 | Marc Karnis Landy, Sidney M. Milkis - 2008 - 41 pages
...currency into a titanic religious struggle by denouncing his opponents in starkly religious terms: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this...crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." Democrats in favor of the gold standard, nicknamed Gold Democrats or "Gold Bugs," invoked... | |
 | Donald Pizer - 2010 - 112 pages
...presidential nomination owes its amazing resonance in its own time to its echoing of these rhetorical threads: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this...crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."8 Hofstadter's charges did not go unanswered, and for several decades there was a lively... | |
 | Honor Moore - 2008 - 380 pages
...Testament-laced rhetoric was irresistible to those who shared his condemnation of Gilded Age economic injustice: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this...crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold," he said at the convention, and the standing ovation went on and on. Greatgrandfather... | |
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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... 
