In December 1926, the owners of the magazine brought an end to its campaigning political articles, and decided to concentrate instead on fiction. This failed to halt the slide in sales and by 1928 the magazine was selling only 50,000 copies a month. Everybody's Magazine ceased publication in March 1929. Through its workings during the last twenty years there has grown up in this country a set of colossal corporations in which unmeasured success and continued immunity from punishment have bread an insolent disregard of law, of common morality, and of public and private right, together with a grim determination to hold on to, at all hazards, the great possessions they have gulped or captured. Wall Street cannot gull the public as it once did.
Insurance is on a sounder basis.
Banking is adding new safeguards. Advertising is nearly honest. Food and drug adulteration are dangerous. Human life is more respected by common carriers. The hour of the old-time political boss is stuck.