Henry Demarest Lloyd, a Chicago muckraker, exclaims, “The Gilded Age had more to do with monopolies and greed than with hard work and virtuous perseverance” (Johnson, 48). This age in time was entirely about monopolies and hard work, as people these days would declare. In reality, at this time monopolies were extremely competitive and greedy. Working against each other often got in the way of the work they were trying to accomplish. The countries vast money makers all appeared in the same generation and all wanted to be king of industry. Henry manifest in his book “Commonwealth”, written in 1894. The men who composed the monopolies, without a doubt were highly intelligent, but they had a even higher drive for competition. This is proof on
