LAND RESTORATION.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19913, 16 June 1936, Page 9

LAND RESTORATION.

(To the Editor.) Sim—Mr Leo Kay may shout as he likes, but that will not turn mere Mnsupported assertion into argument The word “confiscation” is thus deiined: “Legal robbery with the sane—tion or the ruling power.” Land restoration will reassert the people's rights to the people‘s land, which no Government on earth ever had the right to sell, and which same process will cause immense trouble in the world presently over colonies; but that is another part of the subject. Land restoration will merely result in the State, as trustee for the people's natural rights in the earth, collecting the social names only, as represented in annual rental values of the land, called economic rent. The present process of obtaining revenue is plainly confiscation, as 1 have shown times out of number now, and we propose to abolish that couiiscaliun by re—slorationl

Beplying to Mr Marcus James. it is he who is “at sea," for I haVe never stated anything about; "land taxes“; neither do i atlvucatc anything of the kind, but the collection of rent, and this not on land but on "land values" ~quite a different thing. Further. It have newer said it was “the land“ that is the li'tlllbit‘. but the private appl~o~ priation at "land rent.”—agaln a. dif—ferent thing. Moreuyoi‘. again I chal—lcng‘c Mr James to show that his monvtary reform benefit. if such arises, will not ultimately be absm'be‘l in lanti \'nhws. New in Matamata snmc scr‘tinns were sold 1955; than two years axu by the tzt'nnmlssinnm‘ of Lands, and already three times the price is hoing aslxrul for those same sr‘t‘tlnns wjlls't mm nt‘ a thousand wants that, as usual. hmti \'alm's will absorb all imm‘ownu'ut in t'onllitinns, though the pl‘oct‘ss may not always he as r'h-ar as this. As Karl Marx put it in “Ilus Kat-ital," the capitalist and \\'agc-“xn'kt‘i' ai'n imih t‘nhllcti through the hunt i‘t‘lll. thrr nmnmmly 0t \\‘hil‘h, ho says, is the hullom muse oi the cnslm'cnmnl ut‘ the workers. As in “It“ Encyclical ot‘ l’opc l‘lus XI. 1 think I haw sum the substance of it ([untml h)" All‘ llushwm-th, .\l.i’., but i will semi tn \\'ollimxtun and try in pmt'ul‘t‘ :1 L‘n-m'. and it" i am sum-oss—-l till 1 \\'ill let .\lx' .lamns know, through :ymn' cullnnns. “hat I think hi it. in ‘ihr' mnanlhnv. it't m 0 l'l'llt‘ill that. with ‘m' \\'ilhnllt a tnnnvlar)’ hi'sllan. Ilt‘hall"u\\'nt'rshill“ at land is just tlilt‘ t'ut‘m ‘M‘ sluvm‘y. :nnl nl‘it‘n \\’m'su' in its ‘t-ft't‘vls at human \\.mt ililtl mism‘y amid allxunnlanvc than straight-nut trlmtlvl .\idH‘l‘)‘. l’l'imlv "Ilossvssiun" [is i‘ssf‘ltti.ti tn juslime anti Dl‘tifJ‘l't'sS, hut that is also «xltitt- tt (iiFt't'l't‘nt llliuu. —-l ain, rim, 'l'. if. Mt'NlliiliAX. Malalnttta. .lunv i'i. _—