MR HENRY GEORGE'S CAMPAIGN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1863, 14 June 1884, Page 4

MR HENRY GEORGE'S CAMPAIGN.

On Saturday night Mr Henry George was euteitained to dinner in Glasgow, under the auspices of the Scottish Land Restoration League. Upwards of a hundred, including ladies, attended. There were no loyal or patriotic toasts, the first being the health of Mr George, who, replying, said there was no other place in the world where he would leeeive such an honour. His Scottish welcome was peculaily gratifying A dinner under such auspices was a new and important depaitmc. He was also glad ladies were ptcsent as he expected them to render assistance in obtaining land reform. Mr George, >» the course of his address, mado an allusion to Dundee, deferring to the anomalies of landowning, Mi George remaiked that the previous day he was shown a magnificent Town HbII, a building of which any city might be proud, yet, it was \irtually erected up an alley on account of the high price demanded for the surrounding land. One corner had to be left ont of the splendid building. Thus its symmetry was destioyed because a dog in the manger who had a tumble-down rookery in the corner demanded a pieposterous blackmail pi ice for the piece ot ground necessary to complete the' building. Mr Fleming, who was with him from Dundee, told him that he and borne other gentlemen had been making an estimate of the giound rent paid in Dundee. It amounted to 11)40,000 per annum. See the magnificent sum the people of Dundee ought to have for the public bent-fit. If they weie to take this ground rent m taxation for their municipal purposes, £040,000 would not only pay all the local and imperial taxation which now fall upon the people of that town, but would, on the estimate of these gentlemen, leave over £130,000 of a surplus. This would not only give €100 a-year to evcty widow in Dundee, but would enable the people to do a good many \aluable things be^i'lei. IVi was thankful it had been given him to come there and take a part in the formation of n socioty which he believed, would be histoiical, and one of the most important in .Scotland. — English paper.