They demanded a change. In fact, the women were the ones to start public libraries for themselves and their children. This isolation made schooling quite difficult. Most kids who lived on the in such isolation did not receive an education. Farmers' economic problems are more complex. Some events puzzled the American farmers. They began deciding that deflation was the cause of their problems. The farmers produced more grain at a lower price due to much better fertilizers and new machinery, yet was making less money than in previously years. In fact, in 1894, growers received less income from 23 million acres of cotton than from nine million in 1873. The huge prices of shipping the goods to markets made their situation. The railroads owners overcharged farmers so that they were able to grant larger rebates to industrialists to ensure the use of their business. These railroads united to form trusts that raised farmers' prices. One resident of Kansas once said: "At the age of 52 years, after a long life of toil and self-denial, I find myself and family virtually paupers. With hundreds of hogs, scores of good horses, and a farm that rewarded the toil of our hands with 16,000 bushels of golden corn we are poorer by many dollars than we were years ago. What once seemed a neat little fortune and a house of refuge for our declining years, by a few turns of the monopolistic crank has been rendered valueless" .
Businessmen who use their wealth and power to gain unfair ecomomic advantages outraged farmers. As politicians paid more attention to industrial interests, the farmers resentment intensified. They recognized that their influence was lessing. The politicians were ignoring their pleas for help. The Populist Party was the result of a movement that begun with the Granger movement, which was, in fact, a social class movement. It organized various activities for women and their children, made a mail-order program, and took an interest in educating children.