The Populist Movement Essay Research Paper The — страница 2

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“Producer” ideology led populist to believe that by ensuring secrecy in voting the people would be less prejudice and vote according to who they want and not who they were told to vote for. It would let the blacks and white of the common class have a sense of unity. Populism purposed help for farmer’s debt from mortgaged homes by creditors rising interest rates. According to populist senator William Alfred Peffer the report of the Census Bureau did not include facts that would question the entire indebtedness of the nation’s people. Farmers were overwhelmed by the mortgages of creditors. Creditors were increasing the rates of interest so rapidly that the farmers were becoming more in debt. Farmers had no control of the rates and made less and less money each year to

payoff the creditors. Populist demanded lower interest rates needed to be obtained, or on half of the farmers in the nation would become renters within the next ten years, and the remaining half would become renter’s ten years later. By the end of the century a few wealthy men would own all of the property of the nation. Populism “producer” ideology that lower interests rates would be in the best interest of the people. The government would reclaim all of the land and hold it for the settlers of the nation. The common people who were the first ground breakers of the nation. Taking the land of immigrants, railroads, corporations, and the wealthy giving it to the “producers”. In conclusion, The “producer” ideology of the Populist movement of the 1890s failed because

of inconsistency. Finance views of the populist would have cause deflation and lead the nation into debt. The currency would have very little or no value. This would cause prices to fall, credit and available money to be scarce. Leading the nation on into recession. Populist also purposed that the government owns and operates railroads, telegraph, and telephones for the best interest of the people. The government would have control the production of railroads and regulate the pay of the workers. Telegraphs and telephone systems would be ran like the postal services; which would in turn take away the privacy of the people. The populist was also outcast among the ranks because of their poor appearance and lack of cleanliness. Compared to the welled dressed and educated men of the

other parties they were mocked.