Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-06
HENRY GEORGE,
The Political Economist, whose Theories
Have Made such a Sensation in
Europe as Well as America,
4ni which Threaten to ReToiutiOHize the
WorId-He Says Land Nust be The
Property Of the State.

Heuly g =orgs, Hhose ecsnem!c writings
have Il adj MIN 50 iamilisr IN tvo continents,
was bs-1 10 Poi tdelpais, September %,
$3.50 HIS iAt-er vas a clerk in the custom
mouse. lie -Ol Lett the schools az tbirieen,
beczme messenger 5oy, sailor, prirter,
a nicer AID 81 editor, with two others
fou8dug the San Francisco Pos. in 1871.
Leaving Ii = four YeaT5 ef:--gard he devo,sd
himself 20 the solution OF the puzLo2.-s -rob-
lens which are evident in the extremes OIL
.-4-!tI- ADD .-v=rty % ne seen In the great
cities. the Dslroil NeUs says OF mis- future
career:
His attention had first been directed to
these interesting paenomena when in 1868, as
managing editor Of California paper, he
visited New York to make arrangements for
telegraphic news. Deeply impressed BY what
he saw and heard, he began to work upon
The problems Involved, and in 1871 brought
cut his earliest economic publication, a pam
ph.et entitled Our Land and Land Policy.
His extraordinary conclusions were clearly
foreshadowed il this; but uutil mis- retire
ment from editorial w.rS and the publiea-
tion in 1879 Of his larger book, Progress Of
Poverty, Were they fully stated and
supported by chain of strongly
welded argument4 IN which scarce
IL q weak link can be found. OF tails
remarkable book, now read by vast null
Ii ude in the old world and the new, but a
small "authol's edition" wa. fist printed.
Copies were sent TO Eastern publishing
houses, and with some difficulty the Apple
tous We're Induced to undertake its issue. Its
success il one OF the literary events Of late
years. Ia the costly editions it has sold
largely, but in various cheap forms it has
been purchased upon the streets Of the cities
and in the shops by scores OF thous ands. One
| edition OF $4,000 was sold in less than a
week. Some person or persons &C.
cured she presentation OF a copy TO
every member of the larger number,
| in all Par,s of the country, CON-
posing the society for political educs-
| ton. = l. was early translated into Gsrmsu
and published in BsrlIn; eopIous extracts
from it have appeared in French; aud some
of the first writer's OF the age on public ques-
| lions are preparing elaborate articles in adj
vcc4cy or attempted reiu alton OF It's views
| The New York Herald calls il "the most
original, the most striking aud important
contribution which politicl economy has
! yet received from Ameri;a;" writer iu
Philosopkie de PArtnr, of Paris, "shis re.
| markable and most interesting work y an
| other, in the London Frtnigitiy Review cav.
of lie eathor hat "his learning and literary
power are truly astonishing and admirable
| More recently Mr.. George has printed
| email book on The IRISH Lind Question. 81
| important a person is he deemed by th,
| Brush government that while travelling il
Ireland last summer, without any overt &C
Except this little book, he was arrested as
suspect and confined, but presently released
with profuse apologies His reception at
| New York pier upon his return was a tire
nendous demonstration by the people O
their love for a really powerful champion
Men OF the grade OF Charles Francis Adams
spoke on this occasion for the workngmer
OF the country. Mr.. George has made hi
home 10 New York, where he is a power
for his sort Of progress. Uslike most Of tn,
agitatoys, be sees much OF the best society
is a member Of the Nineteenth Century
Club, and is enterta. ned at the homes o
the more progressive aristocracy. Daring
recent banquet at MIR. CORTLAND Palmer's
where he aired his theories, two or three o
the million9ires present, it is said, followed
him with approving speeches. The PROPOSE
ZION to whose support Mr.. George is mainly
giving his energies Is sufficiently startling
1t is this, in his own d.: Nothing shor
of m liking land common property can perma
nen'ly relieve poverty aud check the tendsnc
OF wages to the starvation point" Ia tn
speculative advance inevitably bego,te
wnen land is privately held be finds a de
rivsiive But most powerful cause OF tn
ipcresse of RMS and the croHiiug dow
OF wages. Hence the periodical indusris
depressions III at I'll CT sli lands, and the cor
stsat pressure, whatever the increase j
/ populations or material progress, to fore
laborers to wages that give but fair liviul
Therefore, he holds that all land should
the property of the State. His book, i
brief, arrives and with no small measure
successj 10 harmoaizs the economic school {
Smith sad Ricardo with that Of the radica
Proudhon aud LIsaIle, though he nowheI
T, ann na the theory OF the former, that "a
property IA robbery