The Crime of Caste in Our CountryDavenport, Benjamin Rush
History
The Crime of Caste in Our Country
Davenport, Benjamin Rush
Social problems; United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918
The Alleged General Discontent 65
CHAPTER III.
November 8, 1892 79
CHAPTER IV.
Society as the People Found It November 8, 1892 91
CHAPTER V.
Some Reasons for Wrath 111
CHAPTER VI.
The Aristocratic “Chappie” _vs._ Abraham Lincoln 145
CHAPTER VII.
Hon. John Brisben Walker, on Homestead 161
CHAPTER VIII.
Surrender at Homestead.--Organized Labor Defeated 183
CHAPTER IX.
Possible Fruits of Victory 204
CHAPTER X.
The Cause of Bullets, ’61; Ballots, ’92.--Abraham
Lincoln, the People’s Choice in ’60 225
CHAPTER XI.
Andrew Jackson, 1828 241
CHAPTER XII.
Thomas Jefferson, 1800 249
CHAPTER XIII.
The Revolution in 1776 257
CHAPTER XIV.
The French Revolution 278
CHAPTER XV.
England, 1645 295
CHAPTER XVI.
The German Empire, 1520-1525 307
CHAPTER XVII.
Switzerland, 1424 312
CHAPTER XVIII.
Russia 315
CHAPTER XIX.
Patricians and Plebeians in Rome 320
CHAPTER XX.
Greece.--Venice.--The Rule of “Caste” 324
CHAPTER XXI.
Egypt, 4235 B. C. 330
CHAPTER XXII.
Christianity 333
CHAPTER XXIII.
Not a Democratic Party Victory.--Democracy is Not
the Name of a Party, but of a Principle 346
CHAPTER XXIV.
Not a Defeat of Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party 390
CHAPTER XXV.
The Populist: the “Allies.”--Elected by the People;
therefore, with the “Common People” 409
CHAPTER XXVI.
“Flabbyism” and the Income Tax 417
CHAPTER XXVII.
CONCLUSION 428
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE.
Abraham Lincoln Frontispiece.
Grover Cleveland 32
James B. Weaver 64
John D. Rockefeller 105
Ward MacAllister 110
“The Public be D----d” 115
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison 127
Benjamin Harrison 131
American Queen 136
American Duchess 137
Jay Gould 143
Abe, “The Rail-Splitter” 154
“Chappie” on Fifth Avenue 155
Andrew Carnegie 160
Henry C. Frick 162
The Mistake at Homestead 182
William H. Vanderbilt 219
W. Seward Webb 223
Andrew Jackson 240
Thomas Jefferson 248
INTRODUCTION.
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