...20 per cent upwards. Mr. George K. Holmes of the United States Department of Agriculture testified: The rate of interest on the liens on the cotton crop...least that. The store system of the South is a sort of peonage; that is what it amounts to with the cotton planter. Since the Industrial Commission's report...

...per cent. upwards. Mr. George K. Holmes of the United States Department of Agriculture testified : The rate of interest on the liens on the cotton crop...of the South, it is safe to say, probably averages 50 per cent. a year. All cotton men will agree that it is at least that. The store system of the South...

...Kemmerer quotes Mr. George K. Holmes, of the United States Department of Agriculture, as follows:1 The rate of interest on the liens on the cotton crop...least that. The store system of the South is a sort of peonage; that is what it amounts to with the cotton planter. With similar experiences elsewhere, the...

...other dealers, such as the farm implement dealers, sell on time. the Industrial Commission,20 said, "The rate of interest on the liens on the cotton crop...least that. The store system of the South is a sort of peonage; that is what it amounts to with the cotton planter. ' ' Mr. Clarence Poe, editor of the Progressive...