 | H. W. Brands - 2006 - 256 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." The money men said America couldn't change the currency alone, that any alteration in... | |
 | William D. Harpine - 2005 - 244 pages
...the great cities rest upon these broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities," Bryan boasted, "and leave our farms and your cities will spring up...grow in the streets of every city in this country. (Loud applause.)" 51 With such rhetoric, Bryan accented the conflicts within the nation, not its unity.... | |
 | Clarence Floyd Patten, Dale E. Sporleder - 2006 - 426 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." Political rhetoric could not prevent or delay the changes that American agriculture was experiencing... | |
 | Stephen Skowronek, Matthew Glassman - 2007 - 464 pages
...agrarian producers with those who inhabited the nation's cities: You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard. I tell you...grass will grow in the streets of every city in this country.18 The second marked the very end of his speech. If they dare to come out and in the open defend... | |
 | William Letwin - 438 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... | |
 | L. Sandy Maisel - 2007 - 192 pages
...of Bryan's rhetoric, but he denned for his party a losing coalition. 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 You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of... | |
 | Laura L. Lovett - 2009 - 248 pages
...Jennings Bryan, his neighbor and friend in Nebraska, when he argued in his famous "Cross of Gold" speech, "Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your...the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." 38 Unlike other urban progressives who saw a solution to the city's problems in a return... | |
 | Heather Cox Richardson - 2007 - 412 pages
...convention fare. Cities might demand the gold standard, he said, but cities depended on western farms. "Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your...the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." Decrying that business was controlling financial policy when the true producers of the... | |
 | Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher - 2007 - 288 pages
...down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic," he orated; "but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." Bryan waged a fighting campaign and captured the states of the South and interior West,... | |
 | Richard Franklin Bensel - 2008 - 312 pages
...its way up and through every class that rests upon it.93 You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard. I tell you...grow in the streets of every city in this country. The last line in this paragraph brought forth "great applause" and "great cheering. "94 My friends,... | |
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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;... 
