populism

[Max Sawicky]

Max Sawicky wrote:
>mbs:  try reading the primary sources some time,
>particularly in "The Populist Reader," or on the
>Internet, compare it to other political commentary
>of the time, and then rethink whether it reflects
>'shallow and unthinking.'

 From one of the sites you recommend, I learned about "the yeomanry's 
longstanding opposition to the building of railroads through their 
communities." Max, was the railroad a mistake?   Doug

"Transportation being a means of exchange and

 a public necessity, the government should own

 and operate the railroads in the interests of

 the people."

Ignatius Donnelly
St. Louis
Preamble to the Populist Party Platform, 1892