Articles liés à The Non-Partisan League Vs; The Home (Classic Reprint)

The Non-Partisan League Vs; The Home (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Tittemore, James N.

 
9781333344689: The Non-Partisan League Vs; The Home (Classic Reprint)

Présentation de l'éditeur

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
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.