II: Cotton Peonage.

Presents information on the condition of the Southern croppers and renters. Information that at harvest time the tenant feels the pinch of exploitation most; Estimate of secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde on the merchant credit cost to the tenant and fertilizer; Agreement of tenants to work in any condition in order to escape imprisonment as vagrants; Information on the financial condition of an average tenant; Information on the different forms of peonage like the convict-lease system, under which prisoners were hired out entirely into the custody of private planters; Reports of the congressional committee formed to investigate peonage among white immigrants; Accusation of James E. Guilty, prominent Louisiana planter, for holding Negro farm hands in peonage; Suppression of the attempts made by tenants to remedy the conditions.