 | Henry Raymond Hamilton - 1927 - 302 pages
...that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard ; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities...the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. "Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the... | |
 | Stuart Lewis - 1928 - 720 pages
...that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities *est upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities...the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. My friends, we declare that this nation is able to legislate for its own people on every... | |
 | 1928 - 782 pages
...plays a large part. We are not Bryanites, but we believe old Silver Tongue spoke truth when he said, "Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your...the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." We are talking your language in making this point. You will admit, I imagine, that the... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - 1901 - 758 pages
...that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard ; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities...the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. My friends, we declare that this nation is able to legislate for its o\vn people on every... | |
 | 1928 - 966 pages
...plays a large part. We are not Bryanites, but we believe old Silver Tongue spoke truth when he said, "Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your...the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." We are talking your language in making this point. You will admit, I imagine, that the... | |
 | Robert W. Cherny - 1994 - 244 pages
...cities are in favor of the gold standard," he continued, "we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities...the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." After comparing the silver struggle to that of 1776 and restating some key arguments,... | |
 | Carl Smith - 2008 - 441 pages
...most stirring passages of this oration, Bryan proposed a simple experiment that would prove his point: "Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your...the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country."84 Bryan and all of those who advocated sending the urban population to the country may... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1995 - 1036 pages
...somewhere you will see it every day. Remember the words. In 1896, William Jennings Bryan said it best: Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your...the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. As long as the North American farmer can supply our food at a price that allows us to... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1995 - 1092 pages
...somewhere you will see it every day. Remember the words. In 1896, William Jennings Bryan said it best: Bum down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities...the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. As long as the North American farmer can supply our food at a price that allows us to... | |
 | Steven H. Jaffe - 1996 - 246 pages
...in Chicago, Bryan reminded Americans that farmers, not greedy businessmen, actually fed the nation: "Destroy our farms, and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." The Democratic Party platform called for the federal government to add silver to the... | |
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You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic;... 
