American Social and Religious Conditions, المجلد 3F.H. Revell, 1912 - 240 من الصفحات |
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acres agencies agricultural American cities average become better boys bread and clothing census cent child labour Christian classes continental United coöperation Cuba death-rate Denomin down-town economic efficiency employed employers enterprise fact factory farm land farmer figures foreign foreign-born girls Gospel growth Harriet Martineau illiteracy immigrant important improved land increased Jonathan Edwards Josiah Strong Jukes family Kafir labour union land in farms large numbers leaders liquor business liquor industry liquor traffic living at home Manufactures matter meet membership ment minister mission moral movement native negro North Dakota number of Indians occupations organized labour Panama Canal percentage Porto Rico present problems Products Protestant Church public schools question race religion religious rural saloon secure situation social service socialist society South spirit square miles teachers tenement thousand tion to-day Total Number total population trades-union tuberculosis women in industry
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الصفحة 38 - farm " for census purposes is all the land which is directly farmed by one person managing and conducting agricultural operations, either by his own labor alone or with the assistance of members of his household or hired employees.
الصفحة 173 - Between these two classes a struggle must go on until all the toilers come together on the political, as well as on the industrial field, and take and hold that which they produce by their labor through an economic organization of the working class, without affiliation with any political party.
الصفحة 38 - Further, when a landowner has one or more tenants, renters, croppers, or managers, the land operated by each is considered a "farm.
الصفحة 136 - The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury. To him, as to other single-minded men in every age and race, from Diogenes to the brothers of Saint Francis, from the Montanists to the Shakers, the love of possessions has appeared a snare, and the burdens of a complex society a source of needless peril and temptation.
الصفحة 136 - It is simple truth that the Indian did not, so long as his native philosophy held sway over his mind, either envy or desire to imitate the splendid achievements of the white man. In his own thought he rose superior to them ! He scorned them, even as a lofty spirit absorbed in its stern task rejects the soft beds, the luxurious food, the pleasure-worshiping dalliance of a rich neighbor. It was clear to him that virtue and happiness are independent of these things, if not incompatible with them. There...
الصفحة 39 - Improved land includes alt land regularly tilled or mowed, land in pasture which has been cleared or tilled, land lying fallow, land in gardens, orchards, vineyards, and nurseries, and land occupied by farm buildings.
الصفحة 136 - To him as to other single minded men in every age and race, from Diogenes to the brothers of Saint Francis, from the Montanists to the Shakers, the love of possessions has appeared a snare, and the burdens of a complex society a source of needless peril and temptation. It is...
الصفحة 52 - Report, under government leadership, a comprehensive plan for an exhaustive study or survey of all the conditions that surround the business of farming and the people who live in the country, in order to take stock of our resources and to supply the farmer with local knowledge.
الصفحة 38 - farm" may consist of a single tract of land, or of a number of separate tracts...
الصفحة 129 - We have expended this year $349,834.60 in the support of negro schools. I never visit one of these schools without feeling that we are wasting a large part of this money and are neglecting a great opportunity.