Populist Party Platform
- agrarian-based political party
- addressing the problems of big business and the laissez-faire Gilded Age
- Gilded Age
- had the problem of corruption of government/big businesses
- mostly everyone to be split
- either poor or extremely rich
- Failures of the current government
- removal of silver from the money supply
- hurt farmers
- Three Demands
- permanent labor union for all workers
- industrial giants cannot keep taking money out of their corporations
- railroads will be put under government administration
- Promises/goals
- Finance
- reform Finance by reintroducing silver to the currency
- establish a graduated income tax
- Transportation
- government take control of the telegraph
- telephone
- railroad services
- Ends with sentiments and list of their demands.
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