The Breakup of the Populist PartyStanford University, 1950 - 260 pages |
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Page 5
... land " has resulted in an abnormally rapid increase " of the acreage under tillage . He blamed the Homestead laws for the decline in farm values in the eastern and older states and pointed out that it was impossible for eastern farmers ...
... land " has resulted in an abnormally rapid increase " of the acreage under tillage . He blamed the Homestead laws for the decline in farm values in the eastern and older states and pointed out that it was impossible for eastern farmers ...
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... land , and trans- portation . The financial plank demanded a national currency , " safe , sound , and flexible issued by the general government only as full legal tender for all debts " to be issued di- rectly to the people at interest ...
... land , and trans- portation . The financial plank demanded a national currency , " safe , sound , and flexible issued by the general government only as full legal tender for all debts " to be issued di- rectly to the people at interest ...
Page 103
... land was capable of being sold at from one hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars an acre . " Moderate fortunes , " he wrote , " were accumu- lated within ten years by a few judicious purchases of land 3 . 4 . Ibid . , pp . 501 , 581 ...
... land was capable of being sold at from one hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars an acre . " Moderate fortunes , " he wrote , " were accumu- lated within ten years by a few judicious purchases of land 3 . 4 . Ibid . , pp . 501 , 581 ...
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