1. Reformers of the Gilded Age
AIM: How successful were reformers during the Gilded Age?

2. Russell Cromwell, “Acres of Diamonds” 1915
Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it. You ought because you can do more good with it than you could without it. Money printed your Bible, money builds your churches, money sends your missionaries, and money pays your preachers, and you would not have many of them, either, if you did not pay them.
I say, then, you ought to have money. If you can honestly attain unto riches in Philadelphia, it is our Christian and godly duty to do so. It is an awful mistake of these pious people to think you must be awfully poor in order to be pious.
Some men say, “Don’t you sympathize with the poor people?” of course I do, or else I would not have been lecturing these years. I wont give in but what I sympathize with the poor, but the number of poor who are to be with is very small. ..While we should sympathize with God’s poor-that is, those who cannot help themselves-let us remember that is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings, or by the shortcomings of some one else. It is all wrong to be poor, anyhow. .

3. I. Government Laissez Faire???
Government Assistance
Government Assistance

4. II. Opposition to the “Evils” of Industrialism
A. Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879
B. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 1888

5. C. Jane Adams, Settlement Houses 1892

6. 1. Goals of the Settlement House

7. D. Walter Rauschenbusch on the Social Gospel

8. 1. Goals

9. III. Factors leading to Change in Government Policy
Lagging national economy
Growing criticism
Increase in grassroots pressure

10. How does Nast explain the difficulty in getting RR laws passed?

11. Wabash v. Illinois
Facts: RR charged more for a short haul vs. a long haul
Issue: Can a state regulate RR rates that cross state lines?
Decision: Only Congress can regulate interstate trade

12. A. Granger Cases Munn v. Illinois, 1877
Facts: IL passed a law to fix rates RR could charge
Issue: Can a state regulate RR rates?
Decision: Movement of grain is in the public interest and can be regulated

13. Interstate Commerce Act 1887
Sought to regulate railroad abuses such as pools, rebates
Ineffective for many years

14. Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1890
Act prohibited monopolies.
Business found loopholes to get around
Used against LABOR UNION
Set precedent for future enforcement
Made illegal “every contract, combination in the form of trust, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states or with foreign nations.”

15. D. Organized Labor and the Courts
Lochner v. New York: 1905
Found a NY law limiting bakers work hours to 60 a week as a violation of freedom of contract.

16. Coppage v. Kansas: 1915
An employer forced his worker to sign a “yellow dog contract” (KS Law) prohibiting him from joining a union.

17. E. Clayton Anti-Trust Act 1914
Strengthened governments ability to fight monopolies.
Declared labor unions not subject to anti-trust laws
Prohibited use of Federal Injunctions in labor disputes
Declared “Magna Carta of Labor” by Samuel Gompers