Prosperity and Class Struggle in Early American Thought
Impressions chapter argues prosperity rests on four social classes the creditor class salaried professionals wage earners and farmers with the first and third groups wielding power through wealth. It critiques monopolies and government collusion with Morgan and others, claiming tariffs and Republican policy failed to raise wages or prices for farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Firet
J. Pierpont Morgan
Congress
Genesia
Tariff debate argues for silver to aid labor and farmers
A speaker denounces the Dingley tariff as a burden on the poor, causing higher prices without more wages, and argues for American labor protection with silver as a cornerstone. The piece links tariff to trusts, sugar, and manufacturer profits, warning of wealth concentration and urging a shift to silver-backed policy for equal taxation and prosperity.
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Republican Party
Havemeyer
America
Repeblican Party
Tahou
Far East
Orient
Gisernel
Greece
Rome
England
Germany
Silver Party
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National Sewing Machine Co
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Marxet St
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By the
Way
Gage
Hanna
McKiden
Panufacturers
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Nvada
Herough
Ameria
Professional Oaks
D. Vanduzer
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U. 8
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Patents and Penshawe
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Alfred Chartz
Janson Orry
L. F. Jones
Capital
Capital Lodging Home
T.C. Hanson
Eagle Drugstore
W. S. Bonnifield
Pablo Laverga
Lodge Directory
Dermione Temple
Rathbone Sisters
So Dust Daisy Summerfield
M. E
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Dumboldt Lodge
C.F
Taunton
Aefork
Thomas
Archer
Vanhoe Lodge No
Crrde
Silver State
Lee Windle
C. C
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R&s
G. An
N. J. Gunter
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J. Nicholas
M. W
H. Warren
Recorder
Ates Communications
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T Mn
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