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THB 1WUSIC TRADE REVIEW
"I decide whether such attacks exceed the
bounds of healthy and honest criticism,
and if the case in the judgment of the com-
mittee properly comes under its notice, it
shall communicate with the editor of the
belligerent paper and courteously request a
EDWARD LYMAN
discontinuance of such an attack. If the
Editor and Proprietor.
editor by refusal or neglect fails to comply
with the request, the committee will then
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
report
to the Association, and its members
3 East 14th St.. New York
are at liberty to take such action as they
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
may deem expedient.
Canada, $3.00 per year; Foreign Countries, $4.00.
ADVERTISEMENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per
Resolutions were also passed that the
insertion. On quarterly or yearly contracts . special dis-
count is allowed.
members
of the Association in making
REMITTANCES, in other than currency form, should
00 made payable to Edward Lyman Bill.
their advertising contracts with the music
Bntered at the New York Post Office as Seconddass Mmtter. trade papers reserve the privilege to dis-
continue their advertisements at any time,
NEW YORK, JUNE 13, 1896
with the distinct proviso that if ordered
TELEPHONE NUMBER 1745. — EIGHTEENTH STREET.
out the advertisements must disappear
from the paper or papers.
THE BUSINESS MAN'S PAPER."
There is no mistaking the meaning of
the above, and the resolution in reference
to the advertisements being discontinued
at the option of the advertiser is signifi-
cant.
It may be interpreted as meaning noth-
ing more or less than that the New York
Piano Manufacturers' Association mean to
act as a unit in regard to what they con-
sider, after proper investigation, a malici-
ous or unjust attack upon one of its mem-
bers by a trade paper. They mean to
stand by a comrade who is attacked, and by
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all legitimate means seek to give more
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than sympathy and to remove the sinews
For lite friars m t
of war from the hand of the assailant.
This is clearly seen in the latter resolu-
tion, when they reserve the right to with-
draw their patronage from the trade papers
at any time.
There is nothing in these resolutions
THE ASSOCIATION AND THE TRADE which can be offensive to the honest jour-
PRESS.
nalist, however much he may regret the
HE Piano Manufacturers' Association, conditions which called forth this action on
through its secretary, has favored us the part of the Association.
with a copy of the resolutions recently
We wish to say, and that most emphati-
passed by the Association relative to its cally, that we rejoice that such action has
action in regard to the trade press. They been taken, but deeply deplore that the
are in substance as follows:
necessity arose for such action; because it
The members of the Association resent cannot be gainsaid that it is not to the
• the malicious and unjust attack which has credit of the trade or trade journalism to
been made on some of them by certain have such a move expedient. But as laws
portions of the trade press. They con
are not made for the just, but for the un-
deran such action as not only unfair, but a just, we may say that this action on the
menace to the best interests of the general part of the Association can have no possi-
trade. They appoint a committee of three,
ble effect upon the honest journalist. And,
consisting of the president and two others
we repeat in substance what we state
whom he shall appoint, to be designated as
above, that the worst of it is that such con-
the "Press Committee."
ditions exist as to make this move a neces-
In case any member of the Association sity. As laws are made for the unruly, so
shall be 'attacked by a trade paper, this let this stand as a menace to the unruly
committee shall investigate as soon as it journalist.
shall have received a written request from
In going publicly on record leaving it to
the member who is assailed. It will then the option of every member to act as he
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will, the Association have acted wisely, in
that they remove themselves from damage
under the conspiracy act by not taking con-
certed action.
Casting a retrospective glance over the
music trade associations of this country, we
cannot help believing that our first idea of
music trade associations will come trvie at
last.
In 1889, at the call of THE MUSIC TRADK
REVIEW, there gathered at Clarendon Hall,
this city, a representative meeting of piano
and organ manufacturers from all parts of
America.
At that convention, the editor of this
paper, in addressing the assembly, stated
clearly his belief that the time had arrived
for the formation of a national association
of piano and organ manufacturers, with
branches in Boston and Chicago. It was
our view at that time to include only those
engaged in the manufacture of musical
wares, and to exclude those engaged only
in selling them, claiming they were operat-
ing on distinct lines.
While at that time the Association was
formed, yet its success was hindered by
tremendous attacks upon its scope, inspired
largely by jealousy, which made it only
possible to make it a success in piirelv a
social way. It is amusing, too, to note
that those who then were loudest in their
condemnation of the extended scope of
trade associations are now praising that
which they denounced as "a selfish news-
paper scheme."
Verily, "the world do move."
It seems from appearances that some of
the seed which was scattered at that time
fell upon fertile soil, and is bearing good
fruit.
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SMITH & NIXON—A CONFUSING AR-
RAY OF FIGURES.
T
HE published statement of assets and
liabilities of the Smith & Nixon con-
cern filed by Assignee Woodmansee is at
hand. It occurs to us that it will take a
Philadelphia lawyer, and a mighty good
one at that, to evolve anything approximat-
ing a fair estimate of the affairs of the con-
cern from the statement filed by the
assignee.
A bewildering array of figures which
to the lay mind is almost incomprehen-
sive.
There is a jumbling and juggling of
merchandise, open accounts, bills receiv-
able, common stock, customers' paper held
as collateral, tuning charges, dealers' paper
under discount—in fact, the whole thing is
liable to confuse and bewilder one. In
very truth it really—well, we may as well