 The truth is, and from this truth there can be no escape, that there is and can be no just title to an exclusive possession of the soil, and that private property in land is a bold, bare, enormous wrong, like that of chattel slavery.  Natural Law in the Business World - Page 84by Henry Wood - 1887 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry George - 1879 - 600 pages
...pressure, the working classes are being ground. CHAPTER III. CLAIM OF LAND OWNERS TO COMPENSATION. The truth is, and from this truth there can be no...bare, enormous wrong, like that of chattel slavery. The majority of men in civilized communities do not recognize this, simply because the majority of... | |
 | 1888 - 972 pages
...there is and can be no just t ¡Ut; to exclusive possession of the soil, and that private properly in 'land is a bold, bare, enormous wrong, like that of chattel slavery. * * * The examination through which we have passed, has proved conclusively that private property in... | |
 | Moses Lewis Scudder - 1887 - 176 pages
...increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground." Same book and page, Chapter III. begins : "The truth is, and from this truth there can be no...bare, enormous wrong, like that of chattel slavery." LAND OWNERSHIP ROBBERY. This chapter is devoted to the discussion of the question of compensating the... | |
 | Reuben C. Rutherford - 1887 - 352 pages
...not the land, without which the wealth is worthless to the creator of it. We return to Mr. George : "The truth is, and from this truth there can be no...bare, enormous wrong, like that of chattel slavery." (P. 332-) "From this one great fundamental wrong flow want and misery, and vice and shame." (P. 327.)... | |
 | VAN BUREN DENSLOW - 1888 - 826 pages
...back, the identical title to the land which he uses his pen to attack. Again he says, ibid. (p. 257) : "The truth is, and from this truth there can be no...bare, enormous wrong, like that of chattel slavery. "The majority of men in civilized communities do not recognize this, simply because the majority of... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - 1888 - 846 pages
...back, the identical title to the land which he uses his pen to attack. Again he says, ibid. (p. 257) : "The truth is, and from this truth there can be no escape, that there ie and can be no just title to an exclusive possession of the soil, and that private property in land... | |
 | 1889 - 878 pages
...title of chapter 3, suggests the contents of it, namely : " Claim of land owners to compensation." " The truth is, and from this truth there can be no escape, that there is and can be no just title to exclusive possession of the soil, and that private property in land is a bold, bare, enormous wrong,... | |
 | Henry George - 1911 - 594 pages
...that to many of his hearers it was an anti-climax. CHAPTER III. CLAiM OF LAND OWNERS TO COMPENSATION. The truth is, and from this truth there can be no...escape, that there is and can be no just title to an eiclusive possession of the soil, and that private property in land is a bold, bare, enormous wrong,... | |
 | Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - 1893 - 534 pages
...indication of the divine will. *Single Tax platform, cited above. t Progress and Poverty, p. 322. " Private property in land is a bold, bare, enormous wrong, like that of chattel slavery." } On the other hand, if the right is not inalienable, we have in our collective capacity gone through... | |
 | 1899 - 972 pages
...criminality, let us judge from what Mr. George said, not from what Mr. Shearman wishes he had said: "The truth is, and from this truth there can be no...bare, enormous wrong, like that of chattel slavery." Again: <(In the name of the Prophet — figs ! If the land of any country belong to the people of that... | |
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