For This Question,refer to the Following Excerpt

question 47

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For this question,refer to the following excerpt. There is no question which of the great parties represents the house of Have and which the house of Want....Democrat[s] are cramped for want of funds....On the other hand there is practically "no end of money" at the disposal of the McKinley committees....
As for the banks,the great railroad companies and insurance companies,who,even in ordinary times find it to their interest to help financially one,and frequently both,sides ... ,their purse strings are unloosed more freely than ever before,but only in one direction.
The danger to a republican form of government of a money interest in politics is so clear that it needs not to be dwelt upon....The steady tendency of American legislation,national and state,has not merely been to create great special interests,but in the very effort to control them for the benefit of the public,to concern them directly in politics.
Henry George on money in politics,Wheeling Register,September 19,1896
The excerpt quoted above would be most useful to historians analyzing the

• A) emergence of an industrial culture in the United States.
• B) ties between Gilded Age politics and big business.
• C) provision of services by urban political machines in exchange for political support.
• D) relationship between citizens and the national government.

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