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Democratic Money
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"Democratic Money:
A Populist Perspective
with Lawrence Goodwyn and William Greider
remarks presented on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Populist Sub-Treasury Plan for financial reform, Dec. 9, 1989, St. Louis, Missouri.
Introduction
by Tom Schlesinger
Director, Southern Finance Project
It was a resigned, plaintive-sounding analogy but it spoke volumes about
the roaring '80s. "I don't think it is healthy to have this dramatic
concentration of financial power," investment banker Felix Rohatyn
told the New York Times in 1988. "But it's just like the nuclear
age, you can never uninvent the atomic bomb any more than you can uninvent
these astronomical capital markets."
Maybe so. But Mr. Rohatyn's financial world, for all its explosive effects
on American society in the past decade, has proven to be eerily fragile
as well as inordinately powerful. In fact, that world is no more permanent
than those created by the crop lien system in the 1880s or stock watering
in the 1920s.
To reckon with a system that appears to have spun so majestically out of
control, it helps to consider America's historical record of financial disorders
-- and of ordinary citizens organizing themselves to "uninvent"
the problem. There's no more telling example than the Gilded Age and the
biracial agrarian firestorm it provoked called Populism.
The Populist movement built itself on a model of economic cooperation intended
to combat the two sources of financial pressure that plagued farm communities
100 years ago -- vise-like credit conditions and a pinched, inflexible currency.
By the end of the 1880s, hundreds of thousands of Americans had been drawn
to Populism's organizational seedbed, the Farmers Alliance, through its
cooperatives and vibrant system of grassroots education.
In December 1889, Alliance representatives met in St. Louis along with leaders
of the Knights of Labor in an attempt to coalesce the great urban a"
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