The Crime of Caste in Our Country

The author argues that efforts to create class distinctions in the United States based on wealth or foreign manners violate popular equality, using the 1892 electoral upset and labor conflicts like Homestead to illustrate popular resistance. The text combines contemporary political reportage and polemic, critiques industrial magnates and social pretensions, and traces recurring patterns of popular power and class struggle across history, from ancient Rome and Greece through European revolutions and religious movements. Organized as thematic chapters, the work blends historical survey with commentary to defend democratic principles against the emergence of an aristocracy of wealth.