WJB

William Jennings Bryan is a prime example of our utter lack of historical continuity. We all believe WJB to be little more than an bible-thumping buffoon who led the prosecution at the Scopes Monkey trial, as recorded in Inherit The Wind.

William Jennings Bryan was a Populist politician. He ran on the Democrat Party ticket and was supported by small farmers and workers. He opposed the monied-interests on the East Coast.

His oratory sets him in opposition to those in power today, as evidenced from his Cross of Gold speech:

If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world. Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

WJB at 36 years old

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Other  WJB  : william jennings bryan posts

http://fatherdaughtertalk.blogspot.com/2011/03/wjb-william-jennings-bryan-against.html

http://fatherdaughtertalk.blogspot.com/2011/03/wjb-h-l-menckens-diatribe-on-bryans.html

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