Economics writer and popularizer William T Foster, in the course of  
discussing his extensive public speaking career, weighed in with his view of  
Henry George and his disciples. This was probably written in the late 1940s.  
It is from the Lee (his daughter) manuscript of his autobiography in the  
Reed College Special Collections.  
  
  
[Foster on George's disciples]  
Most forum questions, however, are old ones. One in particular I see coming  
a long way off. One noon at the Hungry Club in Pittsburgh - the liveliest  
luncheon club I have met - a man arose and began an apparently pointless  
question. I stopped him short. "Excuse me," I said, "but I think I see your  
question. You wish to ask whether all those ills would not be cured by the  
single tax."  
  
[Foster's view of Henry George]  
As an elector of the Hall of Fame during the past thirty years I have  
received hundreds of letters asking me to vote for Henry George. One of them  
came form my esteemed teacher, John Dewey. I could not vote as he asked me  
to vote. I am convinced that "Progress and Poverty," which vividly describes  
the economic ills which we still stupidly suffer, has done harm for the  
Single Tax has no chance of supplanting our present awful mess of taxes, and  
there are thousands of men who but for Henry George might be working for a  
feasible way out.  
  
  
Albert Himoe