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Today..
• We Panic.• Is The Wizard of Oz
just a story or does it tell something more?
Just follow the yellow brick road..
Farmers’ Political Groups
• 1860-1890 U.S. population doubled• Needed more farms, machines to farm
• Oops! Overproduction = lower prices!• Lower income = harder to pay bills• Debt = Lose farm/home
Panic of 1893: Who’s to blame?
• Businesspeople? Railroad owners?• Gold standard vs. Silver standard?
• William Jennings Bryan backed Populism in the Presidential election. Lost.
• Idea: Government should own railroads, telephone, telegraph systems instead of private owners. “Free Silver”
The Populist Platform• Free silver
• Graduated income tax
• Public ownership of railroads, telegraphs and telephones
• Restricted immigration
• 8 hour workday
• Women suffrage
• Secret ballot
• Direct election of senators
The Cowardly Lion represents William Jennings Bryan (1860 – 1925):Bryan, a Democrat, ran for the presidency in 1896 and lost to William McKinley; thus Bryan had a load roar, but no power.
Bryan and the
Cross of Gold
• “If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world. Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
Bryan favored bimetallism
Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech, Recording
The Wizard of Oz
William McKinley (1843 – 1901)25th President of the United States(1897 – 1901)
Marcus A. Hanna (1837 – 1904)
or
The bimetallism ratio16:1
• 16 oz. of silver is equal to 1 oz of gold
• This has fluctuated over the years, but the standard remains between 14:1 and16:1
Balance achieved?
Only with a proper coalition of industrial and agrarian interests,
but it never happened
Wizard of Oz
• Which character would you like to hear from?
Notice:• What other connections did the story have
with what happened with the Populist movement?
How this applies to today:• 100% of the money supply in the U.S. is created by private banks• All this money is created as a debt. It is created when people borrow
money, as banks do not lend existing money; they just create new money out of thin air to lend.
• Possible solutions?
Quiz Monday:*Know why people chose to move West*terms: cattle kingdom, the range, homestead act, exodusters, populism*importance of the railroad and the Golden Stake*Negative effects of people moving WestSitting Bull, Crazy Horse and the Sioux*What happened at Custer’s Last Stand?*Results of Native American vs. U.S. Gov’t conflict (why was the land
taken away?)*What led to the Panic of 1893?*William Jennings Bryan, L. Frank Baum, Wizard of Oz*Know the main players (ie: who the characters represent) in the
Populism movement