T TO THE AVERAGE MAN. HIS handbook on trusts comes of the conviction that, before us all, the student of political science knows the laws of our welfare, and generally tells them without fear or favor. Wherefore, the average man who votes may know that trusts have come because they must, and that, if harmful to society, being not monsters but organized men, they can be restrained. This handbook on trusts contains the opinions of men who think and lead, opinions as opposite and distant as the poles. Many authorities are quoted: no man is designedly made to say what he did not mean to say. Errors of interpretation there may be, but the collator and editor has not committed them with malice aforethought. Condensation has been obligatory, but direct quotation has been frequently employed. There are repetitions, but they may prove useful to such readers as refuse to worry through the various sections seriatim. Save for the definitions and suggestions of the natural laws under which the trust has been evolved, set forth in the earlier sections, one may not unprofitably open the book at any page and go at the controversy then and there. In every important instance scrupulous and pleasurable care has been taken to give due and conspicuous credit to authorities quoted. This handbook on trusts is at the most only suggestive. It is designed to aid the newspaper writer, the professional man, the public speaker, the business man, the laboring man, the farmer-all, for it has collected some of the things the average man is supposed to consider, the fundamentals of his thinking and his vote in November. This handbook on trusts is in a literary form that may be tedious, but, on the other hand, its form is particularly fitted to quick and easy apprehension. This handbook on trusts may help to lead the average man to look for the regulation of trusts and monopolies by sane and prophetic statesmen, working for the good of all, and under the banner of moderation, uniformity, and publicity. W. H. H., Reclass, 2-21-30 A.V.M |