The Groundswell: A History of the Origin, Aims, and Progress of the Farmers' Movement: Embracing an Authoritative Account of Farmers' Clubs, Granges, Etc. ... Together with Sketches of the Lives of Prominent Leaders, Etc. ...E. Hannaford, 1874 - 576 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 73
Page xi
... nature of the Order - The secret feature exaggerated and misapprehended - The real character of the Order . CHAPTER XIV . • OTHER PROMINENT FEATURES OF THE ORDER . - Woman's mission in the Grange - Women as keepers of secrets - How the ...
... nature of the Order - The secret feature exaggerated and misapprehended - The real character of the Order . CHAPTER XIV . • OTHER PROMINENT FEATURES OF THE ORDER . - Woman's mission in the Grange - Women as keepers of secrets - How the ...
Page xx
... Nature's Miracles on Every Side , " 538 Prof. J. B. Turner - Portrait , 545 Bird , 558 Saturday Afternoon , 563 A Page for the Little Folks , embracing Lots of Fun , 567 Picking Apples , 567 One of the Pets , 567 Back of the Barn , 567 ...
... Nature's Miracles on Every Side , " 538 Prof. J. B. Turner - Portrait , 545 Bird , 558 Saturday Afternoon , 563 A Page for the Little Folks , embracing Lots of Fun , 567 Picking Apples , 567 One of the Pets , 567 Back of the Barn , 567 ...
Page 28
... natural consequence , if they be wise , will yield with what grace they may to the pressure of public opinion . Persistence in a line of conduct constantly growing more and more intolerable will assuredly overwhelm them with disaster ...
... natural consequence , if they be wise , will yield with what grace they may to the pressure of public opinion . Persistence in a line of conduct constantly growing more and more intolerable will assuredly overwhelm them with disaster ...
Page 30
... forests ; and landscape gardening , or the beautifying of natural , or creation of artificial , scen- EFFECT OF SCIENCE ON AGRICULTURE . 31 ery . These ( 30 ) CHAPTER II AGRICULTURE AND ITS SUBDIVISIONS --What Agriculture embraces-Effect.
... forests ; and landscape gardening , or the beautifying of natural , or creation of artificial , scen- EFFECT OF SCIENCE ON AGRICULTURE . 31 ery . These ( 30 ) CHAPTER II AGRICULTURE AND ITS SUBDIVISIONS --What Agriculture embraces-Effect.
Page 33
... nature - soils , gases , elements , etc. — the true re- lation which each bears to each . If all the votaries of agriculture had followed this great man's teachings we should have heard less of that myth the " Science of Agriculture ...
... nature - soils , gases , elements , etc. — the true re- lation which each bears to each . If all the votaries of agriculture had followed this great man's teachings we should have heard less of that myth the " Science of Agriculture ...
Contents
21 | |
28 | |
41 | |
73 | |
84 | |
94 | |
104 | |
115 | |
125 | |
146 | |
155 | |
168 | |
196 | |
207 | |
222 | |
232 | |
242 | |
263 | |
271 | |
280 | |
292 | |
302 | |
406 | |
427 | |
436 | |
452 | |
464 | |
474 | |
484 | |
493 | |
501 | |
510 | |
521 | |
544 | |
555 | |
566 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action adopted annual appointed ARTICLE Association Bloomington Bureau County By-Laws Canal capital carried Central cents charge charter cheap Chicago Clubs co-operation Commissioners common carriers Constitution Convention cost Credit Mobilier Dartmouth College delegates dollars duty elected eminent domain Erie Canal Executive Committee farm farmers favor Flagg freight granted horticultural hundred Illinois industrial interests Iowa Kewanee labor land legislation Legislature lines manufactures Master McLean County means ment middle men MIDGLEY'S ARTICLE.-CONTINUED mile monopoly NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL CONGRESS National Grange National Lodge officers Order of Patrons organization passengers Patrons of Husbandry Patrons of Industry persons political practical President produce question rail railroad companies railroad corporation rates reason receive regulate resolutions Resolved roads Secretary societies Subordinate Granges Tennessee tion transportation Treasurer United unjust discriminations vote watered stock West York
Popular passages
Page 288 - No railroad corporation shall issue any stock or bonds, except for money, labor, or property actually received and applied to the purposes for which such corporation was created, and all stock, dividends, and other fictitious increase of the capital stock or indebtedness of any such corporation shall be void.
Page 528 - ... without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 528 - If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action, or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs...
Page 27 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
Page 530 - Provided, That when any Territory shall become a State and be admitted into the Union such new State shall be entitled to the benefits of the said act of July...
Page 313 - ... State are hereby declared public highways, and shall be free to all persons for the transportation of their persons and property thereon, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law. And the General Assembly shall, from time to time, pass laws establishing reasonable maximum rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight on the different railroads in this State.
Page 239 - Church-goers, fearful of the unseen Powers, But grumbling over pulpit-tax and pew-rent, Saving, as shrewd economists, their souls And winter pork with the least possible outlay Of salt and sanctity...
Page 298 - The general assembly shall pass laws to correct abuses and prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in the rates of freight and passenger tariffs on the different railroads in this state, and enforce such laws by adequate penalties, to the extent, if necessary for that purpose, of forfeiture of their property and franchises.
Page 299 - States, which in effect provide that no one shall be deprived of life, liberty or property except by due process of law...
Page 239 - Saving, as shrewd economists, their souls And winter pork with the least possible outlay Of salt and sanctity ; in daily life Showing as little actual comprehension Of Christian charity and love and duty, As if the Sermon on the Mount had been Outdated like a last year's almanac : Rich in broad woodlands and in halftilled fields, And yet so pinched and bare and comfortless, The veriest straggler limping on his rounds, The sun and air his sole inheritance, Laughed at a poverty that paid its taxes,...