Heart Of Gold, The Omaha Platform, Looking Backward

Heart Of Gold, 1896
1. western/southern agrarians
2. US should be able to operate without consulting with other nations
3. New York/Massachusetts should be able to operate independently
4. independence of the states!
5. gold standard?

The Omaha Platform (1892) 
1. “We are the verge of moral, political, and material ruin.”
2. voters are intimidated or bribed
3. public opinion is silenced
4. homes covered with mortgages
5. labor is impoverished
6. land is concentrated
7. workers can’t organize
8. imported labor drives down wages
9. a standing army will shoot down workers
10. conditions are deteriorating to European conditions
11. millions labor so a few can have colossal fortunes
12. capitalists despise the republic/liberty
13. tramps & millionaires are created
14. money creation only benefits bond holders
15. silver has been demonotized to benefit gold’s value
16. currency fattens usurers
17. two parties of plunder
18. neither parties promise substantial reform
19. they will take our lives, homes, children to enrich millionaires
20. capitalists, corporations, national banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, demonitization of silver, oppressions of userers

Looking Backward
1. coach dragged people
2. everyone wants a seat on the coach (upward mobility)
3. people are nervous about downward mobility
4. was there any compassion for those outside of the luxurious life?
5. in times of difficulty, a little bit of relief for those pushing the coach
6. seeing the misery made people want luxury more
7. it was believed this is the only way society could/can operate
8. it was beyond remedy...
9. people that rose to a higher social class forgot their roots