Why did farmers support bimetallism or "free silver"?

An educated member of the government

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

By the late 1930s, how were u. s. officials beginning to view japanese policies of expansion? a. they attempted to join forces with japan so as to increase u. s. territory. b. they warned them to stop expansionist actions or face potential u. s. intervention. c. they sent representatives to japan to work out territorial rights in a diplomatic fashion. d. they became fearful of their military power