 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
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - 1901 - 758 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 and... | |
 | 1940 - 1240 pages
...orators. In that day, however, the words were not only thrilling but revolutionary. When Bryan shouted "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... | |
 | Nell Irvin Painter - 1989 - 458 pages
...producing classes. He defied Democratic supporters of gold in phrases he had tested on the stump: 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... | |
 | Robert W. Cherny - 1994 - 244 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," he continued, "we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - 1996 - 40 pages
...masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through even' 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 and... | |
 | Robert Sobel - 1999 - 482 pages
...of idle capital" and "the struggling masses." But frenzied applause greeted Bryan's next broadside. 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. Bum down your cities and leave... | |
 | Robert F. Sayre - 1999 - 276 pages
...1896 conjured up that region and its values as a source of political virtue and material prosperity: 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... | |
 | Frances Fox Piven - 2000 - 364 pages
...common man, as in the famous peroration of his address to the Democratic nominating convention in 1896: 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... | |
 | Kathy Sammis - 2000 - 136 pages
...prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them. You [the gold delegates] 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... | |
 | Andrei Cherny - 2008 - 290 pages
...parts of the country, Bryan proceeded to redivide the countryagrarian versus urban, past versus future. "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 plains," he boomed. "Burn down your... | |
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