They have consequently in many cases enlarged the area of their agitation; but in so doing they have become divided among themselves, and their agitation has usually lost its non-partisan character.

Finally the agitation against the trusts has developed a confused hodge-podge of harmless and deadly, overlapping and mutually exclusive, remedies, which are the cause of endless disagreements.

Of course they are all for the People and against the Octopus, but beyond this precise and comprehensive statement of the issue, the reformers have endlessly different views about the nature of the disease and the severity of the necessary remedy.
If reform is an ambiguous and many-headed thing, the leading reformers are as far as possible from being a body of men capable of mutual cooeperation.

They differ almost as widely among themselves as they do from the beneficiaries or supporters of the existing abuses.

William R.
Hearst, William Travers Jerome, Seth Low, and George B.McClellan are all in their different ways reformers; but they would not constitute precisely a happy family.