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It has increased wages and cheapened goods . ... We do not dispute that labor - saving machinery has cheapened goods and stimulated consumption , thereby increasing the demand beyond that which would result from increase of population .
It has increased wages and cheapened goods . ... We do not dispute that labor - saving machinery has cheapened goods and stimulated consumption , thereby increasing the demand beyond that which would result from increase of population .
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The rapidly increasing use of money in elections , for the undisguised purchase of votes , and the growing disposition ... In the thirty - eight years following 1850 the railroad interest of the United States increased 1580 per cent .
The rapidly increasing use of money in elections , for the undisguised purchase of votes , and the growing disposition ... In the thirty - eight years following 1850 the railroad interest of the United States increased 1580 per cent .
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And yet the nation has increased in population . In five years ten million people have been added to the national popuJation , yet instead of gaining a share of this — say half a million - Kansas has apparently been a plague spot and ...
And yet the nation has increased in population . In five years ten million people have been added to the national popuJation , yet instead of gaining a share of this — say half a million - Kansas has apparently been a plague spot and ...
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Populist Ideology | 7 |
A Cross of Gold | 23 |
Utopian Conceptions | 29 |
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