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Joshua King Ingalls on land reform and the single tax

May 3, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Joshua King Ingalls’ essay “Henry George Examined: Should Land Be Nationalized or Individualized?” is now available in the archive. This is the classic encounter between the mutualist land reform doctrine of Ingalls and George’s single-tax scheme. This version was taken from the supplement to Liberty, October 14, 1882, and differs slightly from the version incorporated in Ingalls’ Reminiscences.

Joshua King Ingalls, Grave of the Landless

March 8, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here’s another item from The Spirit of the Age, a poem by J. K. Ingalls. THE GRAVE OF THE LANDLESS On a lovely “green isle,” where the billows of oceanRoll on in their might, where the loud tempests rave,The victim lies still, for not toll or devotionCould in life rear a home or in death buy a grave.The flowers may bloom, and the harvests mature,He heeds them no more as they taunt the oppressed;He has suffered the last which the wronged may endure;He sleeps, and no landlord disturbs his last rest. Oh England, say where are the sons of the […]