...of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Bum down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities...grow in the streets of every city in the country. For this reason, said the farmers, urban America would have to accept silver. Expanding the thought,...

...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...of this nation and the world, supported by ... the laboring interests and toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying...

...countryside. The quote from William Jennings Bryan in 1896 is as appropriate today as it was then when he said "Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your...grow in the streets of every city in the country." Let me ask a question of you: What is the difference between the manufactures' of shoes, clothes, automobile...

...Bryan's rhetoric also underlined the fact that, in the end, the Populists spoke for rural America. "Burn 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."33...

...countryside The quote from William Jennings Bryan in 1896 is as appropriate today as it was then when he said "Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again at if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country."...

...food and fiber that we have become so accustomed to enjoying. In 1 896, William Jennings Bryan said, "Burn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring up as if by magic; but destroy our farms, and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the...

...the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains," he boomed. "Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your...grow in the streets of every city in the country." His voice dropped low. The ten thousand leaned forward to hear him. "It is the issue of 1776 over again....

...never said what William Jennings Bryan did in his Cross of Gold Speech ("the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies . . . burn down your cities and leave our farms"), but it seemed that the thought might have been in the minds of some who voted for him. This cleavage...

...later a strong advocate of the Reclamation Act of 1 9o2 — warned that "the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities...grow in the streets of every city in the country." Bryan spoke not just for the virtuous rural life; he articulated a widely held and deeply felt faith...

...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...grow in the streets of every city in the country!" At this the convention erupted in a sustained outpouring of approval. The delegates leaped to their...