Rev Myron Reed Warns on Wealth and Socialism in Denver Sermon
The Rev Myron Reed addressed a large Denver audience railing against excessive wealth and socialism praising individual effort. He contrasted coal mine strikes with wealth concentration and lauded Puritan and revolutionary forebears while urging unity for Populist causes ahead of January campaigning.
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Myron Red
Denver
United States
Saratoga
Jesus Christ
Belshazzar
Broadway
France
Paris
Sam Adams
Otis
Patrick Henry
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Franklin
Massachusetts
Virginia
New York
South Carolina
Boston Harbor
Great Britain
Montgomery
Quebec
Atlantic
Colorado
Bull Hill
Wisconsin
John Brown
Reed
Coxey
Washington
White House
John Atkins
Coxeyites
Chamber of Commerce
Julia Ward’ Howe
Union
Kansas
Nebraska
Borrower Enslaved by Middlemen and High Interest
A Shawnee county farmer borrows against an $8,000 farm with a $2,500 mortgage and falls behind on interest. A Massachusetts creditor offers to reduce the rate from usury levels to 5 percent and accept partial payment, while noting loan companies ruin both sides. Other cases include a widow creditor seeking modest interest and a shoemaker facing foreclosure on a sewing machine loan. The piece condemns loan companies and pawned tools as modern serfdom.
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Shawnee County
Massachusetts
Kansas
Toom
Jast
Pegpeoch Nein
Reform Political Notes Echo Wide Criticism Across Papers
A compendium of reform era jibes and political satire from numerous newspapers. The passages mock Grover Cleveland era policies, sugar interests, labor disputes, and calls forReferendum power. The tone blends partisan quips with commentary on universities and state aid.
Rise and Fall of Empires Correspondence
This excerpt argues that nations crumble as wealth concentrates, destroying the middle class and fueling poverty crime and decadence. It urges citizens to act to dethrone the moneyed power and defend the People's party in a 1894 Plymouth convention to pick state Senate candidates.
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James Murdoch
People’s Party
Martin
Beaufort
Tyrrel
Hyde
Dare
Pamlico
Washi
Plymouth
Tig
North Lina
J. OC. Sarre
Wsuiane
Alliance organizers named by district in North Carolina
A fragment lists organizers and districts for a regional alliance in North Carolina. It names Jas H Wright Carlton in the Seventh district and Elijah W Flake Rockingham as Eighth district organizer, with multiple counties across Johnston Wake Granville Vance, Guilford and others.
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Jas. H. Wright
Carlton
Johnston
Wake
D. Granville
Vance
Sein
Dunn
Populi
Cumberland
Robeson
Bladen
Columbus
Brunswick
Elijah W. Flake
Rockingham
Y. C
Harnett, Moore
Ricl Anson
Union
Stanly
Montgomery
Geo. E
Perquimans
Chowan
Gate, Hertford
Rev. T. W. Babb
Hertford, N.C
A Plea for Higher Education Letter to the Progressive Farmer
A reader from Cedar Creek North Carolina contests Dr Taylor’s opposition to State aid for higher education. The writer argues for government support to university systems and seeks space in the paper to present the opposing view. The letter notes the Doctor favors the University but opposes lifting denominational colleges and implies support for a self sustaining model.
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Cedar Creek
N. C
Biblical Recorder
Taylor
Alliance Principles Rise in Jackson County Amid Political Turmoil
In Jackson County the Alliance cause remains strong despite political fusion and amid protests from politicians both inside and outside the Alliance. True Alliance principles are on the upswing over the past year as members unite to advance the movement.
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L Polk
Alliance
Jackson
True Alliance
Jackson County
Alliance First
Alliance _Jast
Demand Rules for Currency and Land by Topeka Alliance
Demand for a national currency issued by the government with 4 I exchanges and 2 percent tax cap, free coinage of silver and gold at 16 to 1, $50 per capita money in circulation, graduated income tax, postal banks, and land reform to keep natural resources in public heritage. Emphasizes distributing wealth to people and limiting corporate monopoly.
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Farmers’ Alliance and Industria Union
Topeka
Kan
A. A
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Myron Reed
Harvard
Dream OF the Press
Reform
Reform Press
Iowa Tribune
Peninsula
Grover
Ohio
Brockton
United States Senate
Board of Trade
People’s Advocate
Arkansas
Herod
Jerusalem
Judas
Chicago Express
Nova Scotia
Mississippi
Missouri
Carnegie
London
Bank of England
Wake Forest College
K. G. Averitt
Alliance Organizers
Ran
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