An American history . ld cause the price of silver to rise,but the effect was only soon the price of silver beganagain to fall. The discussion oversilver had only begun. We shallhear much more of it presently. 716. The Tariff Again. In 1892both parties evaded the silverquestion, but took firm groundon the question of the tariff. TheRepubHcans reaffirmed the Amer-ican doctrine of protection, whilethe Democrats pronounced it arobbery of the great majority . .for the benefit of the few. TheRepublicans renominated PresidentHarrison; the Democrats, for the third time, nomisatedClevel
An American history . ld cause the price of silver to rise,but the effect was only soon the price of silver beganagain to fall. The discussion oversilver had only begun. We shallhear much more of it presently. 716. The Tariff Again. In 1892both parties evaded the silverquestion, but took firm groundon the question of the tariff. TheRepubHcans reaffirmed the Amer-ican doctrine of protection, whilethe Democrats pronounced it arobbery of the great majority . .for the benefit of the few. TheRepublicans renominated PresidentHarrison; the Democrats, for the third time, nomisatedCleveland. A national Peoples party, better known as PopuHsts, nominated James B. Weaver; their platformdemanded free coinage of silver, and denounced both thegreat parties as being in politics for the sake of power andplunder. The Popuhsts secured 22 electoral votes; theRepublicans, 145 ; the Democrats, 277.^ 717. The Homestead Strike. It was plain to all observersthat the country was in a dangerous, unsettled BENJAMIN HARRISON 1 The treasury was to issue treasury notes (paper money) redeemablein gold or silver and was to coin the silver purchased by the government Inorder to redeem these certificates. - There was also a Prohibition ticket and a Socialist ticket. Neither receivedany electoral votes. Sio AMERICAN HISTORY On three great questions — the tariff, the currency, and therelations of capital and labor — there was bitter differenceof opinion and an event of the presidential year showed thatthe temper of the time might easily produce war. There wasa great strike, at the Homestead Iron Works in Pittsburg,over a reduction of wages. For a time the strikers, on the onehand, and the owners, on the other, took the law into theirown hands. The strikers practically formed an army. ThePinkerton detective agency supplied a small but active armyto the owners. The result was a private war, not unlikethose which were carried on in the Middle Ages between greatbarons and the
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