| Abstrakt: |
With U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's appointment of a Special Committee on Farm Tenancy, national interest in the plight of the agricultural laborers, particularly in the South, reached a climax. Three years of unprecedented publicity had lifted these humble workers to the center of the national stage. Yet at the very moment when concern about their plight appears to be at a maximum there is grave danger that the American people may fail again, as they failed once before, to understand the basic factors in the Southern agrarian problem and to find a fundamental solution. If history teaches anything about the tenancy problem, it is that in the present economic system, with its business cycle and its rapacious middlemen, the small independent farmer cannot maintain himself and tends to disappear. |
