Spencer Heath Archive

Item 189

Pencil by Heath on small lined notepad paper.

No date

     Government, in the sense of rulership is always tyranny — some form and degree of slavery. In its right and proper sense government is a service — and a business, and like all other business it consists in the administration of property — in this case public property — for the interest and service of others and for recompense agreed to, paid and received as ground rent.

     The rent of land, then, in any community is payment for its public services, and the value of the land is the value of these services. When the land and the public capital appurtenant to it are well administered

     The land, with all its permanent improvements, both public and private, constitutes the Real Property, the Real Ownership of the Community — The Real Estate of the Realm. Like any other property, it can be administered successfully only by its owners. Successful administration means, literally, service to a clientele as the recipients of services from whom flows the income to maintain the property and to reward and recompense its owners for its successful administration.

     The administration of Real Estate is thus the administration of the community property, the fundamental community or public service, the one and only form under which government can be administered as public services. Such services command their own income, create their own proper values, the values of the Real Property — The Real Estate — The Common-wealth of the social and civilized realm.

For forms of Government let fools contest Whate’er is best administered is best