ch 28 p1 Flashcards
(12 cards)
“Wealth against Commonwealth”
Henry Demarest Lloyd criticizes the Standard Oil Company
“The Theory of the Leisure Class”
Thorstein Veblen attacks predatory wealth and excessive consumption by the rich
“How the Other Half Lives”
Jacob A. Riis describes in vivid detail NY tenement housing
“Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck-rake, speedily becomes, not a help to society, not an incitement to good, but one of the most potent forces for evil.”
Theodore Roosevelt in his muckraker speech
“The Treason of the Senate”
David G. Phillips says that 75% of the 90 senators only represented the RR and trusts
“Following the Color Line”
Stannard Baker describes subjugation of American blacks(1/3 illiterate and 90% still in South)
“The Biter Cry of the Children”
John Spargo describes child labor abuses
“Bribery is no ordinary felony, but treason;… ‘corruption which breaks out here and there and now and then’ is not an occasional offense, but a common practice, and … the effect of it is literally to change the form of our government from one that is representative of the people to an oligarchy, representative of special interests.”
“The Shame of the Cities” by Lincoln Steffens – describes how political machines are dangerous
The “Millionaires’ Club”
Nickname for the Senate because by 1900 it was made up by so many rich people
“We intend simply to be ourselves, not just our little female selves, but our whole big human selves.”
The suffrage campaign of the early twentieth century benefited from a new generation of women who considered themselves “feminists.” At a mass meeting in NY in 1914, Marie Jenny Howe(minister in training and early feminist) proclaims
“He sounded in my heart the first trumpet call of the new time that was to be…. I had never known such a man as he, and never shall again. He overcame me. And in the hour or two we spent that day at lunch, and in a walk down F Street, he poured into my heart such visions, such ideals, such hopes, such a new attitude toward life and patriotism and the meaning of things, as I had never dreamed men had…. After that I was his man.”
William Allen White describes first meeting TR
“The Jungle”
Book by Upton Sinclair – describes the disgusting unsanitary food products in Chicago(actually originally intended to describe bad working conditions for workers, but actually inspired reform in handling food products like meat)
