The Farmers' Alliance History and Agricultural Digest, Volume 1Alliance, 1891 - 742 pages |
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... means the spoliation of all who cannot meet this force with similar power . That being true , the farmer becomes the easy prey of all , and receives the treatment his own neglect brings upon him . All non - producers are the avowed ...
... means the spoliation of all who cannot meet this force with similar power . That being true , the farmer becomes the easy prey of all , and receives the treatment his own neglect brings upon him . All non - producers are the avowed ...
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... means , or the credit , a practical mo- nopoly in both buying and selling . Like all other monopolists , such merchants found themselves constantly deciding , on the one hand , between their greed and avarice , and , on the other , how ...
... means , or the credit , a practical mo- nopoly in both buying and selling . Like all other monopolists , such merchants found themselves constantly deciding , on the one hand , between their greed and avarice , and , on the other , how ...
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... means , if possible , but to defend their homes at all hazards . Here were men from the North and South banding together for mutual protection , under the name Land League , which soon took the more proper designation of Farmers ...
... means , if possible , but to defend their homes at all hazards . Here were men from the North and South banding together for mutual protection , under the name Land League , which soon took the more proper designation of Farmers ...
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... means and by such guides as a kind Providence has given to deserving men . Their business was conducted with a directness that admitted of no mistake , and their resolutions and demands were drawn with that candor which admitted of only ...
... means and by such guides as a kind Providence has given to deserving men . Their business was conducted with a directness that admitted of no mistake , and their resolutions and demands were drawn with that candor which admitted of only ...
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... means employed in valuing their products , and without any means of express- ing or enforcing their views as a class . And thus the Alliance employed what feeble means it had to effect an organization of the farmers . " Called meeting ...
... means employed in valuing their products , and without any means of express- ing or enforcing their views as a class . And thus the Alliance employed what feeble means it had to effect an organization of the farmers . " Called meeting ...
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Page 723 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he absolutely and entirely renounces and abjures all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly, by name, to the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of which he was before, a citizen or subject," which proceedings must be recorded by the clerk of the court.
Page 705 - ... giving and granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Page 378 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 449 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Page 617 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home ; A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere. Home ! home ! sweet, sweet home ! There's no place like home...
Page 726 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 727 - He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Page 647 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 728 - Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris. NEW JERSEY. — Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark. PENNSYLVANIA. — Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross.
Page 276 - But what of the negro ? Have we solved the problem he presents or progressed in honor and equity toward solution? Let the record speak to the point. No section shows a more prosperous laboring population than the negroes of the South, none in fuller sympathy with the employing and land-owning class.