A Populist Reader: Selections from the Works of American Populist LeadersGeorge Brown Tindall Harper & Row, 1966 - 231 pages |
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Page 138
... gold enjoyed free coinage , and was legal tender in the payment of all debts . Now things have changed . Gold is the unit and silver does not enjoy free coinage . It is refused at the mints . We might get along with gold as the unit ...
... gold enjoyed free coinage , and was legal tender in the payment of all debts . Now things have changed . Gold is the unit and silver does not enjoy free coinage . It is refused at the mints . We might get along with gold as the unit ...
Page 140
... gold in the world could be put in a cube of 22 feet appeared ridiculous — absurd . Few that had entertained the single gold standard view of the monetary question were willing to believe it . They argued that it was impossible ; that ...
... gold in the world could be put in a cube of 22 feet appeared ridiculous — absurd . Few that had entertained the single gold standard view of the monetary question were willing to believe it . They argued that it was impossible ; that ...
Page 209
... gold standard upon this country , or who is willing to surrender the right of self - government and place the legislative control of our affairs in the hands of foreign potentates and powers ... gold standard , but Cross of Gold Speech 209.
... gold standard upon this country , or who is willing to surrender the right of self - government and place the legislative control of our affairs in the hands of foreign potentates and powers ... gold standard , but Cross of Gold Speech 209.
Contents
TOWN AND COUNTRY | 1 |
IIPOPULIST GRIEVANCES | 11 |
LAND MONOPOLY | 18 |
Copyright | |
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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