The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-30

| Pyramid Drug Co.,, Albion, Mich. ping for rest, I asked g. passing team ster, for want of something else to say, what land was worth there. He point ed to some cows grazing off so far that they looked like mice, and said: "I don't know exactly, but there is a man over | there who will sell some land for a thousand dollars an acre."
 | Like a flash it came upon me that l there was the reason. With the growth of population land grows in value, and the men who work it must pay more for the privilege. I turned back, amid quiet thought. The perception that | then came to me has been with me | ever since.
 In 1871 I wrote a. pamphlet entitled "Our Land and Land Policy, National | and State." In this set forth the idea which l have since maintained-the idea that the value of land belongs to the whole community, and that all rev enues should be raised by taxes upon it. l sold of this book probably a thou sand copies at a good price. but feel 1 ing that I should go to greater length and more thoroughly into this question, I refrained from sending it east. That was the origin of Progress and | Poverty" the book which made MT. i Georges reputation. To write 1t he gave up an unprofitable share in a newspaper enterprise and secured from Governor Irwin an appointment as in- spector of gas meters in San Francisco, which required little time and furnish | n1 Nf oc | finished in 1879, was rejected by pub fishers till his former partner, Hinton in the job printing business, offered to make the plates. George set up some of the type himself. After a private edition was out Appleton & Co.,, in 1SS0 brought out the book
 In that year MT. George left Cali fornia, went by way of New York to Ireland and England, where he lec- tured on his ideas. A cheap English edition of his book had an extraordi- nary success to which the London Times gave an impulse by a page re- view. That sold the book everywhere. The author devoted himself to writing and talking up his theories. In 1883 he was invited back to England. He wrote . Trade" lost the manuscript, and wrote it again.
 Georges campaign in 1886 as a candi- date for mayor of New York has as tonishing results. He was the labor candidate and ran against Abram S.. Hewitt, who was elected by 90,552 votes, and Theodore Roosevelt, who got 60,- 495. George got 6S,10o votes, and he always insisted that he was counted out; that if the ballots had been fairly counted he would have been elected. Since then MT. Georges theories have lost ground, and he has lived quetly, | most of the time at Fort Hamilton, still writing, and often iecturing, but seldom taking part in politics. When he did it was usually against the boss es, in support of the reform and citi- zens' movements for which he desired always to have the labor vote cast When he accepted the nomination this year he interrupted work on the book which he believed was to be his mas terpiece, Science of Political Econ- omy."
 | MT. George was nominated for mayor by the united democracy on September 27. He was also made the candidate of three other organizations-the peo- ple's party, the democratic alliance and what was known as the Sixteen to- One clubs They regarded him as the ex- ponent of true democracy as express ed by the Chicago platform, although MT. George did not accept it in its en- tirety. Owing to quarrels and rivalry between the democratic alliance and united democracy, he detached his can didacy from both, and formed an or ganization of his own called the democ- racy of Thomas Jefferson, and drafted new platform similar to the Chicago document except for the reference to free silver.
 | THE NEWS IN LONDON OF MIR. i GEORGES DEATH.
 London, Oct. 29.-The newspapers to- day are devoting much attention to the death of Henry George, the candidate of the Jeffersonian democracy for the office of mayor of Greater New York, publishing long sketches of hts career l a,l ,,bi1oconbioaJ otd economical thaO-