During the gilded age, the federal took few steps to curb the power of "big " in general, government business by its absence of regulations or corporate and its failure to protect either or consumers. under the " faire" ideology of the gilded government was not supposed to in relations between producers and buyers, or with employers and the operation of the free was expected to eliminate inefficient businesses, leading to the best and cheapest business leaders often gave hefty campaign and some even secretly government officials. they used government support to break up and prevent strikes, at the very same time that they argued that should not interfere in