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Negro Migration 



Planters and tenants express a wide divergence of opinion 

 as to which of these systems is "best for" them and the 

 community. The writers on the economics of land tenure 

 also differ as to which is most desirable from an economic 

 standpoint. Henry George 4 tells us that "tenant farming 

 is the intermediary stage through which the independent 

 tillers of the soil have in other countries passed and in this 

 country are beginning to pass to the condition of agricultural 

 laborers and chronic paupers." E. R. A. Seligman 5 holds 

 on the other hand, that "the increase in tenants has come 

 not from previous farm owners, but from previous farm 



* North American Review, Vol. 142, p. 393. 



8 Seligman, E. R. A., Principles of Economics (1914, Ed.), p. 

 388. 



