ONE of the great reasons of the division between classes in our government to-day has been the use of great corporate wealth in molding legislation. Justice Brewer of the United States Supreme Court stated this as long ago as June 1, 1904, in an address to the graduating class of the Albany Law School. He said: “The conditions of life in this republic have wonderfully changed during the last century. Formerly there were two parties — the individual and the government. Now there are three — the individual, the corporation, and the government. . . . “No one can be blind to the fact that these mighty corporations are holding out most tempting inducements to lawmakers to regard in their lawmaking those interests rather than the welfare of the nation. Senators and Representatives have owed their places to corporate influence, and that influence has been exerted under an expectation, if not an understanding, that as lawmakers the corporate interest shall be subserved. . . . “There may be no written agreement; there may be, in fact, no agreement at all, and yet when the lawmaker understands that that power exists which may make for his advancement or otherwise, that it will be exerted according to the pliancy with which he yields to its solicitations, it lifts the corporation into a position of constant danger and menace to republican institutions.”