Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-11-06
death Of HENRY GEORGE
IN THE MIDST OF THE CAMPAIGN.
Attack of Cerebral ApGplexy Closes
the Career of the Distinguished
Single Taxer-Henry George. Jr..
Put Up for Mayor.

the Career of the Disting uish ed
Single Taxer-Henry George. Jr..
Put Up for Mayor.
New York, Oct. 3O.-Henry George, au
| thor Of progress and Poverty and can
didate Of the Thomas JeetIrson democracy
for mayor Of New York, died yesterday
morning in the Union Square hotel Of
cerebral apoplexy.
! In his great Cooper Union speech ac-
cepting the nomination for mayor, less
race if it costs NE my ite. This is call
] to duty, and as Il good citizen | have no
! right to disregard it on account of mere
personal consideration
/ Today the cheers of the workers have
suddenly been changed to sighs, for, true
to his words, Henry George, the apostle
OF the rights of man, died as he wished
to die-in harness, fighting for the cause
toward the close of the greatest munich
pal political contest the world has ever
seen.
The end was peaceful and he died with
out pain. This man Of mighty brain and
undaunted courage was physically frail,
and the strain OF an exciting campaign,
requiring speech making at points many
miles apart, night after night, was more
than nature could stand. He kept it up
to the end, and only 3, few hours before
the dread messenger cried halt, Henry
George had addressed enthusiastic audi
ences in three of the towns of the borough
OF Queens, and still larger assemblage in
an uptown hall here. He spoke at White
stone at S o'clock and made a speech at
College Point and Flushing Before return
ing to New York to speak at the Central
opera house.
At Whitestone he drove from the rail
way station to the meeting hall at a gal
lop. To the cheering crowds he said: Il
| believe that all the needed reforms are
summed up in that philosophy-th right
OF very man to eat, to drink, to speak as
he sees fit, so long as he does not trench
on the rights of any other man. believe
that God, the Father, can take care of
His laws-there is no need for us to get
into trouble trying to meddle with Gods
laws, to enforce them. If am elected, as
| believe that | will be, / will enforce the
laws upon the rich and poor alike
In the same speech he repeated his
threats against Croker in a ringing voice
that greatly affected his hearers, saying:
Let him go to the penitentiary; he shall
go there -...-.- ....5.
Mrs. George accompanied her husband
on most Of his speech making trips and
was with him last night. Newspaper men
who have been with George during the
campaign have felt that the strain was
surely and rapidly breaking him down.
At times he has been incoherent. His
whole temperament underwent a com
plete change. His speeches, delivered by
the half-doZen each day, We're often ram
bling, though their trend was ever faith
full to the toilers whose devoted champion
he has been all his life
Henry George was born September 2,
| 1899. He received a common school ed
ucation and then went into d counting
room. He was also a sailor and after:
ward learned the printers trade. In 1858
| he reached California. where he worked at
the printers case until 1866, when he be
came a reporter and afterward editor,
working at different times on the San
Francisco Times and the Post. He return
ed to New Y York in 1880 and went to Eng
land and Ireland the following year,
where he was twice arrested as a sus
pect, but afterward released when his
| identity became established.
Mr.. George is best known to the world
at large through his writings upon eco
nomic questions, notably his work EN-.
titled Progress and Proverty,; published
in 1879 His other works are: 'Our Land
Policy" in 1871: Irish Land Question: =
in 1887; ''Social Problems" in 1888, and
''Property in Land" a controversy with
/ the duke of Argyle, in 1884; sThe Con
dition Of Labor an open letter to Pope
Leo XIII, in 1889, and ''Pelplexed Philos-
opher" Herbert Spencer, in 1892
In 1886 Mr.. George was nominated by
the united labor party for mayor Of New
York. polling 6S,0O0 votes, against 10000
for bram S. Hewitt, the democratic nom
inee, and 10000 for Theodore Roosevelt,
now assistant secretary Of the navy IRE
publican). ..
Henry George, Jr., for Mayor.
New York, Oct. 3O.-The Thomas JET
ferson democracy, Immediately substitut-
ed the name Of Henry George, Jr., for the
name Of his father Henry George, as can
didate for mayor of Greater: New York.
Henry George, Jr., is about 80 years of
ace. He is literary in tastes and was at
one time managing editor of the Jackson
Vile (Fla.) Citizen. He has accepted the
nomination Of the Jeffersonian demo-
Gratis, which was rendered him unani-
mously.
i The absence of soft water is no excuse
/ for hard drinking.