Who Owns America?: A New Declaration of IndependenceHerbert Agar, Allen Tate Houghton Mifflin, 1936 - 342 pages This volume is the classic sequel to I'll Take My Stand, the famous defense of the South's agrarian traditions. |
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Page 168
... farmer in the Southeast has always existed , in hill country and in delta country alike , though he has existed in larger numbers in the hill sections . In the Southwest , where Big - Business cotton production is most exaggerated , he ...
... farmer in the Southeast has always existed , in hill country and in delta country alike , though he has existed in larger numbers in the hill sections . In the Southwest , where Big - Business cotton production is most exaggerated , he ...
Page 170
... farmer had to raise seven bales of cotton to pay his taxes alone . Under this system of taxation , subsistence farming becomes impossible ; the farmer is forced to rely more and more on his money crop ( cotton ) in order to pay his ...
... farmer had to raise seven bales of cotton to pay his taxes alone . Under this system of taxation , subsistence farming becomes impossible ; the farmer is forced to rely more and more on his money crop ( cotton ) in order to pay his ...
Page 188
... farmers are invincible . The mistake which farmers in America have made is in having been taken in by the brilliant ( if wayward ) spectacle of the business or money economy , so that they concluded to rely on money- farming alone ...
... farmers are invincible . The mistake which farmers in America have made is in having been taken in by the brilliant ( if wayward ) spectacle of the business or money economy , so that they concluded to rely on money- farming alone ...
Contents
AMERICA AND FOREIGN TRADE | 9 |
BIG BUSINESS IN THE PROPERTY STATE | 18 |
AGRICULTURE AND THE PROPERTY STATE | 36 |
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