A Populist Reader: Selections from the Works of American Populist LeadersGeorge Brown Tindall Harper & Row, 1966 - 231 pages |
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... Congress to a realization that the railroads could no longer be left to unrestrained individual management , and that there was need of government supervision . To correct these abuses , over which the whole country had become clamorous ...
... Congress to a realization that the railroads could no longer be left to unrestrained individual management , and that there was need of government supervision . To correct these abuses , over which the whole country had become clamorous ...
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... Congress shall pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the dealing in futures of all agricultural and mechanical productions ; preserving a stringent system of proce- dure in trials as shall secure the prompt conviction , and ...
... Congress shall pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the dealing in futures of all agricultural and mechanical productions ; preserving a stringent system of proce- dure in trials as shall secure the prompt conviction , and ...
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... Congress , and demand in lieu thereof the free and unlimited coinage of sil- ver . 4. We demand the passage of laws prohibiting alien ownership of land , and that Congress take prompt action to devise some plan to obtain all lands now ...
... Congress , and demand in lieu thereof the free and unlimited coinage of sil- ver . 4. We demand the passage of laws prohibiting alien ownership of land , and that Congress take prompt action to devise some plan to obtain all lands now ...
Contents
TOWN AND COUNTRY | 1 |
IIPOPULIST GRIEVANCES | 11 |
LAND MONOPOLY | 18 |
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acres agricultural Alliance American amount bank believe bimetallism bonds Bryan capital cent Century Chicago Christianity citizens civilization Coin condition Congress convention corporations currency debt demand Democracy Democratic party demonetization dollar economic Edited England ERWIN PANOFSKY Essays ÉTIENNE GILSON F. R. Leavis farm farmers favor free coinage gold standard Grant hands History human Illus industrial interest Intro Introduction issue J. H. HEXTER James Baird Weaver JOHN Kansas Knights of Labor labor land legal tender legislation MARTIN BUBER ment merchant millions mortgages movement nation Negro old parties organization patriotism People's Party platform political Populism Populist present production prosperity question race railroad railway reform Renaissance Republican RUDOLF BULTMANN secure Senate silver Social society SOREN KIERKEGAARD Southern struggle thousand tion trust United vote wealth West and South William William Jennings Bryan