The "trusts," on the other hand, are seeing that common action with the small capitalists, costly as it may be economically, may be made to pay enormously on the political field by putting into the hands of their united forces all the powers of governments.
If the principle of economic union and consolidation has made the great capitalists so strong, what will be the result of this political union of all capitalists?
How much greater will be their power over government, courts, politics, the press, the pulpit, and the schools and colleges! It is not the "trusts" that society has to fear, nor the consolidation of the "trusts," but the organized action of _all_ "Interests," of "Big Business" _and_ "Small Business," that is, of _Capitalism_.
A moment's examination will show that there is every reason to expect this outcome.

Broadly considered, there is no such disparity between large capitalists and small, either in wealth and power, as at first appears.

All the accounts of the tendency towards monopoly have been written, not in the name of non-capitalists, but in that of small capitalists.

Otherwise we might see that these two forces, interwoven in interest at nearly every point, are also well matched and likely to remain so.

And we should see also that it is inconceivable that they will long escape the law of social evolution, stronger than ever to-day, toward organization, integration, consolidation.
Messrs.