Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1537

Carbon of letter from Heath to Andrew W. Green, R. D. #1, Dauphin, Pennsylvania

November 11, 1954

Dear Mr. Green:

     Returning from the south, I am happy to find among my correspondence that my grandson has established by proxy an acquaintanceship with you. I read through your New Policy Study League mailing on taxes and it seems to me refreshingly healthy and sound from beginning to end. More power to you.

     My principal writings are as yet unpublished. They are entirely too far-reaching and constructive to be quickly appreciated. Somewhat recently, however, I have gone in for the critical, especially in those regions of thought where the educated public seems to have gone far­thest astray. Some misconceptions regarding property and its uses are so subversive and at the same time so universal that they blind people’s minds to the existence of a positive side.

     So, I have indulged my critical faculties in a few fundamental directions, principally against the land communist dialectic. I intended my exposé of Henry George’s argument for a haymaker, and I am happy that you seem to appreciate it as such. Along the same line last summer, I took the trouble to analyze a condemnation of the Henry George position from the standpoint of what both George and McGlynn seem to regard as religious morality. I hope I have competently exposed the fallacy of this, and am sending you a copy for your critical judgment. Let me say at this point that whatever I send you I have plenty of in case you wish to use or circulate them.

     Congratulations on the good work you are doing.

Sincerely,

SH/m

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