They sit in presidential chairs; they occupy executive mansions; they extort legislation from unwilling politicians; they regulate and abuse the erring corporations; they are coming to control the press; and they are the most aggressive force in American public opinion.

The supporters and beneficiaries of existing abuses still control much of the official and practically all the unofficial political and business machinery; but they are less domineering and self-confident than they were.

The reformers have both scared and bewildered them.

They begin to realize that reform has come to stay, and perhaps even to conquer, while reform itself is beginning to pay the penalty of success by being threatened with deterioration.

It has had not only its hero in Theodore Roosevelt, but its specter in William R.Hearst.
In studying the course of the reforming movement during the last twenty-five years, it appears that, while reform has had a history, this history is only beginning.