 You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic;...  The Review of Reviews - Page 176edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
 | George Henry Shibley - 1896 - 722 pages
...prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class and rest upon it. [Applause.] You come to us and tell us that the great cities are...standard. I tell you that the great cities rest upon theoe broad and fertile I'^iries. Burn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring... | |
 | William Leighton Jordan - 1896 - 256 pages
...Bryan's words in his first speech at Chicago : ' You come and tell us that the great cities are in favour of the Gold Standard. I tell you that the great cities...fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave us our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic ; but destroy our farms, and the... | |
 | Richard Lee Metcalfe - 1896 - 508 pages
...masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them. " You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard ; we reply 20 that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities... | |
 | Democratic Party. National Committee, 1896-1900 - 1896 - 396 pages
...masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them. You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1896 - 608 pages
...class anil rest upon it. (Applause.) - You como to us and tell us that the great cities are in faTonr of the gold standard. I tell you that the great cities rest upon those broad and fertile prairies. Burn' down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 468 pages
...masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them. You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and... | |
 | Charles Morris, Edward Sylvester Ellis, Isaac Thorne Johnson - 1900 - 538 pages
...ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous that their prosperity will leak through...the great cities rest upon these broad and fertile praries. Burn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring up again as if by magic.... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - 1900 - 636 pages
...masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them. You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard ; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and... | |
 | 1900 - 526 pages
...masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them. You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and... | |
 | 1900 - 470 pages
...masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them. You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and... | |
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