ITEMS OF INTEREST August 19, 1911 ISSUE

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Urging a constructive national policy in the matter of business, George W. Perkins, the retired New York financier, proposes the following questions as fit subjects for a congressional inquiry:—

"Has the cost of articles made by the so-called trusts increased or decreased? have wages increased or decreased? has labor been more steadily employed and better housed—more generally employed and better satisfied? have there been fewer failures in the lines of business involved? have the so-called trusts increased or decreased our foreign trade balances? have the so-called trusts devised ways and means and provided capital for saving and utilizing waste products which could not have been done by smaller concerns? is the tendency to have the ownership of these large companies and the profits made by them enjoyed by a few men or by many men? Is the tendency to have these corporations in the future create, by their profits, large fortunes for a few men, as was the case in partnerships under competitive methods, or is the tendency to distribute such profits more generally among the people."

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