Word: populists
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Dates: during 1892-1892
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Question: "Resolved, That the supporters of the Populist party have substantial grievances, which their movement is likely to relieve...
...Populist party seeks to aggregate rather than to lessen class distinctions; Public Opinion IX, 386-408. - (a) The extravagances of the platform prove this; see platform. - (b) In its eagerness to fight monopolists the Populist party has adopted ridiculus and inconsistent theories: Public Opinion X, 610; Nation...
...Populist party advocates impossible socialistic and financial schemes. - (a) Socialistic. e. g. Sup+++ treasury and government control of railways: Nation, L. 404: Public Opinion VIII, 532, IX, 167 168, 241, 408, 475, X. 172, 219, 220, 565, 61 613. - (b) Financial, e. g. Free Silver and the abolition of Nat. Banking: Nation, LII. 104, 229, 230; American, XIX 447; Public Opinion...
...Populist movement thus far has been only injurious to the public welfare - (a) Valuable statesmen have been driven out of public life: Boston Post, Mar 18, 1891 - (b) Legislation in the States controlled by Populists has been of the worst kind: Nation...
...issues raised by the Populist party are not national, and therefore cannot prevail, e. g. History of the Know-Nothing, Greenback, and Prohibition parties; Public Opinion IX. 216, 241, X. 217, 321, 610, 611; Nation...