Workers were angry with big businesses and the existing parties, and wanting to show the cruelty of industrialization, they formed the populist party. Many workers were abused as they received very low wages at very long hours in unsafe conditions. The main goal of the populist party was to elect people that would progressively give workers the rights that they deserved, including better hours wages and conditions. They also wanted more governmental control of stuff like railroads, elections that were run with less corruption, taxes that benefit the little guys, and a control on the gold that benefits the rich disproportionately. they were sick and tired of big business men and elites taking a much larger percentage of wealth, when they thought they were working way to hard themselves.
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