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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;... "
The Presidential Candidates and Platforms, Biographies, and Nominating Speeches - Page 27
1896 - 40 pages
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Readings in American History

David Saville Muzzey - 1915 - 634 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 own people on every...
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Principles of Money and Banking: A Series of Selected Materials

Harold Glenn Moulton - 1916 - 830 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 own people on every...
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Readings in the Economic History of the United States

Ernest Ludlow Bogart, Charles Manfred Thompson - 1916 - 904 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 own people on every...
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History of the United States

Emerson David Fite - 1919 - 1164 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 commercial interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands...
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Since the Civil War: By Charles Ramsdell Lingley

Charles Ramsdell Lingley - 1920 - 750 pages
...that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard ; we reply that the great cities rest upon owr 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...
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The American Economic Review, Volume 13

1923 - 822 pages
...cities deteriorate agriculture can escape serious retrogression. It was William J. Bryan who said, "Destroy our farms, and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." It is also true that if our cities be destroyed the weeds will grow on every farm. Agriculture...
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Selected Orations: A Collection of One Hundred Choice Speeches and Selections

Albert Mason Harris - 1924 - 458 pages
...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...grow in the streets of every city in this country. My friends, we declare that this nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question,...
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American Economic History

Harold Underwood Faulkner - 1924 - 752 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...
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A Short History of the American People, Volume 2

Robert Granville Caldwell - 1927 - 606 pages
...entertaining account of the campaign of 1896; the author is a well informed newspaper correspondent. 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 commercial...
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The Life of William Jennings Bryan

Genevieve Forbes Herrick, John Origen Herrick - 1925 - 434 pages
...great cities are in "f favor~oT"fTfe gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest apSrTourTjroad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave...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...
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