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" ... so common there, and so rare in England, and also so pleasant there and so difficult here. The first reason that presents itself is, that in England... "
America as I Found it - Page 93
by Mary Grey Lundie Duncan - 1852 - 440 pages
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America as I Found it

Mary Grey Lundie Duncan - African-Americans - 1852 - 474 pages
...pleasant there and so difficult here. The first reason that presents itself is, that in England wo have not an abundance of food and of unoccupied room,...York, — " Uncle Sam* is rich enough To give us all a form." The facility with which enough, and more than enough, is found to satisfy every hungry mouth...
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America as I Found it

Mary Grey Lundie Duncan - Travel - 1852 - 400 pages
...room ; but in America it is different, for, according to the burden of a song sung by the coloured orphans, in their Asylum at New York — "Uncle Sam*...enough, is found to satisfy every hungry mouth on a farm, gives wonderful scope to the benevolent sentiment. Compassion needs but to well up at its * A...
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The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States

Charles Richard Van Hise - Natural resources - 1910 - 476 pages
...that belief held until a comparatively few years ago. It is not so many years since we heard the song: "Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm." The better part of the public domain has now passed to Land private parties, and during the closing years...
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The Famous Speeches of the Eight Chicago Anarchists in Court when Asked If ...

Anarchism - 1886 - 136 pages
...no delay; Come from every nation, come from every way; Come along, come along; don't be alarmed — Uncle Sam Is rich enough to give us all a farm.' The stars and stripes in those days floated upon every water as the emblem of the free, but today it obeys...
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Debates: Official Report, Volume 3

Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - Canada - 1911 - 1216 pages
...States; and Professor Van Heis writes as follows: It is not so many years since we heard the song ' Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm.' The better part of the public domain has now passed to private parties, and during the closing years of...
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Property and Contract in Their Relations to the Distribution of Wealth, Volume 1

Richard Theodore Ely - Contracts - 1914 - 542 pages
...very naturally supposed that there was land enough for everybody. We have the song with the refrain "Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm." The writer remembers that song sung in his childhood by those belonging to his father's generation. That...
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The Dramas of Kansas

Charles Lincoln Phifer - Kansas - 1915 - 204 pages
...agitation Of the Workingman's party, singing as it grew, "Come along, come along, don't you take alarm, For Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm." The roads were filled with white wings of the wagons Creaking their slow way to the land of promise. A...
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Selling Places: The Marketing and Promotion of Towns and Cities, 1850-2000

Stephen Victor Ward - Architecture - 1998 - 292 pages
...for every citizen under a combination of homesteading and pre-emption in the Dakota Territory. Headed 'Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm'. the hill further promised 'homes for the homeless' and 'land for the landless' tYankton Press. 18711. Other...
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A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell

Donald Worster - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 692 pages
...led his students in singing the popular words, "Our lands are broad enough — Have no alarm — For Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm." The song did not actually promise to give away a valuable stand of timber or a lucrative mining claim or...
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