Today was another fairly unproductive workday. I basically googled a bunch of stuff involving farmers in the 1880s and found relatively little. Again. But I do know all of the farmer's plights that caused the Farmer's Union or whatever it was to come 'round. Farmers were getting no money because the railroads overcharged them and grain and such was at a very low price, and the homes that had to be mortgaged were being foreclosed on and such. So the Farmer's Guild or whatever started the base of the Populist movement.
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