The Agrarian Crusade: A Chronicle of the Farmer in PoliticsYale University Press, 1920 - 215 pages |
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adopted advocates agrarian crusade agricultural Anti-Monopoly party attempted Bland-Allison Act Bryan campaign candidate cents Chicago coinage of silver committee Congress constitution convention coöperation corn crops currency declared delegates demands Demo dollar Donnelly economic election electoral tickets established farm farmers favor free coinage free silver fusion ganization gold standard Government governor Granger laws Granger movement Granger period Greeley Greenback party held Ignatius Donnelly Illinois increase independent parties Indiana inflation interest Iowa issue Jerry Simpson Kansas Kelley labor land leaders legislation legislature Liberal Republican party Macune manufacturing McKinley meeting ment Minnesota mortgages National Grange Nebraska nomination Northwestern Alliance old parties organization paper Patrons People's Party plank platform political Populist vote President produce radical rates reform Republican party result silverites South Southern Alliance tariff taxation Texas third party tion tional Union United States Senate voters Weaver West Western wheat
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Page 115 - 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 190 - 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 176 - 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 146 - 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 28 - To discountenance the credit system, the mortgage system, the fashion system, and every other system tending to prodigality and bankruptcy.
Page 143 - 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 180 - 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 135 - 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.
Page 181 - You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
Page 90 - Inflate the currency, and you raise the price of my steers and at the same time pay the public debt.