 | Meredith Tax - Business & Economics - 2000 - 356 pages
...shoot them down, and they are rapidly degenerating into European conditions. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal...turn despise the republic and endanger liberty.'' The newly formed American Federation of Labor was part of this upsurge of popular militance. This may... | |
 | Neil A. Hamilton - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 386 pages
...in Omaha, Nebraska, that July, they wrote a platform with a resounding preamble: "The fruits of toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal...despise the Republic and endanger liberty. " From there they proposed the unlimited coinage of silver and much more. They wanted to democratize the country... | |
 | William Lazonick - Business & Economics - 2002 - 456 pages
...ruin. . . . 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...and endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of government injustice are bred two great classes of tramps and millionaires. (McMurray (1929), p. 7).... | |
 | Thomas V. DiBacco - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 312 pages
...conditions. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes fora few, unprecedented in the history of mankind; and...the two great classes — tramps and millionaires. More worrisome to business was the actual Populist platform, which called for government ownership... | |
 | Charles W. Calhoun - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 364 pages
...which surround us best justify our cooperation," argued the platform's preamble. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal...in turn, despise the republic and endanger liberty. . . . We believe that the powers of government — in other words, of the people — should be expanded... | |
 | Vijay Prashad - Consumer credit - 2003 - 252 pages
..."monstrous vulgarity" of the rich, the 1 892 Populist Party complained that "the fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal...few, unprecedented in the history of mankind, and the possessor of these, in turn, despise the Republic and endanger liberty."36 The close relationship between... | |
 | Political Science - 542 pages
...indistinguishable to the naked eye. When the Populist program of 1892 said, "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal...for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind," it was speaking the common language of all radicalism. This synthesis of Populism and socialism was... | |
 | Frank Tobias Higbie - Business & Economics - 2003 - 294 pages
...1914, 4. 73. UA, 15 April 1915, 1. 74. Ibid. See the People's party platform of 1892 (Omaha Platform): "From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice...the two great classes — tramps and millionaires." Quoted in Hofstadter and Hofstadter, Great Issues in American History, 140. 75. Short, "How One Town... | |
 | Mattias Gardell - Political Science - 2003 - 464 pages
...been inflicted upon the suffering people," the People's Party platform read. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few. ... [A] vast conspiracy against mankind have been organized on two continents, and is rapidly taking... | |
 | Philip Weeks - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 300 pages
...moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot box. . . . The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few. . . . We have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political... | |
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The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind; and the possessors of these, in turn, despise the Republic and endanger liberty. 
