Populist Party Vs Progressive Party

US history 2

BY: Soni Shkodrani

The history of the United Sate of America is indisputably very intense and relatively not long dating. The social and psychological sets that evolved in this contest are very relevant and practically applicable to the present. On one side we have the Populist Party with a solid and significantly relevant number of followers, including Afro-Americans farmers and industrial workers. On the other corner we have the progressive party with an apparently small but underestimate number of potential voters which includes the middle class and above. These two parties do not only reflect the wills of their respective party, they emulate the two ever contradicting segments of the modern society, the poor and
the middle class. They are the ones fighting an everlasting war. A war against misery and monotony needs and want. The populist and progressive party and their respective followers are both acting on general good will but their differing interests inevitably escalated in political conflicts.
The reason why this two parties where opposing each other are very easy to understand, they are the same why different parties are formed today, different interests.
Their interest differed depending on the status that they held. Workers and farmers where very concern on the basic needs that a person might have. On the other hand the middle class man and women ha other concerns as: consumer protection, prohibition, labor laws and more.
If we see it from a perspective that is easy to understand, which is the perspective of a person living more than one hundred years later this facts have happen we might categories them as the populist party as more basic needs oriented and the progressive party as more extra needs oriented. To put these two different worlds in perspective we have to analyze them separately.
The workers and farmers needed simple things as the introduction of silver as a basis for the united stated dollar. This would have made things more easy for the populists because by introducing silver and leaving gold the workers and manly the farmers which had borrowed money from merchants, for the porpoise of investing in their business thus developing a growth in their business, would have it easier to repays the dept considering the fall of value the dollar would incur by this
shift. On the other side of the coin the progressives where trying to advocate to more sophisticated, at least for the time, principles. The progressives being in a state of delusive superiority had the constant mania of pragmatism. They simply knew which is the better way to live and did not hesitate to influence, another word for forced, others to do as they thought was better. The abolishment of alcoholic substances soberly called prohibition was just one of the ways that they wanted to try to prevent poverty, thinking as alcohol the reason for poverty, without thinking that maybe the reason why poor people drink is the fact that they are poor.
Except this non relevant misconception the progressive party was definitely pursuing the right path when protesting the cases of child labor.
In present times we tend, at least in well developed countries, to generally not accept the idea the some where there is a child which is working and not going to school or playing. The reason why the progressives where acting in this way regarding this specific mater is evident, they wanted progress. What we don’t immediately consider is the reason why they where there in the first place. The reason is easy to explain and in the same time difficult to understand and approve, the poor families of farmers and workers were not able to make a living without their children working thus they did not even consider the possibility that they might send their children to school therefore incurring extra expenditures for an education. In addition to the reform against the controversial child labor problem the progressives helped with the evolution of the labor laws regarding adults and their basic
needs.
The war against prostitution is very interesting considering that a similar paradox is still happening now in the United States of America. Prostitution was band and the reason was, as usual, selfish. The need for cleaner streets and cities was essential for a well developed country. The problem was that the fact that they abolished or wanted to abolish prostitution was not doable. Prostitutes continued to exercise their profession with a more discreet way.
One of the most significant and helpful progressions made by the progressive party was the freedom that they gave to the women. The fact that it was much more easy for women to work and have other relevant tasks was a great step forward that could have been accomplished by the progressive party, at least in that discussed period.
Concluding this history of corruption and fights against corruption from the progressive party the main this that gets stuck in your memory is the constant struggle the past and present society was to endure and the compromises that each and every one of us would consider to reach happiness.

References
Chapter 6 (mainly)
Chapter 5 (for general information.)