40.
They Can't Phase Her
Source:
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), November 28, 1898
The end result of victory over Spain and acquisition of an empire was a
rise in nationalistic pride that helped silence the most severe criticism of
reformers, for a while at least. Note
that while this cartoon appeared in a Populist newspaper, it was taken from a
non-Populist source, the New York Journal, a sure sign that the Populist
Revolt was nearing its end.
Afterward
Many
have noted that much of the Populist's Omaha Platform of 1892 became law during
the first two decades of the twentieth century (anti-monopoly, banking and
currency reform, election reform). This
suggests that Populist's reforms were not unreasonable.
But, these reforms were adopted piecemeal, and did not achieve the
egalitarian society Populists sought. A good
subject for debate would be the relationship between Populism and the
reforms of America's Progressive Era (ca. 1900-1920).
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