Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1532

Carbon of letter from Heath to Edmund A. Opitz, c/o The Freeman Magazine, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York

September 13, 1954

 

 

Dear Mr. Opitz:

     I have been profoundly gratified that someone, at least, is able to penetrate the meaning and methods of the widespread conspiracy even within the highest organizations presumably standing for Christian freedom against the partially, as well as the absolutely, totali­tarian political powers of the world. Your article in The Freeman is deeply perceptive and should be vastly enlightening to many persons who are confused and drift­ing in their unawakened minds.

     I am strongly persuaded that the tap root of the modern respectable diabolism against the ownership, and thereby the contractual administration, of property, and the free relationships that cannot be otherwise achieved — that the tap root against all this campaign against civilization can be found in the false notion that income from the administration of property is anti-Social and anti-Christian.

     As far as I can trace it back, it seems to rest primarily on a misconception of the modern institution of property in land, giving rise to the idea that such income is unearned, and the time-worn epithet of “un­earned increment.”

     This anti-Social notion, however originated, is con­trary to the secular philosophy of the Man of Nazareth, yet has been and is being most powerfully advanced by conventional Christianity in its pagan and political organizational aspects.

     As bearing on this, I have briefly, in the enclosed pamphlet, analyzed that element of the so-called Christian philosophy which in the rhetoric of the late Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn so succinctly sets out its supposedly Christian foundations against private property in land and attacks its social and contractual, in favor of arbitrary political, administration.

     I hope you will find some value in my small contribution as I have found much in yours.

 

                            Sincerely,

 

 

SH/m

Enc: “The Trojan Horse of ‘Land Reform’”