Review of the Book:

What is the Single Tax?
By Louis F. Post

Joseph Dana Miller

[Reprinted from Land and Freedom, January-February 1927]

This is the title of one of the series of Outlines of Social Philosophy, each following a definite syllabus, projected by the Vanguard Press, of this city, neatly bound in cloth, consisting of 150 pages and published for fifty cents (plus 5 cents postage).

The author is Louis F. Post. The idea of the publishers has been to select a representative from each school of social reform on whom the greatest number of its adherents could agree. We think we can say without fear of contradiction that Mr. Post is the one to whom the largest number of the followers of Henry George would turn as the one most eminently qualified to put our doctrines into formal expression within the compass permitted in the plan and scope of the series.

The plan which will be followed in all the books of the series entails a criticism of other remedies and their futility from the viewpoint of the protagonist of each particular school, and this, of course, within the limits prescribed, has prevented a more elaborate and extended treatment of our principles and philosophy such as Mr. Post has furnished in his admirable Social Service. But he has succeeded in condensing in this little volume the principles for which we contend. Everywhere he has reinforced his own presentation with the words of Henry George himself. And while others might have chosen to state these principles, here and there, in somewhat different language, there can be no criticism of this clear and definite statement of what we stand for. His criticism of other "remedies," Labor Unionism, Cooperative Societies, Protective Tariffs, Philosophic Anarchism and Socialism, is in unfailing good temper, but characterized none the less by the vigor and clarity of expression we knew so well in the Louis Post of old.

It will interest our readers to know that the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation assumed responsibility for all arrangements covering this book, and that it received the approval from manuscripts submitted in advance of publication of a number of organized groups having for their object the popularizing of Henry George's teachings.

A brief biographical sketch of the author by Edward N. Vallandigham adds an agreeable personal note to the volume.