He had a deep conviction that the political influence of financial and business interests and of great combinations of capital had become so great that the American people were beginning to distrust their own Government, than which there could be no greater peril to the Republic.
Lodge expresses Roosevelt's concern about the political influence of financial interests on public trust in government.
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