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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... reform . The People's Party spawned the Reform Press Association to inform the workers and farmers , " the only true producing class , " 45 of the clear and present danger abroad in the land . This Association encompassed both great and ...
... reform . The People's Party spawned the Reform Press Association to inform the workers and farmers , " the only true producing class , " 45 of the clear and present danger abroad in the land . This Association encompassed both great and ...
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... reform to focus on prohibition with almost monomaniacal zeal . Willard and Emery knew each other and shared a mutual respect . Their programs for reform of the sick society they saw grew out of their similar world views , their ...
... reform to focus on prohibition with almost monomaniacal zeal . Willard and Emery knew each other and shared a mutual respect . Their programs for reform of the sick society they saw grew out of their similar world views , their ...
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... Reform Party 1872 1876 ; 1884 ; 1888 ; 1892 1880 ; 1884 Prohibition Party Greenback Party Anti - Monopoly Party 1884 Union Labor Party 1888 United Labor Party 1888 People's Party 1892 Socialist Labor Party 1892 NOTE : All those listed ...
... Reform Party 1872 1876 ; 1884 ; 1888 ; 1892 1880 ; 1884 Prohibition Party Greenback Party Anti - Monopoly Party 1884 Union Labor Party 1888 United Labor Party 1888 People's Party 1892 Socialist Labor Party 1892 NOTE : All those listed ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The Person in Her Time and Place | 7 |
Her Assault on the Economic Order | 31 |
Copyright | |
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