 | William Jennings Bryan - 1900 - 666 pages
...fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as it by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. Mr. Carlisle said in 1878 that this was a struggle between "the idle holders of idle capital"... | |
 | Abraham Howry Espenshade - 1901 - 226 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. It is the issue of 1776 over again. Our ancestors, when but three millions in number,... | |
 | Abraham Howry Espenshade - 1901 - 236 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. It is the issue of 1776 over again. Our ancestors, when but three millions in number,... | |
 | Abraham Howry Espenshade - 1901 - 232 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. It is the issue of 1776 over again. Our ancestors, when but three millions in number,... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 770 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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - 1902 - 588 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...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... | |
 | 1902 - 970 pages
...with equal truth : "Burn down our cities and our farms will have to build them again." He also said : "Destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." He should have said quite as truly: "Destroy our cities and the grass will take every... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1902 - 714 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1903 - 460 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 588 pages
...your •cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic ; but dtestroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. My friends, ire declare that this nation is able to legislate for its own people on every... | |
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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;... 
