The Chronicles of America Series: The agrarian crusadeYale University Press, 1920 |
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adopted advocates agricultural Anti-Monopoly party attempted bimetallism Bland-Allison Act Bryan campaign candidate cents Chicago clubs coinage of silver committee Congress constitution convention coöperation corn crops currency declared delegates demands Demo dollar 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 loans Macune manufacturing McKinley meeting ment Minnesota monopoly 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
Popular passages
Page 145 - 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 148 - 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 115 - Demands," which included higher taxation of lands held for speculative purposes, prohibition of alien land ownership, laws to "prevent the dealing in futures of all agricultural products, " full taxation of railroad property, "the rapid extinguishment of the public debt of the United States, by operating the mints to their fullest capacity in coining silver and gold, and the tendering of the same without discrimination to the public creditors," the issue of legal tender notes on a per capita basis...
Page 192 - 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 178 - 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 33 - When, in the course of human events," this document begins in words familiar to every schoolboy orator, "it becomes necessary for a class of the people, suffering from long continued systems of oppression and abuse, to rouse themselves from an apathetic indifference to their own interests, which has become habitual ... a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to a course so necessary to their own protection.
Page 28 - We shall endeavor to advance our cause by laboring to accomplish the following objects: To develop a better and higher manhood and womanhood among ourselves. To enhance...
Page 182 - 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 47 - The general assembly shall pass laws to correct abuses and prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in the rates of freight and passenger tariffs on the different railroads in this state, and enforce such laws by adequate penalties, to the extent, if necessary for that purpose, of forfeiture of their property and franchises.
Page 137 - 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.