The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-22
TRIBUTE TO GEORGE
Single Tax Advocates Hold
a Memorial Service
Last Night.
DEAD PHILOSOPHERS LIFE REVIEWED
Speeches by G. l.. Record and J.
S. Crosby to Be
Built in This City.
DEAD PHILOSOPHERS LIFE REVIEWED

Under the auspices of advocates Of the
| single tax theory a memorial service was
held last night in the Bon Ton Theatre in
honor of the late Henry George. In spite
| OF the brief space of time which the
committee had to max arrangements
there was a very fair attendance, and
among the audience were many friends of
the dead leader from New York. Nj.
| George L. Record presided, and near him
on the stage-set for a parlor -scene-Were
Messrs. Joseph Dana Miller, John S. Cros-
by. James Al. Herne, Jacob r. Abarbaneli,
| William Longstaff, F. Garland and others.
Mr.. ]. Dana Miller, introducing Mr..
Record as chairman, said that the OBJ
jeets of the meeting was to tell the peo-
pie of Jersey City how great a leader had
fallen, and to call their attention TO the
| life and works of the man who labored for
a better democracy and a better and high
| er civilization. Henry George, he said,
died in front of battle, and died just as
he would have wished to- But the single
tax believers, he said. have been victor
| ious in the fight for individual emancipa-
ton, and dehantly do they say that the
work which they advocated shall go on, or
if not civilization would perish.
Mr.. George L.. Record or rising was
greeted with much applause. He said that
it was his honor to pay tribute to one OF
the most remarkable men of the times.
Few men made such an impression on the
public of the world as Henry George.
.Many who nave read his book" con-
tinued Mr.. Record, ION economical phil
osophy. did not agree with his views. but
he had the greatest admirers among that
class. 1t is not my intention or purpose to
review his life and work. l only VIII al
lude to one or two characteristics OF TINS
man. While he was a profound p,hlloso7
pher and contributed to economic ana
| philosophic literature, his intense and pro
| found love for humanity was a striking
feature of his character. Few men IN ms
public from that standpoint. The great
| hold of Lincoln in the public heart was
that underlying element which sym.
humanity, and that was the element of
Henry Georges character which erl1Sted
| the admiration of all. He followed Lin
| coins maxim by following the right as
saFew men, continued Mr.. Record,
there are who dare to say what they
think that it becomes refreshing TO near =
defiance of anybody or anything; ne
built up a political standard OF truth tell
ing, not straddling. He was a patriot OF
| own country. There is a class OF citizens
who breathe the maxim, My country
right or wrong. but always my
love of humanity. and was involved N
that far nobler sentiment: My country is
the world; my country is all mankind. "
loud and continued applauSe.)
Miss Lizzie B. Sheldon sang Your
Mission DR.. Horace Law of California
recited Harvard Bill" one line of which
a fghting chance in Gods world" evoked
loud clapping of hands.
Mr.. John S.. Crosby was next introduced,
and he made an ~elouquent GRAFTON on the
life and character of. the dead leader. Mr..
CroSby'S address was listened to with rapt
attention, and his audience cheered his
arguments for single tax. He introduced
the discussion of the theory by saying
that a memorial service to Henry George
| which d~isregarded what he taught was
blasphemy. One man, he said, had as
| much right on earth as another.
Does any one deny it?' asked Mr..
| Crosby. Il would like to know to what
man he refers. Gaughter.) And since
one man has as much right on earth as
another. how can one man nave more
right on earth than another?'
Mr.. Crosby provoked much laughter by
Honor thy father and mother etc, was
in a great measur read as follows:
ssHonor thy father and mother in the days
of thy youth that thy days may be long
has given thee but which has been CIV
en- to John Jacob Astor and his heirs and
assignees forever"
Miss Madeline Chevalier a n Cardinal
Newman's Lead Kindly Light accom-
panied on the piano by Miss Jennie Til
den; and Miss May Osborne sang Holy
City, after which Franklin Garland e
extracts from Progress and Poverty"
Then some individual read letters
regretting their absence from Con-
gressman McEwan. Mayor Hoos and
| General p. F. .Wanser, after which J. S.
Herne of the Shore Acres impair de-
livered an eulogy, and read the platform
of the single lax party. A collection was
taken up for the erection of q suitable
memorial to the great economist.