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" We believe that the powers of government— in other words of the people — should be expanded (as in the case of the postal service) as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and the teachings of experience shall justify, to the... "
The Tribune Almanac and Political Register - Page 52
1893
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A Dictionary of American Politics: Comprising Accounts of Political Parties ...

Everit Brown, Albert Strauss - United States - 1907 - 692 pages
...people — should be expended (as in the case of the postal service) as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and the teachings of...injustice and poverty shall eventually cease in the land. VVlule our sympathies as a party of reform are naturally upon the aide of every proposition which will...
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The American Federationist, Volumes 1-3

Labor unions - 1898 - 906 pages
...the country demands that the power of the government be expanded as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and the teachings of experience shall justify, along the line of collective ownership, by the people, of all such means of production and distribution...
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Democratic Theories and the Constitution

Martin Edelman - Law - 1984 - 416 pages
...government—in other words, of the people—should be expanded ... as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and the teachings of...injustice and poverty shall eventually cease in the land," 27 carried over to the Progressive movement in the first decade of the twentieth century. To give each...
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The Just Polity: Populism, Law, and Human Welfare

Norman Pollack - History - 1987 - 402 pages
...people — should be expanded (as in the case of the postal service) as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and the teachings of...injustice, and poverty shall eventually cease in the land," 2 he was covering orthodox Populist territory. He was also succinctly formulating the human -centered...
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Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris

George W. Norris - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 470 pages
...government — in other words, of the people — should be expanded ... as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and the teachings of...injustice, and poverty shall eventually cease in the land." They favored, in short, an enlargement of national powers in order to secure democratic objectives...
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American Populism: A Social History 1877-1898

Robert Carroll McMath (Jr.), Robert C. McMath, Jr. - History - 1993 - 258 pages
...government — in other words, of the people — should be expanded ... as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and the teachings of...injustice, and poverty shall eventually cease in the land." The platform adopted at Omaha reflected decades of thought and debate. By contrast, the selection of...
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Dimensions of Law in the Service of Order: Origins of the Federal Income Tax ...

Robert Stanley - History - 1993 - 346 pages
...the usurers will be lost sight of." The preamble called for the expansion of the power of government "to the end that oppression, injustice, and poverty, shall eventually cease in the land." The recommendations themselves followed the tenor of this remedy, arguing in detail under the heading...
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A Righteous Cause: The Life of William Jennings Bryan

Robert W. Cherny - History - 1994 - 244 pages
...the postal service) as rapidly and as far as the good sense of intelligent people and the teaching of experience shall justify, to the end that oppression,...injustice, and poverty shall eventually cease in the land." Among its proposals, the platform gave first place to the creation of a "safe, sound and flexible"...
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The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller, 1888-1910

James W. Ely - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 286 pages
...asserted that "the powers of the government —in other words, of the people —should be expanded" to the end that "oppression, injustice and poverty, shall eventually cease in the land." To achieve their objective the Populists called for government ownership of the railroads, a graduated...
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Reason to Believe

Mario Cuomo - Political Science - 1996 - 208 pages
...government — in other words, of the people — should be expanded ... as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and the teachings of...injustice, and poverty shall eventually cease in the land. Suddenly, all kinds of change was thinkable. Progressives like Louis Brandeis, the influential legal...
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