Agrarian Protest, 1867-1900 I.Introduction-- Free Labor in the Gilded Age II.Economic Currents A.Transformation of Agriculture B.The New Corporate Power.

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Agrarian Protest, I.Introduction-- Free Labor in the Gilded Age II.Economic Currents A.Transformation of Agriculture B.The New Corporate Power C. The Weak State III.Political Responses A.Grange B.The Greenback Party C.The People’s Party IV.The Populist Crusade A.Proposals B.Victories C.Disappointments D.Evaluation

Old Farming Free Land –Homestead Act, 1862 Local Market Hand Labor

New Farming

Railroad and Grain Elevators Central Storage for transport Owned by railroads and shippers Monopolies

The Grange Founded ,000 members (1875) Railroad regulations

The People’s Prairie Tradition of political radicalism in Midwest and Plains farming regions –New England abolitionism –German republicanism –Scandinavian socialism Populist Convention, Callaway, Nebraska, 1896

Southern Populism Tenant farming (“sharecropping ”)

Racial Unity “You are kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings. You are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despotism which enslaves you both.” –Tom Watson, 1892

Western Miners Silver Currency Disappointment Idaho Miners in the 1880s with RR financier Jay Gould

Workers Panic of 1893 Coxey’s Army, to 25% Unemployment

The Great Commoner and the People’s Joan of Arc William Jennings Bryan, 1880Mary Elizabeth Lease

Gold and Silver Concerns: –Money Supply –Patchy prosperity –Concentration of Wealth

Tariffs v. Taxes Assessments on Imported Goods – % – % – % – % – % – % (MFN); 0% for N. America

Populist Program Interstate Commerce Act (1887) Sherman Anti-trust Act (1890) Federal Income Tax (1894) Silver Coinage at 16 to 1 ratio (inflation) Government ownership of telegraph and RR Postal Savings Banks Reclamation of RR land Secret Ballot Referendum Direct Election of Senators Anti-Imperialism

A Nation Divided

Pathologies Political Anti-Semitism –Myth of the International Jewish Banking Conspiracy –Passion Play Metaphor

Changing Fusion –Populists become faction in Democratic Party –Lose radical edge Turn to demagoguery –Once an egalitarian, Watson rages against blacks, Socialists, Catholic, and Jews Statue of Tom Watson, GA state capitol

Evaluation Cranky, crazy, and reactionary OR Idealistic, democratic, egalitarian, and visionary?

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