copies were sold," he said towards the end of his life, ¹ "but
I saw that to command attention the work must be done
more thoroughly." The work was done more thoroughly
eight years later when "Progress and Poverty" was
written.

Two articles by Henry George appeared in the "Over-
land Monthly" during this year of 1871, one in February
entitled, "How Jack Breeze Missed Being a Pasha," and
the other in December entitled, "Bribery in Elections," in
which, pointing at the shameless corruption at the polls
in the fall election when Haight was overwhelmed by rail-
road money, George advocated the adoption in California
of the Australian ballot system. But these efforts were
trifling compared with the pamphlet, "Our Land and Land
Policy." This latter was set aside for a time in a new
era of newspaper activity.

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