Bolton Hall (1854 - 1938)
Sat Aug 05, 1854
Bolton Hall, born on this day in 1854, was an American lawyer, author, and Georgist activist who worked on behalf of the poor and helped start the back-to-the-land movement in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century.
He was very sympathetic with libertarian socialist thinkers, such as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Benjamin Tucker, but remained a committed anti-Marxist throughout his life.
Hall is perhaps most remembered today for his widely circulated plea for the working class to oppose the Spanish-American War, titled "A Peace Appeal to Labor" (1898). He also helped create a still-existing Georgist commune known as "Free Acres" in New Jersey by deeding 68 acres of land to the project in 1910. Hall was also arrested with Ida Rauh for handing out pamphlets on birth control in 1916.
"If there is a war, you will furnish the corpses and the taxes, and others will get the glory. Speculators will make money out of it -- that is, out of you.
Men will get high prices for inferior supplies, leaky boats, for shoddy clothes and pasteboard shoes, and you will have to pay the bill, and the only satisfaction you will get is the privilege of hating your Spanish fellow-workmen, who are really your brothers and who have had as little to do with the wrongs of Cuba as you have."
- Bolton Hall
- Date: 1854-08-05
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