[28] See First Annual Report of the Commission.
[29] See Annual Report Home Office, 1909-1910.
[30] Ibid.
[31] The money for these things he proposed to raise by taxes, and especially by a tax on land values.
[32] Chiozza Money, Riches and Poverty, p. 82.
| No. of Owners | Class of Owners | Acres owned |
| 400 | Peers and peeresses | 5,729,927 |
| 1,288 | Great landowners | 8,497,699 |
| 2,529 | Squires† | 4,319,271 |
| 9,589 | Greater yeomen† | 4,782,627 |
| 24,412 | Lesser yeomen† | 4,144,272 |
| 217,049 | Small proprietors | 3,931,806 |
| 703,289 | Cottagers | 151,148 |
| 14,459 | Public bodies | 1,443,548 |
| Waste lands | 1,524,624 | |
| 973,015 | 34,524,922 | |
| † This classification is purely arbitrary. | ||
[33] Op. cit., p. 91.
[34] The leaseholder is burdened with "rack-rent" and "premiums"; when the lease expires the improvements revert to the landlord. There has been, for years, a well-organized Single-Tax movement in England that points to the evils of this land system as conclusive proof of the validity of Henry George's theory.
[35] One of the choruses popular with the great throngs that paraded the streets in that eager campaign is full of significance. It was sung to the tune of "Marching through Georgia."
"The land, the land, 'twas God who gave the land;
The land, the land, the ground on which we stand;
Why should we be beggars, with the ballot in our hand?
God gave the land to the people."