New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-31
TABLETS FOR REFORMERS
Bronze Bass-Reliefs Of Henry
George and Garrison Unveiled.
ATTACK ON Mr.. ROOSEVELT
T. III. Osborne Says He Rejoices
in Prizefghts and the Butch
ering OF Animals.

| While hundreds OF spectators stood in the
rain and cheered for George the Third, ;"
| the little grandson of the advocate of the
single tax, Henry George Sd, unveiled yes
| terday afternoon at the Union Square Ho-
tel bronze tablet commemorative the
work of his famous crandfat Their. little
| ter the same persons went to the West
moreland Hotel and took part in the cere-
mony attending the unwilling of a tablet
| IN memory Of William Lloyd Garrison. the
| flag was pulled aside by Henry s. Willard,
! q great-grandson of the refornler.
! Each tablet is simple in design, showing
| profile bass-relief of the head. and IS
| erected where the man it commentaries
| died. The memorials are the work of Ricn-
! ard F. George. second son of Henry George
! The ceremonies were held under the au-
! spices of the Garrisor-George Tablet Com
mittee. of which Joseph II. Choate is chair
man and Bolton Hall is treasurer. Among
/ those present were Mrs. Henry Willard, a
daughter Of Garrison; Harold G.. Willard.
William Lloyd Garrison. Sd. Henry George.
I'd, and his family, Richard F. George and
many friends and admirers of the two re-
formers.
Bolton Hall opened the exercises by read
| ing a letter from Lyman Abbott, in which
he wrote:
Henry George in dealing with the prob
] lem of poverty went to the root of the
J matter. He has been accused of denying
the right of property. He did not deny 1t;
| he defined it, and, in my Judgment, he de-
| fired IL correctly. The budget In England,
the conservation movement in the united
States, have grown out of his doctrine,
that the soil and its products belong TO the
community. not to the individual. save as
the community gives them to the individ-
ual. and that one generation cannot give
away IN perpetuo the property of genera
lions to follow. The recognition Of this
twofold doctrine of society will not put an
end to poverty. hut it viii do much to put
an end to that form of poverty Whlch is
due to social injustice
! Former Congressman Robert Baker, OF
Brooklyn after speaking of the significance
of Georges work introduced Louis F. Post.
! Of Chicago. editor of 1.-The Public who
said that George will stand for centuries
as the pioneer advocate of abolition of
monopoly IN land, without the free use
| of which men are slaves. He was not OPP
posed 10 private property. but stood against
the private ownership of land. IT has been
said that George hoped to abolish poverty
| he wished rather to give every man the
opportunity TO abolish his own poverty. He
| sought 20 solve the enigma Of ever increas-
| ing poverty in the midst of Astounding
wealth George stood for no class; he stood
for men"
Thomas NJ Osborne. Of Auburn. who
delivered a tribute to Garrison. said that
I'VE live in an era somewhat similar to
Garrison's) of widespread cynicism and
lack of faith in popular institutions" In
the course of his address he said:
| Garrison began his agitation when the
nation had made for itself popular idol,
and for that purpose had selected man or
nasty and violent passions and prejudices.
| of little training or education except that
of rough frontier and military camp. and
q slave owner We live in period when
the nation has made for itself another
popular idol, man of no training in accu-
racy either by profession or business, q
man who reioices in prizefghts and whole
| sale butchering of animals. one who has
| delighted to arouse in our youth the love
of war for it's own sake, and the retarded
development of whose own boyish ener-
pies has carried the barbsrism of boyhood
far into q restless and famboyant middle
age,
Il would not deny to either popular idol
| the possession of many sterling virtues,
hut the change from Jefferson to Jackson
as the exponent of progressive principles
was certainly disquieting to thoughtful
| lovers of democracy. and certainly not less