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Page 113 - It is not to be inferred from what has been said that civics instruction, even in the elementary schools, should be restricted to the purely local.
Page 155 - Hoard saw that the fundamental problem confronting Wisconsin farmers was the problem of marketing dairy products, especially cheese. Western markets, by 1872, were becoming glutted and it was necessary for Wisconsin manufacturers to break through into the eastern and English markets. This feat, no light one in the days when Wisconsin dairymen were without influence and New York's competition was so overshadowing, was accomplished through the agency of the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association, organized...
Page 22 - Brooks and his disciples will be discussed in a later chapter, it is only necessary to note here that whatever tradition they produced was seriously vitiated by ignorance and distortion: the typical example is Waldo Frank glorifying Fanny Brice and attacking Shakespeare as a "charming," rather than great, writer who created "the most fetching of melodramas.
Page 38 - The same writer speaks of the "murderous toil" of clearing a farm in the heavy timber, which he regards as a life job for the unfortunate settler. Why, then, did so many German immigrants elect to spend their lives in making farms under those conditions? The answer is found, by analogy, in this other question: Why do the poorer people, in every crowded city, live on the low grounds, while the well-to-do occupy the high, commanding, and sightly knolls I It is at bottom a question of economic ability,...
Page 50 - The revolutionary tendencies of the age and their rigorous suppression caused widespread discontent among liberals, especially in the states bordering the Rhine, and the freedom of the American system of government appealed strongly to such men. Wisconsin was just beginning to settle; the climate, soil, and market conditions were favor
Page 153 - ... elsewhere, their methods of manufacture carefully set forth. Except to those who are unaware that people from the Empire State were so dominant in Wisconsin, there is no mystery in the fact that it was most frequently New York men who headed local movements for the building of cheese factories, for organizing breeders' associations and other means calculated to develop the dairying interests.
Page 86 - In part to a partial deficiency of the working force by reason of the large numbers of farmers who had enlisted In the ranks of war. men for the federal service,24 and by the end of the war this number had increased to 91,379 men or one man for every nine of the inhabitants of the state.25 The withdrawal of so large a proportion of the working force of the state without serious detriment to industry was due in part to the remoteness of Wisconsin from the scene of conflict, but most of all to the...
Page 129 - Taken altogether they made so strong an attraction that, wherever good land could be obtained in proper locations, it was sure to be taken up as soon as possible after the mills began operations. The lands of northern Wisconsin vary in character quite as much as those in the south.
Page 50 - A few who dwelt in settlements said that they intended to move farther into the country, as their cattle were hampered by the fences of their neighbors. Schafer says of them: "In short, the Norwegians, by their thrift, physical vigor, and enterprise, were destined to become one of the determining elements in the building of Wisconsin agriculture."5 2 Swedes.