| Show S OI OL Till S I New York Times The largo large volume and remarkable steadiness of earnings through the tho past si s months shown shawn by bythe bythe bythe the steel corporations indicate a condition In the Iron trade which Is only without prece precedent precedent dent ent but without explanation It was believed that by the end of the tM year car cartho tho the boom would have passed aS M and a I oC reaction set sot In which might carry corry the pendulum the tho full tull length of Its swing swill In the tho opposite direction Well the year ear la is In Its last quarter and none hone of oC those predictions have hae been bren realized Indeed there hero Is ts now talk In business circles of ot a 11 new boom In Iron and steel which will be lie more sur surprising surprising titan than that through which wo we weare uro are now passing Dispatch The company has not gone as ns far tar In Inthe Inthe inthe the matter of oC publicity ns as would be de desirable It has taken token the tho public Into its confidence to ta tho the extent of ot making n a 1 statement that on its face Invites Investment But Dut It line has given elven neither the public nor Its stockholders any an In Information information formation that mot might enable them to form torm an all Independent estimate of ot its future earning capacity It is n a good sign of oC course that the managers of oC this huge combination are sensitive enough to public opinion to make any sort advance over the tile customary cor ocr corporate methods But nut until the Eng English fish lish plan of giving full tull details of ot time the business b and ana the privilege of voting dividends to ta the stockholders is adopt adopted ed there thero will bo be something loft left to be ba desired Brooklyn Eagle Eagie The Tho statement Issued by the board of ot directors of or tho the United Unite States steel teel corporation does dot not contain RO so much as nil the public would like to ta know kno About the time business of ot tho the conce J Indeed It does doeR not contain so much as 08 the time public has a moral right to know About all that we WI arc are told Is III that the thc company has hu been able oble to meet all al its obliga obligations obligations lions without using all nil Its earnings If It It did worth of ot business In Inthe Inthe Inthe the past six cia months Its earnings have not been large But Dut if IC It E produced prod ced steel worth only everyone will 11 say MY that Its lis profit have been un unreasonable reasonable Tho The company will be wise If It It takes the public more mare fully Into Its confidence |
