The Crime of Poverty
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Suppose you get on the cars here going to Council Bluffs or Chicago. You find a passenger with his baggage strewn over the seats. You say, "Will you give me a seat, if you please, sir?" He replies, "No; I bought this seat." "Bought this seat ? From v/hom did you buy it ?" "I bought it from the man who got out at the last station." That is the way we manage this earth of ours.
Is it not a self-evident truth, as Thomas Jefferson said, that "the land belongs in usufruct to the living," and that th...ey who have died have left it, and have no power to say how it shall be disposed of ? Title to land !
Where can a man get any title which makes the earth his property?
There is a sacred right to property — sacred because ordained by the laws of nature, that is to say, by the law of God, and necessary to social order and civiliza- tion. That is the right of property in things produced by labor; it rests on the right of a man to himself. That which a man produces, that is his against all the world, to give or to keep, to lend, to sell or to bequeath; but how 30 The Crime of Poverty.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Suppose you get on the cars here going to Council Bluffs or Chicago. You find a passenger with his baggage strewn over the seats. You say, "Will you give me a seat, if you please, sir?" He replies, "No; I bought this seat." "Bought this seat ? From v/hom did you buy it ?" "I bought it from the man who got out at the last station." That is the way we manage this earth of ours.
Is it not a self-evident truth, as Thomas Jefferson said, that "the land belongs in usufruct to the living," and that th...ey who have died have left it, and have no power to say how it shall be disposed of ? Title to land !
Where can a man get any title which makes the earth his property?
There is a sacred right to property — sacred because ordained by the laws of nature, that is to say, by the law of God, and necessary to social order and civiliza- tion. That is the right of property in things produced by labor; it rests on the right of a man to himself. That which a man produces, that is his against all the world, to give or to keep, to lend, to sell or to bequeath; but how 30 The Crime of Poverty.
What to read after The Crime of Poverty?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Henry George to read onlineMoreLess
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