LAD #23: Populists

This party came as a result from the Farmers Alliance in the late 19th century, around the 1870's, different from Democrats and Republicans. They were against the corrupted concentrated capital, and instead were believers in the common American man. They wanted to raise the quality of living in America by raising pay, as workers at the time were working under desolate conditions and no workers right/compensation at all. They were all for labor unions and they wholeheartedly supported workers rights- such as pensions for ex soldiers, no immigrant workers, and protection of job. They had many beliefs against the big corporations, all centered around the idea that they, the Populist Party, did not trust them. They believed that the companies were decreasing the value of silver to benefit from the value of gold, and believed in circulation of money, more money pumped into the economy, and for the government to keep an eye out on the railroad companies, along with owning the telephone companies. They basically wanted power back for the "plain people."