LAD #19: Populist Party Platform

The Populist Party came about after the beginning of the Gilded Age after responding to the division of wealth into few big business owners’ hands while the rest of their workers fought for better conditions. Many of them felt that the majority of these people were not being fairly represented and in time the civilization would ruin itself due to so much corruption. As if they were were trying to make everyone happy, and then demand permanent labor union that stay protected underneath the law and the raise in wages so wealth is more fairly distributed. These people want RR regulation by the government, a set value ratio of gold to silver to be set to exactly 16:1, and more circulating currency so that everyone could cheapen it a bit and use it. They even believe that the government should regulate the telegraph in the common interest of it’s people and also try to help the money circulate as often and much as possible, and demand fair elections and the perseverance to favor the working class to get rid of the Pinkerton system.