MR GEORGE’S VISIT.
TO THE EDITOK,
Sib, —I observe that the only two influential men on the Committee who have nominated themselves to raise a guarantee or funds to induce Mr Henry George to lecture in Dunedin are lawyers. Mr George (‘Social Problems,’ page 105) calls lawyers “unproductive consumers maintained at the expense of the producers,” and classes them in the following list thus ; “ Pickpockets, burglars, and confidence men; the highly respectable thieves who carry) on their operations inside the law; the great army of lawyers; the beggars, paupers, and inmates of prisons, etc.” One would certainly think the lawyers cannot know the kind of social firebrand they are encouraging to set fite to their own offices, or they would keep their money in their pockets.—l am, etc., Nemo. Dunedin, January 20.
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Evening Star, Issue 8119, 20 January 1890, Page 4
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