They couldn't get any workers . during the span of 1880-1900 farmers began to feel as if their ways of life were being threatened. farmers felt that a competition with railroads in monopolies and trusts, currency circulation shortage, and the powerful forces of mother nature seemed to be putting them in debt or even out of business. however, not all of the currency circulation shortage complaints could be brought up against the government, monopolies, and trusts. over production, and bad weather accounted for these problems, which made the farmers complaint's not completely valid. competition was a major contributing factor to farmer discontent. farmers were constantly competing with monopolies and trusts. abuses of the railroads were putting most farmers in the brink of bankruptcy. groups formed to the farmers like the grange tried to get some relief from monopolies, but they were just too influential. it came to a halt when the wabash case made by the supreme court said that groups like the grange had no power to regulate interstate commerce. monopolies were dictating the way the farming industry was as a whole. farmers sent their products all over the country in order . the deflation of prices was extremely crucial, because it put the farmers in a high state of debt. it was believed that if there was a large amount of money circulating it would make high prices, and eventually the farmers would be able to pay off their debts. as if the farmers didn't have it bad enough, they were still harassed by their government-local, state, and national. the republicans thought they could reap some money from a tariff, but they were wrong. farmers felt like they were going to forever be at the mercy of the harvester trust, the barbed-wire trust, the fertilizer trust, and the railroads. people in the east reaped the benefits. r to receive profit, but it was virtually impossible to ever make any money when the charge for use of the railroad system, was more than the farmer could make. the farmers were pretty much defenseless against the monopoly system of the railroad, and were sent into a state of perpetual debt. during that particular period of time. just because there is rainstorm in the west, is no reason to stop business in the east. this made the government upset, and they felt that the farmers should not complain about what they had no control over, or what they had brought upon themselves. (d) it was as if the west was full of slaves, paying a constant debt to their masters of the east. in the end, the farmers of america was just a disorganized group of individuals, who had no money, and nothing to show for their hard work. what was intended to stiffen the market and make it virtually impossible for the foreign market to compete with american soil, only rose in dishonesty and voters wrath from the "
