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Excerpt from Industrial Combinations and Trusts Throughout the preparation Of the volume two purposes were held steadily in mind. The first was to design a volume that should place within the reach Of the students in courses in Trusts in our colleges and universities, material of which much is, as the editor knows from personal experience, only too often difficult of access or else altogether unavailable. The second purpose Of the editor was the collection Of such a set Of materials as would afford the ordinary reader who chances to be interested in Trusts, a fair knowledge at first hand Of the historical development of the Trust movement in the United States, and a thorough comprehension of those problems In regard to them that the country is facing to-dav. The arrangement Of the book has been devised by the editor with the idea, that, should it satisfactorily serve the ends for which it is designed, it may be possible to add new readings from the mass Of material that is steadily accumulating upon the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.