The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-01


his life consecrated himself to the well
fare Of the people.
He poured out to the people the SYM
pathy of heart as well as his physical
strength, and he died literally a martyr
to his cause lie is a man to hold up for
emulation in the magnificent spirit ana
conservation with which he gave him
self heart and SOUL to his cause If we
only had ten thousand men who cared
half as much for the city's welfare as
Henry George did IL would be one of the
most glorious cities of the world. We
need men who appreciate the Importance
Of making this glorious city.
Then they say that Henry George was
a theorizer. Every man who does any
thing is theorizor. The only thing is
whether he theories right. We want
people to theorize and study the mechan-
ism of government.
At the conclusion of an address on
present Political Conditions" before
the Society for Ethical Culture an
Carnegie hall today, Dr. Felix Adler
paid a glowing tribute to the memory
of Henry George. He said:
At the point of a great campaign for
the people, when the excitement was in
tensest, the weird light of a tragedy IL
lumines the field. His friends and OPP
pOnents-foes he had none-have joined
in tribute to his memory. In reviewing
his career we recognize three distinct
services he rendered to humanity. lie
did the most of any man to make the
readers of two continents realize the
problem of poverty. His claim as a
writer is secure, and he stood as great
popular leader. An old Greek philosoph-
Cr, when asked as to whom he considered
the happiest man, named ruler or
Athens. who time when
Athens was in her glory, who had a
family to continue his work where he
left off, and who died on the field of
battle just when his army was on the
point of achieving a brilliant victory
7 ne same might be said of George. All
these conditions apply, and he died in
the midst of a great fight for the people
whom he lived, on the eve of glorious
victory. 1t was his sincerity that the
people loved. The real citizen has great
love for humanity and respected him for
it. Whether or not they approved his
idea for reconstructing society, they
loved and admired the man.
Rev. Heber Newton preached at All
Souls church TODAY on THE Ethical
Issues Before the City" He said.
THE tragedy which has befallen our
city within the last few hours ought to de-
eide the issues in the heart of every hon
est man, \ great minded, noblc-hearted
man has fallen a martyr to the citys ap-
critics, the city's honor. Conscious oil MS
physical weakness, yet following the call
of the city to him, he plunged into the
thick of the fight regardless of himself,
though with the presentiment in his soul
which he eXpr6ssed in that pathetic word
of his Cooper Union address: II accept
your nomination and will remain in the
fight to the end, though l die in it, or
all that l have said to rle ethical aspects
! of the issues before us, he was the liN-
! ing embodiment. The intense earnest
| ness of his moral nature led him to
! plunge almost recklessly into this battle
| for the peoples rights and liberties. lie
| could not be apathetic; he could not be IN
| different when the fate of city of 3,OoO,-
| coo souls hung in the balance. This in
/ tense earncstness was one secret OF his
! strange power over the masses or men.
| Here, as everywhere else, he claimed and
| asserted the right Of the free individual
/ against any and every tyranny or organ
/ ization. The principle of freedom to him
was the central principle of the moral
/ life. 1t was the very essence OF cthlcS.
1t was the core of mans being. Again ev-
cry authority from without he claimed
and exercised the right of his own reason
and conscience, and as with the blast of
| the bugle he called his fellow citizens to
/ this same assertion of their manhood,
] this same rebukC to every deSpOtism. He
| accomplished the adjustment of the rCla-
! tive claims of the city and the nation in
his own soul. Feeling intensely the larger
| issues of the national life and not hesitat-
| ing to express them and to identify this
| civic struggle with them, he Yet made no
| sacrifice for those claims but as though
| he had no other interests. gave himself
| uncoasinEly as the struggle went On TO
! the assertion of the duty that the citizen
owes his city. 1t was the dishonOr and
the dishonesty which had been rampant
| In our midst which most intensely thrilled
| his earnest nature. No other voice has
| rung so clear and strong strain IN its
appeal to COZ science. 1t has been well
| said that he for the first time brought
| the moral law into politics. 1t was this
| unhestating denunciation of the wrong,
the crime, the wiCkedness which has been
| prevalent among his hearers. His con-
ception of government alN ays was that of
| government at it's best. a true lover of
his fc.lowman, the enthusiasm of human
ity burned ardently within him. The love
of man was the dominant impulse all
through his life. 1t was this which fired
political economy for the first time with a
strange new passion and gathered men
around the teacher whose heart was sc
plainly on fire with the love of man,
Thus, being dead, yet he speaketh. Sure
ly this great city will not let such a man
die in vain.
If the win of Henry George from the
newly made grave does not rouse the city
to its duty, it deserves no salvation.