The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-30

| hings are all written down. | believe
| that all the needed reforms are summed
up in the philosophy: The right of
every man to eat, think, to speak, as he
sees fit, so long as he does not trench
on the rights of other men,"
Later in the same speech he repeated
| his threNts against Mr.. Croker in
ringing voice that greatly affected his
Hearers, saying:
eff / am elected, and | believe that |
| will be, / will enforce the law upon the
rich and poor alike. l have pledged my
self to search out the charges popularity
made against Mr.. Richard Croker. If
am elected these charges shall be in
vestigated. If they are proved untrue
let him go unscathed back to England
or to any other land he pleases But if
they are true" Mr.. Georges voice rang
out in menacng tones that visibly ex-
cited his audience, .'let the law be en-
forced; let him go to the penitcntiary.
He shall go there"
| AT College Point last night, there
were 1900 common laborers, a rough
crowd, closely packed in the hall. Mr..
George was introduced as the friend of
the working man. He began: 81 have
never claimed to be friend of the work
ing man. | do not now make any sucn
claim. (There was a pause of dead 81
1lenee) / have not and do not intend to
advocate anything in the special inter
lest of the laboring man. (Another dead
pause. Mr.. George walked to the full
length of the platform, and let out his
full voice in shout, 81 am for men,
(The crowd set up such a cheering and
stamping that the room was filled with
q choking dust.)
| II am for men-the equal rights of all
men. Let us be done with asking privi
leges for the laboring men,"
| There was much more cheering and
shouting as the speaker pushed his way
out of the hall. He drove to Flushing,
a long ride. at the end of which he spoke
TO 800 people, who had waited an hour
to see and cheer for their idol
| When Henry George broke away from
the crowd his long days work was over;
| his busy life's work was done
| Newspaper men who have been part
| of the George campaign have felt that
| he was undergoing a strain which was
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
rambling, though their trend was ever
| faithful to the toilers whose devoted
| champion he has been all his life.
HIS HEALTH WAS BREAKING.
The Journal and Advertiser this morn
| ing contained an article on Henry George
| by Alfred Henry Lewis, who visited the
famous single tax advocate at his head
quarters in the Union Square Hotel yes
Iterday. OF his impressions, Mr.. Lewis
wrote:
me Henry George | found was not
the Henry George l had met fewer than
two months ago. When saw him
last he was tranquil, .quiet, even, steady
as TO nerves, rational, sedately content
ed, talking of his books and his tax
dreams. To-day | met man haggard,
pinched, with a face as thin and peak
ed as a pen. His eye roved, his hair was
tumblea, his face the theatre of disor-
Ter. il he was the picture of anything,
lit was his unfed ambition made desper
ate. Tuere was despair, too, in his face
LAS If in a dim way he looked into
future black with disappointment
tell You il was a shock to see the man."
Mr.. George was about five feet five
inches high and of slender build. His
head was bald and his brown beard
fast becoming gray.
MR.. LOW TALKS.
Mr.. Low, candidate for Mayor of
Greater New York, on the Citizens
Union ticket regarding Henry Georges
death, said:
'"Ihe sudden death of Mr. George un-
der the stress of the campaign is great
tragedy. No soldier on the battlefield
ever gave his life for his country more
evidently than that Mr.. George has laid
down his life in behalf of the city of
New York. Pure in motive, high mind
ed, absolutely devoted to the services
of his fellow men as he thought they
could best be served, he has
fallen in the thick of the con-
test battling against the tyran-
ny and corruption of one man power
controlling the political machine and
thus depriving the people at once of their
rights as free men and of control of the
government of the city in the public
interests.
During the campaign Mr.. George re-
peatedly recognized that fundamentally
this is a fight against bossism and MI
that implies in political degradation and
corruption. In view of Mr.. Georges
death / wish, therefore, to say to the
people of the city, that I shall give my
self to this contest in their behalf with
a new and higher resolve as though /
had received it as last charge from his
dying lips"
WORDS FROM VAN WICK AND |
OTHERS.
The campaign committee of the Citi- |
zen's Union unanimously passed a reso-
lution deploring the death of Henry |
George, in whom the committee recog- |
nized, a pure, high minded man, an un- |
selfish patriot and a brave and uncom-
promising champion of the people's |
rights against political tyranny and cor
ruption.
When the news OF Henry Georges
death was received at Democratic head