Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1916

Penciling in the margin of page 83, Sidney J. Abelson, “Winning the Peace,” pp.81-83, Land and Freedom, Vol.41, No.3, May-June 1941

Original is missing.

Abelson: “But all this can be done only by making freedom a complete and practical reality. … It calls for the establishment of every man’s right to use the earth on equal terms with every other man.”/

(Emphasis by Heath)

     Land ownership — free trade in land — establishes this right. Governmental seizures of the produce from land make this right of no avail — make the use of land unprofitable and keep land out of use. Taxation, not ownership, makes idle capital, idle men and idle land.