Accounting, uniform system of,
recommended, 354-
Esthetic efforts, 43.
Aggregation of labor discussed,
298.
Almond Growers' Exchange,
331.
Altruism and generosity found-
ed on coöperation, 29.
Amalgamated Association of I.
& S. workers opposed to
shorter hours, 169 note.
American Society of Equity,
36 note.
American Sugar Refining Co.,
46.
American Federation of Labor,
Anarchism and certain trade
Anarchist in trade, 121.
Annihilation, competition and
struggle for, 20.
ANTI-TRUST LAWS, see TRusts;
amendments to, proposed,
36; contrary to spirit of age,
47; drawn along the lines of
least resistance, 352; not en-
forced against certain classes,
329, 346; theory of, 205.
ASSOCIATION, see OPEN-PRICE
ASSOCIATIONS, certain meetings
of, not illegal, 124; indirect
agreements of, 124; meetings
of, for luncheon, 123; of rail-
road employes and shippers
suggested, 316; under pro-
posed Federal Law, 356.
Balance of trade, 42.
Baldwin, Prof. James Mark,
Bargain days, 57.
Beauty not a wholesale propo-
sition, 43.
Beyer, David S., 165 note.
BIDS, calling for, with no in-
tention to let to lowest, 196;
false representations concern-
ing, 199; method of govern-
ment purchases and contracts
on, criticized, 228.
Biological competition, II, 21.
Black list, use of, 56, 355.
Bricklayers and Masons' In-
ternational, 323.
Broom-corn
BRUTAL BUYING, see BUYING;
government purchases and,
228.
BRUTAL COMPETITION, see COM-
PETITION, BRUTAL.
Burley Tobacco Society, 37
Burton, Senator Theodore E.,
63 note.
BUSINESS, a lottery, 192; re-
ducing the speculative ele-
ments of, 224.
BUYERS, all men both buyers
and sellers, 52; secret price
policy and, 112; sellers and,
most men both, 33; two
classes of, 215; who have
fixed incomes, 37; open-price
association of, 153.
BUYING, BRUTAL, 190.
Buyers' open-price associations,
153-155.
California and oriental labor, 5.
Calwer, Richard, 370.
Canada, conditions in, 359.
Capital and labor, conflict be-
tween, 4; misuse of term
capital, 336.
Capitalists, combinations of,
and politicians and judges, 9.
Carnegie, Andrew, 168.
Carnegie Company, 104.
Carpenters, association of, 105.
Cartels in Germany, 368.
Census statistics inadequate,
168.
City of London case, 7.
Clark, Prof. John B., The Con-
trol of Trusts, 14.
Class discrimination by indirect
methods, 329.
CLASS LEGISLATION and fair
play, 328; no distinction be-
tween combination of farm-
ers and labor and combina-
tions of manufacturers and
employers, 334; unconstitu-
tional, 328 note I.
Clayton law, 80; beneficial, 82;
in full, 378-396; opposed to
Sherman law, 82.
Community your partner, 156.
Coal strikes, results of, 305
Collier, Wm. M., 50 note.
Collusion, effect of, 98.
COLLUSIVE COMPETITION, see
COMPETITION, COLLUSIVE.
Colorado Fruit Growers' Asso-
ciation, 331.
Combination, line of normal,
industries, 279.
COMBINATIONS, see also
TRUSTS; and pools in Eng-
land and Germany, 127; and
unfair competition, 63; con-
flict between, 54; forms of,
45; fruit growers', 54; great
era of, 34; here to stay, 10;
inevitable, 35; large and
friendless, 63; marketing or-
ganizations, 54; of employ-
ers, 53; of labor and farm-
ers, 53; of railways, 53; of
sellers, 53; old line and open-
price associations, 147; on a
selfish basis, 54; question of
mere size, 349; to advance
prices, effect of, 157; which
include customers, 57.
Commerce, international dump-
ing of goods, 261 note 1.
Commonwealth vs. Strauss, 77
COMMUNITY, all losses unpro-
ductive enterprises borne by,
252; and wasteful competi-
tion, I; attitude of, toward
industries and men who are
waiting for a normal de-
mand, 262; economic organ-
ization of, wasteful, 256; in-
difference of, towards fail-
ures, 265; must prevent
strikes, 204; should control
certain so-called economic
laws, 249.
COMPETITION, a fetish, 2, 22; a
relentless force, 11; and bar-
baric conditions, 10; and its
professed friends, 80; and
labor unions, 8; and politi-
cians, 5; and secret prices
and rebates, IOI; and struggle
for annihilation, 20; as af-
fected by trusts, 51; attitude
of labor unions towards, 2;
attitude of the public towards,
16; attitude of socialists to-
wards, 3; benefits of, 27; be-
tween retail merchants, 91;
between towns, 38; biolog-
ical, II; blind, vicious, un-
reasoning, 2; blind worship
of, 26; cause of distress, 7;
collusive, 97; competitive or
coöperative basis of, 35;
contracts to prevent un-
healthy, 6; cut
6; cut rate drug
stores and, 31; cutthroat, 31;
death of trade, 1; definitions
of, 19; destructive, 29; disap-
pearance of small competitor
in, 64; disintegrating force,
26; essence of the old, 73;
excessive, 6; extensive, 40;
in products of the soil, sup-
pressed, 9; in the labor
world, 89; in Tin Plate in-
dustry, 208; independent,
against an integrated indus-
try, 282; intensive, 40; is in-
human, II; is war and war
is hell, 23; leads to combina-
tions, 44; life of trade, I;
line of normal, in industries,
279; lumber companies and,
65; mail order houses and,
31; moral and economic
rights of, 65; mother of
trusts, 50, 104; nature's, 15;
new, court decree bearing
upon, 69; new, interest of
third party and, 73; new,
versus old, 62; not the life
of trade, 7; of isolation, 5;
old fashioned, 285; piratic,
merciless, cutthroat, 5; pro-
duction of quantity and, 44;
real and beneficial, 86; reck-
less and ignorant, 94; rivals
in a race, 85; suppressed, 95,
109; suppressed, and fixed
prices, 116; suppressed, gen-
tlemen's agreements and, 101;
survival of the fittest and, 13;
synonymous with
with struggle,
contest, rivalry, 21; wasteful,
and the community, 1; what
is, 12; when buyers would
prefer to have prices fixed,
99; will the fittest survive?
32.
COMPETITION, BRUTAL, 59; and
Congress, 61; and size of a
trust, 80; and vicious, 60;
and the courts, 80; between
blacksmiths, 61; instances of,
64; is natural and instinc-
tive, 61; progress toward
higher ideals, 62; time hon-
ored practice, 59; to small
competitor, 60.
COMPETITION, FALSE, 85, 86, 95,
97; and secret prices, 116;
basis of, secrecy, 105; be-
tween blacksmiths, 90; be-
tween carpenters, 87; be-
tween crane builders, 92;
bidding in the dark and, 93;
in the contracting and manu-
facturing world, 89; oriental
method of, III; shoddy and
adulteration logical results
of, 216; wide differences in
bids in, 93.
COMPETITION, TRUE See OPEN-
PRICE ASSOCIATIONS; and
open prices, 116; as com-
pared with old, in theory, 227;
conditions of, 87; eliminates
secrecy, 91; factors of, 67,
94; helps the small producer,
114; knowledge, 94; prices
more nearly alike in, 89; re-
sults of, 109.
COMPETITION, UNFAIR, 32, 59;
and monopolies, 79; between
country dealers, 60; between
jobbers and manufacturers,
60; between peddlers, 60;
by
integrated industries,
283; business methods in,
must be suppressed, 67, 353;
decree against, 68; false
statements and disburse-
ments and, 56; favored cus-
tomers in, 102; goods "just as
good" in, 67; law in Ger-
many against, 372; mail or-
der and department stores
and, 60; Massachusetts law
against, 76; misrepresenta-
tions in, 102; practices of the
individual in, must be sup-
pressed, 351; secret prices
and, 102; under-selling rivals
and, 74.
Conflicts worldwide, 41.
Congress and brutal competi-
tion, 61; and corporations,
80.
Consolidations, 52.
Constitutional law, Massachu-
setts, against unfair competi-
tion, 76.
Constitutionality of all class
legislation, 324 note.
Consumer interested in coöp-
eration, 54.
Consumer, the ultimate, 218.
Constructive legislation, 347,
350.
Contest and competition, 21.
Contractors generally, unfair
practices by, 195.
CONTRACTS, constitutional right
to make, 77; illustrating
brutal buying, 192; in re-
straint of trade, 33; standard
forms a provision, 201.
COÖPERATION and buyers and
sellers, 53; and integration
of labor, 297; and over ca-
pacity, 261; and state super-
vision, 80; basis of altruism,
29; basis of our national ex-
istence, 24; cannot be pro-
hibited, 125; constructive, 29;
danger is towards larger and
larger, 345; era of, 5; forms
of, 45; foundation of prog-
ress, 18; foundation of so-
ciety, 24; growth of, 38; is
progress, II, 24; is trade, 10;
means a broader outlook,
157; midway between selfish
individualism and socialism,
164; more of, needed, 103; of
labor, farmers and manufac-
turers here to stay, 333; pro-
duction and prices and, 49;
promoted by true competi-
tion, 30; railway associations
and, 53; rise and fall of, in
history, 25; sellers' organiza-
tions and, 53; societies for,
urged by President Taft,
Colonel Roosevelt, 37 note;
suppressed by anti-trust laws,
28; to reduce prices, 52; to
reduce speculative elements
of business, 214; to take in
consumer, 54.
CORPORATIONS,
see also
TRUSTS; and brutal competi-
tion, 61; laws limiting size
of, 48.
COST, a scientific system, 153;
selling below, 82, 267-270;
57; the element of labor and,
163; Texas law against sell-
ing below, 75; uniform system
of, recommended, 354.
Cote vs. Murphy, 344.
Cotton growers' organizations,
332.
Cotton growers restrain com-
petition, 9.
Coulter, J. L., 330.
COURTS, and brutal competition,
80; attitude of English, to-
wards combinations, 363;
attitude of German, towards
unfair competition, 372; at-
titude of German, towards
trusts, 370; being terrorized,
323; class legislation uncon-
stitutional, 324 note, 328 note;
have already approved combi-
nations of labor, fixed wages,
340; opinions of, referring to
competition, 6; Sugar Refin-
ing Co. case and, 6.
Crane builders, competition be-
tween, 92.
Curran vs. Galen, 341.
Customers, relations with, 158.
false statements regarding, Declaration of independence,
356; no man should sell goods
below, 203; of living, 67; price
should never fall below, 265;
relation of, to a fair price,
243; rise and fall of price
with relation to, 256; rules
should be established for sci-
entific ascertainment of, 267;
selling at or below, punish-
able, 355; selling goods below,
Demagogues, 47.
DEMAND AND SUPPLY analyzed,
258; shifting from object to
object, or from all objects to
money, 259.
Department stores, 60, 66.
Disintegration and integration,
30, 274.
Distances, annihilation of, 39.
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