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 |
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... road stations on our common country roads . Our agricultural machinery , in general , has won the high- est encomiums wherever exhibited , both in our own country and Europe , as models of strength combined with elegance and lightness ...
... road stations on our common country roads . Our agricultural machinery , in general , has won the high- est encomiums wherever exhibited , both in our own country and Europe , as models of strength combined with elegance and lightness ...
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... road to wealth lies as much through the garden as the farm . That farmer who neglects this branch of his profession does justice neither to his God , his family , nor himself ; for the garden gives health , and with health , thrift and ...
... road to wealth lies as much through the garden as the farm . That farmer who neglects this branch of his profession does justice neither to his God , his family , nor himself ; for the garden gives health , and with health , thrift and ...
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... may pursue any given train of thought while plowing , driving his team along the road , and during many other of his occupations , which the mechanic or artisan can not do . The statistics of the book trade , however , show 7 ( 73 )
... may pursue any given train of thought while plowing , driving his team along the road , and during many other of his occupations , which the mechanic or artisan can not do . The statistics of the book trade , however , show 7 ( 73 )
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... roads , being completed , have been absorbed by the great trunk lines , controlled and manipulated by a handful of money - grabbing adventurers in the great cities of the East . The American farmers ' case , in a nut shell , is about as ...
... roads , being completed , have been absorbed by the great trunk lines , controlled and manipulated by a handful of money - grabbing adventurers in the great cities of the East . The American farmers ' case , in a nut shell , is about as ...
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... road and other Wall Street jobbers to found religious and other institutions , his donations were neither given to divert public opinion , nor to cover up some nefarious scheme , by which the ill - gotten wealth was obtained , nor yet ...
... road and other Wall Street jobbers to found religious and other institutions , his donations were neither given to divert public opinion , nor to cover up some nefarious scheme , by which the ill - gotten wealth was obtained , nor yet ...
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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,...