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Show CARNEGIE AND THE TRUSTS. Referring to the indictment of the wire trust, Mr. Carnegie thinks that "there can be but one result of all this agitation, and that is that the eourt of commerce will have access to all papers 'if iuJinrraTbmpanuariJTixnces liberarantTTaTr' to the actual capital invested and fair to the consumer. con-sumer. " If Andy believes that, how he must rejoice re-joice that the new ruling cannot be ex post facto. If his income were reduced to a fair interest on sll the resl capital that he ever put into business, would there not be an immediate reduction of his great charities, and would not his "foundation" have to be quickly braced! What percentage on his actual capital did he receive when he waa selling sell-ing the government blow hole armor for battle-shipaf battle-shipaf An' hud the rule that he anticipates been in force when the steel trust was organized, would not the whole bunch of the franiers of that organization organ-ization have been drowned by the waterspout that would have burst out of it f But whv does not the n-overnment of the nation or of the statea get to the real trouble at once and cure itf AN at if Pennsylvania had passed a statute stat-ute years ago exacting a fair tax on incomes and after a fair limit waa reached, taking all that was above that amount. That would have given Mr. Carnegie vast fortune, but would not have made him and a few associates stronger than the government govern-ment itself. Would not that be better now than the plan the government is pursuing t' |