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The article discussed the thoughts of the activist Henry George in light of land reform movements. Although activist Henry George, at age thirty-nine, was still somewhat of a tyro at public speaking, at the end of the relatively brief west-coast "training phase" of his speaking in the Land League Movements his accomplishments and progress were substantial and significant. A little later, after extensive practice on the platforms of Ireland, Scotland, and England, he was to become infinitely better, especially in delivery, the effective use of humor, audience contact and adaptation, and persuasiveness; yet, even with all of the hazards and encumbrances of the manuscript mode of presentation, he was already well above the average of the day as a public speaker. In the five-week political campaign series of 1876, after starting out with a very carefully worked-out manuscript speech, he quickly made the transition over into the extemporaneous mode as the basic materials became so thoroughly familiar as to be always instantly at hand. In his longer, broader, and much more significant land-reform career, he followed in grand scale exactly the same pattern that is here seen in small scale.