Use the excerpt from Eugene Debs's How I Became a Socialist to answer the question.

I had fired an engine and been stung by the exposure and hardship of the rail. I was with the boys in their weary watches,at the broken engine's side and often helped to bear their bruised and bleeding bodies back to wife and child again.

What best summarizes this passage?

A. Debs had shared the harsh working conditions of laborers
B. The hardship faced by business owners moved Debs.
C. Debs was influenced by articles written by muckrakers