Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Gunton's Magazine, Vol. 25
It is well known that the spirit of public Opinion is op posed to monopoly, and definitely in favor of freedom and fair play. Trust has been used as a synonym for monopoly, so that every corporation of considerable size against which politicians, professional sentimentalists, or small business men who can not keep up with the best methods of the age, are working, is called a trust. When nothing specific can be charged, except that the concern is successful, it is called a trust in order to put it in bad odor with the public. No matter whether it is a factory, mine, railway, to call it a trust is one of the surest ways of inciting public prejudice against it. This has become so general that the word trust has literally no meaning. It signifies nothing in particular, and very little in general. It serves the purposes of politicians and others interested in hampering industrial enterprise, to promote political fortunes that depend upon the stimulation of public prejudice and class jealousy.
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