San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-30
BOURKE COCHRAN PAUSES IN HIS
ATTACK ON GEORGES THEO-
RIES FOR PRAISE.
DR., Edward McGlynn Pays A Hearty
And Loving Tribute To The Dead
Leader - Memorial Meeting.
Erastus Wyman Speaks
OF His Virtues.

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McGlynn pays this tribute to the late
Henry George:
II do not think that it is merely the
enthusiastic language of a devoted
friend to say that as the providence OF
God raised up a Washington to be the
father of his country and endowed him
with such gifts and gave him such ex-
periences that we might well believe
that without them the Republic would
not have been achieved; as in similar
crisis those gifts and character were
so plainly providential that none but
men with little faith in God could
doubt that he had been prepared for
and sent upon a mission by the father
in Heaven. So Henry George, by his
extraordinary gifts and career, showed
that he was marked out by the proVi-
dence of God to be a foremost leader
and teacher in the work ofemancipation
of the masses of men everywhere from
an industrial slavery so often worse
and more CALLING than mere chattel
slavery and to hasten the coming and
perpetuate the duration, not merely OF
a larger and more perfect American
union of states, but of common
wealth of the United States and the
world.
well shall it be for us Americans
If we shall not be recreant to our OPP
portunities, and if the masses of the
American people shall accept the teach
ings of Henry George. The only alter
native to such an acceptance is a con-
slant deterioration, an ever increasing
political corruption, and the enormous
increase of sordid monopolies, the
building up here of an unprecedented
and brutal aristocracy of wealth and
the constantly increasing impoverish-
ment of the masses.
IF the wondrously beautiful phil
osophy of Henry George shall not be
accepted in practice, later generations
of Americans if not our own genera
ton, will surely be doomed to see OPP
pressed masses, brutaliZed by their
poverty and enthralment, rise up to
vengeance and perhaps use unwise and
abhorrent measures for the righting of
their wrongs, but on a larger scale,
much greater numbers Of men might
more than repeat the horrors of the
French revolution.
Il, myself, am no politician. 1 am
a clergyman, and hope not lacking in
patriotism and humanity and what
have said, and my attitude toward
Mr.. George, so far as from being incon-
sistent with my religion are largely
dictated by my religion itself, namely,
the religion of Him, who felt compass
sion for the multitude and who learn
ed us to pray for the coming on earth
of a kingdom of peace and perfect jus
tice and brotherhood, which he did not
disdain to call the Kingdom of Heaven
upon EARTH"
Joseph Soate, speaking at a Seth Low
meeting in the American theatre, said:
"A leader of men has fallen among
us. A great leader of a mighty host
of men has fallen by death. No more
heroic or tragic scene was ever present.
ed in this country. No more useful or
unselfsh life was ever lived. All his
days he was championing the welfare
of his fellow men and warning against
oppression. His last days, his last
hours, yes, even his last minutes, were
spent warning against the most brutal
oppression that ever tried to evade the
liberties and sacrifice the welfare of
the people of the city he and we loved
alike. Henry George was a hero who
fell as a martyr in a great cause"
A Henry George meeting was held
in the German club rooms at Stapleton,
Erastus wyman, presided. The speak
ers' table was draped with an Ameri-
can flag bordered with black. About
Henry Georges picture was wreath
of black. The supporters of Mr.. George
also secured a car on the short line of
electric railway and caused it be run
over the line all night. 1t was draped
in black and bore on either side pic
ture of the dead man.
A resolution of coincidence was adopt
ed by the meeting and number Of adj
dresses were made, extolling the vir-
tues of the dead candidate. Among the
speakers were Erastus Wyman and
I of Kansas