...labor impoverished; and the land concentrated in the hands of capitalists. . . . The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few. . . . From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice, we breed the two great classes of tramps...

...shoot them down,5 and they are rapidly degenerating into European conditions. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal...governmental injustice we breed the two great classes of tramps and millionaires. . . . We have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the struggles...

...press was the tool of wealth, that corruption dominated the ballot box, "that the fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal...in turn despise the republic and endanger liberty." It seemed that a trial at politics was impending between the party of high noon and a host of doubters....

...of 1892. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for the few, unprecedented in the history of mankind; and...liberty. From the same prolific womb of governmental in1' 'The Prairie Octopus," Motion, Vol. CXIV (1922), p. 393. 1 The membership had dropped to about...

...antimonopoly planks in their platform.s. The Populist Party put it most bluntly: "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few. . . . From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice we breed the two great classes — tramps...

...antimonopoly planks in their platforms. The Populist Party put it most bluntly: "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few.\ . . From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice we breed the two great classes — tramps...

...political and material ruin," screamed a Populist gadfly named Ignatius Donnelly. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few. . . . From the same prolific womb ... we breed the two great classes— tramps and millionaires." The...

...legislatures, the Congress, and even touches the ermine of the bench. . . . The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few. . . and the possessors of these, in turn, despise the republic and endanger liberty. (Qtd. in Nevins...

...Others thought that precisely this conflict was tearing the Republic asunder: The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal...womb of governmental injustice we breed the two great classes—tramps and millionaires. 89 In the story of Tony, the Tramp, known in book form as Tony,...

...that one reporter compared it to French revolutionaries storming the Bastille. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few," the Omaha platform declared. It then demanded that "the powers of the government — in other words,...