Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volumes 49-50American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1913 |
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... farmers . The agricultural laborers , representing the unskilled workers , had , however , decreased from 1,362,713 in 1890 , to 1,344,139 in 1900 ; while the farmers , representing the skilled group , increased from 590,666 in 1890 to ...
... farmers . The agricultural laborers , representing the unskilled workers , had , however , decreased from 1,362,713 in 1890 , to 1,344,139 in 1900 ; while the farmers , representing the skilled group , increased from 590,666 in 1890 to ...
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... farmers in the state . Of this number 26,566 owned their lands while 17,030 were renters . The census of 1910 tells us there were 48,114 Negro farmers in the state . Of this number 32,228 owned their farms while 15,706 rented . Of these ...
... farmers in the state . Of this number 26,566 owned their lands while 17,030 were renters . The census of 1910 tells us there were 48,114 Negro farmers in the state . Of this number 32,228 owned their farms while 15,706 rented . Of these ...
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... farming by making notes and mortgages upon that property . All these may have some features of the crop lien system ... farmer made twelve bales with one plow ; with two plows he made seven bales , and with three plows he made five and ...
... farming by making notes and mortgages upon that property . All these may have some features of the crop lien system ... farmer made twelve bales with one plow ; with two plows he made seven bales , and with three plows he made five and ...
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... farmers in Arkansas in 1910 , 63,593 , or almost 30 per cent , are Negroes , and of these Negro farmers , 14,662 , or 23 per cent were owners and 48,885 , or 77 per cent , were tenants . In the United States as a whole at the period of ...
... farmers in Arkansas in 1910 , 63,593 , or almost 30 per cent , are Negroes , and of these Negro farmers , 14,662 , or 23 per cent were owners and 48,885 , or 77 per cent , were tenants . In the United States as a whole at the period of ...
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... farmer can make , no one to say him nay , a world - wide market , a congenial occupation . But here there is little contact with the white . Where , as a tenant farmer of the white land - owner , or as a customer of the white store ...
... farmer can make , no one to say him nay , a world - wide market , a congenial occupation . But here there is little contact with the white . Where , as a tenant farmer of the white land - owner , or as a customer of the white store ...
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Page 252 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 251 - Convention are on record as recognizing the claim of property to a special and defensive position in the Constitution. In the ratification of the Constitution, about three-fourths of the adult males failed to vote on the question, having abstained from the elections at which delegates to the state conventions were chosen, either on account of their indifference or their disfranchisement by property qualifications. The Constitution was ratified by a vote of probably not more than onesixth of the adult...
Page 18 - If the blind lead the blind they will both fall into the ditch...
Page 79 - ... merchant, firm, or corporation deals, or to discriminate against the same by depreciating the value of such products in the public mind, or by misrepresentation as to value or quality or by price inducement, or by unfair discrimination between buyers, or in any other manner whatsoever, except in cases where said goods do not carry any notice prohibiting such practice, and except in case of a receiver's sale, or a sale by a concern going out of business.
Page 251 - The movement for the Constitution of the United States was originated and carried through principally by four groups of personalty interests which had been adversely affected under the Articles of Confederation: money, public securities, manufactures, and trade and shipping.
Page 277 - ... so has likewise steadily advanced, especially in war on land, the distinction between the private individual belonging to a hostile country and the hostile country itself, with its men in arms. The principle has been more and more acknowledged that the unarmed citizen is to be spared in person, property, and honor as much as the exigencies of war will admit.
Page 251 - Constitution were taken by a small and active group of men immediately interested through their personal possessions in the outcome of their labors.
Page 210 - ... for the promotion and encouragement of intellectual, moral, or industrial education among the young of the more destitute portions of the Southern and Southwestern States of our Union ; my purpose being that the benefits intended shall be distributed among the entire population, without other distinction than their needs and the opportunities of usefulness to them.
Page 210 - We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.
Page 269 - Defective nutrition stands in the forefront as the most important of all physical defects from which school children suffer.