 | Marvin N. Olasky, John Perry - 2005 - 376 страници
...great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. 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." News accounts described twenty thousand delegates listening intently as Bryan concluded, "Having behind... | |
 | H. W. Brands - 2006 - 256 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." The money men said America couldn't change the currency alone, that any alteration in money required... | |
 | Mark Lloyd - 2010 - 352 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." 42 Despite being joined by the Populist and National Silver parties, along with Silver Republicans,... | |
 | William D. Harpine - 2005 - 244 страници
...upon these broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities," Bryan boasted, "and leave our farms and your cities will spring up again as if by magic....the grass will grow in the streets of every city in this country. (Loud applause.)" 51 With such rhetoric, Bryan accented the conflicts within the nation,... | |
 | Clarence Floyd Patten, Dale E. Sporleder - 2006 - 426 страници
...necessity to preserve the agrarian nature of America, he avowed, "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 this country." Political rhetoric could not prevent... | |
 | L. Sandy Maisel - 2007 - 192 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;...will grow in the streets of every city in the country You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech... | |
 | Laura L. Lovett - 2009 - 248 страници
...Nebraska, when he argued in his famous "Cross of Gold" speech, "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." 38 Unlike other urban progressives who saw a solution to the city's problems in a return to the country... | |
 | Heather Cox Richardson - 2007 - 412 страници
...standard, he said, but cities depended on western farms. "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." Decrying that business was controlling financial policy when the true producers of the nation — farmers... | |
 | Stephen Skowronek, Matthew Glassman - 2007 - 464 страници
...great cities rest upon these broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring up again as if by magic....the grass will grow in the streets of every city in this country.18 The second marked the very end of his speech. If they dare to come out and in the open... | |
 | Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher - 2007 - 288 страници
...down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic," he orated; "but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." Bryan waged a fighting campaign and captured the states of the South and interior West, but failed... | |
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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;... 
