BUT WHAT, really, had the People's Party-the farmers who called themselves "Alliancemen"-asked for? Only that when men found themselves at the mercy of forces too big for them to fight alone, government-their government-help them fight. What were the demands for railroad and bank regulation, for government loans, for public-works projects, but an expression of a belief that after men have banded together and formed a government, they have a right, when they are being crushed by conditions over which they have no control, to ask that government to extend a helping hand to them-if necessary, to fight for them, to be their champion? They
( Robert A. Caro )
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