CSPAN3 June 17, 2012
lead americans to see that the class in power was not necessarily looking out for their own interests. that was his main argument, but he had to frame it in a way that it didn't become class war pa fair. americans didn't want class warfare. they'd seen a series of strikes in the last 20 years that looked an awfully lot like class warfare or something that they feared from europe, communist organizations and conflict. so that fear of class warfare is very vital to the period of the 1890s when bryan's campaigning. it turns out that the strike of 1877, for example, with the ma accompli ...
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