The Groundswell: A History of the Origin, Aims, and Progress of the Farmers' Movement: Embracing an Authoritative Account of Farmers' Clubs, Granges, Etc. ... Together with Sketches of the Lives of Prominent Leaders, Etc. ... |
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... appointed in behalf of the contending parties , empowered to confer and arrange the basis for an amicable compromise , reasonable , practicable , and just to all parties . Whatever may be the issue of the pending war between the pro ...
... appointed in behalf of the contending parties , empowered to confer and arrange the basis for an amicable compromise , reasonable , practicable , and just to all parties . Whatever may be the issue of the pending war between the pro ...
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... appoint an Executive Committee of three from its members ; also , of a County Committee of one from each county in the State , to be nominated by the delegates from each county . Said officers shall be elected annually , and serve for ...
... appoint an Executive Committee of three from its members ; also , of a County Committee of one from each county in the State , to be nominated by the delegates from each county . Said officers shall be elected annually , and serve for ...
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... appointed to that office separately . Suppose the Club , containing twenty to fifty members , intends to sell a certain amount of pro- duce , for the purchase of necessary stores . The families represented in the Club require annually ...
... appointed to that office separately . Suppose the Club , containing twenty to fifty members , intends to sell a certain amount of pro- duce , for the purchase of necessary stores . The families represented in the Club require annually ...
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... appoint members of the Order as Deputies to organize Granges where no State Grange exists . Sec . 4. There shall be an Executive Committee of the National Grange , consisting of three members , whose term of office shall be three years ...
... appoint members of the Order as Deputies to organize Granges where no State Grange exists . Sec . 4. There shall be an Executive Committee of the National Grange , consisting of three members , whose term of office shall be three years ...
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... appointed . ARTICLE III . — Laws . - The National Grange , at its annual session , shall frame , amend , or repeal such laws as the good of the Order may require . All laws of State and Subordinate Granges must conform to this ...
... appointed . ARTICLE III . — Laws . - The National Grange , at its annual session , shall frame , amend , or repeal such laws as the good of the Order may require . All laws of State and Subordinate Granges must conform to this ...
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Page 288 - No railroad corporation shall issue any stock or bonds, except for money, labor, or property actually received and applied to the purposes for which such corporation was created, and all stock, dividends, and other fictitious increase of the capital stock or indebtedness of any such corporation shall be void.
Page 528 - ... without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 528 - If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action, or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs...
Page 27 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
Page 530 - Provided, That when any Territory shall become a State and be admitted into the Union such new State shall be entitled to the benefits of the said act of July...
Page 313 - ... State are hereby declared public highways, and shall be free to all persons for the transportation of their persons and property thereon, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law. And the General Assembly shall, from time to time, pass laws establishing reasonable maximum rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight on the different railroads in this State.
Page 239 - Church-goers, fearful of the unseen Powers, But grumbling over pulpit-tax and pew-rent, Saving, as shrewd economists, their souls And winter pork with the least possible outlay Of salt and sanctity...
Page 298 - The general assembly shall pass laws to correct abuses and prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in the rates of freight and passenger tariffs on the different railroads in this state, and enforce such laws by adequate penalties, to the extent, if necessary for that purpose, of forfeiture of their property and franchises.
Page 299 - States, which in effect provide that no one shall be deprived of life, liberty or property except by due process of law...
Page 239 - Saving, as shrewd economists, their souls And winter pork with the least possible outlay Of salt and sanctity ; in daily life Showing as little actual comprehension Of Christian charity and love and duty, As if the Sermon on the Mount had been Outdated like a last year's almanac : Rich in broad woodlands and in halftilled fields, And yet so pinched and bare and comfortless, The veriest straggler limping on his rounds, The sun and air his sole inheritance, Laughed at a poverty that paid its taxes,...