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The narrative frames land monopoly as an ancient curse that turns rent into a social tax, growing with progress and intensifying poverty. It explains the single tax on increments as a public claim to unearned value and reflects on George’s personal temperament and enduring appeal even after long defeats.","# Dreamers ofThe American.Dream\n\nSTEWART H.HOLBRO0K  \nDoubleday &Company,Inc.,Garden City,New York  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number 57-11424  \nCopyright ◎ 1957 by Stewart H.Holbrook  \nAll Rights Reserved  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nPart Four  \nGOD MADE THE LAND FOR USE  \nGod Made the Land for Use  \ncedure.Few if any of these changes were made without pressure tostop or hamper the Secretary.Demands were made.on the Presidentto remove him.Roosevelt refused.Hitchcock,frosty in manner,col-lected in speech,went ahead,utterly impervious to the influence of menhigh in government counsels.  \nEarly in 1903 the Secretary suddenly dismissed his commissioner ofthe General Land Office.Almost simultaneously he instituted a re-lentless investigation of frauds based on the Homestead Act,and oneof the great scandals of the period came in for an airing.More thanone thousand persons in twenty states were indicted,among them severalUnited States senators.Stephen A.Douglas Puter,King of the OregonTimber Fraud Ring,decided to tell all,and unfolded a tale of corruptionthat is said to have bemused even the veterans of Crédit Mobilier.In1906 alone one hundred twenty-six land sharks went to prison.  \nExhausted by almost a decade of defending his actions,and attackingfrauds at the same time,Ethan Allen Hitchcock resigned in 1907from the Cabinet,soon to die at seventy-two.He left a public domainincomparably safer from raid than it had ever been before.It is to behoped that some obituarist suggested the possibility that,if any rewardwere to come to Secretary Hitchcock,it must come from the heartsof a grateful people.Possibly it did,though one doubts it;and iftyyears after his death,he who \"throttled the land-grabbers with the ironhand of government\"is so forgotten that most if not all of the manyrecent books on the history of conservation in the United States faileven to give him so much as a footnote.  \n6.  \nHENRY GEORGE:THE NOBLE FAILURE  \nIF,after putting the fear of the law if not of God into the heartsof the land grabbers,Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock isforgotten,this is not true of Henry George,whose herculean efforts of alifetime were rejected first and last by his countrymen.Perhaps he isremembered chiefly because he was a splendid dreamer and a magnificentfailure;and also because a magnificent failure to achieve the impossiblestrikes a responsive chord of sympathy in men,most of whom come intime to recognize their own failures.  \nHenry George was the Single-Tax Man.More than half a centuryafter his death his name,and often many pages about him,appear in all  \nHenry George:The Noble Failure  \nbooks dealing with reform in the United States,and quite as often inEngland.Even while he lived,and for decades after,an excellent five-cent cigar bore his name and its handsome band bore his likeness.Thiswas fame to put him with other immortal Americans like Clay andWebster.In spite of which his countrymen could not quite bring them-selves to accept the remedy he offered for all their economic and socialills.He called it the single tax.It had nothing in common with com-munism,socialism,populism,or any form of collectivism no matterits trade-mark.  \nHenry George's plan was based on the premise that land monopolywas an ancient curse that had laid its blight on every civilization.Theexpropriation of natural resources was the origin of rent.Rent was asocial tax parasitic in nature.It increased in proportion to the risingvalue of the land.The rising value of the land increased with “progress,”or the incoming of people and the upbuilding of civilization.Yet povertygrew hand in hand with progress simply because land monopolists keptthe entire rent or gain for themselves.This condition could be righted bya single tax on increments in the value of'land.Such a tax,Georgebelieved,was equitable because it assigned to the public that part of thevalue of any given piece of land which the public had created.  \nThe single tax would","cbCaiaKeUoOtxv8h","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaKeUoOtxv8h","pdf",382184,1,10,"English","en",105,"# God Made the Land for Use\n## Henry George: The Noble Failure","[{\"question\":\"What was Henry George’s main reform idea?\",\"answer\":\"Henry George promoted the Single Tax—taxing increments in the value of land to counter land monopoly and unearned rent.\"},{\"question\":\"Why did the book argue that poverty can grow alongside progress?\",\"answer\":\"It attributes this to monopolists keeping the rent or gain produced by the incoming of people and the building of civilization, even as land value rises.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the text describe Henry George’s personal character?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes his gentle, sympathetic, affable, and even humorous nature, noting that defeats did 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