Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-14
Mors Wrrdom From ths Coaeh.
New York TimCs

Mr.. Carnegie has returned from CIuny
Castle ard ven to the public come re-
msTks about these trusts and other COM
binstions which his comps5ion on the top
Of tine coach calls "private IF ,irs." Lev
Us look 81 come Of the assertions which
ne makes:
"There Is 10 possibility OF maintaining
s trust" Whas do the managers CT tas
S snd1rd OIL Trust say to tbst2 Does
ret Nj. Carnegie know that sthis
CREST trust has practically f6sen
in existerce for fifteen yesfsa
Does he not know that II is now
more powerful them ever before? Isshe
Gotten Seed Oh trust going to pieces? Is
the Sugar Trust, after being In su- cess
tul operation for s year, threatened by
anything except suits brought in the
name Of tn people7 Are those who we're
"ioolish enough TO embark IL" the Steel
and Iron Beam Combination Two OR three
yesTs sgo soon TO be "lTvolved in ruin?'
There 's no moro trust in steel rails than
amons New FORK newspapers. wy mill
mansEes 1 own bueiness snd es rs own
prices There YVES Qast carr no ar
l!Hcisl raising of price,"
Mr Carnegie WAS speaking not only Ct
the few actual trus,s, bat Of al clo.s
used the terms MECHANICALLY (htrusrs
or combiDEtlone, and spoke @; Id
combustion Of steel rail makers IN Ed-
rope es "the greatest trust" he had ever
known, although he knows, We presume,
thai this was not such trust IS the So
gar Trust or the Standard Oh Trust, but
& combination IN which the nsnuf6Ctur-
ers did net surrender control OF their
Oin 20 ry1A DO 49,
The way may be ciear
There il $40 trust" end "GverY mill
manages its own business and fxes It's
o1u prices But what Is the "sllot-
ment" that we hear about, and What sre
Why did Mr. B G Clarke OF the Thomas
Iron Company end the Lsckawsnns S.eel
Works say on JsnusrF 81 last:
The Lackawarna Company has sIrpady filed
Its proportion of the allotment CT SO coo tors
and cannos accGpt sDv more orCers until KEW
allOtment Is mSoe. Propositions for &c. OCpy0rs
avail; their turn on our books. Oihef Com
panies are In like position. y
Why did ".be allotment" preveas this
company from f ling these orders f5kssg
900 tons st that Iine7 WHIST did NJ ri
Clsrk mean when he said, or or abaHs
Msy II: s
We are paying little attention 10 the steel
rail market We sold our allotment several
months ago, and can mase no quotations until
the western mills have filed their allotment
@hlt sort CT thing WAS tina: "comoi-
nation which was formed" the Tribune
watch ckus5c "sn advance Of prices when
sgers2" Does Mr.. Carnegie remember q
st star halA ~, D-iN-
delphis on November IA, 1887? Part OF
;he New York Tribune's report OF that
meeting wse ss follows:
ANDREW Carnegie represented Pttsburg:
II was sgIeeG to leave the mater Of output and
other Cesail TO The board OF control, which will
meet TO arrange these alters in 8 few Gays
Prices are to be ns:ntained at current rates.
TIE tribune, the organ Of Mr.. Carae-
gle and otrer advocates CT higl aud
oigter protection, now publishes promi-
nentlY his remarks shout combinations
under the headlines "Dispos!pg Of Sve-
Fsl Campaign Lies-No Steel Rail Trust
In This Country" But this same TIL
bune ssid in an editorial srticie published
on JsuusrY s last:
"The railnsters unwiseIy lifted the p7ice
too far By effective combination curing The hrs5
half CT the year"
After Mr. Carnegie has had time to
lcok srourd q little, perhsps he will dis
oo7er that the Steel Rail Association. Or
Whatever the combination is called, had
meeting at Long Branch on August 8.
when sit was sgreed TO continue the
preseDt srrsngemens cs regards sllo:-
meat." Il WIGS announced thst "the
agreement" was changed only with re-
spec. to "the percentage CT some of the
mills"
erals hsve not paid us so much per
ton as other forms " For example,
those "osher forms" that srs called
beams. Does mr.. Carnegie ssY
that there has no: been for two or
three years combination to keep
up very high and uniform price for steel
and iron beams? Is he not aware that for
two or three years the ring price Of these
beams hss been 1o,csnts pound, or
s73 90 s long tor?
"rhe public msy regard trusts and
with serene confidence"
But the public will not do so. The pub
lie is not willing to wait ten or fifteen
years for these rings "to 60 TO pieces"
but already elbows determination to At
tack them In the courts and by new
Iegislstion. There is not q trust or q
combination In the country that does lot