Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-12-03
DEATH OF HENRY GEORGE
IN THE MIDST OF THE CAMPAIGN.
Attack of Cerebral ApopIexy Closes
the Career of the Distinguished
Single Taxer-Henry George. Jr..
Put Up for Mayor.

New York, Oct. 30-Henry George, au.
thor OF Progress and Poverty" and can
didate of the Thomas Jeeffrson democracy
ior mayor of New York, died Yesterday
morning in the Union Square hotel of
cerebral apoplexy.
In his great Cooper Union speech ac
cepting the nomination for mayor. less
than month ago, he said: "I'll make this
race if it costs me my life. This is a call
to duty, and as a good citizen | have no
right to disregard it on account of mere
personal consideration"
Today the cheers of the workers have
suddenly been changed to signs, for, true
to his words, Henry George the apostle
OF the rights of man, died as he wished
to die-in harness, fighting for the cause
toward the close of the greatest munici.
pal political contest the world has ever
seen.
The end was peaceful and he died with
out pain This man of mighty brain and
undaunted courage was physically frail
and the strain of an exciting campaign
requiring speech making at points many
miles apart, night after night, was more
than nature could stand. He kept it up
to the end, and only few hours before
the dread messenger cried halt, Henry
George had addressed enthusiastic audi
ences in three of the towns of the borough
OF Queens, and still larger assemblage in
an uptown hall here. He spoke at White
stone at o'clock and made a speech at
College Point and Flushing before return
ing to New York to speak at the Central
opera house.
At Whitestone he drove from the rail
way station to the meeting hall at gal
lop. To the cheering crowds he said: 81
believe that all the needed reforms are
summed up in that philosophy right
of very man to eat, to drink, to speak as
he sees fit, so long as he does not trench
on the rights of any other man. believe
that God, the Father, can take care of
His laws-there is no need for lis to get
into trouble trying to NEEDLE with Gods
laws, to enforce them. If l am elected, as
believe that / will be- will enforce the
laws upon the rich and poor alike"
In the same speech he repeated his
threats against Croker in ringing voice
that greatly affected his hearers, saying:
: ''Let him go to the penitentiary; he shall
go there"
Mrs. George accompanied her husband
5 on most of his speech making trips and
I | la 81 tnht I,oY mo
r who have been with George during the
campaign have felt that the strain was
o surely and rapidly breaking him down.
At times he has been incoherent His
whole temperament underwent COM
plete change. His speeches, delivered by
the half-dozen each day, were often ram
bling, though their trend was ever faith
full to the toilers whose devoted champion
he has been all his life.
Henry George was born September 2
:, 1899. He received common school ed
y ucation and then went into counting
y room. He was also sailor and after
3 ward learned the printers trade. In 1857
he reached California, where he worked a
the printers case until 1866, when he be
!, came a reporter and afterward editor
" working at different times on the Sai
II Francisco Times and the Post. He return
ed to New York in 1880 and went to Eng
y land and Ireland the following year
where he was twice arrested as sus
FL pect. but afterward released when hi
q identity became established.
Mr.. George is best known to the worl
): at large through his writings upon eco
n nomic questions, notably his work en-
titled Progress and Proverty," publishe
J.; in 1879. His other works are: "Our Lam
a Policy in 1871; Irish Land Question,
}; in 1887: Social Problems" in 1883, an
"Property in Land controversy wit
o. the duke of Argyle, in 1884; The Cor
IS, dition of Labor" an open letter to Pop
It. Leo XIII, in 1889, and "Perplexed Philo'
Is onher" Herbert Spencer), in 1892.
c; In 1886 Mr. George was nominated b
TN the united labor party for mayor OF Me-
s; York. polling $4,000 votes, against 9OoO
for .bram s. Hewitt, the democratic non
8 ;pee. and 10000 for Theodore Roosevelt
ms now assistant secretary of the navy Cr
a publican).
DC Henry George, Jr, for Mayor
New York, Oct 30.-The Thomas Je
80 ferson democracy Immediately substltu
e) ed the name of Henry George, Jr., for IL
el name of his father, Henry George, as cal
&c, didate for mayor of Greater New forl
ed Henry George, Jr., is about 80 years
ape. He is literary in tastes and was
one time managing editor of the jackson
.er vile fFla.) Citizen. He has accepted Il
or nomination of the Jeffersonian dem
all crafts. which was rendered him unan