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The Condition of Labor: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII
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Economist HENRY GEORGE (1839-1897) was, at the height of his popularity in the 1880s and 1890s, considered the third most famous American, behind Mark Twain and Thomas Edison, and his liberal philosophies on taxation, copyrights, poverty issues, and more continue to influence progressive movements today. Here, in this 1891 work, George issues a passionate call to Pope Leo XXI to reconsider his public denunciation of the very notions of egalitarianism and opportunity that George had championed throughout his career as an economist. This edition also includes the encyclical letter that inspired George's anger. ALSO FROM COSIMO: George's Progress and Poverty, The Science of Political Economy, A Perplexed Philosopher, and Protection or Free Trade.
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The men in the balcony laid down their tools and leaned over the rail with grinning faces. Other workmen from the inner rooms were drawn to the doorways, both in the balcony and on the main floor.
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The Menace of Privilege; a Study of the Dangers to the Republic from the Existence of a Favored Class
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The advent of such a people marks an epoch in the his tory of the world. But it is not of that advent so much as of the central and colossal figure around which its tradi tions cluster that I propose to speak.
Three great religions place the leader of the Exodus upon the highest plane they allot to man. To Christendom and to Islam, as well as to Judaism, Moses is the mouth piece and lawgiver of the Most High; the medium, clothed with supernatural powers, through which the Divine Will has spoken. Yet this very exaltation, by raising him above comparison, may prevent the real grandeur of the man from being seen. It is amid his brethren that Saul stands taller and fairer.
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Henry George was an American journalist and proponent of the single-tax movement.
As a Democrat to represent New York's 17th and 21st Districts in the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses, he served from 1911 to 1915.
Background
Henry George, Jr was the eldest child of Henry George, founder of the single-tax movement, and Annie Fox. He was born on November 3, 1862, in Sacramento, California, when his parents were enduring the first of many years of bitter poverty.
Education
When George had completed the public grammar-school course in San Francisco, whither the family had moved, the father considered that the son had had enough formal education and made him his amanuensis.
The boy helped his father with the copying of the manuscript of Progress and Poverty, at the same time studied shorthand, and for years thereafter was his father’s intimate clerical helper.
When the manuscript of the study was completed, in 1879, he entered a printing-office, learning to set type as his father had done. In 1880 the family moved to New York, and the next year Henry George, his wife and two daughters, sailed for Ireland, to be gone a year.
It was decided that the son should become a reporter on the Brooklyn Eagle, where a place had been made for him by Andrew McLean.
His father chose this in preference to sending him to Harvard because of his distrust of academic learning.
Career
In 1880 the family moved to New York, and the next year Henry George Sr. , his wife and two daughters, sailed for Ireland, to be gone a year. It was decided that the son should become a reporter on the Brooklyn Eagle, where a place had been made for him by Andrew McLean. His father chose this in preference to sending him to Harvard because of his distrust of academic learning. The son in after life followed rules for writing which his father gave him at that time - to make short sentences, use small words, avoid adjectives, and shun "fine writing. " In 1883-1884 he accompanied his father as secretary on a lecturing tour of Great Britain. When the Henry George organ, the Standard, started publication in New York in 1887, young George became correspondence editor, an important post on a paper intended to be the bellwether of a movement. The next year, when his father went to England again, he became the paper's managing editor; but the Standard was already declining, and the son was unable to prevent disaffection in the staff. He had gone through the New York mayoralty campaign with his father in 1886, and again was constantly at his side in the second mayoralty campaign in 1897. When his father died of apoplexy five days before the election, he was nominated to carry the banner of the Jeffersonian party, but received, naturally, only a courtesy vote. George served as Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia North American, New York World, and New York American. In 1906 he went to Japan as correspondent for an American syndicate, and made a similar trip around the world in 1909. In this year he took part in the British budget campaign and visited Count Leo Tolstoy, who had been an admirer of his father. In 1910 he was elected to Congress from the 17th New York District, winning on an anti-tariff platform in a district normally heavily Republican. He was re-elected in 1912. The Menace of Privilege (1905) applied the single-tax doctrine to the abolition of monopolies of the day; The Romance of John Bainbridge (1906) undertook to novelize the life of his father, but with little success. George was unnecessarily burdened with the sense of responsibility for carrying on the single-tax movement, which was well established apart from the further efforts of any one person. He died on November 14, 1916.
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Personality
Henry George, Jr was unnecessarily burdened with the sense of responsibility for carrying on the single-tax movement, which was well established apart from the further efforts of any one person.
Connections
On December 2, 1897, George was married to Marie M. Hitch, of Chicago.