The Portland daily press., 1897-10-30

about from place to place each day and
far into the night and making speeches
before wildly enthusiastic gatherings of
his admirers, and it has been noted again
and again that his faithful wife sat beside
her husband on the platform from which
he spoke or watched closely from place
of vantage close by. Mr.. George has not
been strong for the past three years and
his son Henry George, Jr., has been his
companion in nearly every enterprise in
which he has engaged. going with him
on his tours of the West as special news
paper correspondent in the last Presi-
dential campaign and keeping close at his
side in his movements in the campaign.
Within the past day or two, close friends
of Mr.. George have noted with apprehen-
sion marked changes in his appearance
and manner. His eyes grew dull,
wrinkles came at the corners, and his eyes
sank into hollow caverns. His voice,
usually resonant and pleasant, now
pitched almost to piping treble in CONVEX
sation, was querulous, while he seemed
like one whose nerves might snap. The
pace of the campaign was harder than
this man, high strung and sensitive,
could maintain. Mr.. George was about
| five fest, five inches tall and of slender
build. His head was bald and his brown
beard fast becoming gray.
HOW NEW YORK. K,.RECEIVES 1T.
Last night the whole territory OF
Greater New York was a pandemonium
Of political process. Noisy, shouting
throngs crushed in the halls and Streets
to hear the speeches that were for the
most part full of personality and bitter
ness, rockets hared and fires burned, men
argued and urged and all signs bore wit
ness that the campaign was at its height,
yI,nv, A<~l. nh
When the truth became known, Wnen
men realized that Henry George was real
~ dead, the whole political aspect was
altered.
The CONFUSION which the event caused
| IN the complexion of the political situa-
tion was forgotten for the time being in
| the genuine grief which was evinced on
all sides. Those who last Night said: Il
stand for the real Democracy, the
Democracy Of Thomas Jefferson today
| stood in silent groups and recalled many
| touching kindly acts in the life OF the
dead man, which showed his true nature.
| And when the news which stilled the
political storm was flashed around the
world, the world mourned; for whether
the people of the nations had derided the
single tax theory or prosecuted its ex-
ponent they joined in the epitaphs whic h
came naturally to the lips of all in Great
| er New York, can honest man is dead"
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Henry George was born on September
| 2, 1889. He received common school
education andt hen went into counting
room. He was also a sailor and later
learned the printers trade. In 1853 he
reached California, where he worked at
the printers case until 1866, when he be-
came reporter and afterwards editor,
working at different times on the San
| Francisco Times and Post. He returned
to New York in 1880, and went to Eng
land and Ireland the following year,
where he was twice arrested as a sus-
pect, but afterw ards released when his
identity was established.
| Mr.. George is best known to the world
at large through his writings upon
economic questions, notably his work en-
titled Progress and Poverty" published
in 1879 His other works are 'Our Land
Policy 1871; sIrish Land Question,
1881; Social Problems 1888; Property
in Land,'' controversy with the Duke
of Argyle, 1884; the Condition of
Labor" an open letter to Pope Leo 1891,
and "a Perplexed Philosopher, Herbert
| Spencer, 1882.
| In 1885, Mr.. George was nominated by
the United Labor party for mayor of New
York, polling 63, 900 votes against 1000
for Abraham S. Hewitt, the Democratic
nominee, and 10000 for Theodore Roose-
velt, now assistant secretary of the navy
Republican.