The history of the present railway monopoly is a history of repeated injuries and oppressions, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the people of these states
unequaled in any monarchy in the Old World
Farmers lobbied representatives to regulate food and drugs.
Farmers promoted passage of the Homestead Act by Congress
Farmers formed business monopolies to buy their own railroad lines.
Farmers supported Granger laws in their state legislatures to regulate the railroad.