The Populist Party was founded as a result of farmer displeasure toward industrialization. This was caused by the country's turn from an agricultural type America to one in which industrialists dominated the national development. The corporate tycoons' conduct was legal, however it was ethically wrong. Cornelius Vanderbilt, reportedly once said, "Law! What do I care about the law? Hain't I got the power?" The change from agriculture to industrialization had a emense effect on all of the American people's life. Ignatius Donnelly, a leader in the Populist Party once said, "We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the Legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench . . . A vast conspiracy against man

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