.:
Some Facts About Puerto Rico (27 August)

SEPTEMBER

Editors:
Amending the U.S. Constitution: Almost Impossible Given the Approval Process (17 September)

Editors:
Army Scandal Investigation Resisted (24 September)

Editors:
Book by Rev. James Converse on the Bible and Public Issues (24 September)

Editors:
Britain's War in the Soudan (10 September)

Editors:
British Forces in Egypt and the Soudan (17 September)

Editors:
Business Tendency Toward Concentration (10 September

Editors:
Calls Continue to Create a Large Standing Army (3 September)

Editors:
Cases of Famine in the Midst of Abundance (3 September)

Editors:
Denying Self-Government to Cubans (18 September)

Editors:
Interest Question (24 September)

Editors:
Investigations Into Mismanagement of the War (3 September)

Editors:
Jobs and Men (24 September)

Editors:
Local Option Taxation Gaining Support in New Zealand (3 September)

Editors:
McKinley Administration Does Not Want an Investigation (10 September)

Editors:
More on Mismanagement of the War (17 September)

Editors:
More Questions Regarding Mismanagement of the War (17 September)

Editors:
National Shame is the Suffering of Returning Soldiers (3 September)

Editors:
News from the Philippines (17 September)

Editors:
Ongoing Tensions in Cuba and the Philippines (3 September)

Editors:
Opponents of James Maguire Link Him to the Single Tax (17 September)

Editors:
Political Changes in China (24 September)

Editors:
Provisional Government of Cuba Issues Manifesto (17 September)

Editors:
Some Refuse to Serve on Commission Investigating War (24 September)

Editors:
Suggestion as to Federal Taxation (17 September)

Editors:
Tensions Between Britain and Russia Over China (3 September)

Editors:
The Interest Question (24 September

Editors:
Thoughts on the Murder of the Empress of Austria (17 September)

Editors:
Undemocratic Democracy of J. Sterling Morton (10 September)

Editors:
Universal Peace Union has no Peace Program (3 September)

Editors:
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Disfranchise of Negroes in Mississippi (24 September)

Editors:
Wealth of the Country (17 September)

***

Bigelow, H.S.:
Church and the Labor Movement (17 September)

Braun, Robert:
Hunger in Hungary (24 September)

Choate, Joseph:
Value of Trial by Jury (17 September)

Garrison, William Lloyd:
Imperialism Fatal to Self-Government (17 September)

George, Henry:
Cause of the Irish Famine (3 September)

George, Henry (Jr.):
British Towns Petition for Local Tax on Land Values (3 September)

Griffis, William:
Whence Came the Hawaiians (3 September)

Harwood, W.S.:
Trans-Mississippi Exposition (3 September)

Herron, George:
Enough and to Spare (3 September)

Herron, George:
Publicans and Harlots (24 September)

Lanciani, Rodolfo:
Real Destroyers of Civilizations (17 September)

Maguire, James:
Function of Government in Public Utilities (10 September)

Saul, John:
All Things Made New (24 September)

Warren, George Curtis:
Music in Vacation Schools (10 September)

White, John Turner:
Does College Prepare a Person for Life? (3 September)

OCTOBER

Editors:
California Farmers and Taxation (15 October)

Editors:
Continued Agitation Over the Call for Free Silver (8 October)

Editors:
Controversy Over Roosevelt's New York Residency (8 October)

Editors:
Current Events in China (1 October)

Editors:
Editors of the Albany Law Journal Argues Agitation Against Government is a Crime (8 October)

Editors:
French Ministry Forced from Office (29 October)

Editors:
Future of the Philippines (1 October)

Editors:
Hamiltonianism and U.S. Foreign Policy (15 October)

Editors:
Inviting the Wealthy to Invest in Poor Countries is no Answer (1 October)

Editors:
Legitimate Functions of Banks (29 October)

Editors:
Mistakes Made During the War with Spain (1 October)

Editors:
Monopolists Organize Against James Maguire's Bid for Governor (15 October)

Editors:
Newspaper Editor in Dayton Criticizes the Single Tax (1 October)

Editors:
Northeastern and Northwestern Cultural Institutions Compared (1 October)

Editors:
On the Character of William J. Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt (15 October)

Editors:
Peace Commission Meets (8 October)

Editors:
Plutocrats and Socialists (1 October)

Editors:
Political Instability in China (8 October)

Editors:
Practical Issues in the Taxation of Land's Rental Value (29 October)

Editors:
Professor J. Laurence Laughlin on Free Silver Issue (22 October)

Editors:
Report of the Proportional Representation League (22 October)

Editors:
Single Tax as a Campaign Issue in California and Washington State (8 October)

Editors:
Source of Wealth (22 October)

Editors:
Spanish American Peace Commission Convened in Paris (15 October)

Editors:
Spanish American Peace Commission Update (22 October)

Editors:
State of the U.S. Economy (22 October)

Editors:
Theodore Roosevelt Nominated for Governor of New York (1 October)

Editors:
Update on Cuba (1 October)

Editors:
War Mismanagement Investigations Continue (15 October)

***

Adney, Tappan:
A Winter's Work in the Klondike (8 October)

Beecher, Asher:
U.S. Tax Structure Unfairly Protects the Rich (8 October)

Bigelow, H.S.:
Virden Miners Strike Tragedy (22 October)

Foyer, M.J.:
A Lesson from New South Wales (22 October)

Frost, William:
Appalachian America (15 October)

Herron, George:
New Conscience (15 October)

Kennan, George:
Wrecking of the Army by Sickness (29 October)

Leupp, Francis:
Bear Island Indian Outbreak (29 October)

Maguire, James:
How the Single Tax Would Affect the Farmers (1 October)

Malcolm, J.G.:
Single Tax and Farmers (29 October)

Parsons, Frank:
Public Ownership of Railroads (15 October)

Parsons, Frank:
Repudiation of Spain's Cuban Debt Justifiable (29 October)

Potter, Henry:
U.S. Must Not Embrace Imperialism (8 October)

Stetson, Charlotte:
Continued Advance of Social Reform (22 October)

White John Turner:
Review of the book:
The Newe American Aristocracy, by Harry Thurston Peck (15 October)

Will, Thomas:
How Shall Our Schools and Universities be Supported (8 October)

NOVEMBER

Editors:
Are Large Department Stores Monopolies? (12 November)

Editors:
Critics of Professor George Herron Have a Point (5 November)

Editors:
False Statistics Used to Argue for Free Coinage of Gold and Silver (19 November)

Editors:
French Cabinet Resigns (5 November)

Editors:
Landlordism Makes the Franchise Powerless to End Injustice (26 November)

Editors:
Negroes Murdered in Wilmington, North Carolina After Election (26 November)

Editors:
Negroe Voter Suppression in North Carolina (5 November)

Editors:
Ongoing Recession Sure to Hurt Republicans in Two Years (19 November)

Editors:
Opposition to Annexation of the Philippines Voiced (26 November)

Editors:
Professor Laughlin's Views on Monetary Reform Favor Banks (12 November)

Editors:
Progress of Peace Negotiations Between U.S. and Spain (19 November)

Editors:
Single Tax Could End Absentee Landlordism in Puerto Rico (5 November)

Editors:
Single Tax Proposals Heard in California and Washington State (19 November)

Editors:
Southern States Want Negroe Labor But Without Civil Rights (19 November)

Editors:
Spain Suspends Peace Negotiations (26 November)

Editors:
Tariffs on Cuban Sugar Un-American (12 November)

Editors:
Toledo Mayor S.M. Jones on Franchies and Taxation (5 November)

Editors:
U.S. Government Seems to be Run by the Railroads (12 November)

Editors:
U.S. Law Serves the Plutocracy (26 November)

Editors:
Third Party Politics (5 November)

Editors:
Radical and Conservative (26 November)

***

Alden, Percy:
Japan is Working Up a Land Question (26 November)

Bryan, George:
Tax System of Manitoba (12 November)

Hall, Bolton:
When Foreigners Arrive at Your Shore (26 November)

Herron, George:
Coming Freedom (5 November)

Jones, S.M.:
Improving our Citizenship (26 November)

Jones, S.M.:
Public Ownership of Municipal Functions (12 November)

Kennan, George:
In Defense of Democracy in U.S. Territories (12 November)

Maguire, James:
Single Tax Campaign Continues in California (26 November)

Maxwell, Raymond:
Life on Six Dollars a Week (19 November)

Potter, Henry:
Fight Against Spain was a Fight Against Oppression, Not for Expansion (12 November)

Robinson, Phil:
Maroons of Jamaica (5 November)

Shearman, Thomas:
Every Tax is Confiscation; Public Capture of Rent is Not Taxation (12 November)

Wells, J.H.:
The Name "Single Tax" (12 November)

DECEMBER

Editors:
Appraisal of New U.S. Territorial Possessions (10 December)

Editors:
Cleveland Ex-judge Blandin Denounces Administration of Jusice (3 December)

Editors:
Convention in Rome to Deal With Rising Anarchism (17 December)

Editors:
Details of the Peace Treaty Between the U.S. and Spain (3 December)

Editors:
English and U.S. Politics Compared (24 December)

Editors:
Former Hawaiian Queen Petitions for Return of Crown Land (3 December)

Editors:
Frederic Harrison's Criticisms of Some Historical Writing (3 December)

Editors:
Investigation Underway Regarding Mismanagement of the War (3 December)

Editors:
Navy Report on the Conduct of the War in Cuba (10 December)

Editors:
New South Wales Premier Backs Away from Trade Trade and Direct Taxation (24 December)

Editors:
President McKinley's Message to the Nation (10 December)

Editors:
Some Criticism of Professor George Herron's Social Ideal (17 December)

Editors:
Spanish Forces Surrender in Philippines (31 December)

Editors:
Treaty Details Between U.S. and Spain (17 December)

Editors:
U.S. to Purchase Philippines from Spain (3 December)

***

Bliss, H.L.:
Silver Coinage and Labor (31 December)

Fang, Wu Ting:
Chinese Inhabitants of the Philippines (24 December)

Hoyt, Ralph:
Someday Jobs Will Hunt for People (10 December)

Maguire, James:
Making the Single Tax a Campaign Issue (10 December)

Scott, Loa Ermina:
Cubans and Filipinos are Capable of Self-Government (10 December)

Shearman, Thomas:
A Favorable Balance of Trade Not a Key to Economic Health (17 December)

Smith, Edwin Burnett:
National Expansion Under the Constitution (10 December)

Strong, W.J.:
Why Women Should Vote (3 December)