Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-01-28
SINGLE TAX DEPARTMENT.
GEORGES DEBUT IN GOTHAM.

How " Progress and Poverty" Was Intro
duced to the Public.
It is about ten years since Henry
George arrived in New York. The fu-
ture-great apostle of single tax based
on the value of land was but lonely
stranger in Gotham, and the ghost of
an idea that he would ever run for
mayor of that town. if it had glimmer-
ed before his mental vision, would not
have been worth even a laugh. He
soon CHANGED to run across. Bill Nc
Gale, an old friend from San Francisco.
which ,aade him feel more at home.
McCabe since chairman of the cele brat
ed Typographical Union, No 6, of New
York, and otherwise prominent in the
cause of labor vs. capital, was an inter
esting character His father, on dit.
was an adventurous Scotchman, and
his mother New Zealand princess.
McCabe was never anything, but proud
of his royal Maori lineage. He, it is
said, was also distinguished as the
youngest Union soldier in the civil war
from California. McCabe, always in
terested in economic and social ques-
tions, became acquainted with Henry
George in San Francisco and readily
adopted and Endorsed his theories.
When George ran across McCabe in
New York, the latter was foreman of
the composing room of the original
daily newspaper called Truth. Its prin-
cipal owner was Josh Hart, the ex-the
atrical manager, and proprietor also of
the Dramatic News a publication whose
devotion to the personal interests of
the professional wearers of sock and
buskin was not always heartily well
coined by those condemned to be pill
ioried in its columns The editor of
both Truth and the Dramatic News
was Charles A. Byrne, then critic and
lately ibrettist
A member of the editorial staff and a
part owner of Truth was Louis T. Post,
a good-natured. able, easy-going young
lawyer, who liked to write, and was
willing to sacrifice personal success to
benefit his fellowmen. McCabe talked
up George and his views to Post, who
succeeded in interesting Hart in them.
McCabe then brought George around
and introduced him and the result of the
evolution his arguments superinduced
Truth, was the publication by that
journal of Henry Georges now world
renowned Progress and Poverty" by
chapters, in the Sunday issue. The pa
per soon after stood sponsor for and adj
vocated Georges proposition to tighten
the financial burden of the people by
putting it on the value of the land.
which value the peoples proximity Gre
ates.
Thus is described Henry Georges in
PRODUCTION to New York city and the
East McCabe is to-day the manager
of the mechanical department of the
Standard, the organ Of the George
branch of the single tax army, and Post
is editor of the paper. Both men,
throughout, have remained Henry
Georges nearest councillors, and have
attained local prominence and note
among the adherents of the single tax
theory everywhere. Henry George
alone has made money with the COM
bined assistance of his writing, lectur-
ing and the movement generally. The
unfrocked priest, McGlynn. and the ex-
preacher, Hugh o. Pentecost, have
parted from Henry George, and started
single tax schools OF their own, but the
two first friends of the man who has
troubled the landed aristocracy of this
and other countries, and worried the
Pope, are still working with him shout
der to shoulder, and when George is in
New York if you look for one of the
three you will find him with the other
two.-St Louis Chronicle.