***] If they are behind it, and have so much money, why didn't they spring for some more help on the editing? [***
Zarlenga's book originally was published in Germany in the German language that carries the imprint of a German publishing house. He is fluent in German and has many German connections. Possibly that version is polished and edited--I don't know. The English edition was "self published" by Zarlenga's organization. That he didn't seek the services of a competent editor could be attributable to ego--again, I don't know. He has received several grants from Schalkenbach, but there are many sources of funding within the world of Georgism.
Michael Hudson Conference Speeches on Land in Germany and Norway $1,500
Michael Hudson Cuban Land Tax Paper $6,000
Michael Hudson Capital Gains Article $3,000
Michael Hudson Cuba Economics Lecture $ 6,000
Michael Hudson Land tax in China $ 8,000
Stephen Zarlenga HG & money (paper) $ 1,500
etc.
***] The great railway land grants were made by end of Civil War and Union Pacific was completed the year George had his "vision". Sufficient to protest monopoly. [***
The monopoly that George was talking about is the monopoly of the "rent" from any parcel of land, however small, that can be extracted from the larger community through its ownership. I doubt the land grants had much to do with his "vision." At the time the land was granted it was virtually worthless. Indeed, the cost of land even today in the United States does not inhibit any development. That is no doubt not the case in many places in the world. If you fly over the city of Houston you will see that more than half the land within the city is undeveloped and has been used for nothing since the beginning of time. If you fly over the state you will see that vast tracts have never been used for anything, much of it potentially the most fertile agricultural land in the world.
***] But my question is why they were popular and with what class of deep pocketed people? Surely not land speculators. Industrialists, maybe, trying to divert taxes from themselves? Not railroads. Miners and oil barons? Shipbuilders? Merchants? Farmers and cattlemen? Who was Robert Schalkenbach? [***
Try the bankers. The single tax was a diversion from the granger/greenbacker/movement that was in declared opposition to the bankers. As to Schalkenbach I haven't the slightest idea beyond this:
"Schalkenbach, Robert New York (New York) 1890s - Printer, supporter of Henry George 1925 - Died, left estate to found Robert Schalkenbach Foundation"
***] Suggesting that banks may have favored George-- simply because he was not a promoter of free silver? Would the newspapers have favored George, or just preferred him to Bryan? [***
He may even have endorsed free silver at some point. He may not have been "consciously" a participant in the conspiracy against Bryan. They may have supported his (George's) movement because it was a diversion from the enemy they feared. This is all supposition, of course. George was himself by profession a newspaper journalist. He never ran against Bryan. He ran for mayor of New York City in 1896, I think. Every big-city newspaper throughout the country without exception either opposed Bryan or were silent in their endorsement. George received several endorsements from NYC papers. There were many newspapers in the city at the time.
***] I recall no mention of national dividend in the book. [***
Perhaps not in the book and perhaps not by Zarlenga. It is indeed being pushed by several prominent Georgists, who however would not fund it in the social credit fashion but through the single tax.
***] There is very little other mention of George in the book, and I believe I got this tip from Zarlenga directly. [***
Perhaps not in that book, but George and the single tax are discussed in Zarlenga's new book according to one review I have read.
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