The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-11-08
HENRY GEORGES PHILOSOPHY.
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named him people Mayor
New Already aged beyond his years the burden
his physical powers intellectually he his best
campaign public sentiment had not been stirred before
since thrilling campaign Mayor Of old New York 1886
The end came near the day spo
night large audiences widely separated places
nearly midnight these meetings labor meeting where he
by chairman the great friend Of labor he be
gan his speech recorded in
public 4 claimed be special friend Of labor Let
this call for special privileges have advo-
askedor spectral special sympathy working
What stand for the equal rights Of all men After casual
meeting group his friends and coadutos late that night
when his friends in the morning it
to learnt ia their leader dead.
Henry George endured the oboquy that all who try
wrong things right be that the wrong things profitable
powerful But when he died popular
The feeling expressed by James Bryce the pub
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oeet things tragic Mr. Bryce London newspaper
than Henry Georges this and heartily sorry
that the world him knew him little and respected him
great deal He only Of remarkable literary
very favorable personal
impression my mind the time than years
ago with talked California and
York affairs 1t seemed tom that he quite got justice in this
country No his country either And he has yet got
either country although his has hee this early
freed from the oboqy that unus attached while he lived
the world and fought the quy privilege He get justice
to.
Nor need think that the day this far distant Its delay isl
expnabe grounds
explanabe upon the basis Of philosophical tendency which
has almost its George the field Of social
trovy time when brutal mateaism displacing
tona ideaism proclaimed
rational and its processes practical All ideasm looked alike to
that maeaism, But the accumulate of the recession
materasm against are coming to
that after all this universe of import
Of right adjustments evident physical relations claiming
recognition moral relations Righteousness the old
meetings but infinitely
to and Of God And this opening
ideasm Henry George prophet Rev Frank G
T of st Louis right probably realized at
the time when quoting from editorial OF the period
Georges death the George episode passed he said
here oe ali camp conservatives that the
George episode has just begun"
With Henry George the right thing thing the honest
thing the polite thing Just thing the wise thing He
preached the faith that the faith may be de-
hned as confidence in the practeabty of what right
preached it as communal as well individual duty
that the missing righteousness period Of the world is
attributable to public rather than private EMBELLISHMENTS
the institutional injustice the community individuals which
reaeng injustice Of individuals the community fosters
personal ungheous destroys harmony For the old
idea Of righteousness let justice be done though heavens fall
Henry George substitutes the paraphrase Charles Frederic
Adams, which essence Of the rational deaG that /
now supersedng masm justice be done lest the heavens
aA Those that have to hear, let them hear
oegonan banker has right deposits when he
he nsoyent whenever his liabilities his assets
His liabilities exceed his assets without gross caree
righteousness on his part 1t his duty oaning the money of his
etors 70 take sufficient security protect depostors against
& When he gives away wastes the money who place trust
Nun he IS IN effect thief ought held by both public
non and state law Every right speculate with his
b1t he baen origL} t,~ | 7
oFS VINO takes money from the till and playing poker in
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