I think that freedom of speech is considered natural rights
Poverty was caused by many factors in the 1800s: Unemployment – families had no means of support. Large families – many children had to be catered for. ... No national social security system to protect people against the worst effects of sickness and unemployment.
The Panic of 1893 was a major economic crisis in the United States, the largest it had seen up to that time. Many Americans saw the panic as a result of increased railroad speculation after the Civil War and a rigid attachment to the gold standard. The panic gave power to the Populists, a political movement of farmers who opposed the growing power of industrialists, and brought the issue of eliminating the gold standard to the center of the 1896 election.
