RESOLVED, That we favor a constitutional provision limiting the office of President and Vice-President to one term, and providing for the election of Senators of the United States by a direct vote of the people.
This resolution would certainly be popular now.
RESOLVED, That we condemn the fallacy of protecting American labor under the present system, which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal classes of the world and crowds out our wage-earners; and we denounce the present ineffective laws against contract labor, and demand the further restriction of undesirable emigration.
This is the plank that supports the anti- immigration tone of the late nineteenth century. Immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe were considered "criminal."
Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective – a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate. …
TR sounds like BS and EW.
Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics. … The Constitution guarantees protections to property, and we must make that promise good
The ogres of the past are transformed into trusts and corporations. The individual citizen is crushed.
This coda: equal opportunity and no special privileges is the kind of sentence that make people vote for you.
There is an eternal division based on perceived differences in class. James makes clear that the same class divisions roiling Europe are present in the USA and affect our focus.
This source is an attempt to paper over the oppressive state of affairs for a significant portion of its population: the emancipated slaves. They are not even mentioned. The desire to participate in the increasing wealth possible of conversion from agriculture to industry located in cities like Atlanta is palpable.
i wonder how Ms Addams got along with Ida Wells-Barnett.
nd the race-feeling is therefore intensified; and Mr. Washington’s programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races.
This is when DuBois gets down to brass tacks. He has a different mindset. His sojourn in Europe made a difference.
Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides. Cast down your bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded [sic] your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth, and helped make possible this magnificent representation of the progress of the South. Casting down your bucket among my people, helping and encouraging them as you are doing on these grounds, and to education of head, hand, and heart, you will find that they will buy your surplus land, make blossom the waste places in your fields, and run your factories.
By promising labor peace, Washington cuts the legs out from the Farmers Alliance movement. Thought that tried to draw people of the same economic class was not popular.
Resolved, that we, the planters and citizens of Tallahatchie River, hereby request the Durant Commercial Company to desist from selling goods or loaning money to said organization … and we hereby serve notice that goods or other things shipped to the secretaries or managers of said Alliance shall not be delivered. …We do not intend to, and we will not submit to, a combination subversive of our fortunes, our lives, and our property.
Clearly the Colored members of the Farmer's alliance don't have any rights that the planters and citizens of Tallahatchie River feel bound to respect.