The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-08
An Enemy OF Civilized Society.

We give elsewhere an extract from the
leading article in the Evening Post of last
Wednesday as an illustration of the moral
and intellectual degeneration now so glar-
ing in that pretentious newspaper.
In this quotation from the Etening Posts
most prominent article of Wednesday the
election of HENRY GEORGE as Mayor is
openly advocated as desirable in case SETH
Low is not elected. 1--WE must say for
Mr.. GEORGE" that paper declares, "that
we believe that If he was elected, he would
be a better Mayor than either CRoKER's
man or PLATT's man." "Nothing is more
ludicrous," it adds, than the attempt now
being made to persuade people that II
elected Mayor, Mr.. GEORGE would do some
thing to their property, and the pretence
of some of the rich men who want to help
PLAT that they believe it,"
This is a square avowal by the Erening
Post that, next to SETH Low, It is for
HENRY GEORGE; and as all intelligent po-
litical observation indicates that Low has
no chance of election, GEORGE is really the
candidate for whom it is working.
AS to the insulting reference to Gen.
TRACY, nothing need be said to people
u hllONicuSc anu SCTlInlndtl uen.
TRACY is Known to all New York and the
whole Union as one of the ablest and most
distinguished of American statesmen, and
President HARRIsoN's remark the other
day that he is of notable competence for the
Presidency commands general assent, with
out regard to partisan divisions. The in
suit is not so much to him personally as to
the republic which has so frequently and
highly honored him, and to which, in war
and peace, he has rendered services so honor
able and valuable during a long life of I'M
assailable integrity.
Nor do the conservative, the intelligent,
II the reasonable public of New York
look as lightly on the candidacy of HENRY
GEORGE as does this fippant newspaper.
They view it with increasing alarm as the
manifestation of n spirit of social revolu-
tion of the gravest portent. If GEORGE
was elected, in accordance with the prefer
cnce of the Euening Post, the enlarged New
York, at the outset Of its career as the Sec
ond city of the world, would decline omi-
nously in the estimation of the world. 1t
would be distrusted everywhere as the
prey of social theories dangerous to the
stability of civilization. A great commu.
nifty which chose HENRY GEORGE for its
head would suffer bitterly from the loss of
the respect and confidence upon which it's
prosperity depends. 1t would be looked
upon as a socially revolutionary commune
ty, from which further extravaganza of
eccentricity might be expected, no matter
how extreme or whimsical.
In spite of this obvious consequence, the
Erening Post is for the election of HENRY
GEORGE as Mayorof the Greater New York,
in the event of the assured defeat of SETH
Low. The social revolution of which he is
the leader would extend to every large city
in the State containing elements of popula,
tion similar to those which. carried him to
power in New York, and thus strengthened
and emboldened, it could proceed to the
capture of the State itself and to the domi,
nation of legislation. It's triumph here
would incite the elements of discomfort in
every great city of the Union to make com,
mon cause against the present ~orSaniza'
ton of society.
Hence no man of any discernment can
regard the enthusiastic and pervasive
George demonstration in New York at
this time except as a movement of extreme