Spencer Heath's
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Spencer Heath Archive
Item 2647
Letter from R. C. Hoiles, President, Freedom Newspapers, Inc., Register Building, Sixth and Sycamore, Santa Ana, California, July 9, 1957, with carbon of Heath’s reply of July 15, 1957
Dear Mr. Heath:
Thank you very much for your kind letter of June 20 and for the complimentary copy of “Citadel, Market and Altar.”
I am convinced that most of our trouble comes from giving the government the right to tax. I believe the government should be supported on a voluntary basis in proportion to the amount of property a man has protected. I am not quite so sure that the support of the police department should come from the owners of land.
We just built a new building here in Santa Ana that cost one-half a million dollars to build on land that we paid $50,000 for. It seems to me the building should bear its share on a voluntary basis; that if we did not want it protected by a group called the government, we could hire another group that we thought would protect our property better, and the protective groups must also have the right to refuse to try to protect any individual that they thought was too expensive to protect or should not be protected.
The fire department, of course, should not be under the government. It should be under the insurance companies.
We have an estate here that owns 100,000 acres, some of it mountainous and some of it very valuable. He will not sell his land. He will only lease it.
It seems to me it is too much power to give to any man the right to arbitrarily establish the rent of the land on which another man has built a building. I cannot believe that the man who builds a home or a factory on land that cannot be moved should be at the mercy of the land owner as to what rent he pays when the lease runs out. Possibly the reason he will not sell it is because of taxation.
We are enclosing clippings we ran yesterday and today commenting on your “Citadel, Market and Altar.”
We are also enclosing “Here Is Our Policy…” and “The Christian Harmony in Competition.”
Again thanking you, I am
Yours very truly,
(signed) R. C. Hoiles
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Dear Mr. Hoiles: July 15, 1957
I have just finished reading your kind letter of July 9th and its various enclosures, so admirable in their simplicity and fundamental truth — most especially your “CHRISTIAN HARMONY IN COMPETITION”. In case I have not already sent you my “PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM”, I am happy to enclose a couple of copies as companion piece to the above. Your suggestion that fire protection is a natural function of the insurance companies is very appealing and obviously sound.
Your very generous review in “The Register” of July 8th is most gratifying indeed.
I am indeed happy to be in communication with Rose Wilder lane, whom I have known of for years, although not directly acquainted with her. I am profoundly grateful to her for bringing my work so happily to the attention of such persons as you. There is a long road ahead towards full human freedom. It is arduous but beautiful — and one in which we can be happy wayfarers through knowing one another.
Cordially yours,
SH/m
Enc: (2) “Practice of Christian Freedom”
“Society and Its Services”
Metadata
| Title | Correspondence - 2647 |
| Collection Name | Spencer Heath Archive |
| Series | Correspondence |
| Box number | 16:2411-2649 |
| Document number | 2647 |
| Date / Year | 1957-07-09 |
| Authors / Creators / Correspondents | R. C. Hoiles |
| Description | Letter from R. C. Hoiles, President, Freedom Newspapers, Inc., Register Building, Sixth and Sycamore, Santa Ana, California, July 9, 1957, with carbon of Heath’s reply of July 15, 1957 |
| Keywords | CM&A |