What Issues Were Addressed By The Major Muckrakers

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What Issues Were Addressed By The Major Muckrakers

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Lincoln Steffens unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and the government. Ida M. Tarbell published an expose of the Standard Oil Company. Thomas W. Lawson exposed the corrupt amassing of American fortunes. David G. Phillips charged that 75 of the 90 U.S. Senators did not represent the people, but actually the railroads and trusts. Ray Stannard Baker said that 90% of America's 9 million blacks still lived in the South, and that a third of them were illiterate. John Spargo brought the abuses of child labor to light. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley exposed the frauds that sold potent patent medicines by experimenting on himself.

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