... business leaders and public servants. This split almost totally severed communication between the reformer and the immigrant and kept society at odds with each. The second essay, by Gerald Woods, takes the progressive movement to a more specific time and place. A tale of two cities in California during early twentieth century. The Californian progressive was usually born in the Midwest or California, a Republican, Protestant, in their thirties or forties, and relatively ... successful men. One major characteristic of these young progressives was their distaste for saloons, prostitution,...

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