Myth and Reality in the Populist RevoltHeath, 1966 - 112 pages |
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... agricultural discontent as farmers contended with new economic forces that robbed them of their income with high shipping charges and burdened their lands with heavy mortgages . By 1900 , nearly one - third of all farms in the United ...
... agricultural discontent as farmers contended with new economic forces that robbed them of their income with high shipping charges and burdened their lands with heavy mortgages . By 1900 , nearly one - third of all farms in the United ...
Page 82
... agricultural problem , while assuming , as readily as even a Populist could have asked , the responsibility of the government in the matter , have progressed beyond the old Populist panacea of easy credit . Agricultural econ- omists now ...
... agricultural problem , while assuming , as readily as even a Populist could have asked , the responsibility of the government in the matter , have progressed beyond the old Populist panacea of easy credit . Agricultural econ- omists now ...
Page 83
... agricultural cooperation than even the most erratic Alliancemen could have dared to hope . Perhaps it will prove to be the " better plan " that the farmers called for in vain when the subtreasury was the best idea they could present ...
... agricultural cooperation than even the most erratic Alliancemen could have dared to hope . Perhaps it will prove to be the " better plan " that the farmers called for in vain when the subtreasury was the best idea they could present ...
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