| Show Tb r t recent slump In the stock market duir which Ieh Industrials rore rero large largely 1 ly sEeded is I tAken to IndIcate that the Q In the trust craze hues haR come The portion o of the mt message aage to Congress In which hue he speaks ot of I trusts and monopolistic combinations combination Ja Ii te have dons don more towards the solution of oC the trust than the famous trust trull of oC orators orator The kiMory of tile craze Is quite During the first month of the yeas ear capital was val insect Inest mIDI meat and od found nn an opportunity of directing Its ambition It to man many that n a corn com combination such as the Standard on Oil com company pan for Cor Instance would be rood good for Il a sure fortune The promoter found n a tend read to work ork In Trusts were ero formed on paper tock wat Is sued d and 1 the tho largelY Into hue th lie pockets ot of tho pin JIlt meters hut tho finally had its opened and anet wild speculation re calved a check nut But while hll the tho combinations that ex cx exsted sted Isted largely on paper thus ore coining to n a natural end the really organizations art are continuing their struggle against both State and Fed oral 1 laws WI null and PerhaPs with nor cM cail tully fully br their OC O the tho moth Ineth ode tho ho sugar trust Is giving n a remarkable example The Fhe general government cnn can pr prevent ent n a trust from shipping goods from ono one State to another anti every can prevent a trust from Mm doing business within Its 18 limits What Shat then cnn can the trust do The Thc tobacco combination points the lie way It has made mado n a Io of t prices according to whIch wh hits custo customers mers annot make any direct pur purchases chases But Dut at the sam sarnO time tl It tells them that there Js Is n a good man manIn manin In New ew York through whom they tan can Obtain the regular rates This good I Is ot of course not nn an agent or of the trust mat but for tor some reason or other ho he heIs hoIs Is willing to net act as the agent of the lie purchaser As its he happens to lIve In InNo inot No ot York the tho trust rust cnn can sell ell to him without engaging In Interstate Om cOnt mOICe merce antI when whon lie he ht has s bought thu tho goethe from Crom the trust It no longer be belongs belongs longs to the combination It belongs to 10 the firma the tho agent ont rep represents resents and lie he Is merely shipping their own property how lIow can Q a bUsiness bo be by State or Federal laws whoa when It has ns as many avenues o of escape lS as has Aguin Aguinaldo aldo himself The Tho trust question Is not easy onsy of solution |
