The power comes from the people
By putting in the pipe line
False. "The New Deal" refers to a series of domestic programs (lasting roughly from 1933 to 1939) implemented during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat the effects of the Great Depression on the U.S. economy.
This excerpt shows how Debs has endured and shared the harsh working conditions of laborers (D.).
Many verbal groups indicate his physical involvement in the working people's daily life and how it affected him emotionally:
- "I had ... been stung by the exposure ... of the rail;"
- "I was with the boys ... at the broken engine's side;"
- "helped to bear;"
- "feel the burden."
As for the harsh working conditions, they are described by the following nouns and adjectives:
- "hardship;"
- "weary;"
- "bruised and bleeding bodies;"
- "burden."
We know that they are laborers and not, for example, business owners, because their work is very manual. Besides, the term "working class" appears in the text, as well as "Proletaire" which is borrowed from French and means "belonging to the lower social classes."