A Foundation of Trust

Abstract

As Tappan wound up business for 1896, the depression was bottoming out. Months earlier, the eye of the maelstrom had passed right over Minneapolis. An army of unemployed workers tramped through the city, heading east for a showdown with the Republican administration in Washington, D.C. Dubbed ”Coxey’sArmy,”thisstreamofdiscontenthaditsoriginsin the summer of 1894, when 500 men on foot, led by Jacob Coxey and his family, marched out of Massillon, Ohio. Making fifteen miles per day, they invited others to join them in the nation’s capital, where they would petition Congress to alleviate the economic suffering.