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-ttt-r MdHKlKft OSE&OMAft- SATURDAY. MAY 19, 1900.
THE LIFE STORY
(Copyright, 1900. by
THE OREGONIAVS HOMESTUDY CIRCLfr
BIOGRAPHICAL
STUDIES FOR GIRLS
XIV-JEXXY JOIXD-GOLUSCHMIDT.
BT CHARLOTTE BREWSTER JORDAN.
(1S21-1SS7.)
"Through Jenny Llnd I first became sensible
of tho holiness of art. Through her I learned
that one must forget one's self In the service
of the Supreme. No books, no men, have had a
more ennobling Influence upon me. as a poet,
than Jenny Llnd." -Hans Christian Andersen.
Great musicians, singers and players
labor under heavier disadvantages In con
vincing posterity of their right to fame
than do the other children of genius; the
portable nature of their profession, lt
unrecordabillty except In the memories
of their hearers, make succeeding genera
tions inclined to attribute their reputa
tion to the extravagance or to the suscep
tibility of their contemporaries. Jenny
Llnd -would have shared this general fate
were it not that her remarkable person
ality made such an Indelible Impression
upon the people of all classes In Europe
and America upon the tone-deaf, like
Dean Stanley, as well as upon musicians
like Meyerbeer that these Impressions
have been recorded In the memoirs of
every noteworthy person who knew her,
from Victoria, Mendelssohn, Sontag,
Schumann, Andersen, Thorwaldsen, G. "W.
Curtis, down to P. T. Barnum.
As a child of 3 she imitated upon the
piano the fanfare of the street buglers;
and through her girlhood the superabund
ance of music In her found expression in
every step and bound that her restless
feet made. Until 9 years old she had no
more appreciative audience than her blue
ribboned cat, to which she sang by the
hour till the wonder of her childish voice
attracted the attention of an actress
boarding In the neighborhood. Jeny land's
mother, a governess embittered by her
hard struggles to support husband and
children, was with difficulty persuaded by
this actress to subordinate her burgher
prejudices to the future of the child and
consent to having the little girl's voice
tested at the Royal Theater. Jenny Llnd
describes herself at that time as "a small,
ugly, broad-nosed, shy. gauche, under
grown girl"; yet the rare promise In her
vdlce cast her awkwardness so entirely in
the background that the head of the
theater agreed to take the 9-year-old child
and educate her at the government ex
pense for the next 10 years.
Tho "actress-pupil Llnd" found this the
atrical training always Incalculable to her.
Her position, however, was by no means
a sinecure, and her efforts to make resti
tution for the drill and expense bestowed
upon her would have broken down a less
rugged constitution. At 10 she played
the part of Angela In "The Polish Mine":
at 13 she appeared In 22 performances; bu.
not until she was 17, after having ap
peared on the stage 111 times for her board
and clothes, did the directors decide to
allow her a small salary for her services.
That year she played 92 times In 12
new characters, chiefly among which was
Agatha In Weber's "Der Frelschutz." In
this she practically made her debut, and
awoke to the knowledge of the great
dramatic gift which God had Intrusted to
her. This date, March 7, she celebrated
each year thereafter as a second birth
day. In a somewhat different wording
than that employed by Byron she ex
pressed the same Idea of a famous awak
ing: "I got up that morning one creat
ure; I went to bd another creat
ure. I had found my power." Scon af
terward she was made a member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and
received the appointment of court singer.
Within a few years she earned enough
money from provincial tours to enable
her to go to Paris for the study of tech
nique. Her career thenceforth was a wonder
ful exposition of Disraeli's theory that
patience is the necessary ingredient of
genius. Once before, as a child of 14, her
voice threatened for some time to leave
her, and had she not patiently striven at
these critical times to recover It it is
probable that her genius might quickly
have degenerated Into mediocrity. Her
voice was not naturally flexible, yet by
means of her inexhaustible perseverance
she became enahltd so skillfully to blend
the various registers that the most crit
ical ear failed to discover their "points
of Junction." By practice, too, she at
tained the power of rapid execution, not
as natural to her as the richer sustain
ing power of her notes. She would prac
tice alone for hours on the correct enun
ciation of some words difficult to pro
nounce on a high note without the grim
acing she detested; and by practice she
also learned to reflll her lungs with
such dexterity that the renewal of her
breath was Impossible of detection. She
took tho greatest care of her voice, never
dancing or drinking wine, tea or r-oflee.
Her conscientiousness was due to her
feeling each morning that her voice was
a gift from God, and that perhaps that
very day might be the last cf Its use.
After having mastered the details of
technique so that ehe might give her
dramatic and spiritual nature full play
unhampered by the mechanics of art.
Jenny Llnd returned to Stockholm. Here
uhe astounded even her most enthusiastic
friends by her enormous development In
elng.ng, a development which made her
voice unique in the world.
Her progress In music thenceforth was
a series of triumphal ovations in Berlin,
Finland. Copenhagen, Leipzig, Munich, Vi
enna, London and America the Joy of
each nationality In being awakened musi
callv to consciousness of itself finding
express'on In many curious and character
istic ways. Students serenaded her In
Copenhagen and Berlin, the art lovers of
Vhnna fashioned silver wreaths for her,
and the crowned heads of Europe present
ed her with gifts estimated to be worth
$300 000. The names of "the Swedish Night
ingale" and "the divine Jenny" were pop
ular efforts to express appreciation of the
b rdllke. God-given qualities of her voice.
Her course through Europe could easily
be traced by the chain of charities which
she left In her wake. These charities
consisted not only In gratuitous concerts.
In singing in private to the sick or needy.
In surprising homesick Hans- Christian
Andersen with a Chr.stmas tree on Syl
vester evening, but In gl Ing wherever e he
tarried thousands of dollars to the poor
and needy giving It gleefully, like a
child. The only allusion she was ever
known to make to her wonderful talent
waa In Copenhagen, after singing for a
Home for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children. "When she heard the unusually
large amount which her concert had raised
her eyes filled with tears, and 6he said
to Hans Christian Andersen: "Isn't It
beautiful that I can s'.ng so!"
Despite the undoubted success of her
operatic career, she longed constantly for
a homely life o much ao that she de
cided to abandon the stage in 1S49. Just 11
years from that memorable March 7. the
birthday of her genius. This decision she
never regretted. She sung thereafter in
concert, or poured out her soul In ora
torio. Mendelssohn, whD considered her
the greatest artist he had known, wrote
the "Elijah" for the peculiar beauty of
her vo!c and In that she was at her
best, for she said It lifted her up into
another world.
Her retirement from the stage did not
ppring from a purltanlcl aversion to It.
She did not think It immoral, or she would
not have gone to see others act nor would
she have founded a school for the edu
cation of stage aspirants. It was simply
because, having passed unspotted through
the evils of stage environment, she fe'.t
worn by the artificialities and difficulties
of her progress and longed for the home
lines? of home.
.In Eas'and he was greatly beloved and
OF JENNY LIND
Seymour Eaton.)
DIRECTED BY PROF. SEYM OUR EATON
morousmy reciprocated tain appreciation,
so much so that soon after her marriage
she made that country her home.
Jenny Llnd's American tout Under the
management of P. T. flarnum was an tin
caulvocal uerp. Alth-men lindprtnklns
I this -venture with some trepidation, Jenny
j-:na leit that she did not dare to miss
such a golden opportunity of doing good.
She writes thus to a friend: "I have for
long had the most eager wish to earn,
somewhere, a great deal cf money, so as
to endow a school for poor lost chlidrrn
In my own country, and the Invitation
to America came as a direct answer: so
VSS u i J CnJ Qden,CV, ? I PORTLAND, May l&-To the Edltor.)
pray God in heaven out of a full heart 1 e f0l0wmg is a copy of the circular let
that he will guide me thither as ever ter Just prepared by the Six o'Clock Cldis
before with hs gentle hand and wilf lng Assoclat-on for general distribution,
graciously forgive me in my sins and my If you wm yslndly g!Ve lt Bpice in col.
infirmities. I shall have much to encoun- . ,,-,- nt Th n-nni ... t-iii --f-
ter; It Is a very arduous undertaking. But
since I have no less an aim before me
than to help In widening God's kingdom
the littlenesses of life vanish in face of
this."
As a proof of this sincerity of sp'rlt she
sent for the Mayor of New York the
night of her first concert In America and
divided the proceeds, nearly lOOOO, accord"
lng to his advice among the charities ol
JENXY
the city. This precedent she followed
throughout her trip, giving tne entire
amount received from her Amer can tour,
more than 40 000, among charities.
This tour brought her a great sorrow
and a great joy. Her mother's death sad
dened Jenny Llnd's visit to America.
While in Boston the prima donna, then In
her 31st year, was married to Otto Gold
schmldt, an accomplshed oung musi
cian, who had accompanied her at several
of her concerts. The marriage proved a
most happy one, and upon their return
they founded a home In England. Here
Mme. Goldsehm'dtied ib husiMi. hann eit
kind of a life, for she said she had found
"all that her heart ever wanted or loved."
Before settling In England, the young wife
sang to delighted audiences in Holland,
Austria, Ireland and Germany. She sang
thereafter only on special occasions, gen-
crally for charity, sometimes in oratorio.
sometimes zn tne opera of Kuth. com
posed by her husband, and sometimes In
concert with Mme. Schumann or alone.
To the last she. retained the fire and
chirm of that resistless voice, which was
a combination of the special qualities of
several prima donnas One surprising fea
ture to her audiences was her ablLty,
upon attaining an unusually high note (to
reach which her hearers, through the
habit of mind Induced by listening to
other great singers, would suppose her
to have expended all her strength) to
carol away with the ease, the Insoucance
of a bird. She possessed, too, an or glnal,
wonderful reservo power In her vole,
which enabled her carefully to avoid any
temptation to mere stage vocallsm and
with a line reticence to hold her power
well In hand until she reached the well-
planned climax, which Invariably swept i
her audience out of Itself Into the en
chanted realm where she reigned supreme. 1
Berfdes her originality she had a dra- I
matic force, based upon the study of the
art of Rachel, which would have won her
distinction, even If she had not been a
prima donna. To these gifts she added
fire, sympathy, an intellectual grasp of
her subject and sincerity a combination
of the gifts of several artistic tempera
ments. And yet, so all her contemporaries de
clare, tho magic of her voice was as
nothing to the personality of the woman.
So keen was her Intellectual grasp of the
topics, the problems of the day, so noble
yet so kindly withal was her conception
of life and Its duties, that thoso who were
uplifted by the charm of her voice de
clared, like the mother of Dean Stanley,
that they "would rather hear Jenny talk
than sing." Back of all charm lay the
goodness of the woman a simple-hearted
goodness which leveled all class distinc
tions, which converted the skeptic and
strengthened the believing the perfect
flowing of a deeply practical, religious na
ture upon which had been grafted the
marvelous gift of music Because Chris
tianity was the master spring of her life
her message was optimstic, and there
fore helpful. She said that she was c'ad
from morning till night, as who would !
not "be. Intrusted with the guardianship
of so great a gift.
Surrounded by her happy children and
grandchildren, she died as beautifully as
she had lived. Stretching out her hands
to the sunlight coming in through the
shutters which her daughter had Just
oponed, there burst from her lips tho
first notes of her favorite "An den Son-
nenscheln," and so singing, there passed
into the eternal sunshine Jenny Llnd. .one
of the most helpful geniuses that" the
i. i ,. lUC
world has ever known.
HOW TO KILL ANTS.
Several Methods of Destroying the
Little Pests.
BUENA VISTA, Or.. May 15. (To the
Editor.) I would like to ask a fair ques
tion. Can you tell me some remedy to
destroy ants? STJBSCRIBER.
The question is rather Indefinite, as there
are many kinds of ants and a great many
ways of destroying them. It Is, however.
taken for granted that It refers to the
little black or red ants which sometimes
find their way Into houses, and become a
great nuisance. Sprinkling powdered
borate which can be procured at any drug
store, .over slaces tterested by black or
red ants, will cause tinsa rte disappear.
As ants are .fond jqt ugar j?r .Svsney. If
I either of these are placed in a sponge afid
put where the anls are they will swarm
!lh after tha stlgar cr honey, and they can
then be killed by dropping the sponge In
hot water. It is mla that leaves of green
wormwood scattered In places frequented
by Black ants will drive" them away.
(IrfeiRP A rtlnttt -wlfri lavA finil tHo nntJ
i tUI mVLeet on iu y be dei
j . , n i 1S i t,t ..
& by putting the plate In hot water.
If " ncst ? faund- our h6t "svdt6r
' Iht0 it- Probably the most convenient
! wav of trettinir Hrl of nntfc is bv seatter-
' ing powdered borax Id their haunts, as
' above mentioned.
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APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC.
I
Six
o'CIocIc Closing: Association
fine- Clrcalar.
la
a xavor. G. HEWITT,
Secretary.
I To tho Retail Purchasers of Portland:
I If it's after 6 P, M. when you go Into a
etore to trade, please remember that in
our "retail world" there Is no "change of
crews," and that the clerks who serve
you at & or 9 or 10 P. M. are the ones
Who wero there to serve you during the
LIXD.
same hours of the morning, and have been
there all day. They would go home when
other laborers do If the great public did
not reward their employers for keeping
them many hours longer.
We do not believe that It is necessary
for the retail buslnero of our city to ex
tend beyond a reasonable number of hours
any day, and If you w11 agree to make
your purchases before 6 P. M. the stores
will close at that time, and eevcral
thousand of our cltizcne, both employers
and employes, will have an opportunity
to pass the evening with their families
or in fresh-air recreation. This will not
Inconvenience you only to the extent of
remembering that you ought to provide
yourself with your wants before the day
closco. If you are a. worklngman or
w-orklngwoman you can appreciate the
J position of these, your servants and co-
worers. in tneir enoru fcaturoay is your
'short day"; why should lt be the retail
clerks' longest one? Can you not adjust
your convenience to conform with the
"well-rounded-out" day of the clerk, who
worko faithfully until 6 o'clock? We
know it is only a matter of adjustment,
for It has been demonstrated In the prin
cipal cities of our Nation.
Supposing you try It. No matter where
you trade. All we ask Is your moral
support, and that you do your buying be
fore u P. M. Yours sincerely,
THE SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING ASSOCIA
TION. DAILY CITY STATISTICS.
Real Estate Transfers.
Esther O. Colton to M. J. Hally, lot
3. block 123. West Inington. May 18..$ 723
A. G. Ryan to Esther O. Colton. same 1
Sheriff, for S. M. Beard, to W. L.
Kauffman. undivided H of lots 2, B
and 3. block T, Tabor Heights, April
25 5
W. E. Bramhall to Albert Stone, 20
acres, section 3, T. 1 S.. R. 3 E
May IS 2700
United States patent to K. Painter,
N. v of SW. and lots 3 and 4,
section 25. T. 1 N R. 4 B., Septem
ber 15, 1S93
Delia Earl and T. C. Earl to Lura B.
Beckner. lot S. block 14. Mount Ta
bor Villa, May IS 500
Sheriff, for Agnes Reld et al.. to
Anna E. Keene. lots 2. 4, 6, 8. 10. 12,
14. block 14. South Portland. Sep
tember 30. 1S96 543
Caroline Fischer to Ida Haehlen and
Hermlna Haehlen, W. Vt of lots 7
and S, block 54. Caruthers Addition
to Caruthers Addition: also, lots 6
and 7. block 1. Peninsular Addition,
and lots In East Acosta, Wash..
May 17 6000
Hannah C. Shaver and Matthias Sha--ver
to Benjamin E. Shaver, lots 9
and 10. block 112, Norwood, Febru
ary 24. 1SS9 2S1
Samuel H. Shaver et ux. to Benjamin
E. Shaver, lot 10. block 107. Nor
wood, February 27, 1S9D 129
T. M. Richardson to Thomas Mann,
E. 63 feet of lot 8. block 16, with
three-story brick building. Washing
ton street, near Second, May 17 1
Marriage Licenses.
J. H. Palmer, aged 33, Laura M. Patl-
son. aged .31; Frank Leslie, 22, Grace
Coonse. 18.
Death.
May 17 Sherman Burnslde, aged 71
years 5 months. Sell wood; old age.
"The Thin Red Line."
PORTLAND, May 18. (To the Editor.)
Will you please tell me the date and
i Place "K'nere the battle took place that
, nltu-i. "Tho Thin T. Tin." ...
tho picture
-xne xnin aea Line repre-
sents?
SUBSCRIBER.
Tho expression, "The thin red line," oc
curs In King Lake'e "History of the War
In the Crimea." It Is part of the fine- de
scription of the repulse of the Russians at
Balaklava by Sir Colin Campbell's High
land Brigade.
Con-alt sl Latvrer.
PORTLAND. May IS. (To the Editor.)
Please answer following question In your
valuable paper: A single woman rents a
room for a stipulated price, she works
every day for 51 50 per day, refuses to pay
her Tent for a month; says she will move
If she gets ten days notice. Is there no
way to get the moneyr Can I hold her
furniture, etc.? G. A. C. P.
To regulate the stomach, lrver and bow
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Try them.
NEXr PHASE OF TRUSTS
IIEORGAX1ZATIOX KECESSAR.V
IT WAS WITH RAILROADS.
AS
Xd Trust Can. Stand That Is Net
Conservatively Capitalized aild
Honestly Managed.
Ten of 15 years ago the stock market
knew little of "Industrials A few en
terprises, such as the Standard Oil Trust,
the Chicago Stack Yards, Cotton Oil, etc,
were familiar to the "otreet," but that
was alL In 1SS7 the sugar trust was or
ganized; and a few other "trusts," such
as the National Cordage Company, the
General Electric Company, and the like,
sprang Into existence at that time. Down
to the panic of 1S33, however, the "in
dustrials" in Wall street were not really
numerous, though some of them (sugar,
for instance), were heavily traded in
there. Since the collapse of the railroad
situation In the early part of the last
decade, the "Industrials" have come rap-
Idly to the front. A movement has been
started to eliminate competition la every
line of business by means Of huge cOn
solldatlona. Th's movement Originated
from without, rather than from within.
That Is to say, the consolidations were
not primarily the work bf the people who
had been conducting the various indus
tries In the past, but are to be traced for
the most part to promoters. These pro
moters ate a claoi of men who make lt
their business to look around and see
where they can buy up ail Industry, re
capitalize lt and sell lt to the public at a
great advance in price, They go to the
leaders In a certain line of business and
make them an offer for their plants, gen
erally at figures which it Is not in human
nature to refuse, the end being a trust
In that particular line. Sometimes the
promotion of the trust proceeds from
within; but as a rule, we take it, the
work has its Initiative with outsiders.
Tho trust movement has attained such
proportlbnfl in the last two years that lt
has practically transformed our indus
tr'al situation. Almost every line of busi
ness has been revolutionized. In each
line a few great corporations have taken
the place of the countless number of moderate-sized
or small concerns previously
existing. The significant feature of the
movement Is not so much the consolida
tion Itself, but the manner In which lt
has been performed. It is commonly as
serted that large corporations are the
order of the day, the result of evolution;
and perhaps this Is true. What excites
our wonder Is, not that in every line of
industry the tendency has been to gather
the business Into a few hands, but that In
so doing such an exorbitant price should
have been paid for the privilege.
As yet, trust securities have failed to
command the confidence of investors.
They play a leading part, -from time
to time, in the speculative transactions
In Wall street, but are hardly looked
upon in any other light than as "gam
bles." This is certainly true as regardo
tho common stocks of the trust?, and lt
Is largely true of the preferred stocks.
Wo have compiled the following list, show
ing recent quotations and tne present
dividend rate on a number of preferred
shares: , , ,.
Ttecent DIvld.
quotation, rate.
American Car & Foundry S J
American Chicle JS
American Ice -" i? 2
American Linseed Oil j i
American Smelting
American Steel & Wire 77
American Steel Hoop H
American Tin Plate 78 l
American Woolen
Continental Tobacco 8W
Electric Vehicle JJ S
Empire Steel CO G
Federal Steel KM 6
International Paper fa 6
International Pump ta4 6
National Salt i I
National Steel S9
National Tube SO'
Otis Elevator So
Pressed Steel Car $2 7
Republic Iron & Steel 56 7
Royal Baking Powder SQ 6
Rubber Goods 75 7
"Union Bag & Paper 62 i
"United States Leather ttk 6
"United States Rubber 93V4 8
This list Includes the names of some
of the best known of the Industrial
trusts. We have here the preferred
shares of 26 trusts (the list might easily
have been made longer). paying
dividends ranging from 6 to 8 per cent
per annum, and everyone selling be
low par. Speaking roughly, a 6 per
cent stock ranges from about 60 to 75, a
7 per cent stock from about 0 up to a
few points this side of par. There are
trust preferred stocks which sell above
par (some considerably above that level),
but they are tho exception. The rule
Is for such securities to cell at a very
handsome discount. Thla Is especially
noteworthy when contrasted with the
low returns netted on railroad securi
ties, mortgages, mercantile loans, etc,
Obviously this low level of quotations,
n trust preferred shares can Indicate
but one thing, namely, deepseated dis
trust of the "Industrial combines," as a
class. This distrust springs not so much
from a feeling that industrial enterprises
inherently lacK tne element 01 siammy, uai into every line of trade, and the con
as from other causes. Among these may sequence, was that commodity prices fell
be mentioned overcapitalization. Improper! and profits shrank almost, and In many
accounting, stock market gambling by cases quite, out of sight. The purpose
trust officials in the securities of their ! of the trust wae ostensibly to remedy this
own companies, deliberate villainy on situation. In each line of business a huge
the part of the said officials In their ef-l corporation was formed to buy up the
forts to manipulate the stock market, competing plants. The movement was
etc Each one of these shortcomings j thoroughly artificial and uneconomic,
has been exhibited frequently enough j Plants whose earning capacity had been
In connection with the trusts in the j reduced to a minimum were bought at ex
past to make the Investing public view aggerated figures (frequently at several
"industrials" as a class with consider-1 times their real value), and the new con
able suspicion. There are a good manyj solldated company wae capitalized at an
targe industrial enterprises quote- in tne
stock market that possess the entire con -
fidence of Investors; but these are not.
on the whole, "industrial combines," but
merely single business projects which by
conservative management have been ex
tended to large proportions. The so-called
trusts, a3 a class, are viewed with sus
picion, and lt Is pertinent to ask if they
will always be viewed In that light.
The presumption Is that the bulk of the
trusts will eventually have to undergo
reorganization. Their experience will
most likely resemble that or tho railroads
of the country some years ago. Prior,
say, to 1ES9. lt would have been hard to
convince the average person that In a
few years the larger part of the railroad
mileage of the United States would pass
Into the control of the courts. Special
students of tho situation at that time
could see that a catastrophe was Impend
ing, Just as special students of the situa
tion today are convinced that an era of
receiversnips ana reorganizations is in
store for the Industrial trusts. The aver
age man has probably no clear conception
of any widespread disaster to the trusts;
he Is merely troubled by the vague fear
that particular "combines" In which he
has been asked to take an Interest may
not be all that Is represented. It Is on'.y
the trained economic mind that fereseos
the Inevitable outcome of the present slt-
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my troubles slnco I began taking tho pills.
I havo recommended them to many women who nre
EUfierlng as I suffered. They aro the only thing that
helped mo in the trial that comes to so many tv omen at
my age." Mas. J. H. Weat-tj.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23d day of
October. A. D., 1S37. O. C. Hicks, Notary Public.
will
Ilia l-eL
uation, namely, a collapse of .practically
the whole trust structure.
A curious parallel exists between the. come to stay, that It will be the feature
causes which produced the collapse of the of our future industrial methods. We shall
railroad system and those which may bo ' not dispute this, but the large corpora
depended upon to wreck the "industrial" tion of the future, like the small corpora
combines. The railroad situation was t tion of the past, cannot hope to succeed
characterized by overconstruction. More t unless, lt Is conservatively capitalized and
roads were built than were Immediately honestly managed.
needed. This evil has Its source In Wall ' .
street. Railroads were built not, prl-
uuimy, uccause any particular section nan j
experienced a crying" need of transport a-
tion laciutics, out because capitalists saw
large speculative profits In disposing of
railroad securities. The securities were
sold, the roads were built, and It then re
mained to be seen If the country could
afford the roads a living. As large blocks
of securities were sold after the roads
were actually constructed, it was neces
sary to make the books show a profit
until these securities could be disposed of.
The time came when artificial conditions
would no longer operate. New securities
could no longer be sold. It was not pos
sible to continue the deceptions in rail
road bookkeeping forever, and when the
money market became stringent the loads
b&gan to go into the hands of recalvers
with astounding rapidity.
The overconstruction of the railroads
finds a counterpart in the overcompatltlon
of the present industrial situation. And
the overcompetition today Is based prl-
marlly on stock-market considerations. I
Tho Industrial trusts owe their origin, in
the first place, to the desire on the part j
of promoters to take large speculative I
profits from floating new Industries. Trusts
are formed ostensibly to reduce compe
tion. but it Is apparent that their nat
ural consequence Is to faster competition.
Probably the promoters care little for the
remote consequences of the trusts. Their
aim is to get an Immediate profit, and
then leave the trusts to their fate. The
railroad syndicates were quite successful
In floating their securities against new
roads, but the trust promoters seem likely
to be less forturate They have started
their trusts; they have given out the kind
of Information regarding the operations of
the companies most necessary to put the
price of the securities to a high figure,
and now the time Is arriving when arti
ficial conditions will no longer govern the
situation. It remains to ba seen If eco
nomic condltfons will afford the trusts, as
at present constituted, a living. We do
not believe they will.
The real philosophy of the trust move
ment Is not clearly understood. The very
appearance of the movement Indicated
something wrong with the Industrial sit
uation. Briefly stated, the situation has
become reduced to one of over-production.
The trusts were started not because the
big corporation per se was a necestrty.
Tho trouble wae, there were too many
competing plants In every line of indus
try: so many. In fact, that the profit had
been largely eliminated from trade. Large
profits In the past had made the variou3
Industrial concerns careless about the fu-
ture. Money that wae easily earned was
thoughtlessly distributed, with little re
gard for charges to depreclat'on. The
large dividends operated to brlns: new can-
, amount greauy in excess 01 tne aggregate
, sum paid for the acquired plants. In
short. Instead of pureulng the economic
policy of writing down tho valuation of
properties whose earning power had
shrunk, the trusts pursued exactly the op
posite course. The ludicrous character of
the trust movement Is too plain to be
Ignored. The most exaggerated operatic
burlesque was never more aosurd than
the methods of finance employed by the
trust promoters.
One or two boom years have embold
ened the trusts to raise the claim that
their earnings will alwaya be sufficient
to enable them to pay large dividends on
their preferred shares, and In all proba
bility good returns of their common stock
also. That Is exactly the way the rail
road managers viewed the situation In the
'03. Trusts beget truste. The prosperity
of the last year or two has created
I mania for starting new industrial plants.
and even If no financial depression should
occur, these new plants will In time reduce
every industry to the old basis of over
competition. Commodity prices will event
ually fall lower than they have ever been
before. When the decline In general prices
has been In process some time the trusts
will find themselves In the same position
that the railroads were in around 1S93.
Reorganizations will occur on a most ex-
man
OF TABLE WATERS."
prcstrctionj from bone
J from crdlaary -weak
tensive scale. Involving a tremendous
scaling of capitalizations. It Is commonly
nxeprttHl thnt thft laree eornoratlon has
ItisIncoatrovertiMe!
; The Editor of the Christian Million
under the headinsr of General Note, on:
i August so, 1896, wrote:
' A ccod article will stand uoon its own
1 merits, and we may rely upon It that nothing
win continue lone wnicn does not, in a more
or less degree. Harmonize with the state
ments wnicn are pucusnea concerning it."
Mr. Hall Caine,
Author of "The Deemster." "The Manx-
man." "The Christian." etc.. when snealc
1 mg on "Criticism," recently, said :
When a thing that Is advertised grettly '
Is rood itsroes and goes permanently: when '
it is bad. It only goes far a while : the public
' unos it out."
the Proprietor of
9Q.
S PSLLS
has said over and over again :
" It Is a fallacy to imarlne that anvthlnsr
, win sen just Decause it is -overused, now i
, many nostrums have been started with glare i
, ana snuuea out in giooa e 1 ne met is, a ,
man is not easily truuea a second time: and ,
every dissatisfied purchaser does ten tlm-s
more narm man one sausucj aces geaa. ,
Assuredly the sale of more than 6,000,000 ,
boxes of BEECHAM'S PILLS per annum, ,
after a public trial of naii-a-century, is con
clusive testimony of their popularity, su
periority ana proverouu wonn.
Beechara's Pills hare for many years been the popular
laraur memctne wnererer me tnguia language n spelt ei,
and tcey do stand without a nral. In boxes, so cens
and ss cen U eacn, at an oru; stores.
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that feed upon tho
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it makes dan
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eases impossible.
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ft?
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eer
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