 | 1908 - 460 sider
...our country, a man thoroughly alive to the development of the northwestern states, recently said : "Land without population is a wilderness, and population without land is a mob." He further says: "Our growing manufactories have always rested upon the agricultural growth of the... | |
 | Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Association - 1910 - 214 sider
...of trusts, and our people be healthy and happy and strong. For as James J. Hill has well said, — "Land without population is a wilderness, and population without land is a mob." SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE. JJ TSCHUDY, PASO DEL RIO, COLIMA, MEXICO. This subject is a broad one, especially... | |
 | Edmond Stephen Meany - 1909 - 536 sider
...J. Hill, the railroad builder. In a magazine article he recently made the following statements : " Land without population is a wilderness, and population without land is a mob. I do not wish in any manner to belittle the importance of our growing manufactures or their relative... | |
 | Gilbert Parker, Richard Dawson - 1910 - 280 sider
...found in its opening sentences. They are quoted because the words are of universal application : — " Land without population is a wilderness, and population...national life. The first act in the progress of any civilisation is to provide homes for those who desire to sit under their own vine and fig tree. A prosperous... | |
 | Edwin Lincoln Barker - 1911 - 40 sider
...inventions multiplied. Every tall building is a monument to cheap bread. James J. Hill has said that " Land without population is a wilderness, and population without land is a mob." And he might have added that both land and population without cheap bread are famine and death. THE... | |
 | Board of Agriculture of Ohio - 1912 - 100 sider
...labor problem, is this drift of the people away from the farm ; for, as Mr. James J. Hill puts it, "Land -without population is a wilderness, and population without land is a mob." The resources of our soil and climate are limitless and unsurpassed by those of any other country in the... | |
 | 1912 - 808 sider
...the labor problem, is this drift of the people away from the farm ; for, as James J. Hill puts it, "Land without population is a wilderness, and population without land is a mob." These statements are commonplaces, but it is necessary to repeat them. The resources of our soil and... | |
 | John Palmer Garber - 1913 - 378 sider
...labor problem, is this drift of the people away from the farm ; for, as Mr. James J. Hill puts it, ' Land without population is a wilderness, and population without land is a mob.' The resources of our soil and climate are limitless, and the country is from every point of view a far... | |
 | 1913 - 392 sider
...labor problem, is this drift of the people away from the farm; for, as Mr. James J. Hill puts it, ' Land without population is a wilderness, and population without land is a mob.' The resources of our soil and climate are limitless, and the country is from every point of view a far... | |
 | Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff - 1922 - 312 sider
...greatness and experience in developing a vast inland empire entitle his words to careful consideration. Land without population is a wilderness and population...those who desire to sit under their own vine and fig trees. A prosperous agricultural interest is to a nation what good digestion is to a man. -14 Staff... | |
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Land without population is a wilderness, and population without land is a mob. The United States has many social, political, and economic questions, some old, some new, to settle in the near future; but none so fundamental as the true relation of the... 
