Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-11-05

Hallidic. They offered to take it ant
bring it out in January, 1880. l &C
ceded to this, and Appleton & Co
published the book in the following
year"
Kegan Paul, of London, published a
large edition, but the books lay piled
in the publishers cellar until the
author, rs correspondent from Irelant
OF the Irish World, was arrested by
order of the English government
After that Kegan Paul had to run of
more books. Mr.. George followed ul
his success with a book called "Tht
Irish Land Question"
In 1850 Mr.. George left California
and reached New York, which has
ever since been his home. In 1873
he wrote letters from Ireland and
England to the Irish World, delivering
addresses in the principle cities and
towns. In 1881 an English edition OF
Progress and Poverty" was issued. A
6-penny edition followed, and had an
extraordinary sale, whereupon the
London Times came out with page
review, saying that the book of the
Californian economist, hitherto un-
noticed by the English press, could
no longer be ignored. The supplies
of the booksellers were exhausted in a
single day, and the entire world soon
became acquainted with progress
and Poverty"
Mr.. George continued to write in
advocacy of the land theory. Late in
1883 he received an invitation from
the Land Reform Union of England
again to visit that country. He was
received at a great meeting in st.
James hall. Henry Labouchere pre-
sided. "Then," relates Mr.. George,
" l spoke in the principal towns in
England, and had large audiences, al
ways hostile at first; but l conquered
them all easily, with the exception of
that at Oxford, the seat of learning,
where I sat on the stage and could not
hear myself think. The Oxford
students were determined to disturb
the meeting, although Max Muller
was my host and presided"
In 1884 Protection or Free Trade
was written, and the manuscript lost.
Then it had to be written all over
again. In the same year, at the invi-
tation of the Scottish Land Restora-
ton League, Mr.. George made the
third trip abroad, addressing great
audiences throughout Scotland. Cali
the landlords were hostile, but the
poor people and workers everywhere
turned out to hear my lectures"
Meantime, Progress and Poverty"
was being read by the labor leaders of
America, and when the New York
mayoralty campaign of 1886 opened,
they were ready to accept him, and
no other, as their candidate.
The campaign was one of the most
exciting in the history of New York.
The Rev. DIR. McGlynn took the
stump for him, and disobeyed Arch
bishop Corrigan, who ordered him to
confine himself to his duties as pastor
of St. Stephens church, at 149 East
Twenth eighth street. DR.. McGlynn
was accommodated, practically, and
a long controversy among the leading
Catholics of America followed, which
was settled only when Archbishop Sa-
tolli was sent to America as the apos-
tolic delegate. DR.. McGlynn was re.
stored to the church, and was sent to
a pastorate in Newburg.
After the campaign of 1896, Mr..
George started the Standard as a
vehicle for the spread of his ideas. He
stood for the single-tax idea, for free
trade, for Organism, at least in its
salient features; for the sale of public
franchises at auction, and for opposi-
ton to corporate power. When he
was editor of the Sacramento Reporter,
he opposed the corporations so
vigorously that they bought a con-
trolling interest in the paper in order
to get him out of the editorial chair.
When the tariff question became
political issue, Mr.. George, as free
trader supported Mr.. Cleveland, ad-
vocating his reelection in 1888 and
1892. His political and economic
ideas, known as the single-tax," have
large and growing support, not con-
fined to this country.
Besides much miscellaneous writing
to their advocacy, he has also publish
ed: "The Land Question" Q8SD;
"Social Problems" QSS4; Protection
or Free Trade" 1885,; "The Condi-
ton of Labor, an Open Letter to Pope
Leo XIII" 189D; "a perplexed
Philosopher" an arraignment of
Herbert Spencer and his theories
(lS92). He was prominent member
of the Reform Club in New York.
Henry George lived in a beautiful
home, amid his books, with the wife
of his youth and his children around
him. His home at Fort Hamilton
was always open to his friends, and
was a shrine to visitors from the ends
of the earth. The not infrequent dis
appointment of strangers at their first
meeting with the author of Progress