Myth and Reality in the Populist RevoltHeath, 1966 - 112 pages |
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... United States increased 1580 per cent .; the banking interest 918 per cent . , and the farming interest only 252 per cent . A man named Thomas G. Shearman showed , in 1889 , that 100,000 persons in the United States would , in thirty ...
... United States increased 1580 per cent .; the banking interest 918 per cent . , and the farming interest only 252 per cent . A man named Thomas G. Shearman showed , in 1889 , that 100,000 persons in the United States would , in thirty ...
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... United States in 1892 was one billion , six hundred and eighteen millions , four hundred and sixty - four thousand bushels ; the wheat crop the same year five hundred and nineteen millions , four hundred and ninety thousand bushels ...
... United States in 1892 was one billion , six hundred and eighteen millions , four hundred and sixty - four thousand bushels ; the wheat crop the same year five hundred and nineteen millions , four hundred and ninety thousand bushels ...
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... United States would , for a generation at least , be unequal to the task of manual labor in an alien climate . But , by placing one family of Caucasians and three families of orientals and negroes on a tropical estate , where they could ...
... United States would , for a generation at least , be unequal to the task of manual labor in an alien climate . But , by placing one family of Caucasians and three families of orientals and negroes on a tropical estate , where they could ...
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