 | John E. Tapia - 1997 - 248 pages
...the rural Midwest, voicing what was in the hearts of all agrarians: "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." So popular was Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech that in a 1992 interview, Ina Wachtel recalled... | |
 | Jean H. Baker - 1997 - 596 pages
...and leave our farms and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy our farms and grass will grow in the streets of every city in this country. . . . Having behind us the producing masses of this country and of the world supported by the commercial... | |
 | Robert F. Sayre - 1999 - 276 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.6 But this "prairie politics" of reform, as I would call it, contained a profound tension,... | |
 | Robert Sobel - 1999 - 482 pages
...of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Bum down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities...the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. For this reason, said the farmers, urban America would have to accept silver. Expanding... | |
 | Kathy Sammis - 2000 - 136 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... | |
 | Frances Fox Piven - 2000 - 364 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... | |
 | 2000 - 1136 pages
...countryside. The quote from William Jennings Bryan in 1896 is as appropriate today as it was then 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." Let me ask a question of you: What is the difference between the manufactures' of shoes,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 2000 - 1036 pages
...to express my views on agriculture. I would like to close with a quote from William Jennings Bryan, "Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your...the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." [The prepared statement of Ms. Spivey appears at the conclusion of the hearing.] The... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 2000 - 1128 pages
...then when he said "Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again at if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." Let me ask a question of you: What is the difference between the manufactures' of shoes,... | |
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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;... 
