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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Page 51
... legislation and those " interested parties " only included the " moneyed classes , " never the masses of people who were to feel and often suffer the impact of this legislation . And it was true that certain groups of people benefitted ...
... legislation and those " interested parties " only included the " moneyed classes , " never the masses of people who were to feel and often suffer the impact of this legislation . And it was true that certain groups of people benefitted ...
Page 62
... legislation dealt primarily with the currency . Her conclusions about why unjust rather than just legislation was enacted were simple : Legislators often drank excessively and thus were susceptible to the pressures and bribes of banking ...
... legislation dealt primarily with the currency . Her conclusions about why unjust rather than just legislation was enacted were simple : Legislators often drank excessively and thus were susceptible to the pressures and bribes of banking ...
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... legislation that wages are low . You perhaps perceive no relation between shirt - making and law - making , and if you attempt to study the situation you are immediately met by the assertion that " there has been an over- production of ...
... legislation that wages are low . You perhaps perceive no relation between shirt - making and law - making , and if you attempt to study the situation you are immediately met by the assertion that " there has been an over- production of ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The Person in Her Time and Place | 7 |
Her Assault on the Economic Order | 31 |
Copyright | |
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