 | W. J. Rorabaugh, Donald T. Critchlow, Paula C. Baker - 2004 - 508 страници
...sat at the head of the table of the producing classes. "Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic....grow in the streets of every city in the country!" Waiting for the whoops and applause to subside, he closed with his arms outstretched as if he had been... | |
 | Eric P. KAUFMANN - 2004 - 398 страници
..."The great cities rest on broad and fertile prairies. . . . Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic;...grow in the streets of every city in the country" (Hofstadter 1955: 35). Bryan was just as adamant in his opposition to American imperialism in the Philippines... | |
 | James D. Robenalt - 2004 - 340 страници
...the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down the cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic;...grow in the streets of every city in the country." Durbin likes the reference to magic. Nice touch, his expression confirms. "In fact," Bryan said later,... | |
 | David M. Ricci - 2004 - 326 страници
...assuming that most social parasites lived in urban areas, "Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic;...grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country."44 Populists held that corporations turned the nation's producers, who included urban workers,... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2003 - 438 страници
...down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic," he said. "But destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.... You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind... | |
 | Steven R. Weisman - 2004 - 436 страници
...your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic," he declared. "But destroy our farms, and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." As for the Supreme Court and the income tax, Bryan declared: "They say we passed an unconstitutional... | |
 | David Helvarg - 2004 - 404 страници
..."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: but destroy our farms, and grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country."5 IN 1890 THE US Census declared the frontier... | |
 | Richard Daniel Lehan - 2005 - 358 страници
..."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;...grow in the streets of every city in the country." Bryan won the nomination twice more, but he was never elected president.14 Bryan's Populism gave way... | |
 | James E. McWilliams - 2005 - 414 страници
...William Jennings Bryan told the Democratic Convention, "Burn down your cities and leave your farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic,...grow in the streets of every city in the country." Bryan was, of course, speaking about America, but his remark — and the pastoral sentiment supporting... | |
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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;... 
