This document's purpose is to persuade the U.S. society to trust their movement and electe the Populist Party. Going along with this (Document 7) the author of this expresses his point of view to exemplify how trusts were apart of the big corruption in U.S. society. Rice says that trust owned businesses like Rockwell's was “against [him]self and all outside competitors.” It did not allow for smaller but possibly more beneficial companies to grow.
In the U.S. society the people believed that the government should not be involved in the lives of the people. (Document 3) depicts different Trust groups overriding the overall government. The image represents the senators who were not truly in the rule because of control by bigger trusts and tariffs.
Industrialization hurt the U.S. society in the years 1865 to 1900 in a sense that it caused for a drop in food and fuel. Two important things in the U.S. society. (Document 1) is a graph which shows the index of the average prices of goods. When giving context for this graph ,one most note that the decrease in prices could be reflected to that of the low wages of farmers and other union