The Land Is Mine

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Excerpt from The Land Is Mine: From Tenancy to Family Farm Ownership Every living thing wants a place to stay. Our happiest memories cluster around the old home, and we leave it with the hope of establishing one of our own. The sentiment is universal. The literature of the ages is filled with, and the songs we love best were inspired by, thoughts of home. The immortal ballads like Home, Sweet Home and Little Gray Home in the West were not inspired by sentiments produced by a rented shack with rental payments on a monthly or an annual or a crop-sharing basis, but by the thoughts of home in the real sense of the word. When the pioneers came to this country, the ring of the first ax in the wilderness was to construct a cabin in which to live. The western settle ments were by people who wanted a place to call their own. These early day settlers, through their thrift, enterprise, and character, planted the mudsills of the governmental structure we have today. The growth of the country was rapid. It gradually became more and more industrialized. It increased enormously in wealth. From simple beginnings it increased in power and position. But in the process of transformation our country neglected the vital element of home ownership. Farm tenancy began to increase. This was aggravated, especially in the South, by the War between the States. It gradually increased like a creeping paralysis until a majority of the farms of the United States were operated by tenants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.