The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-07-30
Combinations in Stoves, Matches ana
Paper.

There has BEEN since 1872, a national
combination OF the manufacturers of the
stoves into which the combination coal
must bc put and its effect, the founder
said. in his speech Al the annual ban.
quct in Cleveland, last February, had
been to change the balance from the
wrong to the right side OF the ledger.
l'ntil lately, AT least. combination
matches lighted the fire of combination
roal in these combination stoves. and it
i> combination oil which the cook, con
lrary to orders, puts ON the fires To make
them burn faster. The combination of
match manufacturers WAS perfected bv
The experience of sixteen years of
iuSiou-, till lately 1t shared with the coal
combination the pleasure OF advancing
the price OF fire by proclamation on the
approach OF winter. 1t is now at war
with the new companies which have
gone into the manufacture since the re-
peal OF the internal revenue tan. These
it is attempting to conquer by under
selling them. tactics which have hitherto
never failed. The Government ot the
United States, before which all men are
equal. helped this combination TO Kill
OF it, competitors. shielding it from for
eign competition hy a tax of thirty-tiye
per cent, on the importation of matches
from abroad, and shielding il from do
mrSlic competition by administering the
internal revenue ian So A. to make its
small competitor, pay ten per cent
more taN This drove them into bauk.
ruptcN, or combination with the ring,
AZ the rate 0t one or two every month.
The railroads, like the Governments
helped lo transfer this business from the
many to the few hy carving the com
biuatlpn matches at lower rates than
were given to its little competitors
When the houSemaid strikes n cOmbina-
tiou match on the wall paper she leaves
mark on an article the manufacture,
sale, and price OF which are rigidly reg
ulatrd by the American Wall Paper
Manufacturers Association 4 recent
writer ha, described this oath-bound
combination which has established
wall paper monarchy IN
the United States. When the
cook takes the paper from of the eX-
press package, the hardware, the dry
goods. the grocerie., the candy, the
ham, which have been sent home, She
i still handling au article the price Of
" ultH - uN'u w private tuhtlhtulS'
The Western Wrapping-paper AsSocia
ton, >Ner since 1850, has, with more or
less success, been struggling to keep
down the deluge Of too much wrapping
paper, and to liN the prices of all kinds,
from the paper under the carpet to that
which j., used in roofing. Ii recently
failed, hut was al once reorganiled on II
tirmer footing than before and it> mills
are now allowed 10 Iurn ont bu, one
half a. much aS they could produce.
Besides this the wood-pulp and straw
paper industries have been amaHam-
atcd. The American Paper Assocs~-
ton aims to control the prices and pro
duction oi paper for newspapers aud
books, and for writing. The dealers il
cid rags and old paper formed an ssso
citation in Cleveland three years ago Il
deal with the "old-rag' problem o
how 70 cut down the enormous profit
the women Of our country are making
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