Ownership of land in California,
therefore, passed within a comparative
ly few years through all the changes
from that shown in t he primitive con
dition of man to the most varied and
complete relations, relations strongly
actuated by sudden and great changes,
wrought by the adjustment ot the laws
of two successive governments, the
rapid development of the vast material
resources of the country and the new
state of things brought about by the
speak, the most beautiful agricultural
region on earth, the land that could
railroad grants.
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Brought to his keen observation and j
critical analysis every aspect of the
problem he wished to solve was thus j
in California literally spread out be
fore the eyes of Henry George. The
result was the book "Progress and
Poverty," the towering monument of
his life work. It was while he was on
the San Francisco Bulletin, however,
that he began to develop his land the
ories, and one day the Bulletin people j
dismissed him without warning. I hen
he struggled for a year or so with a
newspaper, the Post. Senator J. P.
Tones, who liked George, put in $20,- J
000 and kept it going another year,
and Mr. Jones, by that time had $1 20,
000 in it. Then Mr. Jones' man of
affairs, said to Jones, "Don't you see
that Harry George is conducting this
paper in the wrong way? Don't you
see he is against us capitalists?" Jones
was made to see it, and in two or three
days the Post passed into other hands.
