A Populist Assault: Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery on American Democracy, 1862-1895Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1982 - 146 pages Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery, a Michigan woman transplanted from the Finger Lakes region of New York, was for many years a voice for Populism in the late 19th century. Emery was a woman who believed and acted on her beliefs that freedom and the flowering of the human potential should not five way to the demands of the "money power." |
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... currency would have been available in the market where it was needed . By refunding the debt for thirty years , this “ unjust law " hurt the people doubly . Not only did it deprive them of needed currency , but it increased the ...
... currency would have been available in the market where it was needed . By refunding the debt for thirty years , this “ unjust law " hurt the people doubly . Not only did it deprive them of needed currency , but it increased the ...
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... currency supply as the sole explanation for the rapidly " deteriorating " scene . Since growing concentration of economic power was a central fact of late - nineteenth century America and since Emery and most of the Populists were ...
... currency supply as the sole explanation for the rapidly " deteriorating " scene . Since growing concentration of economic power was a central fact of late - nineteenth century America and since Emery and most of the Populists were ...
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... currency , particularly in the Midwest and South . There was heavy foreign , particularly British , investment in America , and members of Congress were anxious to maintain " the public credit and the integrity of the currency " by ...
... currency , particularly in the Midwest and South . There was heavy foreign , particularly British , investment in America , and members of Congress were anxious to maintain " the public credit and the integrity of the currency " by ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The Person in Her Time and Place | 7 |
Her Assault on the Economic Order | 31 |
Copyright | |
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