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to crucify gold would be, of course, connected to pontius pilate crucifying christ. in the same way, bryan and populists and populist minded democrats and republicans, too, thought that the american economy was being run for the interest of those who already had property or those who already had money, those who already had banks and big industries, so there s a class divide in american politics at that time. now we have a lot of anger about the economy. the anger wasn t focused on money the same way it was then. after all, remember then, every dollar people had in their pockets could be redeemed for a dollar in the federal treasury, first with gold. bryan wanted that to be redeemed in silver as well, the means a lot more dollars could have been minted and coined because there was more silver in circulation than there was gold. really a call for cheaper money, lower interest rates, and greater economic opportunity for a small business person, a farmer, a worker who want ....
here are more of the words from william jennings bryan from his famous cross of gold speech. they tell us the great cities are in favor of the gold standard. we reply great cities rest on 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 the grass will grow in the streets of every city of the country. they say environmentalism is good, but we cannot have it we have a gold standard because england has we will restore. and then new england has because the united states has. if they dare to come out in the open fields and attend the gold standard, the good thing, we will fight them to the utter most, standing behind us, producing masses of this nation and the world supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer the demand for gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the bow of labor this ....
our profile of presidential candidates continues thursday night on american history tv with a look at labor leader and socialist party presidential candidate eugene debs. he ran for office five times in the early 20th century. that s at 8:00 p.m. eastern time here on c-span3. coming up this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, the life and legacy of alexander hamilton. hamilton s argument was that the war had been a common struggle. all the states were fighting together for the liberty of all, for the whole country. so he assumed the debts of the 13 states along with the federal debt. they would all be treated as one debt. they would be paid off at the same time. saturday evening, a little after 7:00 eastern. author and national review senior editor richard brookhiser on the economic achievements of alexander hamilton. and then at 10:00 on real america, the 1945 war department film the last bomb documents the final months of the b-29 super fortress air ....
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