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THE CRIME OF CASTE IN OUR COUNTRY

Americans Enforce Equality

No Sham Aristocracy of Wealth Permitted by the People

Lesson of 1892 Taught Imitators of English Aristocracy

History of the Power of People Re-Told

Records for Three Thousand Years Searched for Examples

Bullets, 1861--Ballots, 1892

BENJAMIN R. DAVENPORT

Philadelphia: Keystone Publishing Co. 1893

Copyright by Joseph W. Morton, Jr. 1892

WHO BELIEVE

THAT PATRIOTISM, HONESTY, VIRTUE, AND MERIT

ALONE CONSTITUTE INEQUALITY IN MANKIND;

WHO OBJECT TO AND RESENT ARROGANCE AND PRESUMPTION UPON THE PART OF

THE POSSESSORS OF WEALTH

AND TO THOSE TO WHOM

PAGE. INTRODUCTION 11

Vox Populi, Vox Dei 33

The Alleged General Discontent 65

November 8, 1892 79

Society as the People Found It November 8, 1892 91

Some Reasons for Wrath 111

Hon. John Brisben Walker, on Homestead 161

Surrender at Homestead.--Organized Labor Defeated 183

Possible Fruits of Victory 204

The Cause of Bullets, '61; Ballots, '92.--Abraham Lincoln, the People's Choice in '60 225

Andrew Jackson, 1828 241

Thomas Jefferson, 1800 249

The Revolution in 1776 257

The French Revolution 278

England, 1645 295

The German Empire, 1520-1525 307

Switzerland, 1424 312

Russia 315

Patricians and Plebeians in Rome 320

Greece.--Venice.--The Rule of "Caste" 324

Egypt, 4235 B. C. 330

Christianity 333

Not a Democratic Party Victory.--Democracy is Not the Name of a Party, but of a Principle 346

Not a Defeat of Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party 390

The Populist: the "Allies."--Elected by the People; therefore, with the "Common People" 409

"Flabbyism" and the Income Tax 417

CONCLUSION 428

PAGE. Abraham Lincoln Frontispiece.

Grover Cleveland 32

James B. Weaver 64

John D. Rockefeller 105

Ward MacAllister 110

Mrs. Benjamin Harrison 127

Benjamin Harrison 131

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