1 Jan 1867 Jahr - National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry

Beschreibung:

-most rpominent rural protest group
-wanted to stop rising corporate middlemen with cooperation+mutaual aid
-local grange halls to talk+hang with each other
-own banks, insurance companies, grain elevators, and even a farm implement factory
-advocated political actions sometimes (built independent local parties)
-Many rural people believed they faced problems similar to those of industrial workers. I-n the new economy, they found themselves at the mercy of large corporations, from equipment dealers who sold them harvesters and plows to railroads and grain elevators that shipped and stored their products.
-Though farmers appeared to have more independence than corporate employees, many felt trapped in a web of middlemen who chipped away at their profits while international forces robbed them of decision-making power.
-Farmers denounced not only corporations but also the previous two decades of government efforts to foster economic development — policies that now seemed wrongheaded.
-Farmers’ advocates argued that high tariffs forced rural families to pay too much for basic necessities while failing to protect America’s great export crops, cotton and wheat.
-At the same time, they charged, Republican financial policies benefitted banks, not borrowers.
-Farmers blamed railroad companies for taking government grants and subsidies to build their lines but then charging unequal rates that privileged big manufacturers.
-From the farmers’ point of view, public money had been used to build giant railroad companies that turned around and exploited ordinary people.

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