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Farmers' Discontent in the 1800s
The period between 1880 and 1900 was a boom time for American
politics. The country was for once free of the threat of war, and many of
its citizens were living comfortably. However, as these two decades went
by, the American farmer found it harder and harder to live comfortably.
Crops such as cotton and wheat, once the bulwark of agriculture, were
selling at prices s ....
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.... offered rebates and drawbacks to larger shippers who used their
rails. However, this practice hurt smaller shippers, including farmers,
for often times railroad companies would charge more to ship products
short distances than they would for long trips. The rail companies
justified this practice by asserting that if they did not rebate, they
would not make enough profit to stay in business. In his testimony to the
Senate Cullom Committee, George W. ....
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