 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 Review of Reviews - Page 176edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
 | Charles Ramsdell Lingley - 1920 - 750 pages
...holders of fixed investments have declared for a gold standard, but not where the masses have . . . 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 owr broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and... | |
 | Solomon Bulkley Griffin - 1923 - 576 pages
...wealth, the merchants of the crossroads store, the miners who bring forth the precious metals. "You 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... | |
 | Harold Underwood Faulkner - 1924 - 752 pages
...holders of fixed investments have declared for a gold standard, but not where the masses have. . . . 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... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1924 - 884 pages
...when our calamity came. We beg no longer ; we entreat no more ; we petition no more. We defy them ! "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 the broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and... | |
 | Albert Mason Harris - 1924 - 458 pages
...masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them. 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... | |
 | Robert Granville Caldwell - 1927 - 606 pages
...reached his peroration, even his enemies were carried away by the frenzied excitement of the moment: "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 1 On this point see Sullivan, Mark, Our Times, I, p. 121, a book... | |
 | Genevieve Forbes Herrick, John Origen Herrick - 1925 - 434 pages
...prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests^apon them. / \ fc,'^* You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in "f favor~oT"fTfe gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest apSrTourTjroad and fertile prairies.... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1927 - 910 pages
...mocked when our calamity came. We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more. We defy them! "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 the broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and... | |
 | Henry Raymond Hamilton - 1927 - 302 pages
...himself, and I will quote the peroration of his celebrated "Crown of Thorns," "Cross of Gold" speech : "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... | |
 | Stuart Lewis - 1928 - 720 pages
...masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them. You come to us and tell us 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 and... | |
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