their interests to the attention of government. Of course grafting business will receive a set-back, but this is exactly what is desired. Our great economic interests would probably be in a far healthier condition to-day if they had employed legitimate agencies only in the past, and neglected altogether the short and dangerous cut to political influence offered by large campaign contributions. Business is now learning the value of frank and honest methods of dealing with the people, of publicity on its own account as contrasted with the old public-be-damned attitude. Internal reforms of business practices, the correction of abuses from within and by insiders, are seen to be much less costly than the application of legislative sledge-hammers. The American people is far from radical at heart. Given full and honest expositions of the case for business it is highly improbable that rash and destructive policies will triumph in the future, any more than they were wont to triumph in time past when business interests fought them in a manner scarcely less objectionable than the subversive policies themselves. And always back of the public opinion and temper of the people there are constitutional guaranties and the courts to maintain them,—safeguards stronger in all probability than those possessed by property in any other civilised nation in the world to-day.[97] Manifestly it will require much more than a reform of our present system of collecting campaign funds to prevent the proper and adequate hearing by governmental authorities of the legitimate business interests of the country.