The Agrarian Crusade: A Chronicle of the Farmer in PoliticsYale University Press, 1920 - 215 pages |
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adopted agrarian crusade Agricultural Wheel American Anti-Monopoly Anti-Monopoly party attempted Bland-Allison Act Bryan candidate cents Chicago clubs coinage of silver committee Congress constitution convention 1896 coöperation cratic crops currency declared delegates demand Demo Democratic dollar Donnelly established farm favor free silver fusion ganization gold standard governor Granger laws Granger movement Granger period Greenback movement Greenback party Illinois Independent party Indiana inflation interest Iowa issue Kansas Kelley Labor party land leaders legislation legislature Liberal Republican party McKinley meeting ment Minnesota mortgages National Grange National Greenback National Labor party National party Nebraska nomination Northwestern Alliance old parties organization Patrons of Husbandry People's Party plank platform political Popu Populist party Populist vote President presidential radical railroad regulation rates reform regulation of railroads road South Southern Alliance Supreme Court tariff tion tional Union Union Labor party United States Senate Vice-President Weaver West Wisconsin
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Page 136 - We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage ; but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value...
Page 133 - Alliance, or a better system ; also by payments in discharge of its obligations for public improvements. 1. We demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1.
Page 105 - To labor for the education of the agricultural classes in the science of economical government, in a strictly non-partisan spirit, and to bring about a more perfect union of said classes.
Page 18 - To discountenance the credit system, the mortgage system, the fashion system, and every other system tending to prodigality and bankruptcy.
Page 180 - On the one side are the allied hosts of monopolies, the money power, great trusts and railroad corporations, who seek the enactment of laws to benefit them and impoverish the people. On the other are the farmers, laborers, merchants, and all other people who produce...
Page 166 - We are unalterably opposed to monometallism, which has locked fast the prosperity of an industrial people in the paralysis of hard times. Gold monometallism is a British policy, and its adoption has brought other nations into financial servitude to London.
Page 18 - We shall endeavor to advance our cause by laboring to accomplish the following objects: To develop a better and higher manhood and womanhood among ourselves. To enhance...
Page 170 - If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we will fight them to the uttermost. Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world...
Page 80 - Inflate the currency, and you raise the price of my steers and at the same time pay the public debt.
Page 125 - Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.