The Agrarian CrusadeYale University Press, 1920 - 215 pages |
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adopted advocates agricultural Anti-Monopoly party attempted bimetallism Bland-Allison Act Bryan campaign candidate cents Chicago circulation coinage of silver committee Congress constitution convention corn crops currency declared delegates demands Demo dollar economic election electoral tickets established events of 1896 farm farmers favor free coinage free silver fusion ganizations gold standard governor Granger laws Granger movement Granger period Greenback party Hanna held Ignatius Donnelly Illinois increase independent parties Indiana inflation interest Iowa issue Jerry Simpson Kansas Kelley labor land leaders legal tender legislation legislature less loans Macune manufacturer McKinley meeting ment Minnesota mortgages National Grange Nebraska nomination Northwestern Alliance old parties paper patent People's Party plank platform Populist party Populist vote President radical rates reform Republican party result silverites South Southern Alliance tariff taxation Texas third party tion tional Union United States Senate Weaver West Western wheat Wisconsin
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Page 113 - 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 130 - It was a religious revival, a crusade, a pentecost of politics in which a tongue of flame sat upon every man, and each spake as the spirit gave him utterance.
Page 186 - 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 172 - 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 142 - 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 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 - To discountenance the credit system, the mortgage system, the fashion system, and every other system tending to prodigality and bankruptcy.
Page 139 - 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 178 - 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 131 - 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.