Excerpt from The American Nation, a History, Vol. 24 of 27: National Problems, 1885-1897
It was a period of confused and struggling inter ests, and it has been the service of Professor Dewey to draw out the various threads and lay them paral lel, so as to reveal the meaning of contests in which free coinage of silver, the interstate commerce com mission, and the tariffs of 1890 and 1894 are but in cidents. The real contest was between the powers of vested interests, of capital and accumulated savings, as against the pressure of producers of farm staples and of the organization of workmen in trades and manufactures. The real issue in this period comes from the conviction of large classes of the commu mity, including most of the western farmers, that the process of distribution was such that they got less than their fair share of the nation’s annual product. To this prime division may be referred most of the political and party controversies of the time, out-of doors, and in Congress.
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