The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-26
BY w. q. sHEpHERD.

I~'~AS e'o Sou pot oh JOuf sHuSr~f 1-.
BY w. @. sHEPHERD.
BOSTON, May 2s.--Whenevcr you
buy new pair OF shoes for youroe1f
or your wife or your children. STOP
q minute to think OF Sidney w. WIN
slow, white-haired. steeioyed. club
haunting, resident OF Boston. n 4
were not for his gigantic shoe mo
chinery trust the dealer would %
able to sell you shoes 10 to 90 cents
less
Ninety nine out OF every 100 Amer
lean citizens have to pay WinsIow
cold coin for allowing them TO wear
shoes. More pennies rattle I'm the
pocket OF the Winslow trust every
time baby COOS with delight q =
new pair of shoes.
How did winslow build up this
| pocket-picking machine? Its story
that makes the American people look
/ foolish.
The representatives Of Massachss-
sets In congress are trying to pas
q law intended to crack Winslowr
trust across the knuckles and make
II let 60 Of the American people, But
the result Is doubtful, even II the
law passes. Four years ago, after
desperate fight, the governor o.
Massachusetts, signed similar state
law. But IL didn't work. Winslows.
$50.000.000 trust has grown tremen-
dously In power since Massachusetts
tried to stop It.
Winslow and his associates hare
taken desperate measures to build up
their gigantic business They are
willing to resort to desperate meas
/ ures to keep II alive. In their time
they have done bold, hardy. merci-
less things, commercially.
winslow once faced Henry H. Rog-
ers, the Standard Oil magnate, In
Rogers lair at rs Broadway ana
laughed In Rogers face when the lat
ter said to him.
mo, won't come into your trust.
But~I own 1t before long"
4 But Rogers never did own Il He
, tried dsspssately, but he never even
made dent In Il. STANDARD OIL men
Hooked Wlnslow over and lost heart
The plum was fne-that Of tfkinE
!. tribute for every pair OF shoes worn
by the American public--but Win
slow wasn't man who could %
fought with success, even by Stan
dard Oilers.
Men who know say that II Win
slows business had been one thar
dealt directly with the public, like
Standard Oil, Winslow would be a.
! well known for smartness. shrewd-
ness and heartlessness az John ~
Rockefeller.
How did winslow build his shoe
machinery trust that adds nothing to
: the real wealth OF the country, but
takes toll from US all? Here's the
story:
sixty years ago there were no ma
chine made shoes. Then young Ly-
man r. Blake, in the early fifties, de-
vised a crude machine which wouII
sew the soles Of shoes onto the
i pers.
/ Today over 100000, 900 pairs
4 shoes are sewed annually I'm the u
ed States. Their value u half = ~
lion dollars.
The American public. which granto1
the patent rights on the machinerys
has gained little financial benefit. The
profit has gone to someone else.
j Blake was an impractical man. h
sold his machine for $4,000 to Cor
don Mckay. of Boston. Mckay spent
$4,000 In developing the machine
and placed II on the market
Mckay thought the machines ought
not TO be sold, but leased. the shoe
manufacturer paying royalty on
ievery pair Of shoes made on the ma
chimes.
Mckay died a millionaire. He might
have been q hundred times richer, but
he was one OF the old school 'live-and>
let-live" business men.
Many shoe-making machines were
invented and put on the market, but
Mckay did not fight them. He got -
much satisfaction out of seeing the
shoe-making business progress as he
did out OF his riches. He had caused
shoes to be made rs per cent stronger
and had reduced the actual cost 0{
labor over so cents a pair. Increased
strength and reduced cost meant .
reduction In the price OF shoes. ex-
lperts figured, of 81 q pair.
BY 1870 the Mckay machines were
In general use and, for the next ID
I years. Improvement followed improYe-
ment and competition grew until the
4 American public was able to get good
shoes at low prices.
Americans were the best shod ma
ton on earth.
But all this time Sidney w. Win
slow was in the background. ann
bilious for fortune, running tiny fac
tory at Marblehead, Mass, making
babies shoes.
Article NO. will tell Of the nrst
movement toward the monopoiIxIng of
i the shoe business.
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/ MARKET OPENING.