LAD #19 Populist Party Platform

In the Populist Party Platform, the populist party explains the problems which they see in the current gilded age. They start out by calling out corruption in government as the main problem. This corruption is either making people poor or making them millionares, with nothing inbetween. They also point out that an enormous problem is the removal of silver which is helping the bankers but hurting the farmers. The party then goes to list their demands which are as follows, That there is a permenant and functional labor union for every worker in the country. Next that "robber barrons" or great industrialists dont take money from their companies in personal profit when the money should really go to the employees. Lastly the Party demands that railroads become property of the citizens of the united states and be put under supervision of the American government.
Next the Party goes on to say that they will change the economy by putting silver back into the currency and creating an income tax. The party also includes ways in which they will reform transportation which is that the government will take adminstriation of all railroads, telgraphs and telephones companys.