Editing Henry George (section)

=== Career in journalism ===
[[File:Henry George.jpg|thumb|left|upright|George in 1865, age 26]]

After deciding against [[Placer mining|gold mining]] in British Columbia, George was hired as a printer for the newly created San Francisco ''Times''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Formaini |first1=Robert L. |date=June 2005 |title=Henry George : Antiprotectionist Giant of American Economics |url=https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/economic-insights-federal-reserve-bank-dallas-6360/henry-george-607563 |url-status=live |journal=Economic Insights of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas |volume=10 |issue=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923212501/http://www.dallasfed.org/assets/documents/research/ei/ei0502.pdf |archive-date=September 23, 2015 |access-date=October 28, 2014}}</ref> He was able to immediately submit editorials for publication, including the popular ''What the Railroads Will Bring Us'' (1868),<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ahj1472.1-01.004|title=What the Railroad Will Bring Us |volume=1 |issue=4 |date=October 1868 |pages=297–306|first=Henry|last=George|journal=Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine}}</ref> which remained required reading in California schools for decades.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}} George climbed the ranks of the ''Times'', eventually becoming managing editor in the summer of 1867.<ref>Henry, George, Jr. ''[https://archive.org/details/lifehenrygeorge01georgoog The Life of Henry George]''. New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1900, chap. 11.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=George, Henry |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Henry_George.aspx |website=Encyclopedia.com |publisher=International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences |access-date=October 28, 2014}}</ref>

George's first nationally prominent writing was his 1869 essay ''The Chinese in California'', in which he wrote that Chinese immigration should be ended before Chinese immigrants overrun the western United States.<ref name="Crean" />{{Rp|page=27}}

George worked for several papers, including four years (1871–1875) as editor of his own newspaper, the ''San Francisco Daily Evening Post'', and for a time running the ''Reporter'', a Democratic anti-monopoly publication.<ref>Charles A. Barker, "Henry George and the California Background of ''Progress and Poverty''," ''California Historical Society Quarterly'' 24, no. 2 (Jun. 1945), 103–104.</ref><ref>''Dictionary of American Biography,'' s.v. "George, Henry," pp. 211–212.</ref><ref name="anb.org">Montgomery, ''American National Biography Online,'' s.v. "George, Henry," http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00261.html Accessed September 3, 2011.</ref> George experienced four tough years of trying to keep his newspaper afloat and was eventually forced to go to the streets to beg. The George family struggled, but George's improving reputation and involvement in the newspaper industry lifted them from poverty.