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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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on the silverquestion that alarmed and called forth theunited opposition of corporate wealth, leadingthe great trusts and Wall-street gamblers tocontribute millions of dollars to overcome theoverwhelming popular sentiment in favor ofhim. No, the silver issue was seized uponas the most effective thing to secure the con-certed aid of the banking interests throughoutthe land and as an alarmist cry that could beused as a cudgel to frighten the business in-terests. The truth of this is shown, amongother evidences, in the fact that equally viciousattacks have been made on other politicalleaders who were never believers in free silver,when the privileged interests felt that the leaderwas incorruptible, aggressively honest anddemocratic in character. The fact that Mr.McKinley had a few years earlier been almostif not equally as outspoken in favor of silveras Mr. Bryan did not in the least prejudicehim in the eyes of the great trust magnates Digitized by Google 300 In the Mirror of the Present
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Rogers, in New York Herald. GIVING HIM THE GLAD LONG HAND. and Wall-street gamblers. But the possessorsof privilege and the great and good men ofthe McCall and Depew brand dreaded, as allthe mighty predatory bands of Wall street to-day dread, any man who will take his oath ofoffice seriously and who will wage unceasingwarfare against undemocratic, unjust andimmoral conditions that flourish and feed therapidly growing power of corporate wealth,political bossism and reaction; and it wasprimarily because Mr. Bryan could be countedon to fight the un-American, corrupt and sub-versive influences that the master-spirits ofthe feudalism of wealth poured out their mil-lions to defeat him. That this fact and notthe circumstance that Mr. Bryan favored freesilver was the chief motive power that actuatedthe relentless opposition of privileged inter-ests, was illustrated in the savage and per-sistent attacks that were made by the sameelements against Mayor Tom L. Johnson ofCleveland, Ohio. Mr. John

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