The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-30

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Mr. George first care he~e Fl IS O.
Board re E7stsss S12.es ship Sauh-sex -
a1ca 1e E-as p2rser's CLERK HIS cousin.
S@ETss Gecrgs Ass already established
Hsre EAS frs employment IN this civ
vas n tee capacity - fabors~ n ! -ics
E-l O. e-ernQEf street but II tS5s zhe-
TIE Fraser wlve< excitement started. hsS
coNsia ard Q. 2. GrtHSa opened a miners
Supply house IN Eic-orza sns sent Henry
CO % conduct IL SIX months later. how
eve re returned q tbs city and srsr4as
saasl weekly known as TIE Hone Isur-
"a. i was 10 8 success Re thar vent
= work As & co1spossro~. Il zSss n --s--
r1ea Miss Annie C. Tex and shortly atte--
Wa7o went 20 Sacramento. Re SON re-
tarnea, however. and began % write for
tie local pspers
MS work or The Examiner ed . rs A.
p0lzt1e1< as eS5tc- a. re Chr1nsc3e h,ss
= soo7 lsfz that paper and rted another
NeeklE- known as TIE Safe A few
naaai1s later he was sent East ga esrrs-
SaenoeEt f1r ire Daily Herald. published
~ a0nD SHge1t- He returned here in rSSs
arc at1sr working for several Iocal pape~s
Started The Evening Pest He disposed OF
ms four years later and Vas appointed
~ Gov. Iran as Inspector q gas meters
wears Meantime. during rs I-isure hours
be was az work on his book Progress and
Poverty" He taen went East and took
~ his permanent residence n New York.
Henry George was born September :
1se. IN Philadelphia re entered the high
school IN isSS and afterwards went into a
mercantile Office. Then he went 70 sea for
q Few years. and in 1855 reached California
on merchant sailing vessel before the
mast he then learned the printing trade
ana worked for some years as a compos-
ter Like most Califoruians Of that day.
he tried his hand for a time az placer
mining. After some active newspaper ex-
pefzence as a reporter and editorial writer
in iS1 be Joined with TWO Others IN found
Ing the San Francisco Post, which he
edited with conspicuous ability Cor few
years.
His mind was occupied with the social
problem Of the distribution % wealth and
II 1871, IN pamphlet entitled Our Land
and Land Policy" ne outlined The theories
winch have since made him widely known.
aid which he subsequently, set out more
81 length His connection with the Post
ceased IN 1si5, bat ne has continued 10
write for the newspapers ever since that
date.
His principal work Progress and Pow
erty, attracted considerable attention i'm
stu more when repubHshed In Europe IL
has been translated into several languages.
and has been criticised " political ee3no-
mIstS and social philosophers % a schools.
Ia the fact that rent tends 70 increase not
cnly with the increase IN population but
with ali Improvements thai increase pro-
ouctlve capacity. Mr.. George believed ne
found the cause OF the well-known tend
ency 10 the increase in land values and TO
Hs4fF Of in Of -.
produce o. wealth that goes 70 labor and
capital. while 10 the speculative holding
OF land thus engendered ne traced the
tendency 10 force wages 70 a minimum.
and the primary cause Of paroxysms OF in
dustrial depression. The remedy for thess
he declared 10 be the appropriation, under
the guiss OF taxation, OF all rents by he
community thus making lad virtually
common property. while givir 20 the user
secure possession. The s-.eas thus put for
ward form the principal tenet OF faith OF
the so-called single takers"
Besides much miscellaneous writing in
support OF his theories he has published
The Land Question" QSS1): Social Prob
lens dsSD: Protection or Free Trade
usS6); The Condition of Labor. an Open
Letter to Pope Leo XIII" dS9Tl: "A Per-
picked Philosopher" an arraignment OF
Herbert Spencer and his theories 0S2l.
IN iss0 Mr.. George removed from Cali
fornia 10 New York. and in 1881 went 10
ireland as a newspaper correspondent 10
examine the actual condition Of the coun-
try. and vas arrested as a suspect but
was subsequently released With apologies.
He visited England again in 1873, and
lectured In the principal cities. advocat-
ing the theories advanced in his book and
causing controversies among the pOltd-
clans as well as the social philosophers.
and in 1SS4-5 he made another trip at the
invitation Of the Scottish Land Restora-
ton League producing a marked effect.
In 1856 he was the candidate Of the Uni
ted Labor party for mayor Of New York
and received $40 votes. against so552 for
Abram 5 Hewitt the Democratic candi-
date and &C. i5S fer Theodore Roosevelt.
the Republican candidate and present as
sistant secretary Of the navy. In 1857 he
was the candidate OF the United Labor
party for secretary Of state OF New York.
These campaigns served 10 popularlze both
his single tax ideas and the Australian ball
lot SYSTEM OF which he was an ardent adj
vccate
IN the present campaign for the mayor
aity 81 Greater New York he was the
candidate OF the free silver wing of the
Democratic party. the so-called Jefferso-
Man Democracy. and had besides the in
dorsemeu: OF several minor political organ
lzations. Including the single takers, labor
unions and Knights Of Labor.
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