NfltHJ aritaan foagu w. tp Horn? It is time for the American farmer to ask himself the questionwhither are we tending? Meditating upon farm movements as they have come and gone are we, as farmers, ascending higher in the scale of real progress comparatively, or are we so to speak standing still! The farmers clubs of Illinois way back in the late Sixties and early Seventies the Cooperative Movement in Kansas and Nebraska in the Seventies the Farmers Alliance of the North and West and of the South in the Eighties the wonderful though sporadic movement of the Grange North and South and East and West from the Seventies into the Eighties the Farmers Mutual Benefit Association the Farmers League, which stupidly undertook to play politics for all the other organizations and then the Patrons of Industry which followed during the late Eighties and the early Nineties, all of which seemed to culminate in the Peoples Party Movement and then subside, taught the same general doctrines and all failed in about the same way. The Equity Society came along later with the prospect of eclipsing them all when, failing to grasp the full import of pending events they failed and the leaders of Marxian Socialism, seeing the opportunity grasped it to take the harvest unto themselves. We are face to face with another situation that is not unlike those which the farmers faced in the past. There is no organization, not even the Farm Bureau Movement that offers a single remedy for the amelioration of the American farmer that has not been proposed as readily and volubly by all of the other organizations hereinbefore mentioned. The superiority of the method proposed in presenting the educational program to the farmers themselves rests with the early organizations. Each and every organization that has ever made a remedial proposition to the farmers of America has placed cooperation as the co
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Paperback. Etat : New. Print on Demand. This book explores the rise and fall of the Non-Partisian League, a political movement that sought to unite farmers and workers in the American Midwest. The author traces the League's origins in the agrarian discontent of the early 20th century, and examines its leaders' efforts to implement socialist policies in North Dakota. The book also delves into the League's connections to the Socialist Party and the International Workers of the World, shedding light on the ideological underpinnings of the movement. Through meticulous research and analysis, the author provides a comprehensive and nuanced account of the League's rise and ultimate decline, offering valuable insights into the history of American populism and the enduring challenges faced by farmers and workers. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781333344689_0
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