Do not drive the landlords out—tax them out.
Let the land gravitate to the people who have the disposition and the ability to improve it—and that is just what the Single Tax will do. So this, then, is the philosophy of Henry George.
GARIBALDI
Priests look backward, not forward. They think that there were once
men better and wiser than those who now live, therefore priests
distrust the living and insist that we shall be governed by the dead.
I believe this is an error, and hence I set myself against the Church
and insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in
their own way, always allowing to others the right to work out their
lives in their own way, too.
—Garibaldi
[Illustration: Garibaldi]
The writer who tells the simple facts in the life of Garibaldi lays himself open to the charge of evolving melodrama, wild and riotous.
Garibaldi's personal friends and admirers always referred to him in such words as these: patriot, savior, father-noble, generous, pure- hearted, unselfish, devoted, philanthropic.
They transferred the infallibility of Pope Pius the Ninth to his enemy, Garibaldi.
The Pope was not much given to rhetorical lyddite, so when the name of Garibaldi was mentioned he simply stopped his ears and hissed. He acknowledged that in all the bright lexicon of words there was not a symbol strong enough to express his contempt for Joseph Garibaldi.
The actual fact was that Pio Nono, for whom Garibaldi named his favorite donkey, had very much in common with Garibaldi. Had they met as strangers on sea or plain, they would have delighted in each other's society. They were both kind, courteous, considerate, highly intelligent men. They were lovers of their kind.