Who Pays Your Taxes? A Consideration of the Question of Taxation. 1892
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Money Making in Free America; Short Chapters on Prosperity
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"A book that should be in the hands of every land owner - large and small - as well as every city man who is tired of his environment of bricks and mortar, and longs to improve his condition and the health and happiness of his family by getting out into God's green fields and making a living there, but does not know how. This book tells how, and cites hundreds of instances and examples, and shows what has been accomplished by others, through intelligent intensive land culture, and how you may do the same." -Suburbanite
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"Makes us feel that we need not be tied to a desk - but, like a freed horse, 'trot off' if we will. A little bit of land, not too far from the city, if intelligently cultivated, Bolton Hall declares, will support a family, and give them a life far more wholesome than they could ever have in the crowded city. Intensive cultivation is the password now, and if anyone wishes to know all about roseate possibilities, let him read this book. Long ago we were told that 'Ten Acres' were 'enough.' Now we are more modest, and find liberty in Three Acres." -New Outlook
"Back to the land is the author's cry and he certainly shows us unsuspected possibilities in a small piece of ground for the support and occupation of a family." -Presbyterian Banner
"For the extensive farmer and the home garden cultivator: how the new intensive culture may be applied to big land holdings." -The Bookman
"A book which soon after it appeared in 1907 aroused much discussion and caused many dwellers of the city to try 'raisin' things...The author announces that 'the book is intended to show how any one can trot off if he will' and sets forth many advances in methods and results in doing things and growing things." -The Nation
"Mr. Bolton Hall has rendered a real service....Here is a guide for the man who having been tied to a desk wishes to cut loose and enjoy the freedom of making a living from the soil. The author is not extravagantly enthusiastic, but has the good sense to point out the dangers and pitfalls that the unskilled are likely to stumble over." -Garden and Home Builder
Chapter I: Making a Living—Where and How
Chapter II: Present Conditions
Chapter III: How To Buy The Farm
Chapter IV: Vacant City Lot Cultivation
Chapter V: Results To Be Expected
Chapter VI: What An Acre May Produce
Chapter VII: Some Methods
Chapter VIII: The Kitchen Garden
Chapter IX: Tools And Equipment
Chapter X: Advantages From Capital
Chapter XI: Hotbeds And Greenhouses
Chapter XII: Other Uses Of Land
Chapter XIII: Fruits
Chapter XIV: Flowers
Chapter XV: Drug Plants
Chapter XVI: Novel Live Stock
Chapter XVII: Where To Go
Chapter XVIII: Clearing The Land
Chapter XIX: How To Build
Chapter XX: Back To The Land
Chapter XXI: Coming Profession For Boys
Chapter XXII: The Wood Lot
Chapter XXIII: Some Practical Experiments
Chapter XXIV: Some Experimental Foods
Chapter XXV: Dried Truck
Chapter XXVI: Home Cold Pack Canning
Chapter XXVII: Retail Cooperation
Chapter XXVIII: Summer Colonies For City People
Bolton Hall was an American lawyer, author, and Georgist activist who worked on behalf of the poor and starting the back-to-the-land movement in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century.
Background
Bolton Hall was born on August 5, 1854, in Armagh, Northern Ireland, the second son and second of five children of the Reverend John Hall and Emily Bolton.
He had three older half-brothers by his mother's first marriage. A younger brother, the Reverend Thomas Cuming Hall, was for many years professor of Christian ethics at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
Education
Hall was raised and educated in Dublin until 1867, when his father was called to New York as pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.
He attended the College of New Jersey (Princeton), from which he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1875 and a Master of Arts degree in 1878.
After engaging briefly in the importing business, Hall enrolled in the law school of Columbia College, from which he received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1888.
Career
As a practising lawyer Hall was largely interested in real estate in New York City and Brooklyn. As early as 1887 he had become acquainted with Henry George, and by 1891 his own experience with the operation of the tax on personal property had convinced him of the need for a more equitable system of taxation. In that year he helped to organize the New York Tax Reform Association. This association, dedicated to the broad proposition that "real estate should bear the main burden of taxation, " won some support from capitalists as well as from the orthodox single-tax followers of George; among its members were Thomas G. Shearman, lawyer and single-taxer, the economist David A. Wells, and the merchant Francis B. Thurber. Hall himself was by this time a convinced believer in the single tax, and he remained so despite his own continued success as a real estate man.
In his Thrift (1916), echoing his own career, he advised his readers to lay up for themselves "treasures in land" while remembering that their income was due entirely to the "stupidity of the voting workers, which may not always continue. " Although he maintained a law office in New York until late in his life, Hall's main interests after the turn of the century were reform and writing. His concern with the evils of overcrowding in large cities made him interested in slum clearance. He was a central figure in the founding of the American Longshoremen's Union in 1896. So strong was his popularity with workingmen that about 1900, so he later told a friend, he was approached by Democratic party leaders in New York State and offered the nomination for governor, though he declined.
Hall read widely and composed rapidly on social and cultural topics, publishing his work in a variety of reform and general magazines. Perhaps his most valuable treatise on public affairs was Free America (1904), revised and reissued with an introduction by Tom L. Johnson in 1909 as Money Making in Free America. This made stimulating and pioneer use of statistics and other data for a critique of current conditions. His most striking work of social criticism, Even as You and I (1897), which was several times reissued, summarized Tolstoy's Of Life, which Hall had read on the recommendation of his fellow reformer Ernest Howard Crosby. Hall subsequently edited What Tolstoy Taught (1911).
Hall's most successful book was his Three Acres and Liberty. First issued in 1907, this manual of detailed advice and philosophy for practical farming initiated a "back-to-the-land" movement among city-dwellers. A Little Land and a Living (1908) and The Garden Yard: A Handbook of Intensive Farming (1909) complemented the message. In 1909 Hall combined his single-tax and back-to-the-land interests by founding "Free Acres, " a colony of about forty families occupying some seventy acres of land near Summit, New Jersey. Their purpose was, as he put it, to get out of the landlord's grasp without buying into the landlord class. The land was rented, not sold, to would-be members, and the colony was administered cooperatively. It attracted a variety of personalities over the years, some of contemporary note, and continued in operation after Hall's death, though he himself had left it in his last years. Bolton Hall died on December 10, 1938, in Thomasville, Georgia, at the age of eighty-four, and was buried in New York.
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Religion
As this would suggest, Bolton Hall was a religious liberal, who hoped to dissipate the "needless antagonisms between the different armies of reform. "
George D. Herron thought that Hall's Things as They Are (1899) expressed "the spiritual philosophy of the kingdom of heaven. " Hall's religious orientation is further reflected in his last published work, over which he had labored many years: The Living Bible - the Whole Bible in Its Fewest Words (1928).
Views
Bolton Hall was a disciple of Henry George and an advocate of such radical reforms as the single tax and model tenement housing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In addition, Hall originated the back-to-the-land movement, the idea that small landowners should grow food locally for themselves and others.
Membership
Bolton Hall was a member of the New York Tax Reform Association.
Personality
Tall, well-built, with what has been described as an "aquiline scholar's face, " Hall expressed himself well in speaking, "though with a touch of the brogue. "
Connections
On February 6, 1884, Bolton Hall married Susie Hurlbut Scott of New York, by whom he had two children.