Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — DEATH OF HENRY GEORGE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH OF HENRY GEORGE.

Noted Apostle of BiugleTax Succumbs to Apoplexy. Henry George, the apostle of single tax, died suddenly at 5 o’clock Friday morning in his room at the Union Square Hotel, New York City. Apoplexy was the cause. Mr. George made four speeches Thursday night in his campaign as candhX.ie for Mayor of Greater New York, and was very fatigued when he retired. It is believed the sudden attack that ended his life was brought on by the unusually severe strain occasioned by his speech-mak-ing. Henry George was the mayoralty candidate of the silver Democrats of Greater New York,' He had made up to the night before his death a red hot campaign, in which he promised, if elected, to do his best to send Richard Croker to the penitentiary. To his denunciations of Croker he added denunciations of Senator Thomas C. Platt. He had entered the contest with great earnestness, and his campaign speeches throughout were marked with

great fervor anti earnestness. His exhaustive labors are thought to have led directly to his death. Henry George was born in Philadelphia; on Sept. 2, 1839, and as a boy went toCalifornia. He drifted into jotrrua'lism in San Francisco and attained some celebrity as a writer on political theories* In. 1879 he published Progress and Poverty, which acquired a world-wide reputation. In it he gave the result of his investigations among the poor of the- great citiesand his theories for reform. About the same time he first expressed his plan of taxing property on a single value —that is. taxing the land itself and not the improvements thereon. This was the-origin of the single tax doctrine. In 1880 be removed to New York.. Tile following year he published a 1 volume on Ireland and England. His publications of various theories on political economy made him one of the best known men in the country. In 1886 he was the can«UA date of the laboring element for Mayor of New York. but. was defeated by Abram S. Hewitt by 22,»00 votes. He led Tlieodore Roosevelt, the Republican nominee, by 8,000 votes. Ever since then Mr. George has been more or less- identified with political movements.

HENRY GEORGE.