Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-11-06
HENRY GEORGE DEAD
VICTIM OF AP0PLEXY
The Great Single Taxer Died at
Union Square HoteI at 4:48
This Morning.
WORK OF THE CAMPAIGN TOO MUCH
Meeting Called Of Ills supporters 10
Consider What Shonld he
Done Now That He
Is gone.

New York. Oct. 20. Henry George.
;hc candidate Of the Jeifeis0nian de-
mucrary for manor Of Greater New
York, died in the luion Square hotel
AZ I:35 this morning II is thodght u
was due "a apopleNA. George arrived
at his hotel this morning late
and very much exhausted, coming
from several large mass meetings IN
Queens and brooklyn. The nights
work seemingly told on him. lie COM
planned Of he,ng tired and soon re-
tired. At $3.50 Mrs. George awoke II
found her husband sitting in "A chair.
lie said he WAS not feeling comfort
able. He gradually grew %Incoherent
and iapsed into unconsciousness'
Physicians were at once summoned,
hui all efforts failed To revive him.
Without Il sign OF recognition IL Mrs&se
around him he passed away peacefully.
Tom Johnson, Georges campaign
manager, was Immediately sent for.
lie announced a meeting OF tn" George
leaders to he held at il II. III. today
and to determine upon a curse
of action. Il. !. RoskOph. one of the
tultDllSi managers F'''F S
has said thai should his election not
he possible he preferred Low as the
next mayor. ! believe the votes That
would have gone 10 George WIZ DC
thrown for Seth Low.
Since his nomination for the mayor
Of Greater New York by the Jefferson
ian democrats a month ago he mas
been making an extremely active can
rass. working early and late, speaking
several times each evening. HIS an
lidacy gave the campaign the greatest
clement of uncertainty. anu r\Iert
politicians were unable TO estimate
now much of Bryan's vote would go 10
him, instead of Van Nyck OF lam
many. Newspaper men reporting MS
speeches noticed signs h a he was
falling down. NJ times he was moo
herent and his speeches were ol'el'
Gambling. Within the past day or 'W'
lose friends have noted with "ppre-
tension the marked changes "a ms
manner and appearance. liI> eyes
rev dull. wrinkles came al the cor
lers and they were sunken ana hoi-
ow, and even his voice, usually reso-
1ant and pleasant, was pitched almost
% a piping treble. I'm conversation he
.Sas d%uerul0us, and he seemed ID one
whose nerves were so highly wrought
hat they might snap without a warm
~.
Henry George. political economist was
BORN in Philadelphia September =. lN"l. lie
went to sea at an early age and. reaching
California i'm l>jS. remained there, b'Com-
ing finally "A journalist. In Is" n pub
tshed "Progress and Poverty, "" On was
Iss,al IN ,h. fnllpuinn NGDT IN Now YORK
London. and soon acquitted 4 wof d.
vide reputation. This book Is can II iuiry
nto the cause of industrial IMPRESSIONS
nd of increase of want, with increase or
In which the previously held do
rines. as 10 the distribution OF wealth and
he tendency OF wages To n minimum, are
xanined n reconstruc,ed IN ne Tact
s;sAsSsa SssssssS 3 go M. IA n u ssss 49,
zion of the produce OF wealth fhsH goes
% labor and capital. while In the sbccula-
i've holding Of lam thus ~engendcred he
races the iendency 10 force wages TO Il
minimum and the primary cause of par
,xysms of Industrial depression. The rem
.dy for these he declares 10 be the appro-
oriation of rent by the community. thus
making land virtually common property.
while giving to the user secure possession.
and leaving the producer lhe fun advant-
of his exertion and Investment. In
1850 Mr.. George rcmoved To New York. In
1881 he published The IRISH Land Cues
and in the same year visited Ire
and and England. In lss3-S4 he again VS.
ted England and Scotland, at the invita-
ion of the English Land Reform Union,
making speeches ON the land question,
and i'm 1885 he made another trip AT tn
invitation Of the Scottish Land Restora-
zion League, producing on both tours a
marked effect In 1856 he WAS the candi-
date of the united labor party for mayor
Of New York. and received IS, 10 votes.
against M,552 for Abram s. Hewitt. he
candidate and Gd.f3j for Theo-
lore Roosevelt, the republican candidate
Soon after this Mr.. George founded IN,
standard. a weekly newspaper. which he
still edits lHSO. He also published Social
Problems tlSS4l. ard Protection or Free
Trade 1855. The latter is "A radical ex.
animation of the tariff question, In which
Ia made between the Contro-
Versy on that subject, and the views as
10 land. with which Mr.. George has be-
identified.