However, part of the argument was based off of morals. A quote from Andrew Carnegie states,”“In the long run wealth only comes to the moral man”—material prosperity makes the nation “sweeter, more joyous, more unselfish, more Christ like.” Laissez promoters argued that government interference complicated the natural and just forces of the economy. In the article Economy in the Gilded Age, it states,“Government intervention was considered tantamount to "class legislation"—an unjust and artificial reallocation of economic resources and power from one group to another.” Therefore, based off of people’s opinions and so-called morals, agriculture began to deteriorate as the majority began to realize that industrialization/urbanization was the way to make money, find jobs and begin to give more to their families. The government no longer had power in these decisions, but the elites, such as Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan had the power to the economy. They had the key to politics, social reforms and economic