HENRY GEORGE AND THE LAND QUESTION.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 406, 28 September 1889, Page 3

HENRY GEORGE AND THE LAND QUESTION.

Henry George delivered a great speech on the land question in the Round Room, Rotunda, Dublin, on July 20. Michael JJavitt was chairman, and he stated that " Rent for land, in city or country should be devoted to the purposes for which farmer and labourer, artizan and mechanic, professional man and merchant, are now compelled to pay direct and indirect taxation — namely, for the maintenance of the Sbate and the support of the poor." Mr George, in the course of his lecture, said that " he was there that night to say on behalf of thousands of American, English, Scottish, and Welsh people, also on behalf of their brethren at the Antipodes, that the cry of the land for the people was ringing round the world. Those who advocated the single tax, held that the land of every country is the common property of the people of that country, because its real owner, the Creator, who made it, has transferred it as a voluntary gift to them. He had addressed 75 meetings in England and' Scotland, and he could tell the audience that the great land movement had got a firm hold on the masses of the people in these countries. As soon as this question came into the range of practical politics, they would see upon the side he advocated a strength of which few politicians had yet dt earned. When Michael Davitt raised the cry of * The land for the people !' he raised a standard which, though it might be beaten back for a little, must, as God was just, come in for ultimate victory. He (Mr George) was not a sanguine man, but, he must say, so great had been the progress of this movement that he believed that many who were now in that room would live to see it triumphant. Mr Charles L.. Garland, M.P. (New South Wales), in seconding the vote of thanks to Mr George, said he could assure the meeting that in Australia they took the deenesb interest in the Irish land question. Mr George was on visit Australia in October, and people need not be surprised if the single tax system of land values was first carried out in New South Wales."

Children cry for the moon. Men want the earth. The newest thing in workbaskets is a Japanese lantern. A cup of strong coffee is an antidote for the odour of onions. Charity begins at horne — and ends there with a lot of people we know.