A Populist Reader: Selections from the Works of American Populist LeadersGeorge Brown Tindall Harper & Row, 1966 - 231 pages |
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... land grants dates back to the year 1850. It is not known who first conceived the idea , but Stephen A. Douglas introduced the first bill in Congress granting land to aid in the construction of rialroads . This bill was hotly opposed ...
... land grants dates back to the year 1850. It is not known who first conceived the idea , but Stephen A. Douglas introduced the first bill in Congress granting land to aid in the construction of rialroads . This bill was hotly opposed ...
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... land in one body would be almost equal to the thirteen original colonies . It is larger than the whole of England ... land owners with amount of land owned : ACRES . English syndicate , in Texas 3,000,000 Holland Land Company , in New ...
... land in one body would be almost equal to the thirteen original colonies . It is larger than the whole of England ... land owners with amount of land owned : ACRES . English syndicate , in Texas 3,000,000 Holland Land Company , in New ...
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... Land not available to be deducted : Alaska Indian and military reservations Mountains and untillable land TOTAL 1,823,126,387 ACRES . 369,529,600 157,000,000 400,000,000 926,529,600 This leaves as available land nearly 900,000,000 acres ...
... Land not available to be deducted : Alaska Indian and military reservations Mountains and untillable land TOTAL 1,823,126,387 ACRES . 369,529,600 157,000,000 400,000,000 926,529,600 This leaves as available land nearly 900,000,000 acres ...
Contents
TOWN AND COUNTRY | 1 |
IIPOPULIST GRIEVANCES | 11 |
LAND MONOPOLY | 18 |
Copyright | |
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acres agricultural Alliance American amount bank believe bimetallism bonds Bryan capital cent Century Chicago Christianity citizens civilization Coin condition Congress convention corporations currency debt demand Democracy Democratic party demonetization dollar economic Edited England ERWIN PANOFSKY Essays ÉTIENNE GILSON F. R. Leavis farm farmers favor free coinage gold standard Grant hands History human Illus industrial interest Intro Introduction issue J. H. HEXTER James Baird Weaver JOHN Kansas Knights of Labor labor land legal tender legislation MARTIN BUBER ment merchant millions mortgages movement nation Negro old parties organization patriotism People's Party platform political Populism Populist present production prosperity question race railroad railway reform Renaissance Republican RUDOLF BULTMANN secure Senate silver Social society SOREN KIERKEGAARD Southern struggle thousand tion trust United vote wealth West and South William William Jennings Bryan