U.S. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. DIVISION OF BIBLIOGRAPHY A LIST OF BOOKS C4 (WITH REFERENCES TO PERIODICALS) INTRODUCTION TO FIRST EDITION. The list is intended to comprise only the chief authorities, pro and con, upon the subject of trusts, and has no pretensions to being a complete bibliography. The principal reports of legislative investigations have been included, viz: The "coal combine" inquiry in Pennsylvania in 1871; the Congressional investigations of 1888, 1890, 1893 (see entries under United States Congress); reports of committees of the legislature of New York in 1887 and 1897; the report of a committee of the Canadian House of Commons in 1888, and the reports of the Industrial Commission prepared in part by Prof. J. W. Jenks, of Cornell University, lately published. Halle's "Trusts or industrial combinations," with its footnotes and list of authorities, is a good handbook concerning industrial combinations in the United States down to 1895. Baker's "Monopolies and the people" treats not only of railroad combinations, but of industrial trusts, monopolies of municipal service, and labor unions. "He subjects the laws of competition to a lengthy * * * analysis, and concludes that combination is a necessary tendency of modern society." Bonham's "Railway secrecy and trusts" classifies and investigates the methods of great trusts in their relations with railway corporations. Ely's "Monopolies and trusts" is an outcome of investigations, beginning in 1888, of the theory of monopoly from an economic standpoint. The previous works of this writer also contain scientific discussions of the subject. Lloyd's "Wealth against commonwealth" is an arraignment of trusts. Dodd's "Combinations and their abuses" is a defense of the Standard Oil Company. Gunton's "Trusts and the public" is "a vigorous defense of these great corporations." (See article "Gunton's defense of trusts" in American Review of Reviews, October, 1899.) The reports of the Chicago Trust Conference contain arguments by distinguished public men on both sides of the question. Nettleton's "Trusts or competition" is a compilation of extracts from papers and speeches by advocates and opponents of trusts. III |