Because many of silk-raising farmers, depending on their annual sales of raw silk, borrowed money for buying rice and wheat for food and other daily commodities and so on, the heavy fall of the raw silk market and increased taxes put them in further poverty as in other regions, and banks, usurers and so on, taking advantage of their poverty, made their lives more miserable.
養蚕農家の多くは毎年の生糸の売上げをあてにして金を借り、食料の米麦その他の生活物資等を外部から購入していたため、生糸市場の暴落と増税等が重なるとたちまち困窮の度を深め、他の各地と同様、その窮状につけこんだ銀行や高利貸等が彼らの生活をさらに悲惨なものにしていた。