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Show HOW GREaTmen MAKE LOVE AS REVEALED BY THEIR LOVE LETTERS By JOSEPH KAYE -' by IV ,r B)Jk..,., ,; " HENRY GEORGE AND ANNIE FOX Jl" KVi:u n limn knew what the very dregs of poverty were that man was Henry George, the founder of the sin-tile sin-tile tax. To what depths a man so Intellectual In-tellectual and gifted as lioorge was could be driven can be sen from the following ,.ntry , hls (lhl,.Vi Imu(? nt a time when he whs living i San Francisco Fran-cisco trying to make h living through printing Jobs, nd when his second child had Just been born: "I walked along the street and made up my mind to get money from the tirst man whose appearance might Indicate In-dicate that he had It to give. I mopped n man a stranger and told him that I wanted $5. He asked me what I wanted It for. I tolj 1,1,,, that my wife was contlned and that I had nothing to give her to eat. He gave me the money. If he had not, I think I was desperate enough to kill him." And the bravery of tho young wife who bad to stand this! To her great credit It is to be recorded that she bore her trials with cheerfulness and lived the life of a gypsy, with no complaint com-plaint to make her husband's lot harder hard-er than it nl ready was. In this darkest moment of Henry George's life bis wife was a beacon which upheld and guided him safely to the port of better times. And a note which be sent to his wife during this period shows how greatly he treasured treas-ured her: "Times seem pretty dull here but I think I can get along. Anyhow, we will try. I stayed nt the 'What Cheer House' last night. My darling, I don't know how much I love you until I am separated from you." I don't believe I could live without you. And the dear Httle fellow how I love him!" Henry George was born in Philadelphia Philadel-phia In 1S39 and had a varied career until he came to Ills life-work. At fourteen he left school nnd worked for a time in a store. Then he shipped as a foremast boy on a ship bound for Australia. Returning to America he learned printing nnd the desire for traveling seizing him again he went on s U. S. lightship and worked his way to California. Hearing of gold being struck in British Brit-ish Columbia. Canada, he turned his attention nest to prospecting In that country but returned to California and engaged variously as a printer, reporter re-porter and editor In coast cities. His journalistic success was meager because of bis uncompromising stand against monopolies. From this period -in, however, he began to develop his theories of the single tax nnd a well-paying well-paying position in the California state civil service being obtained for him. he had enough leisure to write his celebrated cele-brated book, "Progress and Poverty," which brought him the recognition of the world as an economist. George ran twice for mayor of New York city. The first time he was defeated de-feated and the second race, entered into against the advice of his doctor, resulted fatally for him. Already In a weakened condition, the campaign requirements re-quirements proved too strenuous for him, and, only four days before the election he died. Among the most famous of George's followers was the Russian writer and reformer, Tolstoy. |