New-York tribune., 1899-06-21

unoous manufactures The dividends
,.,, .rorocod oven in 1894 over o per cent In
all miscellaneous and warehouse anu oiapei!
concerns. over per cent In rolling STOCK anu
over 6 per cent In textile manufactures "A
mere glance at the titles OF classes SHOWS 'na'
the narrow British tariff, which applies only u
few articles. such as liquors, wines tea'
coffee tobacco and preserved fruits, mas pr"c-
t,caIlv nothing to do with nearly all these con-
Germs.
The latest and most complete list OF Anieri-
can consultations covers about loo concerns,
of which part in no sense belong III HI! ~"
of combinations being In fact merely coihpahie'
formed to develop sundry patents OF 10 pr'ps
under one management connecting pu' "''
competing companies But IT inciudes II sIe"'
number of concerns with when tne tarii mas
nothing whatever to do. No tarin ahec's .he
gas business in any city, but there are lhciuueu
consultations Of gas works In hve dlHereh'
cities With exports of beer ana other MATT
liouors in large quantities to Europe, there are
vet included consultations OF Dreweres III
seven different cities. No tariff under the sun
affects the electric light, heat and power con-
Germs yet there are Included twenty-five OF
these In the same class must be placed com
panies formed for copper mining, coal mining
I'm the far interior. Montana and COLORADO
where no coal could be imported; compressed-
air concerns, cotton-oll companies, elevator
hav. ice milk, glucose, cornstalk, bread ana
biscuit petroleum, vinegar, brick, starch anu
oyster consultations, makers or radiators Hhu
heaters Of American patents. ana concerns
formed for trading, manufacturing or trans
porting outside the tariff lines, In hawaii
Cuba or Porto Rico Omittng companies or
such kinds which cannot be produced or helped
by any duty on imports whatever more than
half the whole number Of companies Is elimi-
mated But that fact by itself proves that the
forces which cause combinations or trusts are
bv no means those which result from duties on
imports.
We have now on paper sixteen iron and steer
working combinations nearly all formed within
n year and some as yet on paper only. win
much smaller manufacture Great Britain has
sixteen that have been for five years so I'M
portant as TO he quoted In the stock market
and having dividends Is 1t or Is 1t not clearly
folsidcation TO say that the British consoida-
tions. without any duty on imports, would not
be reproduced in this country but for such
duties? There are in this country seven textile
combinations, partly on paper as yet; In Great
Britain there are seventeen prominent In the
London stock market for over five years. No
duty there produced over twice as many as are
produced here with duties, and hve years ear
lier. There are four paper concerns here, all
new: England has four, all over five years OLD.
There are four rolling-stock combinations mere
Of which only the Pullman is old; England has
twelve. all over five years old The comparison
might be extended indefinitely. But no reason
Ing and no array Of facts can be expected 10
affect the minds or the self-respect or men wno'
knowing all these things, go on asserting that
the trusts are produced by the tarif.