A Populist Reader: Selections from the Works of American Populist LeadersGeorge Brown Tindall Harper & Row, 1966 - 231 pages |
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... Things are neither equal or equitable , when the holders of money , and evidences of debt which must be liquidated ... thing creates a demand for another , inasmuch as the producer desires to exchange it for something else which he needs ...
... Things are neither equal or equitable , when the holders of money , and evidences of debt which must be liquidated ... thing creates a demand for another , inasmuch as the producer desires to exchange it for something else which he needs ...
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... thing that the mathematician did when he fixed one figure from which all others should be counted . Congress fixed ... things they did was to make 3711⁄4 grains of silver the unit of values . That much silver was to constitute a dollar ...
... thing that the mathematician did when he fixed one figure from which all others should be counted . Congress fixed ... things they did was to make 3711⁄4 grains of silver the unit of values . That much silver was to constitute a dollar ...
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... thing , we ought to declare in favor of its retention and not in favor of abandoning it ; and if the gold standard is a bad thing why should we wait until other nations are willing to help us to let go ? Here is the line of battle , and ...
... thing , we ought to declare in favor of its retention and not in favor of abandoning it ; and if the gold standard is a bad thing why should we wait until other nations are willing to help us to let go ? Here is the line of battle , and ...
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