 | Charles Sumner Olcott - 1916 - 462 pages
...convention by storm when he uttered his impassioned peroration: "We shall answer their demand for the gold standard by saying to them : ' You shall not...crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.' " This speech gave the nomination to Mr. Bryan, who at once entered upon a vigorous... | |
 | Joseph Bucklin Bishop - 1916 - 326 pages
...its title and fairly carried the convention off its head, was: We shall answer their demand for the gold standard by saying to them: "You shall not press...crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!" Immortal bit of fustian, it should be placed on the record as a sample of the awful... | |
 | Henry Luce Professor in Free Inquiry and Expression James Chace, James Chace - 2004 - 354 pages
...dollar.28 At the Democratic convention Bryan's speech electrified the delegates, as he famously cried out: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this...crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."29 Currency reform alone could not end the miseries that afflicted the farmers. High... | |
 | Philip L. Barlow, Mark Silk - 2004 - 260 pages
...the free coinage of silver, his memorable phrases rang with biblical as well as political conviction: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this...crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."1 Sixteen years later Chicago was again the venue when, in August 1912, the New Yorker... | |
 | David Hackett Fischer - 2005 - 880 pages
...electioneering images in American history, he preached political sermons on his own text: "You shalt not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."292 Bryan ran three times for the presidency, in 1896, 1900 and 1908, and won strong... | |
 | John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge - 2004 - 482 pages
...since the Civil War. William Jennings Bryan identified the Democrats firmly with agrarian populism. ("You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns," Bryan told a mesmerized Democratic Convention. "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.")... | |
 | H. Loring White - 2005 - 435 pages
...his audience to its feet in a roar of unity: Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests,...crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. 5 A century later, knowing that the rest of WJB's life was a thirty-year anti-climax,... | |
 | John Steele Gordon - 2005 - 500 pages
...the palm of his hand as he reached the end. "Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests,...crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." The delegates went wild upon the conclusion of what the novelist Willa Gather — who... | |
 | Roger L. Ransom - 2005 - 376 pages
...nomination of the Democratic National Convention in 1896, William Jennings Bryan told the delegates: "[W]e will answer their demand for a gold standard...crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." Despite his flamboyant rhetoric, Bryan lost that election, and Congress passed the... | |
 | Eliza McGraw - 2005 - 216 pages
...anti-Semitic and xenophobic Populist Party. In a speech, Bryan challenged America's money interests: "'You shall not press down upon the brow of labor...crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold," combining the myth of Christ-killing and Jewish f1nancial domination (Dinnerstein 1994,... | |
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Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them : You shall not press down... 
