The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-03-10
HOLD ur YOUR HANDS.
while the window GLASS Truss Hioes soeS
Pockets


while IN. window Glass Truss Riaes Yoss
Pockets
The Commoner and Glassworiser Of
January % says:
1.-The window glass manufact sreT. of
the country have at last succecded In
forming company that will control
the selling prices Of window glass ~
least they have perfected matters ssi-
3ciently and have subscribed enough
capital stock to secure u charter under
the laws OF Wisconsin. The new COM
pany will be known as the National
Glass Co
''rhc new company proposes to con-
troll its members by the penalty OF for
FIXTURES deposited, otherwise capital
stock must be subscribed 1t is esti-
mated that there win be In the neigh
borhood of $500, 600 capital stock put up
by the manufacturers and the jobbers
whom they propose to take into the
concern with them.
1.-The jobbers. as a rule, arc said to he
as anxious as the manufacturers that
the company be formed, the disposition
to cut rates among them being even
more pronounced
I'm addition to the manufacturers
and jobbers Of the western district, the
company contemplates taking in an
other company of New York and other
eastern plants which control about $50
pots. The ability to regulate prices
| for the whole country would then be
practically assured.
The duties of the company will be
very simple. 1t will fix prices and ne
| gotiate terms with labor, and appro-
pirate the stock OF members who do not
| conform to regulations"
The window glass manufacturers
have evidently inherited the business
dash of the late Jay Gould coupled with
the cffrontery of the late Jesse James
"Hold up your hands, $4,000. 900 OF you
American people and let us window
glass manufacturers investigate your
pockets. Oh. no. it's no use to kick
We've got McKinlcy's certificate, in
dorsed by the president Of the United
States, which entities us to put oul
hands in your pockets and take out al
extra dollar every time we sell you {
dollars worth of glass, and by thu
eternal we're going to do it Hands III
and don't stir out of your tracks"
The window glass, like all other glass
manufacturers began to form trusts
about the time Mckinley began worl
upon his great tariff bill The Wester!
Window Glass Manufacturers associa
ton now comprises nearly all the win
dow glass manufacturers in the unite'
States 1t meets regularly to regulat
prices. production and wages, but !
not entirely satisfactory because 1T
somewhat of voluntary association
with no cash forfeiture in cases wher
individual members cut prices agree
upon. Inside of this association an
owning seventeen plants tabout one
sixth of ALI Is the United Glass Co.
: corporation This latter has been, an
is to-day, the nucleus OF the trust
, November, $780, the manufacturer
formed a national organization in Ill
| nois called the American Window elias
: Co. but because of an oversight. RENE
died in the present organization. tn
!. trust expired before it had gotten on \
= feet Now everything is expected
3 run smoothly.
r The manufacturers have held price
n close to the tariff line and cannot tres
Y consumers much worse than herctofor
! They do not, however, expect the du'
1 | of 100 per cent TO continue more tina
' one or two years longer, and they hop
G by the grace of Mckinley, TO get out
IL all there is in IT.